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20th January music history...
1586 - Composer Johann Hermann Schein was born.
1703 - Composer Joseph-Hector Fiocco was born.
1855 - Composer Amedee-Ernest Chausson was born.
1870 - Composer Guillaume Lekeu was born.
1894 - Composer Walter Hamor Piston was born.
1899 - Composer Alexander Tcherepnin was born.
1942 - Harry Babbitt sang as Kay Kyser and his Orchestra recorded, "Who Wouldn't Love You", on Columbia Records.
1958 - "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes was released.
1958 - Elvis Presley got his orders to report to duty from the U.S. Army. He was allowed a 60-day deferment so he could finish the film "King Creole".
1964 - The album "Meet the Beatles" was released in the U.S. on Capitol Records. It was their U.S. debut LP.
1965 - The Rolling Stones and the Kinks made their first appearance on ABC-TV's "Shindig!"
1967 - Arthur Conley recorded "Sweet Soul Music".
1969 - Elvis Presley recorded "In the Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds." It was the first time he had recorded in Memphis since 1956.
1973 - Jerry Lee Lewis mades his debut at the Grand Ole Opry.
1974 - Stevie Wonder played his first show after an auto accident that almost took his life five months earlier.
1982 - Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of a bat in Des Moines, IA, and was hospitalized to undertake a series of rabies shots.
1999 - Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots), while on probation for a 1997 heroin case, was arrested for failing to provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center.
2002 - Sting won his first Golden Globe for his song "Until" from the "Kate & Leopold" soundtrack.
