History Highlight:

Today, Aimee Mann celebrates her 54th birthday. In the 1980s, Mann sang in the Boston new wave band 'Til Tuesday until she left to begin a solo career in the early 1990s. In 1999, Mann recorded original songs for the soundtrack to the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia, for which she received Academy Award and Grammy Award nominations. She has released seven solo albums. Recently, she teamed up with Ted Leo and has been performing under the name, The Both.

Also, Today In:

1962 - "Monster Mash," by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (providing all the voices and creating the spooky sound effects), entered the singles chart. It went on to reach #1 shortly before Halloween that year and it became a perennial seasonal favorite thereafter.

1971 - The prestigious National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Bing Crosby Award was presented to Elvis Presley for his "creative contributions and outstanding artistic significance to the field of phonograph records." The only other artists to receive the award prior to Elvis were Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Irving Berlin.

1978 - Keith Moon, longtime drummer for The Who, died of a overdose of the presciption drug, heminevrin, taken for alcoholism.

1982 - Security, by Peter Gabriel, was released.

1988 - Elton John auctioned off a number of his costumes and memorabilia for a tidy $6.2 million. He was having a little cash flow problem at the time.

1999 - As part of a promotion for Apple/EMI's re-release of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine album, a cross-channel train custom-designed with artwork from the animated film leaves Waterloo Station in London for Paris.

Birthdays:

Patsy Cline was born today in 1932.