2000 Sony Music Entertainment announces plans to make its first commercial digital downloads available to U.S. consumers. Sony says it will offer about 50 hit songs from Lauryn Hill, Pearl Jam, Michael Jackson, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and others.
1999 Siti Nurhaliza is the top winner at the sixth Anugerah Inustri Muzik (AIM) Awards, presented at the Dewan Merdeka, Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Nurhaliza takes album of the year, best pop album, and best female vocal honors for “Adiwarna.”
1998 Eddie O’Jay, one of the pioneers of black radio broadcasting, passes away at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, N.Y. following complications from two heart attacks. Born Edward O. Jackson, he shortens his tag to “O’Jay” for the air; veteran soul group the O’Jays are named by him.
1995 Country star Lee Greenwood and wife, Kim, welcome a baby boy, Dalton Lee, in Nashville.
1977 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Don’t Give Up on Us,” David Soul. Soul starred as detective Ken Hutchinson in TV’s “Starsky and Hutch.”
1967 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Somethin’ Stupid,” Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra. The duo is the only father-daughter team to top the pop chart.
1957 Ricky Nelson sings for first time on TV’s “Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.” He performs “I’m Walking.”
1952 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Wheel of Fortune,” Kay Starr.
1921 Sheb Wooley is born Shelby F. Wooley near Erick, Okla. He writes the theme song for the TV show “Hee-Haw” and the No. 1 novelty song “The Purple People Eater.”
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