Earlier Today In Music - January 5th

The #1 song in 1959 - "The Chipmunk Song" - David Seville

Born - George Brown (Kool and the Gang) -1949, Bryan Hitt (REO Speedwagon) - 1954

1940 - The first test of FM radio was heard by the FCC.  It took a year before radios with FM capacity would hear the static-free signal.

1998 - Sonny Bono died at the age of 62 in a skiing accident.





Source - A book.