What happened on January 10
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195670 yrs ago
Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
At his first session for RCA in Nashville, with Chet Atkins on guitar and Floyd Cramer on piano, Elvis cut the song he had brought along himself. It became his first million-seller.
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196066 yrs ago
Stravinsky premieres Movements for Piano and Orchestra
Stravinsky conducted soloist Margrit Weber at New York's Town Hall. The compact, ten-minute work builds everything from a single twelve-tone row.
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197650 yrs ago
C. W. McCall's "Convoy" tops the Hot 100
The trucker anthem took the top spot from the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night," giving C. W. McCall his first No. 1, and it stayed there for one week.
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197749 yrs ago
The Ramones release Leave Home
Their second album, recorded in New York on a budget of about $10,000, was the band's first to make the UK albums chart. "Carbona Not Glue" was pulled about a month before release because Carbona is a trademarked brand.
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197749 yrs ago
Muddy Waters releases Hard Again
Produced by Johnny Winter, who also played guitar, the comeback record was cut in three days, put Waters back on the album chart and won a Grammy.
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192799 yrs ago
Johnnie Ray is born in Dallas, Oregon
Partly deaf since childhood, he poured raw emotion into his singing. His 1952 two-sided hit "Cry" sold over two million copies and made him a teen idol.
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193591 yrs ago
Baritone Sherrill Milnes is born in Illinois
He sang at the Metropolitan Opera for more than three decades from 1965 and became one of the leading Verdi baritones of the 1970s and '80s.
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194581 yrs ago
Rod Stewart is born in North London
After fronting the Faces, he topped the US and UK charts simultaneously in 1971 with "Maggie May," a song first issued as a B-side.
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197650 yrs ago
Howlin' Wolf dies in Illinois at 65
The towering Chicago bluesman, famous for a growling voice and records like "Smokestack Lightning" and "Spoonful," died at a veterans' hospital in Hines, Illinois.
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201610 yrs ago
David Bowie dies in New York at 69
The English singer-songwriter and actor, one of rock's great shape-shifters, had released his final album, Blackstar, just two days before he died.
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20251 yrs ago
Soul singer Sam Moore dies at 89
Half of Sam & Dave, he sang on the Stax classics "Hold On, I'm Comin'" and the Grammy-winning "Soul Man." He died in Coral Gables, Florida.
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