History Highlight:

Today in 2009, the debut album by The Dead Weather, Horehound, was released, and spawned the singles "Hang You from the Heavens," "Treat Me Like Your Mother," and "I Cut Like A Buffalo." The band includes Alison Mosshart (The Kills and Discount), Jack White (The White Stripes and The Raconteurs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) and Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes and City and Colour), and has released two albums since their debut album. Fun fact: The idea for the band formed after Jack White lost his voice and The Raconteurs asked Alison Mosshart whom they were touring to fill in on some songs.

Also, Today In:

1962 - Bobby Vinton started a four-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Roses Are Red, My Love."

1964 - The Rolling Stones went No. 1 in the U.K. with their cover of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now."

1967 - In another great concert mismatch of the rock ages, The Who opened for Herman's Hermits on their first U.S. tour.

1973 - Clarence White of The Byrds was loading equipment after a gig in Palmdale, Calif., when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver.

1973 - During a concert at the John Wayne Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., Phil Everly smashed his guitar and stormed off stage. Don Everly finished the set by himself and announced that The Everly Brothers had split.

1979 - Donna Summer scored her third No. 1 U.S. single with "Bad Girls"; the album of the same name also started a five-week run at No. 1.

1982 - The film premiere of Pink Floyd's The Wall was held at the Empire in London's Leicester Square.

1989 - "Judge Judy" Sheindlin, not yet a TV star and still a Family Court judge in New York, ordered Tom Jones to pay $200 weekly child support to model Katherine Berkery.

Birthdays:

Woodrow "Woody" Guthrie, was born in Okemah, Okla., today in 1912.

Tanya Donelly, singer for The Breeders, Throwing Muses, and Belly, is 50 today.

Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons is 29.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, Song Facts and Wikipedia.