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Legacy Recordings Week in Music May 26 -- June 1

Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bill Graham and the incredible soundtrack to "The Sound Of Music" all making history this week!

May 26 1926, Born on this day, Miles Davis, an iconic musician and composer who was a major influence on 20th Century music. Not only a key figure in the history of jazz, Miles was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.

May 27 1963, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" was released by Columbia in the US and propelled him to national and international fame. It went to No. 1 on the UK album charts.

May 28 1982, Seven years after the war officially ended, promoter Bill Graham staged a special Vietnam Veterans benefit concert in San Francisco starring The Jefferson Starship, Boz Scaggs, The Grateful Dead and Country Joe.

May 29 1977, The "Ram Jam" album by Ram Jam is released featuring the hit update of a Leadbelly song "Black Betty."

May 30 1965, The soundtrack album to 'The Sound of Music' started a 10-week run at No.1 on the UK chart. It returned to the top of the charts on no less than 11 other occasions spending over 380 weeks on the chart. Some of the albums that this soundtrack knocked out of the No 1 spot include Bob Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home," The Beatles "Help," The Rolling Stones "Aftermath," as well as both The Beatles "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper!"

May 31 1917 - The first jazz record, "Dark Town Strutters' Ball," by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band was recorded.

June 1 1959, 'The Battle Of New Orleans' by Johnny Horton was at No.1 on both the Country and Pop charts in the US, where it stayed for six weeks. The song was originally a poem written by high school teacher James Morriss (aka Jimmy Driftwood) in 1936, which he put to the music of an old fiddle tune known as 'The Eighth Of January'. Horton later won a Grammy Award for the song.