Music Almanac: May 4*

Birthdays:

• 1923 - Ed Cassidy (Spirit) (89)
• 1930 - Katherine Jackson (mother of the Jacksons) (82)
• 1941 - Nickolas Ashford (Ashford & Simpson) (d. 2011)
• 1944 - Peggy Santiglia (Angels) (68)
• 1945 - George Wadenius (Blood, Sweat & Tears) (67)
• 1949 - Zal Cleminson (Sensational Alex Harvey Band) (63)
• 1949 - Stella Parton (63)
• 1950 - Darryl Hunt (Pogues) (62)
• 1951 - Jackie Jackson (Jacksons) (61)
• 1951 - Mick Mars (Motley Crue) (61)
• 1954 - Pia Zadora (58)
• 1959 - Randy Travis (53)
• 1961 - Jay Aston (Bucks Fizz) (51)
• 1972 - Mike Dirnt (Green Day) (40)
• 1979 - Lance Bass (N'Sync) (33)

Deaths:

• 1987 - Paul Butterfield - Drug related heart failure (44)
• 2004 - Clement Seymour Dodd (produced Bob Marley's first recordings) - Heart attack (72)

On This Day:

• 1956 - Lonnie Donegan quit the Cliff Barber Jazz Band.
• 1957 - Alan Freed's TV series, The Big Beat, premiered on ABC. It would only last four episodes and was reportedly canceled when Frankie Lymon was seen dancing with a white girl.
• 1959 - Domenico Modugno won Record and Song of the Year at the first Grammy Awards for Nel Blu Del Pinto di Blu (Volare).  Album of the Year went to Henry Mancini for The Music From Peter Gunn.
• 1959 - Dick Clark announced the first movie that would be made by his production company would be called Harrison High.
• 1963 - The Wilburn Brothers' nationally syndicated television show premiered.
• 1964 - The Moody Blues formed.
• 1968 - Mary Hopkin won her section of the British TV talent show Opportunity Knocks.
• 1970 - Four students protesting at Kent State University were shot and killed by National Guard Troops. The inspiration for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Ohio.
• 1973 - Led Zeppelin opened their U.S. tour
• 1975 - Elvis Presley started a North American Tour in Lake Charles, LA.
• 1990 - Madonna played the first date on the North American leg of the Blonde Ambition tour.
• 1990 - Angela Bowie revealed that her husband, David Bowie, had slept with Mick Jagger.
• 1991 - Phil Collins and Al Jarreau received Honorary Doctorate of Music degrees from the Berklee College of Music.
• 2000 - Metallica gave Napster the names of 335,000 people who they said had been illegally trading their songs through the service and demanded that they be cut off.
• 2008 - The house of Martha Reeves was broken into and $1 million in recording equipment was stolen. The thief was arrested later in the day.

Recorded:

• 1956 - Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene Vincent & the Blue Caps

Number Ones - U.S. Singles:

• 1946 - Prisoner of Love - Perry Como (3 weeks)
• 1974 - The Loco-Motion - Grand Funk (2 weeks)
• 1996 - Always Be My Baby - Mariah Carey (2 weeks)

Number Ones - U.S. Albums:

• 1963 - Days of Wine & Roses - Andy Williams (Mono Album Chart) (16 weeks)
• 1974 - The Sting - Soundtrack (5 weeks)
• 1996 - Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine (1 week)

Number Ones - U.K. Singles:

• 1956 - No Other Love - Ronnie Hilton (6 weeks)
• 1961 - Blue Moon - Marcels (2 weeks)
• 1974 - Waterloo - ABBA (2 weeks)
• 1985 - Move Closer - Phyllis Nelson (1 week)
• 1997 - Love Won't Wait - Gary Barlow (1 week)
• 2003 - Loneliness - Tomcraft (1 week)

Number Ones - U.K. Albums:

• 1957 - The King and I - Soundtrack (6 weeks (22 previous weeks at number 1))
• 1996 - Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (2 weeks)
• 2003 - Justified - Justin Timberlake (1 week)
• 2008 - Hard Candy - Madonna (1 week)