This Day In Music History

June 17th
1971 - Carole King's 'Tapestry" album goes to No. 1 on the US album chart for the first of 15 weeks.

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June 16th
1970 - Mungo Jerry hits No.1 on the UK and Canadian singles charts with 'In The Summertime'. It wound only reach #3 on US charts but would go on to become the best selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1. 

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June 15th
1956 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet at a church dinner in Liverpool, England where Lennon asks McCartney to join his group The Quarrymen.

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Janis Joplin - Photo by Evening Standard / Getty Images
JUNE 10TH
1966 - Janis Joplin, performs for the first time since joining Big Brother & the Holding Company as their new lead singer. Big Brother & the Holding Company were part of the 1965 San Francisco  psychedelic music scene

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June 9th
1972 - Bruce Springsteen begins assembling the E Street Band after being signed to Columbia Records.   Various Asbury Park  ex-band members soon join

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June 8th
1967 - British band Procol Harum hit No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale'. With little promotion, it reached #5 on the US charts as well, and became one of fewer than 30 singles to sell more then 10 million copies.

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June 3rd
1969 - It's a very sad day for singer Diana Ross of The Supremes. She discovers her two pet dogs had eaten rat poison and died in her dressing room.

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June 2nd
1967 - David Bowie releases his self titled debut album in the UK. This is the same day The Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", came out. "David Bowie" would later be released in the US in August and was a commercial failure at the time.

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June 1st
1964 - The Rolling Stones land at Kennedy Airport for their debut US tour.  They are met by over 500 fans as they exited the airplane.

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May 28th
1966 - Bob Dylan & The Beatles spend the day watching parts of what would become D.A. Pennebaker's documentary film about Dylan's 1965 concert tour, the film would later be released as  "Don't Look Back."

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