January 21

Births

1938: Wolfman Jack (DJ)

1941: Richie Havens (Folk Singer)

1942: Mac Davis (Singer / Songwriter)

1942: Edwin Starr (R&B Singer)

1950: Billy Ocean (R&B Singer)

1965: Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) (DJ for RUN-DMC)

1965: Cordell Crockett (Bass for Ugly Kid Joe)

1966: 3D (Robert Del Naja) (Singer for Massive Attack)

1972: Cat Power (Chan Marshall)

1973: Chris Kilmore (DJ for Incubus)

1976: Baby Spice (Emma Bunton) (Singer in The Spice Girls)

1979: Nokio the N-Tity (Tamir Mateen Raheem Hameed Ruffin) (Singer in Dru Hill)

Events

1957: An unknown singer named Patsy Cline wins on CBS' Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts program with a rendition of the song "Walking After Midnight."

1965: The Animals are forced to cancel a show at New York City's famous Apollo Theater after US Immigration officials force the group to leave the country.

1966: The Beatles' George Harrison marries Patricia Anne Boyd at the Esher Register Office, Surrey, England. Fellow Beatle Paul McCartney and Manager Brian Epstein are in attendance. Pattie, a fashion model, had been Harrison's girlfriend since they met on the set of A Hard Day's Night two years earlier. Eventually, Boyd would begin an affair with Harrison's best friend, Eric Clapton, for whom the guitarist would write the classic "Layla."

1968: Jimi Hendrix recorded his version of the Bob Dylan song 'All Along the Watchtower' at Olympic Studios in London. Rolling Stone Brian Jones and Dave Mason from Traffic both played on the session. The track was released in the US as a single in 1968, peaking at #20.

1970: ABC gives the "summer replacement" Johnny Cash Show a permanent home on the prime time schedule.

1974: Governor of Georgia (and future President) Jimmy Carter invites Bob Dylan to a party at the Governor's Mansion at the insistence of his son Chip. Afterwards, Carter declared that "He (Dylan) never initiates conversation, but he'll answer a question if you ask him."

1978: The soundtrack album 'Saturday Night Fever' started a 24 week run at No.1 on the US album charts, it went on to sell over 30 million copies world wide, making it the best selling soundtrack album of all time.

1982: B.B. King donates his entire record collection to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The 20,000-record collection includes 7,000 discs King aired as a disc jockey at Memphis' WDIA in the Fifties.

1984, Soul singer Jackie Wilson died aged 49. Wilson suffered a massive heart attack while playing a Dick Clark show at the Latin Casino in New Jersey on September 29, 1975, falling head-first to the stage while singing 'Lonely Teardrops', and had remained in a coma until his death 8 years later.

1987: The Second Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York City. Inductees include The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, B. B. King, Clyde McPhatter, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters, and Jackie Wilson.

1990: MTV's "Unplugged" made its debut with Squeeze as the first performers.

1996: Wynonna Judd marries Arch Kelley at the Christ Church in Nashville, then holds the reception at her mother's Trilogy restaurant.

1997: 'Colonel' Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager and agent died of a stroke in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 87.

1998: James Brown is released from a South Carolina hospital after undergoing treatment for an addiction to painkillers.

2002: Peggy Lee died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at age 81.

2003: David Palmer, former keyboard player for Jethro Tull changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change operation.