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Post by Admin on Aug 12, 2013 16:31:05 GMT -5
August 13th
Births
1919: George Shearing 1921: Jimmy McCracklin 1930: Don Ho 1938: Dave "Baby" Cortez 1940: John Stokes (The Bachelors) 1949: Cliff Fish (Paper Lace) 1951: Dan Fogelberg 1959: Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family)
Deaths
1968: Joe Hinton 1971: King Curtis 2003: Ed Townsend 2005: Francine Hurd Barker (Peaches & Herb)
Events:
1924: Vernon Dalhart's "The Prisoner's Song" becomes the first country record to sell a million copies -- a milestone for public acceptance of the genre.
1938: Blues legend Robert Johnson, who was reported to have "made a deal with the Devil" in order to execute his amazing guitar technique, plays his last gig at a dance approximately 15 miles from Greenwood, MS, and is supposedly poisoned by either the club's owner or a jealous girlfriend, who places strychnine in an open bottle of whiskey. When offered the bottle, fellow bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson knocks it out of his hand, admonishing him against ever drinking from an open container at a public event, but Johnson drinks from the next open bottle anyway. He would die three days later
1952, The original version of 'Hound Dog' was recorded by Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton. It would become the first hit for the song-writing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and went on to top the Billboard R&B chart for seven weeks, selling nearly two million copies.
1959: Bobby Darin signs his first movie contract, a million-dollar, six-year, six-picture deal with Paramount Studios. He would go on to secure a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1962.
1964, Manfred Mann were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy', the bands first of three UK No.1's. The song which was written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich was originally recorded in 1963 by the American vocal group The Exciters.
1964, The Supremes recorded 'Baby Love', the song went on to be the group's first UK No.1 and second US chart topper. It was also the second of five Supremes songs in a row to go to No.1 in the United States
1965, Jefferson Airplane made their live debut at San Francisco's Matrix Club. The photograph of the members of Jefferson Airplane that was featured on the front cover of their best-known album, Surrealistic Pillow (1967), was taken inside the Matrix.
1965, Mike Smith, lead singer of The Dave Clark Five, suffered two broken ribs when he was pulled off the stage by fans. The group were in Chicago at the beginning of a US tour.
1965, The Beatles arrived at Kennedy International Airport for a tour of North America. The set list for the tour was ‘Twist and Shout’, ‘She's a Woman’, ‘I Feel Fine’, ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzie’, ‘Ticket to Ride’, ‘Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby’, ‘Can't Buy Me Love’, ‘Baby's in Black’, ‘Act Naturally’, ‘A Hard Day's Night’, ‘Help!’, ‘I'm Down’ and ‘I Wanna Be Your Man.’ The tour was not a happy one for The Beatles, John Lennon took to screaming off-microphone obscenities at the audiences.
1966, Lovin Spoonful started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Summer In The City', it made No.8 in the UK. The song features a series of car horns during the instrumental bridge, starting with a Volkswagen Beetle horn, and ends up with a jackhammer sound, in order to give the impression of the sounds of the summer in the city.
1966, 'Revolver' The Beatles seventh album release in three years started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK charts. It spent a total of 34 week's on the UK chart and was also a US No.1. The title "Revolver", like "Rubber Soul" before it, is a pun, referring both to a kind of handgun as well as the "revolving" motion of the record as it is played on a turntable. 1967, Fleetwood Mac made their live debut when they appeared at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor. Also on the bill Jeff Beck, Cream, Small Faces, The Move, The Pink Floyd, Donovan and Chicken Shack. 1971, Saxophonist King Curtis Ousley was stabbed to death by a vagrant on the front steps of his New York home. Ousley had worked with John Lennon and also played on The Coasters 'Yakety Yak'.
1971, John Lennon flew from Heathrow Airport to New York, he never set foot on British soil again. 1971, Pink Floyd played their first ever-Australian date when they appeared at the Festival Hall in Melbourne. The group, who were on an Asia Pacific tour, played just one other date in Australia - Sydney, two nights later.
