Rick Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 On July 10th in music history: Births 1937: "Jumpin'" Gene Simmons1937: Sandy Stewart1941: Ian Whitcomb1943: Jerry Miller (Moby Grape)1944: John Dymond (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich)1947: Arlo Guthrie1949: Dave Smalley (Young Rascals, Raspberries)1949: Ronnie James Dio Events 1950: The Victor Talking Machine Company, later to become RCA Victor and the world's first great record label, trademarks its slogan "His Master's Voice," which referred to the iconic image of the Victor dog, Nipper, cocking an ear to the gramophone as if his master were actually in the room. The nation's favorite popular music countdown, "Your Hit Parade," gets its own home on NBC TV to match its longtime radio counterpart. 1954: WINS AM in New York hires legendary DJ Alan Freed away from his home at Cleveland's WJW, where, among other things, he helped popularize the term "rock and roll." Freed would move across town to WABC two years later, where he would eventually be fired for his participation in the "payola scandal." 1959: One of the most popular Fifties "rock and roll movies," Alan Freed's Go, Johnny, Go!opens nationwide, featuring Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, Eddie Cochran, Sandy Stewart, the Cadillacs, Harvey Fuqua of the Moonglows, Jimmy Clanton, and -- in his one and only film appearance -- Ritchie Valens. 1964: The Beatles A Hard Day's Night film has its Liverpool premiere, with over 200,000 locals (!) turning up to celebrate their hometown boys making good. 1966: A young Cat Stevens begins his recording career by cutting the minor UK hit "I Love My Dog." 1967: Singer Kenny Rogers leaves the folk group The New Christy Minstrels and, the next day, forms the First Edition. 1968: Eric Clapton announces the breakup of the supergroup Cream, currently finishing up its last tour. Early prog-rockers The Nice are banned from London's Royal Albert Hall after burning an American flag on stage. 1969: The Rolling Stones founding member, Brian Jones, is laid to rest at Hatherley Road Parish Church in his hometown of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, after drowning (or, some say, being drowned) in a swimming pool a few days earlier. Brian is buried 12 feet in the ground so as to discourage trophy-seeking fans. His epitaph: "Please don't judge me too harshly." 1974: Mac Davis debuts his own summer variety music show on NBC TV. 1975: Gregg Allman and Cher's famously rocky marriage almost ends in divorce after only ten days. Gladys Knight and the Pips debut their own summer variety music show on NBC TV. 1976: Vernon Presley, at the behest of his son Elvis, fires longtime "Memphis Mafia" members Sonny West, his cousin Red West, and Dave Hebler -- not coincidentally the three most adamant about getting him off his addiction to prescription drugs. Red would eventually write a book called Elvis: What Happened? which would alert the public to the King's drug problem for the first time. 1977: Cher gives birth to Elijah Blue Allman, her first and only child with Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers. 1978: Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman falls from the stage at a gig St. Paul, MN and is knocked unconscious. 1979: Chuck Berry is sentenced to jail for the second time, this time a tax-evasion charge that nets him four months (for allegedly bilking Uncle Sam out of $200,000 back in 1973). 1981: Jerry Lee Lewis enters a Memphis hospital for the first of two emergency operations to counteract a bleeding ulcer. 1986: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead slips into a diabetic coma. He recovers a five days later. 1989: The Monkees get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the ceremony, all four Monkees reunite for the first time. 1993: Bob Seger marries his third and current wife, Juanita Dorricott. 2000: A much-ballyhooed Supremes "reunion" tour, "Return To Love," which features only Diana Ross from the original group, is canceled after initial ticket sales don't match expectations. Releases 1963: Martha and the Vandellas, "Heatwave"1965: Wilson Pickett, "In The Midnight Hour"1965: Sonny and Cher, "I Got You Babe"1971: Three Dog Night, "Liar"1972: Harry Nilsson, Son of Schmilsson Recording 1936: Billie Holiday, "Billie’s Blues"1967: Bobbie Gentry, "Ode To Billie Joe"1968: The Beatles, "Revolution"1969: The Beatles, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" Charts 1961: Bobby Lewis "Tossin' and Turnin'" hits #11965: The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" hits #11976: England Dan and John Ford Coley's "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" enters the charts1976: The Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight" hits #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 On July 11th in music history: Births 1930: Thurston Harris1931: Tab Hunter1944: Bobby G. Rice1947: Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)1950: Bonnie Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)1953: Peter Brown1954: Benny DiFranco (The DiFranco Family) Deaths 1981: Hubert Johnson (The Contours)1989: Roger Christian1996: Louis Gottlieb (The Limeliters)1999: Helen Forrest2000: James Hill (The Fairfield Four)2002: Rosco Gordon2005: Luther Vandross2007: Rod Lauren Events 1946: Dean Martin begins his recording career mere weeks before teaming up with nightclub comic Jerry Lewis. 1962: The Telstar satellite, the first active communications satellite, is launched by AT&T, inspiring the Tornadoes' instrumental hit of the same name later that year. 1966: Elvis Presley begins filming his 24th motion picture, Double Trouble. 1976: Andy Gibb marries girlfriend Kim Reeder in Australia. Frank Sinatra marries for the fourth time, this time to Barbara Marx, former wife of the Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx. 1981: Longtime songwriting team Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager are divorced. 1992: Jerry Garcia introduces a series of neckties he's designed, bearing his name. President Bill Clinton immediately buys the set of eight. 1994: Michael Jackson's spokesperson publicly denies rampant rumors that the singer has married Lisa Marie Presley. 2002: The funeral of longtime Who bassist John Entwistle is held in St. Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, and attended by over 200 mourners. 