This Day in Music History – May 12th

1955 – Gisele MacKenzie played a singer on the NBC-TV program, “Justice.”

1960 – Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley appeared on the same TV special and performed the other’s hit. Elvis sang “Witchcraft” and Sinatra sang “Love Me Tender.”

1963 – Bob Dylan walked out of dress rehearsals for “The Ed Sullivan Show” when CBS censors told him he could not perform “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues.”

1965 – “Satisfaction” was recorded by the Rolling Stones.

1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their debut album “Are You Experienced.”

1967 – Archie Bell (Drells) was drafted into the U.S. military for a tour of Vietnam.

1969 – Fashion designer Jeannie “Genie the Tailor” Franklyn and drummer Martin Lamble (Fairport Convention) were killed in a car accident in London.

1971 – Jerry Lee Lewis was granted a divorce from his cousin Myra.

1971 – Mick Jagger and Bianca Perez Morena de Macias were married.

1972 – The Rolling Stones released the album “Exile on Main St.”

1977 – “Hotel California” earned a gold record for the Eagles.


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