History Highlight:

Singer, songwriter, and fiddle player Amanda Shires was born on this day in Lubbock, Texas, in 1982. She is 42. Shires joined the Texas Playboys at age 15, and stepped out as a solo performer in the early 2000s. She has released seven solo albums, and has collaborated extensively with Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit. She is a member of the country supergroup the Highwomen with Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris. She won a Grammy for Best Americana Album for her contributions to 2017’s Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit album The Nashville Sound.

Also, Today In:

1955 - Elvis Presley made his TV debut when he appeared on the weekend show Louisiana Hayride on KWKH TV, broadcast from Shreveport Auditorium in Shreveport, La.

1963 - The Beatles recorded what would be their third single, "From Me to You", just five days after John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote the song.

1963 - country singer Patsy Cline (along with singers Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins) was killed in a private-plane crash near Camden, Tenn. Cline was 30 and at the height of her career. One of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century, Cline was part of the early 1960s' Nashville Sound, and later successfully crossed over to pop music. Ten years after her death, in 1973, she became the first female solo artist inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

1965 - The Yardbirds released "For Your Love".

1977 - Barbra Streisand started a three week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Love Theme From A Star Is Born", her second U.S. No. 1.

1982 - Actor/comedian and Blues Brother John Belushi died of an overdose in Los Angeles. He was only 33.

1983 - Michael Jackson started a seven-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Billie Jean."

1992 - R.E.M. cleaned up in The Rolling Stone Music Awards, winning Album of the Year for Out Of Time, Artist of the Year, Best Single and Best Video for "Losing My Religion," and the Best Band, Best Guitarist and Best Songwriter awards.

1994 - Grace Slick was arrested for pointing a shotgun at police at her Tiburon, Calif., home. Cool heads prevailed. The following June, she was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and mandatory attendance at a long series of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

2002 - The first episode of The Osbournes aired on MTV.

2012 - Sony admitted that a number of Michael Jackson tracks had been stolen after its website was hacked.

Birthdays:

Paul Evans ("Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat,” “Midnite Special”) is 86.

Eddy Grant, whose single "Electric Avenue" went Platinum and sat at No. 2 in the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1983, is 76.

Dire Straits keyboardist Alan Clark is 72.

Teena Marie, "Behind The Groove" singer, was born on this day in 1956.

Mark E. Smith, lead singer of The Fall, was born today in 1957.

The youngest Bee Gee, Andy Gibb, was born today in 1958.

Craig and Charlie Reid (twins) of The Proclaimers are 62.

M.C. Solaar is 55.

John Frusciante, guitarist with Red Hot Chili Peppers is 54.

Editors' bassist Russell Leetch is 42.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, Song Facts and Wikipedia.