2004: In an attempt to recapture Elvis' record of most UK Number Ones, his first single, 1954's "That's All Right," is rereleased on its 50th anniversary. Releases 1964: Stevie Wonder, "Hey Harmonica Man"1964: The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go?"1969: David Bowie, "Space Oddity"1969: The Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Women"1970: The Who, "Summertime Blues" Recording 1955: Elvis Presley, "I Forgot To Remember To Forget," "Mystery Train," "Trying To Get To You"1968: The Beatles: "Revolution," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"1969: The Beatles: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "Something" Charts 1960: The Hollywood Argyles' "Alley-Oop" hits #11964: Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" enters the charts1970: The soundtrack to the film Woodstock hits #11970: Three Dog Night's "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" hits #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoubleJ Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Thanks, Rick!!! Just wanted to let you know at least one person is reading your posts on this thread!!! [] Thanks JJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 Thanks, Rick!!! Just wanted to let you know at least one person is reading your posts on this thread!!! Thanks JJ Thanks!! Every now and then someone will make a post similar to yours... It is nice to know that my efforts are appreciated... [H] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 11, 2012 Author Share Posted July 11, 2012 On July 12th in music history: Births 1895: Oscar Hammerstein II1927: Conte Candoli1928: Barbara Cowsill (The Cowsills)1934: Van Cliburn1943: Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)1946: Jeff Christie (Christie)1948: Walter Egan1949: John Wetton (King Crimson, Asia)1949: Eric Carr (KISS)1952: Liz Mitchell (Boney M)1952: Philip Taylor Kramer (Iron Butterfly) Deaths 1979: Minnie Riperton1983: Chris Wood (Traffic)1983: Jimmy Driftwood Events 1954: A nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley officially quits his job as a truck driver for Crown Electric in Memphis after signing a one-year contract with Sun Records (and a similar management contract with his bassist, Scotty Moore). 1959: Legendary DJ Alan Freed attempts to capture the magic of Dick Clark's American Bandstandon ABC by staging his own weekly rock and roll show on the same network, The Big Beat (named after a Fats Domino song). Frankie Lymon, the Everly Brothers and Connie Francis guest star on this first show, but the series is canceled after 13 weeks. 1962: The Rolling Stones make their live debut at the Marquee Club in London (a group name founder Brian Jones picked at random from a Muddy Waters album he spotted while on the phone with the promoter). The band at this point features Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jones, with Dick Taylor, later of the Pretty Things, on bass and Mick Avory, later of the Kinks, on drums. The band is paid 20 pounds. 1964: George Harrison crashes his E-Type Jaguar on New Kings Road in London while en route to a Beatles concert in Brighton, suffering minor injuries. Fans pick up shards of broken glass from the crime scene as souvenirs. 1968: The Monkees' Micky Dolenz marries Samantha Juste, a model known as the "disc girl" on the BBC's longtime series Top Of THe Pops. Dolenz, who met her on the show, wrote the British smash "Randy Scouse Git" in part about her. The couple would divorce in 1975. 1969: The Temptations Show, a Motown special featuring the group, airs in syndication. The group performs, among other hits, "Get Ready," "Cloud Nine," and "Runaway Child, Running Wild." 1979: Gerry Meier and Steve Dahl, DJs at Chicago's WLUP radio stage a "disco demolition" night at Comiskey Park, with a public bonfire of disco vinyl records taking place between games of a White Sox / Detroit Tigers doubleheader. Unfortunately, fans begin tossing the records around like frisbees during the first game, and by the time of the bonfire, mini-riots (and other fires) had broken out around the stadium, forcing the Sox to forfeit the second game. (Dahl had been fired from a rival station, WDAI, after it switched to an all-disco format.) 2000: Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) publicly denies any financial involvement with the terrorist group Hamas after Israel denies him entry into the country, alleging he gave money to the organization. London's Trafalgar Square unveils a sculpture of John Lennon, created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward, which also features a handgun twisted into an unusable shape. 2001: New Orleans' Moisant Airport, named for an early 20th-century flying daredevil, is renamed Armstrong International in honor of native jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong. 2007: Rod Stewart is awarded the CBE Order of the British Empire by Prince Charles in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Recording 1960: Floyd Cramer, "Last Date"1965: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B"1968: The Beatles: "Revolution," "Don't Pass Me By"1971: The New Seekers, "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing"1973: The Hues Corporation, "Rock The Boat" Charts 1952: Vera Lynn's' "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" hits #11958: The Coasters' "Yakety Yak" hits #11969: Zager and Evans' "In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)" hits #11975: KC and the Sunshine Band's "Get Down Tonight" enters the charts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Yes, well, you can count me as the second person ! [] ............g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 12, 2012 Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 On July 13th in music history: Births 1942: Roger McGuinn (The Byrds)1942: Stephen Jo Bladd (The J. Geils Band)1942: Jay Uzzell (The Corsairs)1954: Louise Mandrell Deaths 1984: Philippe Wynne (The Spinners)2003: Eileen Rodgers2004: Arthur Kane (New York Dolls) Events 1897: A US patent is granted to inventor Guglielmo Marconi for the radio. 1958: While on tour in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, Buddy Holly waterskis across Lake Rhinelander and nearly drowns when he loses control and falls into the water. 1959: The movie Hound Dog Man, starring Fabian and Dodie Stevens, goes into production. 1973: After increasing animosity between the pair, Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers walks off the stage during the first of three announced final performances at Knott's Berry Farm in California. The next night, brother Don, carrying the show on his own, tells the audience, "The Everly Brothers died ten years ago." (The duo would reunite in 1983.) 1985: The historic 18-hour Live Aid concerts are held in Philadelphia and London to combat the mass starvation in Ethiopia. Performers include The Beach Boys, The Four Tops, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Who, Led Seppelin, Elton John, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, and Bob Dylan, whose offhand remarks before his set become the impetus for the Farm Aid concerts. 1996: A Guinness World Record for largest jam session ever is broken when over 2,000 guitarists play a version of Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" for 75 straight minutes. 