1999 Garth Brooks, Billy Ray Cyrus, Rhett Akins, Lee Roy Parnell and blues artist Johnny Neel surprise an audience of 13,000 in Nashville when they join Charlie Daniels for his Volunteer Jam ‘99 concert at the First American Music Center.
1991 Punk rock forerunner Johnny Thunders dies of a drug overdose in New Orleans at age 38.
1981 Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins give a live performance in West Germany that is later released as the LP “The Survivors.”
1979 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Heart of Glass,” Blondie. When the song hits No. 1, Andy Warhol throws a party for the group at Studio 54 in New York.
1975 Badfinger’s Pete Ham commits suicide by hanging himself in his London garage.
1958 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Witch Doctor,” David Seville. Seville later creates the Chipmunks, which hit No. 1 in 1958 with “The Chipmunk Song.”
1956 Elvis Presley plays Las Vegas, Nev., for the first time. Reaction is poor, and he plays only one week of a two-week engagement.
1936 Roy Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas. His biggest hit is “Oh, Pretty Woman,” which stays at No. 1 for three weeks in 1964. He is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and dies of a heart attack on Dec. 6, 1988, in Madison, Tenn.
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