This Day In Music History: July 21st
1973 Jim Croce's, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown", taken from his second LP, "Life and Times", was the number one song on Billboard's Hot 100. Jim said that the Leroy Brown character was inspired by a tough guy that he had met in the Army a few years earlier.
2023 Tony Bennett, the crooner whose music bridged several generations, passed away at the age of 96. Over the course of his eight decade career, he placed thirteen songs on the Billboard Top 40 chart, including 1957's "In The Middle Of An Island", which peaked at #9. Bennett won 18 Grammy Awards, most notably Album of the Year for his 1994 "MTV Unplugged: Tony Bennett" LP that featured collaborations with Elvis Costello and K.D. Lang. His signature tune, "I Left My Heart In San Francisco", which climbed to #19, was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress in 2018.
source: classicbands