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06/08/2026

Music notes for June 8:

Happy birthday Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. Her hits include “It’s a Heartache”, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero”

Happy birthday Boz Scaggs. His real first name is William. He got the nickname Boz in high school. So many great songs. To mention just a few: “Lowdown”, “Lido Shuffle”, “Jojo” and “Look What You’ve Done to Me”.

Happy birthday Nancy Sinatra. She hit #1 with “These Boots are Made for Walkin”, as well as “Somethin‘ Stupid”, a duet with her dad Frank, “Sugar Town“ and “Jackson”.

Happy 35th wedding anniversary Bruce Sprinsteen and Patti Scialfa.

1985 - The British duo Tears for Fears hit #1 for two week.

1974 - Paul McCartney and Wings went to No.1 on the singles chart with 'Band On The Run'. 'George Harrison unwittingly contributed the first line of one part of the song: "If we ever get out of here" when he said it during one of the many Beatles' business meetings.

06/07/2026

Music notes for June 7:

The late GREAT Prince born this date. A singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor he produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career including the 1984 #1 When Doves Cry'. His releases have sold over 80 million copies worldwide. He won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. He named after his father's jazz combo, the Prince Rogers Trio. By the time he's 15, he could play at least 10 different instruments

Happy birthday Tom Jones. He has sold over 100 million records. He scored the No.10 single 'It's Not Unusual' plus over 20 other Top 40 hit singles. Jones was awarded an OBE in 1999 and received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music" in 2006.

2012 - Singer Bob Welch passed away. An early member of Fleetwood Mac he enjoyed a successful solo career with hits such as 'Ebony Eyes” and “Precious Love”. Welch was part of Fleetwood Mac in their early years from 1971 to 1974 and worked on such albums as Future Games and Bare Trees.

1982 - Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion opens to the public. Visitors get to experience the Jungle Room (green s**g carpets!), the Trophy Room, and the Meditation Garden.

1976 - New York magazine runs a cover story called "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night," describing the disco-fueled nightclub scene. The article gives Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood the idea for Saturday Night Fever.

1975 - Elton John's ninth studio album Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboys, went to No.1 on the album chart, the first album ever to enter the chart at No.1. (where it stayed for seven weeks.

1975 - John Denver scores his third US #1 hit with "Thank God I'm A Country Boy."

1964 - During their first ever US tour The Rolling Stones were booed off stage at a gig in San Antonio, Texas. Some performing monkeys who had been the act on before the Stones were brought back on stage for another performance

06/06/2026

Music notes for June 6:

2022 - Jim Seals of the duo Seals and Crofts, passed away. The singer was behind laid-back 1970s classics like 'Diamond Girl' and 'Summer Breeze', later covered by the Isley Brothers. Between 1972 and 1976, Seals and Crofts had a run of five gold albums, culminating in an double-platinum greatest hits collection.

2019 - Dr. John. The Night Tripper, passed away. He was known for music combining blues, pop, jazz, boogie woogie and rock and roll. Born Malcolm John Rebennack his career started in the late 1950s, when he became prominent as a pianist and singer on the New Orleans music scene. He also worked with the Rolling Stones, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Neil Diamond, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Seger and Joe Walsh. In 1973 he scored a top 10 hit with “Right Place, Wrong Time”.

2017 - The site of the 1969 Woodstock music festival was officially recognised for its place in history when Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that Bethel Woods Center for the Arts had been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1993 - The Who's Tommy, which has been converted into a Broadway play, wins five Tony Awards

1980- Urban Cowboy, starring John Travolta and Debra Winger, opens in theaters. The mellow country soundtrack spawns hits from Kenny Rogers, Johnny Lee, and Anne Murray, and spurs a trend of pop-leaning fare in country music dubbed the "Urban Cowboy Movement."

1974 - RCA Records released 'I Will Always Love You' by Dolly Parton, the second single from Parton's thirteenth solo studio album, Jolene. Recorded on June 13, 1973, the singer wrote the song for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, from whom she was professionally splitting at the time.

1965 - The Rolling Stones released the single ’(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ which went on to give the band their first No.1.

