Brian Jones was born on February 28th of 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He was a founding member of The Rolling Stones and is credited for coming up with their name by Keith Richards. Jones was known as a great musician (multi-instrumentalist) and he played a big part in Stones albums such as 1966′s Aftermath [...]

Josh Groban was born on February 27th of 1981 in Los Angeles, California. He has released four studio albums to date: 2001′s Josh Groban, 2003′s Closer, 2006′s Awake, and 2007′s Noel. They have been certified 4x, 5x, 2x, and 5x Platinum respectively. His music is very popular among Oprah Winfrey viewers & secretaries (certainly there [...]

The Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded “Livery Stable Blues” and “Dixie Jass Band One Step” on February 26th of 1917. These two songs were released as the two sides of a 78 single on March 7th. This was the very first release of a jazz recording. It was originally released as a “novelty” but ended [...]

George Harrison was born on February 25th of 1943 in Liverpool, England. He is best known as the lead guitarist (and also a singer/songwriter) for The Beatles, for his solo career, and for his work with the Traveling Wilburys. While Harrison was overshadowed by John Lennon & Paul McCartney (and even by Ringo Starr sometimes) [...]

George Thorogood was born on February 24th of 1950 in Wilmington, Delaware. He is best known for his releases in the late ’70s and early ’80s. He still performs today. His band is known as George Thorogood & The Destroyers. His best known songs are his covers of John Lee Hooker’s “One Bourbon, One Scotch, [...]

“Always on Time” by Ja Rule featuring Ashanti hit #1 on the US singles charts on February 23rd of 2002. It stayed at #1 for two weeks before being knocked off the top by “Ain’t It Funny” by Jennifer Lopez (featuring Ja Rule) which stayed at #1 for six weeks. Then that song was knocked [...]

Percy Faith’s instrumental version of “Theme from A Summer Place” hit #1 on the US singles charts on February 22nd of 1960. It stayed at #1 for 9 weeks and was the best selling single of the year. The song had been written for the 1959 movie A Summer Place by Max Steiner (music) and [...]

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5″ hit #1 on the US singles charts on February 21st of 1981. It stayed at #1 for one week. The song, which was written by Parton, was her only #1 hit on the US singles charts during her career (although she had many big hits on the country singles charts.) [...]

John Geils was born on February 20th of 1946 in New York City. He is best known as the founder, lead singer, lead guitarist, and namesake of The J. Geils Bands. The band released many moderately successful albums and singles during the 1970s with a blues rock sound before moving to a more pop rock [...]

The concept of recorded music was born with the phonograph which was patented by Thomas Edison on February 19th of 1878. All hail Edison, a true American bad ass. If you are the curious sort about such things then I recommend reading the Wikipedia entry on the phonograph. I find it rather fascinating myself. Check [...]