In 1931, In London, the Abbey Road recording studios were opened
by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of the British music company EMI, its
current owner. Originally a nine-bedroom Georgian townhouse built in the 1830s,
the structure was used as an apartment building before its conversion to a
recording facility. After decades of officially being titled as EMI Studios, in
1970 EMI changed the name to Abbey Road Studios, the name by which they had
been informally called throughout the 1960s when they were the venue for
memorable recordings by the Beatles, Badfinger, and Pink Floyd, among others.
In 1954, Red Robinson, at age 17, began his radio career at
CJOR-Vancouver and became the first Canadian disc jockey to regularly play rock
'n' roll music on the air.
In 1955, Billboard began its Top 100 chart, with "Love
Is A Many-Splendored Thing" by the Four Aces as the first #1 record
listed. It was not until 1959 that the magazine resolved all its pop charts
into one.
In 2012, Veteran Los Angeles media personality (KLAC-AM for
40 years, KTTV-TV)/commercial pitchman Sam Benson died at the age of 90.
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