Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 20 1927	Fats Waller records Beale Street Blues as a pipe organ solo for Victor Records in the Church Building, Camden, New Jersey, USA. At the same session, the same song is also recorded by Waller with vocals by Alberta Hunter. Also recorded at this session is Savannah Blues by Morris' Hot Babies with Fats Waller, and several other songs. (1927)
May 20 1929	Dick Justice records Cocaine Blues, Henry Lee and Brown Skin Blues in Chicago, Illinois, USA, for Brunswick Records. (1929)
May 20 1944	Blues and rock singer Joe Cocker is born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK. (1944)
May 20 1955	Ruth Brown's American hit, Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean, is banned from radio broadcasts by the BBC in the UK, on the grounds that it might encourage wife-beating. [censorship] (1955)
May 20 1957	Big Joe Turner begins a week of dates at the Casino Royal, Washington, DC. (1957)
May 20 1961	Jimmy Rogers plays the ninth night of two weeks in the Camellia house Lounge at The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1961)
May 20 1963	Bo Diddley by Ronnie Hawkins And The Hawks peaks at No8 in the Canadian pop singles chart. The Hawks will, in due course, evolve into The Band. (1963)
May 20 1964	Chuck Berry [backed by The Nashville Teens] plays at The Rialto, York, UK., supported by Carl Perkins (also backed by The Nashville Teens) and The Animals, Kingsize Taylor And The Dominoes and The Swinging Blue Jeans. (1964)
May 20 1964	R'n'B band The Tridents, featuring future rock guitar hero Jeff Beck, play at The Ealing Club, Ealing, London, UK. (1964)
May 20 1964	When The Rolling Stones and Howlin' Wolf appear on the US tv show Shindig!, in Los Angeles, California, USA, Wolf introduces Jagger to Son House, who is sitting in the audience. (1965)
May 20 1965	Country music guitarist Doc Watson and The Danny Kalb Quartet [later known as The Blues Project] play the last of fifteen nights at The Gaslight Cafe, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. (1965)
May 20 1969	Albert Collins plays the second of seven nights at The Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Charlie Musselwhite. (1969)
May 20 1969	Lightnin' Hopkins records the album Lightnin' with producer Chris Strachwitz in Berkeley, California, USA. (1969)
May 20 1985	Blues guitarist and singer Johnny Fuller dies in Oakland, California, USA. (1985)
May 20 1993	Swamp blues guitarist and singer Clarence Edwards dies aged 60 in Scotlandville, Louisianna, USA. (1933)
May 20 2003	Blues musician Joe 'Guitar' Hughes dies after suffering a heart attack, aged 65, in Houston, Texas, USA. (2003)
May 20 2008	Blues guitarist Sonny Landreth releases a new album, From The Reach. (2008)
May 20 2012	Blues, jazz and gospel singer Carrie Smith, dies of cancer, aged 86, at the Lillian Booth Actors Home of the Actors Fund in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. (2012)
May 20 2013	Joe Louis Walker and Aoife O'Donovan play at The Lyric Theatre, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. (2013)
May 20 2013	Eric Clapton plays at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. (2013)