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April 27, 1956 — Capitol Records signs Gene Vincent, intending to market him as the next Elvis.
2006 — 62-year-old Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones falls out of a palm tree while vacationing in Fiji and goes to the hospital with a concussion, creating a rare news event on the island. A band spokeswoman refuses to explain what he was doing up the tree, but the British newspaper The Independent quotes an islander as saying, "Picking coconuts is quite common on the island. It's just that Keith had a bit of an accident coming down."
April 28, 1958 — David Seville's "Witch Doctor" hits #1, the first song to use sped-up vocals to create the squeaky sound that later becomes The Chipmunks.
April 29, 1944 — R&B and rock 'n' roll progenitor Louis Jordan's "G. I. Jive" enters the music charts, becoming his third #1 R&B record (for six weeks) and crossing over to #1 pop (for two weeks), his first appearance on that list. Jordan's discs hold the R&B record for the most time at #1, an astounding 113 weeks.
April 30, 1930 — Texas-born blues singer, bottleneck slide guitarist, and evangelist Blind Willie Johnson.
Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
Heavenly Birthdays Singers and Song Writers
1966 - The Beatles
The Beatles started recording the new John Lennon song 'I'm Only Sleeping' at Abbey Road studios London, England. The song features the then-unique sound of a reversed guitar duet played by George Harrison. It was released two months earlier in the United States on the album Yesterday And Today and did not feature on the original US version of Revolver .
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