1997: The drunk-driving trial of John Denver ends in a hung jury, with half of the jurors finding him not guilty due to a thyroid condition that may have altered the results of his sobriety test. 1992: Jett Williams, illegitimate daughter of country legend Hank Williams, Sr., is granted partial royalties on his songs by a New York appeals court, adding to a ruling reached on July 5 that she should receive half of his estate. 2000: James Brown is formally charged with assaulting Russell Eubanks, an employee of South Carolina Electric and Gas, with a steak knife after Eubanks visited Brown's Beech Island estate to check on reports that he was without electricity. Releases 1959: The Shirelles, "Dedicated To The One I Love" 1964: The Beatles, "A Hard Day's Night" 1968: Steppenwolf, "Born To Be Wild" 1974: Eric Clapton, "I Shot The Sheriff" Recording 1939: Frank Sinatra, "Melancholy Mood," "From The Bottom Of My Heart"1964: The Supremes, "Come See About Me" Charts 1959: Paul Anka's' "Lonely Boy" hits #11974: George McRae' "Rock Your Baby" hits #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 On July 14th in music history: Births 1912: Woody Guthrie1926: Lowman Pauling (The 5 Royales)1933: Del Reeves Deaths 1973: Clarence White (The Byrds)2003: Skip Battin (The Byrds)2005: Big Al Downing2005: Joe Harnell Events 1964: The Rolling Stones score their first #1 hit in the UK with their cover of Bobby Womack's "It's All Over Now." 1967: The Who begin their first large-scale American tour, playing the first of 55 dates with... Herman's Hermits. 1973: Glam-rocker Gary Glitter makes his live stage debut in Mecksham, England. 1980: In France, Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry contracts a kidney infection and is flown to London after collapsing in his hotel room. Former Beatles and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein begins a two-month jail term for income tax evasion. 1987: Steve Miller receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. 1988: Michael Jackson begins his first-ever UK tour at Wembley Stadium in London. At the height of "Elvis is Alive" mania, Nashville radio station WYHY offers a million dollars to anyone who shows up at the studios with the King. 1989: "Judge Judy" Sheindlin, not yet a TV star and still a Family Court judge in New York, orders singer Tom Jones to pay $200 weekly in child support to model Katherine Berkery. 1992: Aretha Franklin opens the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York by singing the national anthem. Olivia Newton-John makes public her bout with breast cancer, which she will eventually beat. 1993: The US Postal Service introduces four new stamps honoring classic Broadway musicals: "My Fair Lady," "Porgy and Bess," "Show Boat," and "Oklahoma!" Recording 1939: Jimmy Dorsey, "Brazil" Charts 1962: Bobby Vinton's "Roses Are Red (My Love)" hits #11979: Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" hits #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 On July 15th in music history: Births 1905: Dorothy Fields1913: Cowboy Copas1936: H. B. Barnum1940: Tommy Dee1944: Millie Jackson1945: Peter Lewis (Moby Grape)1946: Linda Ronstadt1948: Artimus Pyle (Lynyrd Skynyrd)1952: Jeff Carlisi (.38 Special)1952: Johnny Thunders (The New York Dolls)1953: Alicia Bridges1953: David Pack (Ambrosia) Deaths 1967: John Coltrane1982: Bill Justis1990: Bobby Day1991: Bert Convy (The Cheers) Events 1952: An eight-year-old singer named Gladys Knight appears on the popular TV show Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, show on the now-defunct Dumont Television Network, and wins the first prize of $2000 for her rendition of Nat King Cole's "Too Young." In five years, she would be an established recording artist. Popular singer Patti Page begins her summer replacement series on CBS, attempting to hold the audience in Perry Como's usual timeslot three times a week for 15 minutes. 1958: While visiting her sister Mimi's house (where her son John now lived), Julia Lennon walks down Menlove Avenue to catch the bus and is struck by a car driven by an off-duty constable still learning to drive. The officer is eventually cleared of all charges, leading Mimi to scream "Murderer!" at him; The 17-year-old John is so distraught at her funeral service that he lays his head on Mimi's lap the entire time. (Ironically, the constable in question would later become a postman with a route that included Paul McCartney's boyhood home.) Several Beatles and Lennon songs are dedicated to or inspired by Julia, including "Julia," "Mother," and "My Mummy's Dead." 1963: Elvis begins filming his 15th film, Viva Las Vegas, with Ann-Margret. 1968: The Beatles' new enterprise, Apple, enters its new corporate headquarters on 3 Savile Row, London, later the site of their famous "rooftop concert." 1973: At a festival concert in White City, London, a visibly distraught Ray Davies, newly separated from his wife, announces on stage that he's retiring from show business, leaves the concert, and checks into a local hospital for exhaustion. (A week later, he will return to the band.) 1978: Bob Dylan performs at the largest open-air concert in history for a solo artists, playing for over 200,000 fans at "The Picnic at Blackbushe," held at England's Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire. 1980: Linda Ronstadt makes a well-recieved dramatic debut in Joseph Papp's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance in New York's Central Park, setting off a "Pirates" fad that would last for the next three years. 1986: Columbia Records, Johnny Cash's home for 28 years, drops the singer from its roster of artists. 1999: The Rolling Stones report income of $337 million in the last two years, a result of 147 concerts in front of nearly six million fans. 2000: Bob Seger's 62-foot boat Lightning wins its division in the 78th annual sailboat race from Port Huron to Mackinac Island, MI. Recording 1942: Glenn Miller, "Jukebox Saturday Night"1968: The Beatles, "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Cry Baby Cry"1969: The Beatles, "You Never Give Me Your Money" Charts 1957: Elvis Presley's "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" b/w Loving You" hits #11972: Elton John's Honky Chateau hits #11978: The Rolling Stones' Some Girls hits #1 Certifications 1966: Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" is certified gold Happy 66th Birthday to Linda Ronstadt!! [^] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 On July 16th in music history: Births 1911: Ginger Rogers1925: Cal Tjader1925: Nat Pierce1927: Mindy Carson1939: Denise LaSalle1940: Tony Jackson (The Searchers)1942: Desmond Dekker1947: Thomas Boggs (The Box Tops) Deaths 1981: Harry Chapin1984: Billy Williams1996: John Panozzo (Styx)2003: Celia Cruz Events 1955: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on the national charts as "Baby, Let's Play House" enters the Cash Box country charts at #15. 1960: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters' "Finger Poppin' Time," "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go," and his original version of "The Twist" are all on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, the first time any act has had three charting records simultaneously. 