06/05/2026

TOP 5 SONGS THIS WEEK IN 1987

1 YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON –•– Kim Wilde (MCA)-11 (1) (1 Week at #1)
2 ALWAYS –•– Atlantic Starr (Warner Brothers)-11 (2)
3 HEAD TO TOE –•– Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam (Columbia)-9 (3)
4 THE LADY IN RED –•– Chris DeBurgh (A&M)-17 (3)
5. WITH OR WITHOUT YOU –•– U2 (Island)-12 (1)

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 51 — I WANT YOUR S*X –•– George Michael

IT WOULD PEAK AT #2

06/05/2026

Music notes for June 5:

2016 - The four members of ABBA performed alongside one another for the first time since 1982 at a private gala to mark 50 years since songwriting duo Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met for the first time in Stockholm. The impromptu performance reportedly began when Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstadon recited their 1980 hit 'Me and I' as a tribute to Andersson and Ulvaeus, before the two others joined in and made the reunion official.

2006 - Billy Preston, a virtuoso keyboardist who worked with the likes of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and The Beatles passed away. He hits of his own included “Will it Go Round in Circle” and “Outta Space”.

1977 - Alice Cooper's boa constrictor, a co-star of his live act, suffered a fatal bite from a rat it was being fed for breakfast. Cooper held auditions for a replacement, and a replacment snake named 'Angel' got the gig.

1971 - Paul McCartney's second solo album Ram started a two-week run at No.1 on the chart. Featuring the No.1 single 'Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey' the album was recorded amid Paul McCartney’s legal action in Britain’s High Court to dissolve the Beatles’ partnership, following their break-up the year before.

1971 - Without the benefit of a hit single, Grand Funk Railroad smashed the record held by The Beatles when they sold out New York's Shea Stadium in 72 hours.

1971 - Carly Simon opens for Cat Stevens at Carnegie Hall in New York City, where she debuts "Anticipation," a song she wrote a few days earlier while waiting for Stevens to come over for a date.

1964 - The Rolling Stones played their first-ever concertin the US when they appeared at the Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California. The Stones were supporting their first album release The Rolling Stones. The show was the first of a short nine-date tour.

1959. - Robert Zimmerman graduates from Hibbing High School in Minnesota. He moves on to the University of Minnesota, but soon leaves for New York City to become the full-time folk singer, Bob Dylan.

06/04/2026

Music notes for June 4:

The late Gordon Waller of the British Invasion duo Peter & Gordon born this date. Their of their biggest hits were written by Paul McCartney: “A World Without Love”, ”Woman” and “Nobody I Know”.

Happy birthday Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas. She was once described by Time Magazine “the purest soprano in pop music". Before joining the group she was a model in San Francisco and later in life became a successful actress.

1984 - Bruce Springsteen released the album, Born In The U.S.A., which became the best-selling album of 1985 in the United States (and also Springsteen's most successful album ever). The album produced a record-tying string of seven Top 10 singles (tied with Michael Jackson's Thriller and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814). The first single from the album, 'Dancing in the Dark' with "Pink Cadillac" on the B-side, peaked at No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 21 weeks on the chart.

1979 - Fleetwood Mac record the USC Trojan Marching Band at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for use in their song "Tusk," the title track to their first album since Rumours. A film crew captures the action (including Stevie Nicks deftly twirling a baton) which is made into the video for the song.

1967 - The Beatles started a 23-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the U.S. it stayed at #1 for 15 weeks. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, the album, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, includes songs such as 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Day in the Life'. In 1968, it won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour; in 2003, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It has topped several critics' and listeners' polls for the best album of all time, including those published by Rolling Stone magazine.

1967 - The Monkees TV show wins the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series

06/03/2026

Music notes for June 3:

Happy birthday Dan Hill. His one big hit was
“Sometimes When We Touch” in 1978.

Happy birthday Denice Williams. She scored a big hit with “Let’s Hear it for the Boy” from the “Footloose” soundtrack, but she had two other 70’s hits: “Too Much Too Little Too Late”, a duet with Johnny Mathis and “It’s Gonna Take a Miracle”.

