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February, 4

  • 1999 Internationally acclaimed dance and R&B music legend Gwen Guthrie dies of cancer in Orange, N.J. Guthrie, 49, is most famous for her
  • 1986 hit, “Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent.”
  • 1999 In a daring move, Rykodisc becomes the first music label to give its stamp of approval to MP3, the controversial Internet-based music distribution format that struck fear into the hearts of many music industry executives.
  • 1987 Pianist Liberace dies of AIDS. Age 67.
  • 1983 Karen Carpenter dies of cardiac arrest, caused by anorexia nervosa, at her parents’ Downey, Calif., home. Age 32.
  • 1977 Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” is released. The album shoots to the top of Billboard’s chart staying there for 31 weeks. More than 17 million copies have been sold in the U.S.
  • 1977 The 25th anniversary show of TV’s “American Bandstand.”
  • 1975 Vocalist/saxophonist Louis Jordan dies of a heart attack. He is the record holder of most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B charts with 113. Of those 18 chart-topping hits, four stayed at No. 1 for more than 10 weeks. His biggest pop hit is the 1944 No. 1 song “G.I. Jive.”
  • 1962 Country Crooner Clint Black is born in Long Branch, N.J.
  • 1955 James Brown records “Please Please Please” for radio station WIBB in Macon, Ga.
  • 1948 Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier) is born in Detroit, the son of a minister. Although he sells millions of records, his only No. 1 album is “Billion Dollar Babies” in 1973.