1962: The Beach Boys sign to Capitol Records following the success of their independently released 45, "Surfin'," and a four-song demo recorded the previous month, featuring work versions of "Surfer Girl," "409," and "Surfin' Safari." 1966: Ex-Yardbirds guitarist Eric Clapton forms Cream, the original "power trio," with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker of the Graham Bond Organization. 1967: Today's Newport Folk Festival features Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, and Tom Paxton, among others. 1972: Smokey Robinson performs his final show with the Miracles at the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Washington, DC. At the end of the show, Smokey introduces his replacement, 20-year-old Billy Griffin. 1976: After six years, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina decide to split up their partnership, which had three big hits in "Thinking Of You," "My Music," and "Your Mama Don't Dance." Due the bi-coastal distance (and increasing differences) between Gregg Allman and the other band members, the Allman Brothers call it quits. 1980: Donna Summer marries Bruce Sudano, former member of Brooklyn Dreams, who appeared on her 1979's hit "Heaven Knows." 1995: At North Carolina's Duke University Medical Center, Wayne Osmond of the Osmonds undergoes an operation to remove a brain tumor. 1996: Michael Jackson receives somewhere between $15 and 20 million for his performance at the Sultan of Brunei's private birthday party. 2005: The Vocal Group Hall of Fame inducts its seventh annual group of honorees in Wildwood, NJ: The Angels, Brooklyn Bridge, the Chiffons, the Chi-Lites, the Del-Vikings, Fleetwood Mac, The Hilltoppers, the Mel-Tones, The Neville Brothers, the Pointer Sisters, The Rascals, The Righteous Brothers, the Sons of the Pioneers, and the Tymes. Releases 1966: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Summer In The City"1966: The Who, "I'm Free"1973: Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid Recording 1963: The Beach Boys, "In My Room"1959: The Coasters, "Poison Ivy"1968: The Beatles, "Cry Baby Cry"1969: The Beatles: "Here Comes The Sun," "Something" Charts 1966: Tommy James and the Shondells' "Hanky Panky" hits #11977: Shaun Cassidy's "Da Doo Ron Ron" hits #11977: Barry Manilow's Barry Manilow Live hits #1 Certifications 1969: The Beatles' "The Ballad Of John And Yoko" is certified gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 On July 17th in music history: Births 1932: Vince Guaraldi1933: Mimi Hines1942: Gale Garnett1942: Spencer Davis1947: Wolfgang Flur (Kraftwerk)1948: Ron Asheton (The Stooges)1949: Terence "Geezer" Butler (Black Sabbath)1949: Mick Tucker (Sweet)1949: Mike Vale (Tommy James and the Shondells)1952: Nicolette Larson1952: Phoebe Snow1952: Chet McCracken (The Doobie Brothers) Deaths 1959: Billie Holiday1967: John Coltrane1996: Chas Chandler (The Animals)2006: Bill Miller (Frank Sinatra) Events 1946: A thirteen-year-old Petula Clark makes her TV debut on the BBC's Cabaret Cartoons. 1954: Session guitarist Danny Cedrone, who had duplicated his solo on Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock The Joint" for their new single, "Rock Around The Clock," dies after falling down a staircase in a Philadelphia restaurant. The Newport Jazz Festival, the world's first such, event, debuts on the tennis courts of the Newport Casino in Rhode Island. 1955: Walt Disney opens his amusement park, Disneyland, in Anaheim, CA, and on the live ABC television special he introduces his new teen and pre-teen sensations, the Mousketeers, including future star Annette Funicello. 1967: After only seven dates as opening act for the Monkees, Jimi Hendrix flips off the audience at New York's Forest Hills Stadium, which won't stop screaming for Davy Jones, and leaves the tour. Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, on tour in an official capacity, invents a fictional story claiming that the Daughters of the American Revolution had Hendrix kicked off the tour for "corrupting the morals of America's youth." Jimi is replaced on the tour by the equally unlikely band Vanilla Fudge. 1968: The Beatles' fourth film, the animated fantasy Yellow Submarine, premiers in London. Although the four "Beatles" in the picture are voiced by professional actors, the band itself makes a cameo in the finale, leading movie audiences through the song "All Together Now." 1972: On tour in Montreal, a bomb explodes under one of the Rolling Stones' trucks, blowing out 30 speakers but fortunately causing no injuries. Although the guilty party is never found (French separatists are suspected), the show goes on anyway. However, a small riot breaks out when three thousand of the fans discover the "tickets" they are holding are phonies. 1974: The Moody Blues open their own 32-track, state-of-the-art recording studio in London, the first in the whole country that can record in the new "Quadrophonic" process. John Lennon's appeal for US citizenship is denied by the government and he is given sixty days to leave the country. 1975: The divorce between Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox is finalized in London. Starr would marry current wife Barbara Bach in 1981. Bob Marley and the Wailers play a historic concert at London's Lyceum Theater which would feature the acclaimed Legend version of "No Woman, No Cry." 1987: With the fate of his band up in the air, Virgin Records signs the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards to a three-album solo deal. 1991: Picking up at the exact sane spot in the tour where they left off, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunite after the horrible plane crash in 1974 that took the lives of three members. Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, killed in the crash, is now replaced by his brother Johnny. 