The late Andrew Gold born this date. Gold performed on scores of records by other artists, especially Linda Ronstadt, and had his own success with top 40 hits: "Lonely Boy" (1977) and "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978). Gold was a multi-instrumentalist who played guitar, bass, keyboards, accordion, synthesizer, harmonica, saxophone, flute, drums and percussion, and more arcane musical instruments such as ukulele, musette (a type of bagpipe) , and harmonium. He was also a producer, sound engineer, film composer, session musician, actor, and painter.

1989 - ”Young and The Restless“ star Michael Damian's "Rock On" hits #1 on the Hot 100. Damian grew up listening to the song, which was written and recorded by David Essex in 1973.

1972 - The Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" hits #1 as the group makes a successful transition from gospel to secular music.

1970 - With the BBC refusing to air The Kinks' new single "Lola" because of its reference to "Coca-Cola" (brand names being a no-no for the corporation), lead singer Ray Davies flies all the way from London to New York to re-record the line as "Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola."

1969 - Elton John's first album, Empty Sky, is released in the UK and initially sells only 4,000 copies. No singles were released. It isn't released in the U.S. until 1975.

1964 - The Rolling Stones perform for the first time on U.S. TV when they're guests on a variety show called Hollywood Palace, which is hosted that week by Dean Martin. They play their cover of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away,”

06/02/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1969:

1 GET BACK –•– The Beatles with Billy Preston
2 LOVE (Can Make You Happy) –•– Mercy
3 AQUARIUS / LET THE SUNSHINE IN (The Flesh Failures) (Medley) –•– The 5th Dimension
4 OH HAPPY DAY –•– The Edwin Hawkins Singers Featuring Dorothy Combs Morrison
5 HAIR –•– The Cowsills

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 60 — TOMORROW TOMORROW –•– The Bee Gees

DIDN’T CRACK THE TOP 40. WOULD ONLY GET AS HIGH AS #54 See less

06/02/2026

Music notes for June 2:

Happy birthday David Dundas, or should I say Lord David Dundas. Yep, he is royalty. In 1976 he scored a hit with “Jeans On”, which started out as acommercial jingle for Brutus Jeans. A few months ago Wrangler Jeans used the song in their TV commercial.

1981 - Prince made his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, part of a short, three-date European promotional tour at the end of his Dirty Mind era (he would not play the UK again for five years). Prince stepped out in a legendary look featuring a studded beige trench coat, black bikini briefs, thigh-high stockings, and fringed heels.

1979- Donna Summer started a three-week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Hot Stuff', the lead single from Summer's seventh studio album, Bad Girls and second No.1. The song produced by English producer Pete Bellotte and Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, showed a significant rock direction, including a guitar solo by ex-Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.

1978 - Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager. The album featured the Top 30 hit “Prove it All Night”.

1973- Paul McCartney had both the No.1 positions on the charts when the second studio album Red Rose Speedway by the British-American rock band Wings, (although credited to "Paul McCartney and Wings"), went to the top of the album chart and 'My Love', started a four week run as the No.1 single. 'My Love' was written by McCartney as a love song to his wife and Wings bandmate Linda.

1964 - The day after arriving for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out

06/02/2026

Music notes for June 2:

Happy birthday David Dundas, or should I say Lord David Dundas. Yep, he is royalty. In 1976 he scored a hit with “Jeans On”, which started out as acommercial jingle for Brutus Jeans. A few months ago Wrangler Jeans used the song in their TV commercial.

1981 - Prince made his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, part of a short, three-date European promotional tour at the end of his Dirty Mind era (he would not play the UK again for five years). Prince stepped out in a legendary look featuring a studded beige trench coat, black bikini briefs, thigh-high stockings, and fringed heels.

1979- Donna Summer started a three-week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Hot Stuff', the lead single from Summer's seventh studio album, Bad Girls and second No.1. The song produced by English producer Pete Bellotte and Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, showed a significant rock direction, including a guitar solo by ex-Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.

1978 - Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager. The album featured the Top 30 hit “Proove it All Night”.

1973- Paul McCartney had both the No.1 positions on the charts when the second studio album Red Rose Speedway by the British-American rock band Wings, (although credited to "Paul McCartney and Wings"), went to the top of the album chart and 'My Love', started a four week run as the No.1 single. 'My Love' was written by McCartney as a love song to his wife and Wings bandmate Linda.

1964 - The day after arriving for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out."

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