Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


Jun 20 1916	The Six Brown Brothers record Bull Frog Blues (In Foxtrot Time) for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey, USA. (1916)
Jun 20 1925	Alex Hyde And His Orchestra are undertaking a month-long engagement, playing for an Elite-Abend fashion show at The Luna Palais, Luna Park, Berlin, Germany. (1925)
Jun 20 1928	Jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy is born in Los Angeles. (1928)
Jun 20 1929	The all-black musical revue Hot Chocolates has its Broadway opening at the Hudson Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for 219 performances. The show, which introduced the Fats Waller song Ain?t Misbehavin? to the American public, had previously been running under the title Hot Feet at Connie?s Inn in Harlem, New York City. (1929)
Jun 20 1929	The Trix Sisters accompanied by The Gilt-Edged Four record The Hollow Of A Hill and Golden Paradise, for Columbia Records in London, UK. (1929)
Jun 20 1929	Blind Blake records Hookworm Blues, Poker Woman Blues, Doing A Stretch, Fightin' The Jug and Slippery Rag in Richmond, Indiana, USA, for Paramount Records. (1929)
Jun 20 1933	Al Bowlly, accompanied by the Ray Noble Orchestra, records A Couple Of Fools In Love and I Only Want One Girl, in London, UK, for HMV. (1933)
Jun 20 1935	Blues star Big Bill Broonzy records C & A Blues for ARC Records in Chicago, Illinois. (1935)
Jun 20 1938	Glenn Miller And His Orchestra play in The Paradise Restaurant, New York City, USA. (1938)
Jun 20 1939	Benny Goodman And His Orchestra play on the CBS network's Camel Caravan radio show in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (1939)
Jun 20 1939	Glenn Miller And His Orchestra play in The Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, New York State, USA. (1939)
Jun 20 1940	Art Tatum plays I Thought About You and Too Marvellous For Words on the KHJ Radio show California Melodies, broadcast from Los Angeles. (1940)
Jun 20 1940	Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, with vocalist Frank Sinatra, play at the Astor Hotel, New York City, during a fourteen?week engagement. (1940)
Jun 20 1941	The Ted Lewis Orchestra opens for a week at The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1941)
Jun 20 1947	Jazz cornettist Lu Watters, leader of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band opens a new jazz venue, Hambone Kelly's, in El Cerrito, California, USA. (1947)
Jun 20 1949	Frank Sinatra releases his second studio LP, Frankly Sentimental, on Columbia Records in the USA. (1949)
Jun 20 1950	Benny Strong And His Orchestra play the first night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
Jun 20 1957	Sonny Boy Williamson II, Elmore James, Magic Sam, The Dells, Billy 'The Kid' Emerson and jazz crooner Johnny Hartman and his band play at The Rena Theatre [previously known as The Lawndale Theatre] , Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1957)
Jun 20 1958	The Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis Quintet records Have Horn Will Blow, In The Kitchen, But Beautiful and Three Deuces in Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. (1958)
Jun 20 1959	The Benny Golson Quintet records Autumn Leaves, Soul Me and other tracks for Prestige Records in Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. (1959)
Jun 20 1962	Jazz pianist Junior Mance records the album Happy Time at Plaza Sound Studios, New York City, USA. (1962)
Jun 20 2011	One of the UK's greatest jazz vocalists Ottilie Patterson dies aged 79 in Ayr, Scotland. (2011)