1977, Yes scored their second UK No.1 album with their eighth studio album'Going For The One'. The album marked the return of keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who departed in 1974 over musical differences. 1980, Four masked robbers broke in to Todd Rundgren's New York house and proceeded to steal Hi-Fi equipment and paintings after tying the musician up. It was reported that one of the intruders had been humming his hit 'I Saw The Light'.
1982, American soul singer Joe Tex died at his home in Navasota, Texas, following a heart attack, just five days after his 49th birthday. Had nine US Top 40 hits including the 1972 US No.2 single 'I Gotcha'.
1982, Major American record companies including CBS Atlantic and Warner Brothers all made staff cut-backs as the industry plunged into 'the worst shape in its history'.
1983, KC and the Sunshine Band were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Give It Up'. The American disco group's only UK chart topper spent three weeks at No.1
1992, Neil Diamond played the first of six sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York. Diamond would bring in over $40 million from touring this year, the second highest in the music industry.
1994, Members from Oasis and The Verve were arrested after smashing up a hotel bar and breaking into a church to steal communion wine. Both bands had been appearing at Hulsfred Festival in Sweden. 1994, Woodstock '94 was held in Saugerties, New York, attended by over 350,000 fans, the festival featured Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Aerosmith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Tickets cost $135.00, (£89.00). 1999, Ex Guns N' Roses member Slash was arrested accused of assaulting his girlfriend at his Sunset Boulevard recording studio by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. He was released on bail.
1999, Mick Jagger's marriage to model Jerry Hall was been declared null and void at the High Court in London. Neither Jagger nor Hall were present for the 30-minute hearing before Mr Justice Connell. After hearing evidence on behalf of Hall the judge ruled their "marriage" in Bali in 1990 was not valid either in Indonesia or under English law, and a decree of nullity was granted to Hall. The annulment avoided what had been expected to be a long and costly court battle, in which Ms Hall, 43, was reportedly seeking a £30m share of Jagger's wealth.
2002, Adam Ant pleaded guilty to threatening drinkers at The Prince Of Wales Pub in London in January of this year. The former 1980's pop star had returned to the bar with a starting pistol after being refused entry. He had also thrown a car alternator through the window of the pub. 2004, 'Angels' by Robbie Williams was voted the best single which should have been a number one but never was, in a poll for music channel VH1. The ballad, which reached No.4 in December 1997, beat Savage Garden's ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’ and Aerosmith's 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing.' Other songs said to have deserved a number one included Madonna with ‘Ray of Light’, ‘Beautiful Stranger’, ‘Crazy For You’ and ‘Material Girl’, Bon Jovi with ‘Always’ and Oasis with ‘Wonderwall’ and ‘Live Forever’. Sir Cliff Richard's hit 'Millennium Prayer' was voted the worst number one single of all time. 2007, Amy Winehouse pulled out of two Rolling Stones gigs in Hamburg Germany citing exhaustion, British group Starsailor replaced Winehouse for the shows. 2009, Guitarist Les Paul died in hospital in White Plains, New York at the age of 94 suffering from severe pneumonia. Paul is credited with developing one of the first solid-body electric guitars, which went on sale in 1952 and contributed to the birth of rock. He also developed other influential recording innovations such as multi-track recording and overdubbing. In the early 50s, Paul and his wife Mary Ford had a string of hits including 'Mockin' Bird Hill', 'How High the Moon', and 'Vaya Con Dios'.
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Post by Admin on Aug 14, 2013 8:28:29 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 14 -- Births
1926: Buddy Greco 1940: Dash Crofts (Seals and Crofts) 1941: David Crosby (Crosby, Stills and Nash) 1941: Connie Smith 1942: Lionel Morton (The Four Pennies) 1946: Larry Graham (Sly and the Family Stone) 1947: George Newsome (Climax Blues Band) 1947: Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span)
Deaths
1964: Johnny Burnette 1965: Charles Fizer (The Olympics) 1988: Roy Buchanan 1988: Robert Calvert (Hawkwind) 1992: Tony Williams (The Platters)
Events
1956: Washington DC disc jockey Bob Rickman forms the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Elvis Presley after reading too many news articles that make him out to be a hick and/or a threat to society.
