What happened on December 10
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194977 yrs ago
Fats Domino records "The Fat Man" in New Orleans
Cut at J&M Recording Studio on Rampart Street, it is often named among the earliest rock and roll records, and it became the first of them to sell a million copies.
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196660 yrs ago
"Good Vibrations" reaches No. 1
Brian Wilson built the Beach Boys' single over about 20 sessions in four Hollywood studios across seven months. It was already their first million-seller and a UK No. 1.
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197650 yrs ago
Queen release A Day at the Races
Their fifth album went to No. 1 in the UK and Japan and No. 5 in the US. Its lead single "Somebody to Love" reached No. 2 in Britain.
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198343 yrs ago
McCartney and Jackson's "Say Say Say" hits No. 1
The duet began its run at the top of the Hot 100 and held on through the end of the year.
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1822204 yrs ago
Composer César Franck is born in Liège
His Violin Sonata in A major, a wedding gift for violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, became his most popular work. His motet "Panis angelicus" is among his best-known short pieces.
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1908118 yrs ago
Olivier Messiaen is born in Avignon
He wrote his Quartet for the End of Time in a WWII prison camp, where it premiered in January 1941 for prisoners and guards. Birdsong runs all through his music.
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1926100 yrs ago
Blues guitarist Guitar Slim is born
"The Things That I Used to Do", produced by a young Ray Charles, spent weeks at No. 1 on the R&B chart and sold over a million copies.
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195769 yrs ago
Producer Paul Hardcastle is born
His 1985 single "19" held No. 1 in the UK for five weeks and also topped the US dance chart.
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196759 yrs ago
Otis Redding dies in a plane crash at 26
His plane went down in Lake Monona near Madison, Wisconsin, killing four of the Bar-Kays too. Days earlier he had recorded "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", the first posthumous No. 1 on the Hot 100.
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199630 yrs ago
Country singer Faron Young dies
He turned Willie Nelson's "Hello Walls" into a country No. 1 and pop crossover in 1961. "It's Four in the Morning" was his last country chart-topper and reached No. 3 in the UK.
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