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The Sammy Davis Jr. Show

Sammy Davis Jr.

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1966
2/2 Wed
"The first edition of Go-Set magazine is published in Melbourne, Australia. Founded by former Monash University students Phillip Frazer and Tony Schauble, the new weekly is the first independent periodical in Australia devoted entirely to popular music an
2/6 Sun
"The Animals appear a fifth time on The Ed Sullivan Show to perform their iconic Vietnam-anthem hit ""We Gotta Get Out of this Place""."
2/17 Thu
"Brian Wilson starts recording Good Vibrations with The Wrecking Crew, continuing for several months and marking a beginning to the famed Smile sessions."
2/19 Sat
Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin perform at the Fillmore.
3/4 Fri
"The Beatles' John Lennon is quoted in the London newspaper, The Evening Standard as saying that the band was now more popular than Jesus. In August, following publication of this remark in Datebook, there are Beatles protests and record burnings in the S
3/5 Sat
"The 11th Eurovision Song Contest is staged in the Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg. Udo J_rgens, having represented Austria in the last two contests (sixth in 1964; fourth in 1965), finally scores a first for the country, with ""Merci Ch_rie"", which he co-wro
3/6 Sun
"In the UK, 5,000 fans of the Beatles sign a petition urging British Prime minister Harold Wilson to reopen Liverpool's Cavern Club."
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"Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass set a world record by placing five albums simultaneously on Billboard's Pop Album Chart, with four of them the Top 10. Their music outsells The Beatles by a margin of two-to-one... over 13 million recordings. They win 4 Gr
4/11 Mon
"first public performance in the Metropolitan Opera House, of Giacomo Puccini's La fanciulla del West, though the official opening of the new opera house would not take place until September 16."
4/12 Tue
"In Los Angeles, California, Jan Berry, of Jan and Dean, crashes his Corvette into a truck that is parked on Whittier Boulevard. Berry suffers total physical paralysis for over a year as well as extensive brain damage."
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