2004: At the end of her show at the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas, Linda Ronstadt dedicates her encore, a cover of the Eagles' "Desperado," to filmmaker Michael Moore, urging fans to go see his current movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. A shocked audience reacts mostly with boos; approximately half walk out on the spot. Releases 1961: The Supremes, "Buttered Popcorn"1962: Elvis Presley, "She's Not You"1965: James Brown, "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"1965: The Miracles, "The Tracks Of My Tears"1967: The Beatles, "All You Need Is Love" b/w "Baby, You're A Rich Man"1976: Heart, "Magic Man" Recording 1939: Charlie Barnet, "Cherokee"1969: The Beatles: "Oh! Darling," "Octopus's Garden" Charts 1958: Elvis Presley's "Hard Headed Woman" hits #1 I share this date of birth with two of my favorite (and sadly deceased) female vocalists: Nicolette Larson and Phoebe Snow [^] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 On July 18th in music history: Births 1909: Harriet Nelson1910: Joe "Fingers" Carr1929: Screamin' Jay Hawkins1931: "Papa" Dee Allen (War)1935: Johnny Funches (The Dells)1938: Ian Stewart1939: Dion DiMucci1939: Brian Auger (Steampacket)1941: Martha Reeves1941: Lonnie Mack1943: Robin McDonald (Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas)1945: Danny McCullock (The Animals)1946: Tim Lynch (The Flamin' Groovies)1948: Phil Harris (Ace)1949: Wally Bryson (The Raspberries)1950: Cesar Zuiderwyk (Golden Earring)1950: Glenn Hughes (Village People) Deaths 1966: Bobby Fuller2003: Barry White Events 1953: An eighteen-year-old truck driver from Memphis, Elvis Presley, visits the Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue, later to be known as Sun Studios, in order to record a novelty 45 for his mother's birthday. The two recordings, "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin," were thought to be lost for decades; Elvis later admits that he made the records to see "what I sounded like," since his mother's birthday was actually in April. Presley pays $3.98 for the privilege. Marion Keisker, assistant to label head Sam Phillips, likes what she hears; she takes down Presley's information and notes that he is a "good ballad singer." As she recalled years later: "I said, 'What kind of singer are you?' He said, 'I sing all kinds.' I said, 'Who do you sound like?' He said, 'I don't sound like nobody.'" 1964: The Rolling Stones make their first hit on the American charts with their cover of Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away." 1972: Thanks to the efforts of Kevin White, then-mayor of Boston, the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are freed from their Warwick, RI jail cell in time for their Boston show. (The pair had been held for assault on a photographer from Providence.) All six members of Sly and the Family Stone are arrested in Hollywood after police search their tour bus and find two pounds of marijuana and two vials of cocaine. 1983: Still flush with the success of their free Central Park reunion concert (and hit souvenir album of the event), Simon and Garfunkel embark on a full scale, 19-city US tour, beginning in Akron, OH. 1988: Ike Turner is sentenced to one year in a Santa Monica, CA jail for six grams of crack found in his car during a traffic stop in August 1987. Releases 1960: Elvis Presley, "It's Now Or Never"1964: The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go" Recording 1963: The Beatles: "You Really Got A Hold On Me," "Money (That's What I Want)," "Devil In Her Heart," "Till There Was You"1968: The Beatles: "Cry Baby Cry," "Helter Skelter"1969: The Beatles: "Oh! Darling," "Octopus's Garden" Charts 1960: Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry" hits #11964: The Four Seasons' "Rag Doll" hits #11977: Barry Manilow's "Looks Like We Made It" hits #1 Certifications 1968: Hugh Masekela's "Grazing In The Grass" is certified gold1968: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's "Lady Willpower" is certified gold1978: John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John's "You're The One That I Want" is certified platinum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 On July 19th in music history: Births 1925: Sue Thompson1932: Buster Benton1937: George Hamilton IV1941: Vicki Carr1944: Commander Cody1946: Alan Gorrie (Average White Band)1947: Bernie Leadon (The Eagles)1947: Brian May (Queen)1947: Phil Upchurch1947: Keith Godchaux (The Grateful Dead)1952: Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Deaths 2001: Judy Clay Events 1958: After a series of disputes over money (and a fistfight with the manager of Harlem's famous Apollo Theater), Drifters manager George Treadwell fires the entire group and installs the existing group the Five Crowns in their place, renaming them the Drifters. This lineup, featuring a lead tenor named Ben E. King, would prove to be the most popular critically and commercially, releasing hits like "There Goes My Baby," "This Magic Moment," and "Save the Last Dance for Me." 1966: 50-year-old Frank Sinatra marries 20-year-old actress Mia Farrow in New York amid a sea of fourteen movie cameras and 37 regular cameras. The marriage, one of Hollywood's rockiest, will last only two years, with Sinatra issuing an ultimatum to Farrow as she is filming Roman Polanski's movie Rosemary's Baby -- one she will ignore, leading Sinatra to serve divorce papers to her on the set. 1969: The Spencer Davis Group calls it quits two years after the departure of the Winwood brothers, as well as a failed single and canceled album. (Nigel Olsson, the drummer in the final lineup, would go on to become Elton John's drummer.) 1980: Laguna Beach, CA's Vorpal Gallery opens a new exhibit featuring paintings by Joni Mitchell, John Mayall, Klaus Voorman, and Ron Wood. 1981: The mayor of Odessa, TX, declares today Roy Orbison Day in honor of the singer. (Orbison was actually from Wink, a microscopic town about 35 niles west.) 1987: Bruce Springsteen plays his first concert behind the "Iron Curtain" of Soviet-dominated countries, appearing in East Berlin in front of 100,000 fans (and simulcast on local TV). 1989: After finding over $40,000 in cash and checks in his cell at the Stevenson Correctional Institute in South Carolina, James Brown is moved to a cell with tighter security. 1990: Singer Vicki Carr helps dedicate the Nixon Presidential Library, singing in front of all four living presidents (Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush), all of which she had performed for at the White House during their terms. 1995: The (in?)famous "Dr. Nick," Elvis Presley's personal physician Dr. George Nichopoulous, is barred from practicing medicine by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners due to alleged "overprescription" to his patients. Nichopoulous claims the move is revenge for what many see as his culpability in the accidental death of Elvis in 1977. 2002: Philadelphia declares today Solomon Burke Day in honor of the native singer. Movin' Out, a stage musical dedicated to the songs of Biily Joel, premieres in Chicago. 2004: James Lowe and Mark Tulin of the Electric Prunes, famous for their 1967 garage-psych hit "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," sue their former label and publishing company for over one million dollars in unpaid royalties. Releases 1954: Elvis Presley, "That's All Right" b/w "Blue Moon Of Kentucky"1965: The Beatles, "Help!" b/w "I'm Down"1969: The Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Women"1975: Orleans, "Dance With Me" Recording 1939: Jack Teagarden, "Aunt Hagar’s Blues"1949: Harry Belafonte, "They Didn’t Believe Me," "Close Your Eyes"1966: The Monkees, "(Theme From) The Monkees"1966: Johnny Rivers, "Poor Side Of Town"1968: The Beatles, "Sexy Sadie" Charts 1975: Paul McCartney and Wings' "Listen To What The Man Said" hits #11976: The Manhattans' "Kiss And Say Goodbye" hits #1 Certifications 1976: The Beatles' Rock 'N' Roll Music is certified gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 On July 20th in music history: Births 1933: Buddy Knox1943: John Lodge (The Moody Blues)1944: T.G. Sheppard1946: Kim Carnes1946: John Almond (The Johnny Almond Music Machine)1947: Tony Thorpe (The Rubettes)1947: Carlos Santana1955: Marisa DeFranco (The DeFranco Family) Deaths 1969: Roy Hamilton Events 1940: Billboard magazine publishes their first combined record sales chart, ranking the hits of all major labels. Sitting atop the ten entries is Tommy Dorsey's "I'll Never Smile Again," lead vocals by Frank Sinatra. 