1958: At approximately 3:00 am, Gladys Presley, mother of Elvis, dies at age 46 from a heart attack brought on by hepatitis. His father, Vernon, calls Elvis immediately and he rushes to her bedside, wailing loudly and praying over her lifeless body. Elvis refuses an autopsy. Gladys' body is transported to Graceland and will lie in state there for two days, with her son simply staring at her, until Vernon insists she be buried.
1962: With producer George Martin unhappy with his drumming (and, some say, the group unhappy about his teen idol looks), Pete Best is officially let go from the Beatles. Manager Brian Epstein doesn't tell him until three days later, however, after one more performance at Liverpool's Cavern Club, giving him no real reason for the sacking and cutting off contact with the other members of the group. (Lennon admitted to the group's "cowardly" handling of the event in a later interview.) Ringo Starr, drummer for fellow Liverpool scenemakers Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, is asked to join the group.
1966: The Catholic Herald of London runs an editorial describing John Lennon's recent "bigger than Jesus" remark as "arrogant," while admitting it was a generally accurate remark. However, the Vatican paper of record, L'Osservatore Romano, accepts Lennon's public apology of a few days earlier.
1967: Britain's new Marine Broadcasting Offences Act goes into effect, forcing all but one of the country's famous "pirate" (i.e., unlicensed) radio stations off the air. Radio Caroline remains on the air for another six months or so.
1970: After being found crawling along a motel hallway in La Jolla, CA, incoherent and "combative," Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash is arrested for possession of cocaine and barbiturates.
1971: Diana Ross becomes the proud mother of her first child, Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein; Ross soon marries her manager, Robert Ellis Silberstein, a few days later to mask the fact that the baby is actually the child of Motown's currently married founder, Berry Gordy.
1981: Four years after his untimely death, a Memphis judge rules that Elvis Presley's estate is no longer financially beholden to his manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker.
1985: Acting on the advice of his good friend Paul McCartney to invest his Thriller money in music publishing, Michael Jackson secretly makes a winning bid of $47.5 million for the rights to over 250 Lennon-McCartney Beatles songs owned by ATV publishing. When he finds out, McCartney is livid, stating "I think it's dodgy to do things like that. To be someone's friend and then buy the rug they're standing on."
1991: Tony Orlando and his wife Francine become the proud parents of their first child, Jenny Rose.
1992: Wayne Newton files for bankruptcy.
1994: Clifton Clowers, the real-life Tennessee mountain man who was the subject of Claude King's 1964 country smash "Wolverton Mountain," dies at the ripe old age of 101, still on the mountain (which is actually spelled "Woolverton"). Clowers apparently couldn't keep suitors away from his daughters as well as the legend suggested, as he leaves behind fifteen grandchildren, twenty-seven great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
1995: The Grateful Dead meet and decide to break up after the recent tragedy of founder/leader Jerry Garcia's death.
1999: Former teen idol Leif Garrett pleads guilty to drug possession in Los Angeles and is ordered into rehab.
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2013 7:23:20 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 15 -- Births
1896: Leon Theremin 1909: Hugo Winterhalter 1925: Oscar Peterson 1925: Bill Pinkney (The Drifters) 1930: Jackie Brenston 1933: Bobby Helms 1933: Floyd Ashman (The Tams) 1941: Johnny Thunder 1941: Don Rich 1942: Peter York (The Spencer Davis Group) 1946: Jimmy Webb 1948: Tom Johnston (The Doobie Brothers) 1951: Bobby Caldwell
Deaths
1971: Thomas Wayne 1984: Norman Petty 1992: Jackie Edwards
Events
1939: After five directors, several script drafts, and endless casting changes, The movie musical The Wizard Of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
1956: "Colonel" Tom Parker, actually a Dutch immigrant who merely played at being a Southern aristocrat, becomes "special adviser" to Elvis Presley, effectively taking over management duties from Bob Neal, who knew managing the King was about to become a full-time job.
