History Highlight:

Today in 1966, The Troggs' cover of "Wild Thing" (a song originally performed by The Wild Ones) was released in the U.S. simultaneously on the Atco and Fontana labels. The song went to the top in June and would later be covered by Jimi Hendrix, among others.

Also, Today In:

1969 - On the roof of the Apple building in London, John Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono.

1969 - The Who gave their first unabridged live performance of the rock opera Tommy at a show in Dolton, England.

1978 - Bob Marley and the Wailers performed at the "One Love Peace Concert" in Jamaica. It was Marley's first public appearance in Jamaica since being wounded in an assassination attempt a year and a half earlier.

1978 - John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd donned the guise of The Blues Brothers for the first time on Saturday Night Live, opening the show with "Hey Bartender."

1979 - As part of reparations for his 1977 Canadian drug bust, Keith Richards played a benefit concert for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

Birthdays:

Glen Campbell is 78 today.

Jazz great Charles Mingus was born today in 1922.