By Keefer
Dec 10, 2020
1965 - 18-year-old David Bowie recorded Can t Help Thinking About Me at Pye Studios, London, England, which was later released as a single under the name David Bowie with The Lower Third. It became the first David Bowie record to be released in the U.S. as well as the first time the name Bowie appeared under the songwriters credit. (Photo credit RALPH GATTI/AFP via Getty Images)
1967 - Otis Redding and several members of his band died when their plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wisconsin. Redding and his band had made an appearance in Cleveland, Ohio on the local ‘Upbeat’ television show the previous day. His biggest hit, (Sittin on) The Dock of the Bay, had been recorded just three days earlier. Redding was 26.
December 10, 2020 DOLLY PARTON S COAT OF MANY COLORS 2015 Pictured: (l-r) Stella Parton as Mrs. Corla Bass, Mary Lane Haskell as Miss Moody, Gerald McRaney as Preacher Jake, Alyvia Alyn Lind as Dolly, Jennifer Nettles as Avie Lee Parton, Ricky Schroder as Lee Parton. (Jeff Lipsky/NBC)
History Highlight:
Today in 2015, The TV movie Dolly Parton s Coat of Many Colors aired on NBC. The movie is based on a true story about Dolly s upbringing in 1955 as her family struggles to live in Tennessee s Great Smoky Mountains and was written by Pamela K. Long (a writer on the soap opera Guiding Light). In the movie, Dolly s mother is played by Jennifer Nettles, lead vocalist of the country music duo Sugarland, and Dolly Parton plays the narrator.