February 1

Births

1937: Don Everly (Singer in The Everly Brothers)

1939: Del McCoury (Bluegrass Musician)

1948: Rick James (R&B Singer / Songwriter)

1951: Sonny Landreth (Blues Guitarist)

1954: Mike Campbell (Guitar for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)

1954: Chuck Dukowski (Bass for Black Flag)

1956: Exene Cervenka (Singer for X & Solo)

1957: Dennis Brown (Reggae Artist)

1964: Jani Lane (Singer for Warrant)

1968: Lisa Marie Presley (Singer)

1969: Patrick Wilson (Drummer for Weezer)

1971: Ron Welty (Drummer for The Offspring)

1971: Dexter (Michael C. Hall) (Actor)

1975: Big Boi (Antoine Patton) (Rapper in Outkast & Solo)

1994: Harry Styles (Singer in One Direction)

Events

1940: Frank Sinatra sang "Too Romantic" and "The Sky Fell Down" in his first recording session with the Tommy Dorsey Band. Frank replaced Jack Leonard as lead singer with the band.

1941: Downbeat magazine reports that Glenn Miller has signed a new three-year contract with RCA Victor... for the unprecedented sum of $750 per side.

1949: In response to Columbia's recent 33-1/3 "long play," or LP, vinyl record, RCA Victor unveils the first 45-rpm, 7-inch version, as well as a phonograph that plays the new invention. The vinyl "single" would eventually kill off the old 78-rpm record.

1962: Brian Epstein's managerial contract with the Beatles officially goes into effect.

1963: Paul Simon graduates from New York City's Queens College.

1964: Newsmen learn that Indiana Governor Matthew Walsh has banned the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie," then sitting at Number Six on Billboard's Hot 100, for allegedly containing obscene lyrics. Claiming it makes his "ears tingle" to listen to it, Walsh requests that the Indiana Broadcasters Association ban the record from airplay on all radio stations in the state. For his part, the song's publisher, Max Firetag, offers $1000 to anyone who can prove that the song contains obscene lyrics. The FBI eventually gets involved, and after extensive study reports that the lyrics of this version of the song, originally recorded by Richard Berry and the Pharoahs, are so garbled as to be unintelligible.

1968: Nine months after their marriage, Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley become the proud parents of their only child, Lisa Marie, delivered at Memphis' Baptist Memorial Hospital. She remains Elvis' only offspring and sole heir.

1968: The Doors announce that Universal International film studios have offered the group an unprecedented half-million dollars to star in a feature film. An ABC television special, a group "humor book," and a book of poetry by leader Jim Morrison are also announced as in the planning stages. The poetry book alone will see the light of day.

1973: Gladys Knight and the Pips leave Motown's Soul label for a new career at Buddah.

1974: Guitarist Eric Bell leaves Thin Lizzy due to ill health brought on by alcohol abuse.

1975: On her seventh birthday, Lisa Marie Presley gets to meet her favorite singer, Elton John (a meeting arranged by her father).

1976: Despite the very public divorce of its two stars and two ill-fated solo variety shows in the interim, the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour reappears on CBS as The Sonny and Cher Show.

1977: Led Zeppelin's North American tour is postponed due to tonsillitis in lead singer Robert Plant.

1982: Memphis, TN mayor Wyeth Chandler declares today "Bar-Kays Day" in honor of Otis Redding's backup band, who went on to success in their own right with "Soul Finger."

1985: The Eagles' Glenn Frey makes his acting debut in an episode of NBC's Miami Vice.

1986: Diana Ross weds Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Geneva, Switzerland.

2000: Guitarist C.C. DeVille announced that he was leaving Poison. The band later convinced him to come back.

2002: Winona Ryder was charged with four felony counts that stemmed from her shoplifting arrest on December 12, 2001. She was charged with theft, burglary, vandalism and possession of a controlled substance.

2012: Don Cornelius, the host of US TV's Soul Train, (from 1971 until 1993) died. Police officers responded to a report of a shooting at 12685 Mulholland Drive and found Cornelius with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 75.