Last Month | Yesterday | Tomorrow | Next Month | Every Month   February 17 1922   Singer and composer Tommy Edwards born in Richmond, VA. 1931   Jimmy Thompson, early C&W fiddle player, dies. 1935   Country artist Johnny Bond born in Houston, TX. 1941   Gene Pitney born in Hartford, CT. 1962   Canada's National Radio Trade Practices Committee proposes that all lyrics be screened for content and language. 1965   Tennessee State Legislature declares "The Tennessee Waltz" the state song. 1969   Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan attempt to record duets in Nashville. Their voices can best be called incompatible. Only one song, "Girl From North Country", would make it to vinyl as a cut on Dylan's Nashville Skyline LP on Columbia. The others are soon available as bootlegs. 1972   Pink Floyd perform their "Dark Side Of The Moon" live in London, the same day the LP is released. The Lp will remain on the Billboard charts for more than 10 years. 1975   John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll", a collection of oldies. 13 years later, Paul McCartney will release HIS collection of oldies, but only (at first) in the USSR. 1978   Kate Bush releases her first UK LP, The Kick Inside. 1979   The Clash visit America for the first time with their, "Pearl Harbor 79 Tour". First song at the first show at the Palladium in NYC is, "I'm So Bored With the USA". American rap artists are presented and booed at many shows. 1982   64 year old Thelonious Monk dies of a heart attack. 1988   In Toronto Jim Reid of Jesus and Mary Chain pleads guilty to hitting two fans with a mike stand during a concert. He's given no jail time, but apologizes and donates $1000 to the Salvation Army in their name. He said he hit them 'cuz they were yelling 'boring'. 1995   Michael Stipe of R.E.M. forms a film production company in Hollywood, Single Cell Pictures (dubbed 'Pond Scum").