1954: Taking their name from their local hit recording of "Blue Moon of Kentucky," Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black perform a concert as The Blue Moon Boys on a flatbed truck outside the grand opening of a Memphis drugstore. 1961: British paper Mersey Beat announces that the Beatles -- or rather, the Beat Brothers, as they were then known -- have just signed their first recording contract. Not with Capitol, but with famed German producer Bert Kaempfert. The Leslie Bricusse - Anthony Newley musical Stop The World - I Want To Get Offpremieres in London. 1963: The Beatles nab their first UK Number One LP with Please Please Me. 1965: Frank Sinatra leaves his handprints in cement outside Hollywood landmark Grauman's Chinese Theatre at 6925 Hollywood Blvd. 1968: Aware of Paul McCartney's various affairs, his fiancee, Jane Asher, announces on the BBC TV program Dee Time that she has broken off her engagement with the Beatle: "I haven't broken it off, but it is broken off, finished... I know it sounds corny, but we still see each other, and love each other, but it hasn't worked out. Perhaps we'll be childhood sweethearts and meet again, and get married when we're about seventy." Paul, watching at home, is reportedly surprised, but rumors had been swirling for months, so perhaps not. 1970: The Carpenters appear as guest bachelor and bachelorette on ABC's Dating Game TV show. 1975: Steven Van Zandt makes his first appearance in concert with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. 1979: In trade ads announcing their newest single, "Don't Bring Me Down," the Electric Light Orchestra puckishly dedicate the song to Skylab, the first US space station, which was about to prematurely re-enter Earth's atmosphere in bits and pieces. 1986: Carlos Santana celebrates his 39th birthday, as well as the 20th anniversary of his band, by playing a concert in San Francisco featuring all living members of Santana -- 17, to be exact. Releases 1963: Lesley Gore, "Judy's Turn To Cry"1964: The Beatles: "I'll Cry Instead" b/w "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You," "And I Love Her" b/w "If I Fell"1964: The Beatles, Something New1965: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Do You Believe In Magic?"1965: Bob Dylan, "Like A Rolling Stone" Recording 1987: Paul McCartney: "Kansas City," "Twenty Flight Rock," "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "I'm In Love Again," "Bring It On Home To Me," "Lucille," "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday," "That's All Right Mama," "Summertime," "Just Because," "Midnight Special" Charts 1963: Jan and Dean's "Surf City" hits #11968: Hugh Masekela's "Grazing In The Grass" hits #11968: Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida enters the charts1968: Cream's Wheels Of Fire hits #1 Certifications 1963: Ray Conniff's Concert In Rhythm and Memories Are Made Of This are certified gold Happy 65th birthday to Carlos Santana!! [^] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 On July 21st in music history: Births 1920: Isaac Stern1922: Kay Starr1937: Plas Johnson1942: Kim Fowley1945: Mike Wilson (The Four Pennies)1945: Rosie Hamlin (Rosie and the Originals)1946: Barry Whitwam (Herman's Hermits)1948: Cat Stevens1955: Howie Epstein (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) Deaths 2002: Gus Dudgeon2004: Jerry Goldsmith2005: Long John Baldry2006: Herb Kalin (The Kalin Twins) Events 1958: CBS-TV's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, one of the major talent shows of the decade, ends its run after launching the careers of, among others, Connie Francis, Tony Bennett, Pat Boone, and the McGuire Sisters. 1960: Brian Hyland appears as a guest on CBS' popular TV game show To Tell The Truth. 1967: Jimi Hendrix begins the first of three nights at Greenwich Village's Cafe Au Go-Go in New York. 1969: Duke Ellington and his band appear on ABC one day after the historic moon landing, performing a new piece entitled "Moon Maiden." 1973: "Mary Wilson Day" is declared in Detroit in honor of the Supremes member. 1977: Linda Ronstadt, who's just released a cover version of the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice," hops onstage at the band's Tucson, AZ concert to sing it with them. 1983: Diana Ross plays a famous free concert in New York City's Central Park that is unfortunately interrupted by torrential rains. Ignoring the danger, Diana continues singing, urging the crowd to ignore the downpour, saying, "I need a bath, anyway, it's too hot," and "It took me a lifetime to get here... I ain't goin' nowhere." Unfortunately, the show does indeed stop when the rain proves to be too much for the band and the crowd, forcing Diana to reschedule the concert for the next day. 1988: As part of his sentence for his notorious drug and getaway spree, a South Carolina judge orders James Brown to put on a concert to benefit police and children's charities. Brown complains to the press that the state is trying to get a free concert out of his misfortune. 1995: A Los Angeles judge throws out a lawsuit filed against Michael Jackson by five of the pop star's security guards, who alleged that they were fired after learning the "truth" about Jackson's nighttime visits with young boys. 1999: Charley Pride receives a star of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Releases 1979: Robert Palmer, "Bad Case Of Loving You" Recording 1967: The Monkees, "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" 1969: The Beatles, "Come Together" 1987: Paul McCartney: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Ain't That A Shame," "Crackin' Up" Charts 1958: Elvis Presley's "Hard Headed Woman" hits #11970: The Carpenters' "(They Long To Be) Close To You" hits #11973: Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" hits #11975: Van McCoy's "The Hustle" hits #1 Certifications 1971: Carole King's Tapestry is certified gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 "The Girl From Ipanema" was first performed 50 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 On July 22nd in music history: Births 1924: Margaret Whiting1937: Chuck Jackson1940: George Clinton (Parliament / Funkadelic)1941: Thomas Wayne1943: Bobby Sherman1944: Estelle Bennett (The Ronettes)1944: Rick Davies (Supertramp)1947: Don Henley (The Eagles) Deaths 1973: Larry Finegan2002: Marion Montgomery2005: Eugene Record (Chi-Lites) Events 1965: Three of the Rolling Stones -- Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Bill Wyman -- are found guilty in London's East Ham Magistrates Court of "insulting behavior" for urinating on the wall of a gas station in London when the owner refused to let them use the restroom. They are each fined five pounds. 