1958: Buddy Holly marries Maria Elena Santiago, a former receptionist at his music publishing company, in a private ceremony held at Holly's boyhood home in Lubbock, TX.
1964: After the massive success of the Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, United Artists rushes to sign up-and-comers The Dave Clark Five to a film project entitled Catch Us If You Can (which was released in the US as Having A Wild Weekend).
1965: At 8 pm EST, the Beatles take the stage at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the very first time a rock band would headline a stadium concert and a major victory for promoter Sid Bernstein, who had arranged the gig after his gamble of booking the then-unknown group at Carnegie Hall had paid off. Tickets for the show, sold merely by word of mouth created by kids who asked Bernstein about the next Beatles show while he strolled in Central Park, sold out in just three weeks, beating the stadium's old seating record with 56,000 seats sold. Two thousand professionals were pressed into service for security. The concert, filmed for BBC and NBC both, also featured openers Brenda Holloway, The King Curtis Band, and Bernstein's new obsession, the Young Rascals.
1969: Promising "three days of peace, love, and music," The Woodstock Music and Art Fair begins on Max Yasgur's sixty-acre farm in Bethel, NY (nearby Woodstock being the original location). Featuring two dozen of the country's hottest bands, the festival draws over 450,000 hippies to the tiny town, causing unimaginable traffic and logistics problems but nevertheless impressing the ordinary citizens. Three deaths, two births, four miscarriages, and a wedding are all reported before Jimi Hendrix ends the festivities with his legendary rendition of the US national anthem. Also appearing were (in part) Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Santana, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Arlo Guthrie. Among those who elected not to attend were Tommy James and the Shondells, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Jethro Tull, and The Moody Blues.
1973: Baltimore, MD, declares today "Cass Elliot Day" in honor of the native singer for The Mamas and the Papas.
1980: George Harrison's acclaimed autobiography I Me Mine -- the first by any Beatle -- hits the shelves.
1980: John Lennon enters the Record Plant Studios in New York to record his "comeback" album, Double Fantasy.
1996: A New York women's shelter refuses to take money raised by a recent benefit concert when they learn that one of the performers was James Brown, often accused of emotional and physical abuse of women.
2000: David Bowie and his wife, supermodel Iman, become the proud parents of their first child, Alexandria Zahra Jones.
2005: Sly Stone comes out of a long seclusion to visit the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles, where his little sister Vet headlines with the latest version of the Family Stone.
2007: The Osmonds reunite for the first time in over two decades to perform their 50th anniversary concert for PBS.
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Post by Admin on Aug 16, 2013 21:09:49 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 16 -- Births
1915: Al Hibbler 1922: Ernie Freeman 1924: Fess Parker 1931: Eydie Gorme 1938: Ketty Lester 1942: Barbara George 1945: Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine) 1945: Gary Loizzo (The American Breed) 1946: Gordon Fleet (The Easybeats) 1948: Barry Hay (Golden Earring) 1949: Scott Asheton (Iggy Pop and the Stooges) 1953: James "J.T." Taylor (Kool and the Gang)
Deaths
1938: Robert Johnson 1977: Elvis Presley 2000: Alan Caddy (The Tornadoes) 2005: Vassar Clements (Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys)
Events
1957: Buddy Holly and The Crickets, still being billed by the band name only, begin a six-night engagement at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater, the first white rock act to play the venue. Although crowds boo a little at first -- many, including the venue, assumed they'd be seeing R&B vocal group The Crickets -- by the third night of the engagement Buddy's energy and songs have won them over.
1962: Detroit harmonica prodigy "Little" Stevie Wonder releases his first single, "(I Call It Pretty Music, But...) The Old People Call It The Blues," featuring another newcomer, Marvin Gaye, on drums. It fails to chart.
