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11 APRIL

In Music History

1966 Frank Sinatra records "Strangers In The Night," improvising the famous "dooby, dooby doo" at the end.

1966 Lisa Stansfield is born in Manchester, England. She becomes the first white woman with more than one #1 hit on the US R&B chart when "All Around The World" and "You Can't Deny It" both hit the top spot in 1989.

1965 Alt rock guitarist Nigel Pulsford (of Bush) is born in Newport, Monmouthshire, England.

1965 How's this for a lineup: At the annual New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert in London, performers include The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Animals, The Moody Blues, Tom Jones, Them, Donovan, The Seekers and Cilla Black.

1965 Bob Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, goes to #1 in the UK. It's the first time an artist other than The Beatles or The Rolling Stones has topped the chart since the Summer Holiday soundtrack on April 28, 1963.

1963 Nat King Cole records "Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer."

1962 Elvis Presley's Follow That Dream movie premieres in Ocala, Florida, near where it was filmed (it opens nationally six weeks later).

1961 Doug Hopkins (lead guitarist, songwriter for the Gin Blossoms) is born in Seattle, Washington, but will be raised in Tempe, Arizona.

1961 Bob Dylan plays for the first time at Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village, opening for John Lee Hooker and performing a new song entitled "Blowin' In The Wind."

1959 Paul Anka guests on host Frankie Avalon's first network radio program, on ABC.

1959 Music producer and composer David Lowe, known for his compositions for BBC News themes, is born in Birmingham, England.

1958 Big Country frontman Stuart Adamson is born in Manchester, England.

1957 Jim Lauderdale is born in Trautman, North Carolina. The Americana icon earns a reputation as a songwriter's songwriter in Nashville, where he writes popular songs for George Strait ("The King Of Broken Hearts"), Patty Loveless ("Halfway Down"), Vince Gill ("Sparkle"), and The Chicks ("Hole In My Head"), in addition to recording his own material. His longtime partnership with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter results in over 100 songs, including "Memory," a ballad completed mere months before Hunter's death.

1956 Elvis Presley's tour plane develops engine trouble while flying the singer from Amarillo, Texas, to Nashville, forcing an emergency landing in Arkansas. When he calls his mother, Gladys, to tell her, she begs him to never fly again, instilling a fear of flying in Elvis which will take him years to get over.

1956 Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps record "Be-Bop-a-Lula."