1967: Vanilla Fudge plays its debut concert in New York City. 1968: Elvis Presley begins filming his twenty-ninth movie, Charro!, on location in Arizona. It is the only Elvis movie where he sports a beard, and the only one in which he does not sing on-camera -- only two songs are recorded for the film, and only the title track, another Mac Davis composition, is used... over the credits only. A "serious" Western, it is nonetheless a critical and commercial failure. 1969: After being arrested for disorderly conduct in a Detroit parking lot, Aretha Franklin posts $50 bail -- and runs over a road sign as she leaves the police station in a fit of anger. 1972: CBS-TV premieres its latest summer variety replacement series, The Bobby Darin Amusement Company. 1977: Still visibly shaken by the recent suicide of his good friend, rising comedian Freddie Prinze, Tony Orlando announces his retirement from show business during a concert in Cohasset, MA. Within a matter of days, he suffers a complete nervous breakdown, for which he is hospitalized in Manhattan. 1979: Reverend Richard Penniman, better known before his conversion as Little Richard, speaks at a revival in North Richmond, CA, telling the congregation that rock and roll is evil and also claiming "If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody." 1987: Morris Albert is found guilty of plagiarism in New York, with a jury finding that his massive 1975 composition "Feelings" borrowed heavily from a French song from 1956 called "Pour Toi." 1994: Billy Joel and Elton John begin the first of five duet concerts at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. 1995: At a Blood, Sweat, and Tears concert in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, lead singer David Clayton-Thomas angers the (very Jewish) crowd by claiming the summer weather was "as hot as the last train car going to Auschwitz." 1996: Promoting his first album of new material in over a dozen years, Donovan is denied entry to the US due to a three-decades-old marijuana possession conviction. Releases 1963: The Beatles, Introducing The Beatles1968: The Byrds, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo1972: The Who, "Join Together" Recording 1937: Hal Kemp, "Got A Date With An Angel" 1968: The Beatles: "Don't Pass Me By," "Good Night"1969: The Beatles: "Come Together," "Oh! Darling" Charts 1974: John Denver's "Annie's Song" hits #1 Certifications 1969: Elvis Presley's NBC-TV Special soundtrack (a/k/a "The '68 Comeback Special") is certified gold1971: The Doors' L.A. Woman is certified gold Happy 65th birthday to Don Henley!! [^] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 On July 23rd in music history: Births 1934: Bert Convy1935: Cleveland Duncan (The Penguins)1942: Madeline Bell (Blue Mink)1943: Tony Joe White1945: Dino Danelli (The Young Rascals)1946: Andy Mackay (Roxy Music)1947: David Essex1950: Blair Thornton (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) Deaths 1980: Keith Godchaux (The Grateful Dead) Events 1950: CBS-TV premieres The Gene Autry Show. 1963: High school student Neil Young and his band, the Squires, enter a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada studio to record their first single, a surf instrumental called "The Sultan." 1968: The Iveys, later known as Badfinger, sign with Apple Records after a persistent campaign by longtime Beatles associate Mal Evans, who will produce their first sessions. 1969: Los Angeles declares "James Brown Day" in honor of the singer, but when Mayor Sam Yorty is slightly late for the ceremonies, Brown leaves in a huff. 1977: Backstage at the "Days On The Green" festival in Oakland, CA, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham allegedly sees a member of promoter Bill Graham's staff slap his son for taking down a dressing room sign. Bonham kicks the employee, and band manager Peter Grant later breaks into the staff member's trailer and beats him savagely. Bonham and Grant, among others, are arrested for assault. Both would bargain down to misdemeanors, plead guilty, and eventually pay a combined $2 million fine. 1979: Iran's new leader, the Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, bans rock and roll as a corruptive influence on the people, a decision that eventually inspires both the graphic novelPerseopolis and the Clash song "Rock the Casbah." 1989: Ringo Starr begins his first tour since the Beatles stopped touring in 1966, introducing his "All-Starr Band" of Seventies icons in Dallas, TX. 1994: The International Astronomical Union names an asteroid in Mars' orbit ZappaFrank, after the musician Frank Zappa, who'd passed away from cancer the year before. 2001: Just three years after the death of first wife Linda from cancer, Paul McCartney gets engaged to former model and activist Heather Mills, who he first met at a charity event in 1999. This news does not sit well with fans, especially when the marriage lasts just four years. The couple produce one daughter, Beatrice Milly McCartney. 2003: The US National Registry of Historic Places declares Memphis, Tennessee's Sun Studios, at 706 Union Avenue, a historic landmark. In a bizarre ad placed in Variety, James Brown announces his separation from his fourth wife, Tomi Rae, by featuring a picture of the couple and their two-year-old, James Brown II, posing with Goofy at Disney World. Releases 1955: Chuck Berry, "Maybellene"1977: Foreigner, "Cold As Ice" Recording 1941: Sonny Dunham, "Memories Of You" 1968: The Beatles: "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey," "Good Night"1969: The Beatles: "Come Together," "Oh! Darling" Charts 1951: Rosemary Clooney's "Come On-A My House" hits #11966: Napoleon XIV's "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" hits #11966: Frank Sinatra's Strangers In The Night LP hits #11966: Roger Miller's "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd" enters the charts1977: Barry Manilow's "Looks Like We Made It" hits #1 Certifications 1969: Three Dog Night's "One" is certified gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 24, 2012 Author Share Posted July 24, 2012 On July 24th in music history: Births 1908: Cootie Williams1916: Bob Eberly1921: Billy Taylor1934: Rudy Collins (Dizzy Gillespie)1941: Barbara Jean Love (Friends of Distinction)1942: Heinz Burt (The Tornados)1944: Jim Armstrong (Them)1947: Alan Whitehead (Marmalade)1948: Kim Berly (The Stampeders) Deaths 1968: Nervous Norvus Events 1956: Ten years to the day after their act began, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis break up their wildly popular musical and comedy act after a farewell show at New York's Copacabana nightclub. 