On this day July 10 in Rock history:

1961 - "Tossin' and Turnin'" by 28-year-old Bobby Lewis reaches the top of the Billboard chart for the first of a seven week run, one of the longest of the year. A few months later he'll have another Top Ten song, "One Track Mind", his only other major hit record.

1963 - Martha And The Vandellas release "Heatwave", which will reach #4 on the Billboard Pop chart, #1 on the R&B chart, and #5 on the Cashbox Best Sellers list by mid-August. The song became their first million-seller and eventually won the group their only Grammy nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.

1964 - Manfred Mann release their version of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", which will top the UK Official Chart next August and the Billboard Hot 100 the following October. The song was originally recorded by the Queens, New York quartet, The Exciters, but their effort stalled at #78 in America and failed to chart at all in Great Britain.

1965 - The Rolling Stones classic rocker "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was number one in the US on both the Cashbox and Billboard charts. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine placed the song in the number two spot on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and in 2006 it was added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, despite its sexually suggestive lyrics.

Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour" enters the Billboard Hot 100, where it would climb to #23. The song would top the Billboard R&B chart starting a string of sixteen hit records on that list which would stretch into 1972. Later ranked by Rolling Stone magazine at #134 on their 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time, the song was selected in 2007 for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant."

The Strangeloves, a New York-based, Amrican songwriting team who pretended to be a band from Australia, cracked the Billboard Top 40 for the first time with "I Want Candy". They had already had success by writing "My Boyfriend's Back" for The Angles and would place two more of their own recordings on the chart with "Cara-Lin" (#39) and "Night Time" (#30).

The Kinks play the Seattle Center Coliseum in what turns out to be their last show on American soil until October 17, 1969 at the Fillmore East in New York City. After a spat with a concert promoter at The Cow Palace near San Francisco, where the band refused to perform unless they were paid in advance, the promoter, Betty Kaye, filed a grievance with the American Federation of Musicians over the band's behavior. The Union then withheld the necessary work permits for the group, preventing them from future US performances. Ray Davies negotiated with the Musicians Union to lift the ban in April, 1969, which they did, but only after he and the band's management wrote an apology to Betty Kaye.

1966 - Cat Stevens cuts his first record, "I Love My Dog" at Decca Records' studio in London. It would peak at #28 in the UK the following November.

1967 - Kenny Rogers, along with Mike Settle, Terry Williams, and Thelma Camacho, quit The New Christy Minstrels to form The First Edition. The new group received their first national exposure on the Smothers Brothers TV show and went on to have such hits as "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" in 1968 (US #5), "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" in 1969 (US #6) and 1971's "Something's Burning" (US #10). From 1971 to 1973, they hosted their own musical variety TV show called Rollin' on the River.

1968 - The Nice was banned from Royal Albert Hall in London after Keith Emerson stomped on and burned an American flag during a concert. The action was intended as a political protest against the US involvement in the Vietnam War and the recent assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Two years later, Emerson joined Greg Lake and Carl Palmer in Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

1969 - Former Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones is laid to rest at the Priory Road Cemetery in Prestbury, England. His bandmates, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman attended the funeral, but Mick Jagger was in Australia and Keith Richards chose not to show up. To prevent trophy hunters from disturbing the grave, Jones was buried twelve feet deep.

1971 - Dunhill Records releases Three Dog Night's rendition of "Liar". It would become the sixth of the band's eleven Billboard Top Ten songs, reaching #7. The tune was written by Russ Ballard of the band Argent, and was included on their 1970 self-titled debut album. It was issued as the band's first single, but did not chart.

1972 -Harry Nilsson's album, "Son of Schmilsson" is released by RCA Records. It featured George Harrison under the name George Harrysong and Ringo Starr, listed as Richie Snare, on some of the tracks. Other musicians on the recording include Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann, Bobby Keys and Peter Frampton. The LP would reach #12 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, but did not register in Britain.

1975 - Gladys Knight's summer variety series, The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show premiered on NBC-TV as a summer replacement for the The Mac Davis Show. After its planned four week run, the program would not be picked up for a full season.

1976 - The Starland Vocal Band, the first act to be signed to John Denver's new Windsong label, had the top tune on the Billboard chart with "Afternoon Delight". The song also topped the charts in Canada and reached #18 in the UK. Although they would release nine more singles over the next four years, none of them would crack the US Top 40, and the band split up in 1981.

After years of trying to find hit material, England Dan and John Ford Coley enter the Billboard Top 40 with, "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight". The single will rise to number two in America and sell over two million copies.

Cher and Gregg Allman become the parents of a son they named Elijah Blue Allman. He would be given his first guitar by KISS bassist Gene Simmons, and at age 13 went on tour as a guitarist in his mother's backing band.

1979 - Chuck Berry is sentenced to four months in prison and 1,000 hours of community service for income-tax evasion. In 1973, he short-changed Uncle Sam $200,000.