January 25

1980: Alicia Keyes is born.  Fallin’ was Grammy Song Of The Year in 2002.

1973: Stevie Wonder tops the charts with Superstition.

1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival releases Proud Mary.  It hits #2 on the charts.  Ike & Tina Turner also have a hit with it, two years later.

1963: Janis Joplin performs in San Francisco for the first time, singing at a North Beach coffeehouse.  She later has a hit with Me And Bobby McGee, written by Chris Kristofferson.

1961: On his second day in New York, Bob Dylan visits his hero Woody Guthrie’s family and teaches Woody’s son Arlo how to play the harmonica

Songs of The Day:

Proud Mary (Ike & Tina Turner); Superstition (Stevie Wonder); Fallin’ (Alicia Keyes); Me And Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)