1962: Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, fires drummer Pete Best on the orders of the other members of the group, with no clear explanation and no other members present. Incredibly, Epstein then asks Best to fulfill his commitment and play the group's show that night in Cheshire's Riverpark Ballroom, but when he doesn't show, the group is ready with a replacement: Johnny Hutchinson of fellow Merseybeat group The Big Three. Fans will react badly to the news, pummeling the group at their next few shows, sending petitions to local papers, and shouting "Pete Best forever, Ringo never!" at the Cavern.
1968: The Jackson Five perform their first official live gig, oipening for Diana Ross and the Supremes at the (Great Western) Forum in Los Angeles.
1969: CBS premiers the sitcom The Debbie Reynolds Show.
1969: During the Who's performance of their rock opera Tommy at Woodstock (specifically, during the instrumental "Underture") activist and hippie leader Abbie Hoffman leaps on stage, grabs the microphone, and yells "I think this is a pile of s**t, while John Sinclair rots in prison!" (Sinclair, a fellow activist, had been sentenced for ten years for two marijuana joints.) Pete Townshend, not knowing who Hoffman is, hits him over the head with his guitar and orders him to "**** off my ****ing stage!"
1977: At his home in Graceland, Elvis Presley takes the book he's been reading, Frank Adams' The Scientific Search For The Face Of Jesus, and goes into his bathroom, "Don't fall asleep in there," says girlfriend Ginger Alden, knowing his propensity to nod off. "Okay, I won't," he says. Ginger goes back to sleep. At 1:30 pm CST, Ginger awakens and sees Elvis is still gone. When knocking on the bathroom door produces no reply, she enters and finds his lifeless body on the floor in front of the toilet.
Alden screams for Elvis associates Al Strada and Joe Esposito, who arrive and call the fire department. An ambulance is dispatched. Daughter Lisa Marie and father Vernon arrive in the bathroom, but Lisa Marie is quickly removed from the scene. Elvis is rushed to nearby Baptist Memorial Hospital, where, after several attempts to revive him, he dies at 3:30 pm CST. His autopsy is performed at 7:00 pm.
The official coroner's report lists "cardiac arrhythmia" as the cause of Presley's death, but this was later admitted to be a ruse entered into by the Presley family along with autopsy physicians Dr. Jerry T. Francisco, Dr. Eric Muirhead and Dr. Noel Florredo to cover up the real cause of death, a cocktail of ten prescribed drugs, taken in doses no doctor would prescribe: The painkillers Morphine and Demerol. Chloropheniramine, an antihistamine. The tranquilizers Placidyl and Vailum. Finally, four drugs were found in "significant" quantities: Codeine, an opiate, Ethinamate, largely prescribed at the time as a "sleeping pill," Quaaludes, and a barbituate, or depressant, that has never been identified. It has also been rumored that Diazepam, Amytal, Nembutal, Carbrital, Sinutab, Elavil, Avental, and Valmid were found in his system at death.
The phrase "cardiac arrhythmia," in the context of the coroner's report, means little more than a stopped heart; the report initially tried to attribute the arrhythmia to cardiovascular disease, but Elvis' own personal physician has stated that Presley had no such chronic problems at the time.
1983: Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel marries Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher at his New York duplex. The couple would divorce just two years later.
1995: Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys performs live for the first time with his daughters Carnie and Wendy, recently famous for their stint in the trio Wilson Phillips.
2003: The USPS unveils a new commemorative postage stamp of recently-deceased composer Henry Mancini, famous for the Pink Panther theme and several other film works.
