Sunday February 14

  • Stevie Wonder is inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame, 2008




  • Aretha Franklin records "Respect", 1967

Monday February 15

  • Jackie Wilson is shot twice by a jealous lover (he recovers, but loses a kidney), 1961
  • Songwriter Brian Holland (wrote many hits for the Supremes and the Four Tops with his brother, Eddie and Lamont Dozier) is 69 
  • Nat "King" Cole ("Ramblin' Rose") dies of lung cancer in 1965
  • Sammy Davis, Jr. gets a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars, 2007

Tuesday February 16

  • "Aretha Franklin Day" is celebrated in Detroit, 1968
     
  • Doris Troy ("Just One Look") dies of emphysema in 2004 
  • Ike Turner is convicted on cocaine charges and sentenced to four years in prison (he serves 18 months), 1990

Wednesday February 17

  • The late Tommy Edwards ("It's All In The Game") is born in 1922
  • Ray Barretto ("El Watusi") dies of heart failure, 2006

Thursday February 18

  • Irma Thomas ("Wish Someone Would Care") is 69
     
  • Yoko Ono is 77 

 

Friday February 19

  • Smokey Robinson ("Tears of a Clown") is 70
  • Tower of Power member Rich Stevens (he sang lead on "You're Still A Young Man") is arrested--later convicted-- for a drug-related triple homicide in San Jose, California, 1976