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March, 29

  • 2000 Teen pop-rock group Hanson follows in David Bowie’s wired footsteps when it lends its name and other material to a subscriber-based Web network that includes Internet access, e-mail service and content offerings. The teen cyber trio are found at www.hanson.net.
  • 1999 Joe Williams, the Georgia-born blues singer who became a star with Count Basie in the 1950s and blossomed into a world famous balladeer in the following decades, dies in Las Vegas. He is 80. Williams dresses himself, and walks out of the hospital where he is being treated for a respiratory ailment. He walks nearly three miles on foot only to collapse on the street a few blocks from his home.
  • 1998 Shania Twain begins her first headlining tour, along with a nine-piece band in her Canadian homeland in Sudbury, Ontario.
  • 1993 “A Whole New World” from the Disney animated film “Aladdin” wins an Academy Award for best song. It is performed by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. The previous year’s winner was the theme from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” which was also performed by Bryson, this time in a duet with Celine Dion.
  • 1987 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” Starship. The song is the third No. 1 single for the group, which was previously known as Jefferson Airplane, then Jefferson Starship.
  • 1980 Mantovani (Annunzio Paulo Mantovani) dies. Age 74.
  • 1976 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Disco Lady,” Johnnie Taylor. The single is the first to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of more than 2 million copies. (The platinum standard is halved in 1989 to 1 million due to declining sales of singles.)
  • 1973 Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The group’s song “The Cover of Rolling Stone” reaches No. 6 on Billboard’s Hot 100.
  • 1957 No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Party Doll,” Buddy Knox & the Rhythm Orchids.
  • 1947 Singer Bobby Kimball of Toto is born in Vinton, La.