Today In Music August 17 -- Births
1909: Larry Clinton 1919: Georgia Gibbs 1932: Duke Pearson 1933: Mark Dinning 1944: John Seiter (Spanky and Our Gang) 1947: Gary Talley (The Box Tops, Big Star) 1949: Sib Hashian (Boston)
Deaths
1973: Paul Williams (The Temptations) 1987: Gary Chester 1990: Pearl Bailey 1991: Rick Griffith
Events
1960: The Beatles begin the first of forty-eight nights playing the Indra Club on Grosse Freiheit in Hamburg, Germany, playing for four-and-a-half hours every day (six on the weekends), an arrangement that leads to twenty-minute versions of songs like Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally." Notable as the first time the group performed under the name "The Beatles" (having dropped the "Silver" from their name en route), the gigs feature John Lennon yelling at the German audiences, calling them Nazis, shouting "Sieg Heil!" at them, and wearing outlandish outfits -- at one point appearing on stage in only his underwear, at another with a toilet seat around his neck. The young crowd, perhaps predictably, love the show, as does the owner, Bruno Koschmider, who repeatedly tells the group to "mach shau" ("make a show"). After moving to Bruno's Kaiserkeller club the group eventually moved to the Top Ten Club -- breaking their contract with Bruno, who took revenge by getting George Harrison being deported for being too young to play in bars, and Paul and Pete Best deported for starting a fire in the tiny room the group shared behind a screen in a local movie house.
1962: A riot breaks out during a Gary U.S. Bonds performance at the Boston Arena.
1966: During a press conference in Toronto (where the group was scheduled to play that night) the Beatles creates more controversy by siding with American "draft dodgers" who moved to Toronto rather than be sent to Vietnam. John jokes, "Ah, we've had it in Memphis now," referring to the death threats received there after his "bigger than Jesus" statement.
1972: Gladys Knight appears as a contestant on ABC-TV's The Dating Game.
1977: One day after Elvis Presley's untimely demise, thousands of fans crowd Memphis and Graceland to mourn. FTD florists report the largest number of flower orders in their history sent as tributes to the King's family; US President Jimmy Carter issues a statement saying, in part, "Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique and irreplaceable... he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of his country."
1979: Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards' wife, Anita Pallenberg, is accused of running a witches coven, complete with "pot smoking sex orgies," by the New York Post.
1984: At the outset of his latest world tour, a fatigued Elton John announces his upcoming retirement, which, like so many before and after, wouldn't take.
1992: Wayne Newton files for bankruptcy, claiming debts of over $20 million.
1993: While in therapy, the thirteen-year-old son of a Beverly Hills dentist, Jordan Chandler, alleges that singer Michael Jackson molested him while he visited Jackson's Neverland Ranch. The resultant civil suit costs Jackson over $20 million, but no criminal charges are filed, with Jackson's lawyers claiming the family in question had previously attempted to extort the singer.
1995: Microsoft buys the rights to the Rolling Stones' 1981 smash "Start Me Up" to use as the theme for their Windows 95 rollout.
1997: Liverpool, Nova Scotia, dedicates The Hank Snow Country Music Centre, a museum dedicated to its native country music legend.
1998: Carlos Santana is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999: Derek Longmuir of the Bay City Rollers is arraigned on charges of possession of illegal drugs and child pornography. He is sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
2004: Singer / songwriter Dan Fogelberg reveals that he is battling advanced prostate cancer.
2004: Chevy officially ends its association with Bob Seger, whose 1986 hit "Like A Rock" had been used in Silverado ads since 1989. Two years later, General Motors would begin using John Mellencamp's "Our Country" as the Silverado theme.
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2013 19:29:58 GMT -5
August 18th - Music Events 1937: The first FM (frequency modulation) radio station in the US, Boston's WGTR (now WAAF), is granted its construction permit by the FCC.
