It was on this evening that Sam Cooke, the King of Soul, was shot dead in a seedy Los Angeles motel.
All in Music
Smoke on the Water
This was the night that the historic Montreux Casino on the shore of Lake Geneva, Switzerland burned to the ground.
News from Choctaw Ridge
In 1967, Bobbie Gentry recorded her Southern Gothic masterpiece, Ode to Billie Joe. The song shot to #1 and stayed there for 4 weeks. It sold 3,000,000 copies worldwide and earned Gentry 3 Grammy awards.
Adios Amigo
Jim Reeves was one of the smoothest crooners on the airwaves in the fifties and early sixties. His velvety voice helped establish the Nashville Sound.
Triskaidekaphobia
Extremely superstitious, Arnold Schoenberg dreaded the number 13...and as he feared, he died Friday the 13th in his 67th year.
The Deadly Beat
Jean-Baptiste Lully, the Italian composer whose fast-tempoed music livened up the court of France's Louis XIV, died on this day after a 3-month battle with an infection that started with a smashed toe.
Death by Home Improvement
This bluesman had one of the most covered songs of all time.
Hoagy Carmichael
He wrote some of the most recorded songs of all time, including "Stardust," "Georgia On My Mind," and "Heart And Soul."