Rock 'n' Roll History for
June 28


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1957 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Jerry Lee Lewis makes his first appearance on The Steve Allen Show, performing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On". After the program airs, sales of the record soar, pushing it to #3 on the Billboard Top 100 and #1 on the R&B chart.

1965 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Dick Clark's Rock and Roll TV show, Where The Action Is premieres on ABC-TV. Guests include Jan And Dean, Dee Dee Sharp and newcomers Paul Revere And The Raiders, who steal the show with their stage antics and Revolutionary War costumes.

1968 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
The Rascals are awarded their third Gold record as the Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati composition, "A Beautiful Morning" was acknowledged as having sold one million copies. The record rose to number 3 in the US, but was not a hit in Europe.

June 28
Aretha Franklin appears on the cover of Time magazine just as her LP "Aretha: Lady Soul" reaches #2 on the Billboard chart.

June 28
Jefferson Airplane make the cover of Life magazine under the headline: "Music That's Hooked the Whole Vibrating World. The New Rock." Photographer Art Kane snapped the band in six plexiglas boxes in front of a mound of gypsum on the bank of New York's East River across from the United Nations Building. The cost of the issue was 35 cents.

1969 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Elvis Presley had the best selling single in America with the Mac Davis written "In The Ghetto". The track had been recorded at the American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, along with "Suspicious Minds", "Kentucky Rain", and "Don't Cry Daddy". The last time The King had topped the Cashbox chart was in December, 1962, with "Return To Sender".

June 28
Henry Mancini's "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" ("A Time For Us") led the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of a two week stay. That marked the only time that the composer, conductor, arranger and pianist achieved a Top Ten hit on that chart. The event ended a run of five weeks at the top by The Beatles' "Get Back".

1973 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Helen Reddy's summer replacement show debuts on NBC-TV with guest stars Flip Wilson, Lee Grant, Seals And Crofts, and The Pointer Sisters. The program would run for eight weeks, wrapping up on August 16th.

June 28
One of the first British Invasion revival concerts was held at Madison Square Garden in New York. The show featured Gerry And The Pacemakers, Wayne Fontana, The Searchers and Herman's Hermits. The last time any of them were on the US record charts was in early 1968 when "I Can Take or Leave Your Loving" was a #22 hit for the Hermits.

1975 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Three weeks after it was issued in the US, David Bowie's "Fame" is released in the UK. It would go on to become his first number one hit in America and reach #17 in Great Britain. Bowie was later quoted as indicating that he had "absolutely no idea" that the song would do so well, saying "I wouldn't know how to pick a single if it hit me in the face."

June 28
The Eagles started a five-week run at the top of the Billboard Hot 200 album chart with "One Of These Nights". The LP contained three Top 10 singles, "One Of These Nights", (#1) "Lyin' Eyes", (#2) and "Take It To The Limit" (#4).

1978 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Members of the group Kansas were named Deputy Ambassadors of Goodwill by Unicef.

1980 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" becomes one of the few live recordings to reach the top of Billboard's Hot 100. American disc jockeys preferred it to the robotic sounding, studio version found on the flip side.

1986 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Wham! drew a sell-out crowd of 75,000 to their farewell concert at Wembley Stadium in London. During their career, the duo of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley had sold more than thirty-eight million records.

1997 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Bob Carlisle's LP, "Butterfly Kisses" becomes the first contemporary Christian album to hit #1 on the Billboard 200. It also topped the the Adult Contemporary chart and the Billboard Christian Albums chart. Written for his daughter Brooke's 16th birthday, the title track received a Dove Award for Song of the Year, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Country Song.

2010 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
A Los Angeles woman paid $190,000 for the Swarovski-crystal-studded glove that Michael Jackson wore on his 1984 Victory Tour. Julien's Auctions, which ran the auction at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, also sold a Jimi Hendrix Fender guitar for $180,000, Prince's "Purple Rain" handwritten lyrics, which sold for $66,000, and an Elvis Presley shirt worn in 1956 on The Milton Berle Show, which fetched $61,200.

June 28
Bill Aucoin, who, as KISS's manager, turned four young New York City kids into a Rock group that would sell more than 100 million albums, died from complications of prostate cancer at the age of 66. Aucoin not only got them their first recording contract, he ferociously marketed their merchandise which included makeup, a KISS comic book and even a pinball machine.

2015 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Chris Squire, bassist and co-founder of Yes, lost his battle with leukemia at the age of 67.

2016 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Scotty Moore, the guitarist who backed Elvis Presley both live and on his earliest recordings, passed away at the age of 84. It was Moore, along with bassist Bill Black, who recorded Presley's first hit records, including "That's All Right", "Blue Moon of Kentucky", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Blue Suede Shoes", "Hound Dog", and "Jailhouse Rock".

2017 - ClassicBands.com

June 28
Gary DeCarlo, the voice behind Steam's 1969, Hot 100 chart topping hit, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", died of lung cancer at the age of 75. The song, which DeCarlo helped write, topped the chart for two weeks and sold over six and half million copies.



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