1964: At the Rolling Stones' gig in Blackpool, England's Empress Ballroom, an angry audience member spits on guitarist Brian Jones, sparking a riot which injures two policemen and 30 fans, as well as destroying chandeliers, seats and a Steinway grand piano. Their remaining performances at the venue are cancelled and the group is banned from performing in the city, a ban which was not lifted until 2008. 1967: The Beatles and manager Brian Epstein, among other celebrities, take out a full-page ad in The Times newspaper in Britain calling for the legalization of marijuana. On the same day, Asia's edition of Life Magazine features the Beatles on the cover, sporting a new look featuring long hair and facial hair, a major stylistic statement at the time, and carrying the headline "The New, Far-Out Beatles." 1972: Bobby Ramirez, drummer with Edgar Winter's White Trash, is beaten to death in a Chicago barroom brawl after several patrons complain about the length of his hair. 1978: The legendary bomb musical Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band opens in New York, starring Peter Frampton, George Burns, and the Bee Gees. An attempt to write a fantasy film around several classic Beatles songs, the movie ruined or significantly damaged the careers of almost everyone in it. 1984: Aretha Franklin's father, the well-known gospel singer The Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin, dies after a five-year coma brought on by a burglar's bullet. 1985: A stretch of Detroit's Washington Boulevard is renamed "Aretha Franklin's Freeway Of Love," in honor of her recent comeback hit. 1987: The movie La Bamba, a somewhat fictionalized biography of Latin rock star Richie Valens, opens in the US. It's generally well-received, especially the soundtrack by Los Lobos. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as Valens, who died in the infamous plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper; Marshall Crenshaw appears as Buddy Holly and Brian Setzer as Eddie Cochran. 1995: A three-night career retrospective honoring Frank Sinatra on his 80th birthday begins at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. A visibly ailing Sinatra attends but does not perform. Meanwhile, in New York City, the Empire State Building is lit with blue lights in his honor. 1998: Country legend Tanya Tucker files suit against her label, Capitol Nashville, for $300,000, claiming the label has not promoted her properly. 2007: Blues legend Etta James enters Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for complications stemming from recent abdominal surgery. Releases 1965: The Beach Boys, "California Girls"1976: Hall and Oates, "She's Gone" Recording 1938: Artie Shaw, "Begin The Beguine" 1968: The Beatles, "Sexy Sadie"1969: The Beatles: "Sun King," "Mean Mr. Mustard" Charts 1954: The Four Aces' "Three Coins In The Fountain" hits #11965: Dino, Desi and Billy's "I'm A Fool" enters the charts1971: The Raiders' "Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" hits #11976: The Manhattans' "Kiss And Say Goodbye" hits #1 Certifications 1967: Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow LP is certified gold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 On July 25th in music history: Births 1925: William "Benny" Benjamin (The Funk Brothers)1934: Don Ellis1941: Manny Charlton (Nazareth)1942: Bruce Woodley (The Seekers)1943: Jim McCarty (The Yardbirds)1944: Tom Dawes (The Cyrkle)1946: Jose Chepito Areas (Santana)1948: Steve Goodman1950: Mark Clarke (Uriah Heep)1951: Verdine White (Earth, Wind and Fire) Deaths 1984: Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton1995: Charlie Rich1998: Tal Farlow2003: Erik Braunn (Iron Butterfly) Events 1925: The first 50,000-watt radio station, WDY from Schenectady, NY, begins transmission. 1956: The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the latter tearing a hole in the starboard hull of the former, killing 52 instantly and causing the Andrea Doria to sink by morning. On board is one Mike Stoller, who would go on to become one of the famous Lieber-Stoller songwriting team. 1963: Singer Cilla Black, discovered by Beatles manager Brian Epstein at a Gerry and the Pacemakers concert, makes her first recording test for EMI. 1964: A first in cross-marketing history: Billboard reports that the Beatles' new film, A Hard Day's Night, has already made its production costs back on the soundtrack album. 1965: Backed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Bob Dylan takes the stage at the Newport Folk Festival and plays his first-ever set of electric songs, horrifying many (but, contrary to legend, not all) in the crowd. After three songs, an upset Dylan says "Let's go, man, that's all," and the band leave the stage, only to be coaxed back out by Peter, Paul and Mary to play two more originals in the more "appropriate" acoustic manner. (Mainly because the band,a last-minute idea of Dylan's, only knew the three songs.) 1969: At the end of their gig at the Fillmore in San Francisco, Crosby, Stills and Nash invite Neil Young on stage to back them on a couple of songs, and they like the result so much he almost immediately becomes part of the band. 1975: A California federal judge rules that San Francisco had a right to arrest Miracles singer Smokey Robinson the previous year, even though his name only matched the alias of the criminal he was confused with. The musical A Chorus Line debuts on Broadway, the first of what would be 6,137 performances over fifteen years. 1992: Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa become the proud parents of their first child, Evan James. 1995: Legendary singer Nina Simone is arrested for firing a pellet gun at noisy teenagers playing near her home in the south of France, for which she is placed on an 18-month probation and ordered to seek counseling. 1999: The 30th Anniversary of Woodstock ends, unlike the 25th Anniversary, with riots, fires, looting, three rapes, and other crimes, including three accidental deaths. In addition, several fans are hospitalized from drinking polluted water. 2001: The Doors' John Densmore, Bonnie Raitt, and others are arrested in Itasca, IL, for demonstrating against a company which they claim destroys the rainforest. Releases 1970: Chicago, "25 Or 6 To 4"1971: The Beach Boys, Surf's Up Recording 1960: Connie Francis, "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" 1966: The Monkees, "Last Train To Clarksville" 1968: The Beatles, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 1969: The Beatles: "Sun King," "Mean Mr. Mustard," "Come Together," "Polythene Pam," "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" Charts 1942: Ella Mae Morse and Freddy Slacks' "Cow Cow Boogie" hits #11960: The Ventures' "Walk Don't Run" enters the charts1960: Elvis Presley's "It's Now Or Never" enters the charts1970: The Carpenters' "(They Long To Be) Close To You" hits #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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