Stones debut! -- Bruce tries out! -- Remembering a real Sixties girl...

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Lesley Gore; Sept. 1964. (Keystone/Getty Images)
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5/2/1964 (52 years ago today) - The LP will end up spending a total of 51 weeks on the chart: On this date, The Rolling Stones debut album kicks off 12 consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the U.K.; this same date also sees The Stones making their first appearance on the U.S. sales chart when their 45-single version of "Not Fade Away" enters at...No. 98. Gotta start somewhere...killer footage here:

5/2/1972 (44 years ago today) - Bruce Springsteen auditions for legendary Columbia Records A&R man John Hammond in his CBS New York City office. Sufficiently impressed, Hammond arranges for a full-set try-out that same night for other Columbia executives at The Gaslight Club in the Big Apple. The rest, as they say...

5/2/1946 - Lesley Sue Goldstein was born in Brooklyn on this date; props to singer-songwriter-actress-and-pioneering-activist Lesley Gore. In 1963, at age 16, she recorded her best-known single, the pop classic "It's My Party", a No. 1 million seller. Many hits followed: "Judy's Turn To Cry", "She's A Fool", "Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows", and the protofeminist (and also million-selling) "You Don't Own Me", which held at No. 2 for three weeks, kept out of the top spot only by The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand"! Lesley also worked in film (she was nominated for an Academy Award for 1980's "Fame") and TV, where she hosted an LGBT-oriented public television show, "In The Life", one of the first in the industry to do so. On February 16th of last year, at her home in Manhattan, she passed away from lung cancer; Lesley was 68.

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