1962, Ringo Starr made his debut with The Beatles at the horticultural society Dance, Birkenhead, England, having had a two-hour rehearsal in preparation. This was the first appearance of The Beatles as the world would come to know them: John, Paul, George, and Ringo. 1964, Over 9,000 frenzied fans met The Beatles as they arrived in San Francisco, to begin an American tour. The Beatles were driven into a protective fence enclosure so that photographers could take pictures. As the 9,000 fans pressed against the fencing, it gave way, with The Beatles managing to get out split-seconds before it came crashing down. 1966, Paul Jones left Manfred Mann just as ‘Pretty Flamingo’ was climbing the US charts. He was replaced by singer Mike D’Abo, who would take over lead vocals on the bands next hit, ‘The Mighty Quinn,’ a song written by Bob Dylan. 1969, Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalised in a coma, and pulling out of the film. 1973, Diana Ross scored her second US No.1 single with 'Touch Me In The Morning'. The song marked a turning point in her career, coming immediately after her Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in her acting debut, Lady Sings the Blues. 1976, 'Variety' reported that Marvin Gaye faced two consecutive five day prison terms in Los Angeles county jail for contempt of court after failing to pay alimony and child support 1977, The Police made their live debut as a three-piece band when they played at Rebecca's Birmingham, England. The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. 1977, Two Missouri girls were killed and a third was critically injured when a car being driven by an 18-year-old Memphis teen swerved into a crowd of over 2,000 mourners standing in front of Graceland's music gate at about 4am. The driver was charged with drunk driving, leaving the scene of an accident and two counts of second degree murder. 1979, Nick Lowe married Johnny Cash's stepdaughter Carlene Carter in Los Angeles. The couple are now divorced. 1979, AC/DC, Nils Lofgren, The Stranglers and The Who all appeared at Wembley Stadium, London, England. 1979, Chic went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Good Times', the group's second US No.1, a No.5 hit in the UK. 1982, The City of Liverpool named four Streets after the fab four: John Lennon Drive, Paul McCartney Way, George Harrison Close and Ringo Starr Drive. 1983, The Police plus Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and R.E.M. (their biggest gig to date) all appeared at Shea Stadium, New York City. 1984, George Michael was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his first solo single 'Careless Whisper.' It made George the first person to reach No.1 as a solo artist and a member of a band in the same year. It gave Epic records UK their first UK million seller and the song was No.1 in nearly 25 countries, selling over six million copies worldwide. 1986, Bon Jovi released their third studio album, Slippery When Wet, which peaked at No.1 on the US charts, going on to sell over 28 million copies worldwide. The set featured two US chart toppers, 'You Give Love A Bad Name' and 'Livin’ On A Prayer'. 1991, Rick Griffin, died after being forced off the road by a van he was attempting to pass on his Harley Heritage Softail motorbike. One of his best known album covers was for the Grateful Dead's 'Aoxomoa' LP, and the legendary "Flying Eyeball" poster he designed for a series of concerts in San Francisco featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Albert King and John Mayall. 1991, Sweet Jesus appeared at the Boardwalk, Manchester. Support act was The Rain (later to become Oasis), minus Noel Gallagher who had yet to join his brothers band. 1992, Kurt Cobain became a father when his wife Courtney Love gave birth to a daughter. 2003, Tony Jackson bass player with The Searchers died of cirrhosis of the liver. The Searchers had the 1964 UK No.1 & US No.13 single 'Needles And Pins'. 2005, Kanye West called for an end to homophobia in the hip-hop community during an MTV interview saying ‘hip-hop was always about speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates, I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it'." 2006, Justin Hawkins the lead singer of The Darkness checked himself into the Priory rehabilitation clinic suffering from exhaustion after three years of non-stop work. 2006, US film-maker Adam Muskiewicz set up elviswanted.com as part of a documentary exploring the myth that the singer was still alive and offered a $3m (£1.59m) reward for anybody who found Elvis Presley alive. The film was due for release in August 2007, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Presley's death. 2006, Babyshambles front man Pete Doherty appeared at Thames Magistrates court in London to face seven charges of drug possession. 2008, Soul singer Pervis Jackson died of cancer. Was a member of The Spinners (Also known as The Motown Spinners and The Detroit Spinners). Had the 1980 UK No.1 & US No.2 single 'Working My Way Back To You'. 2010, French beauty brand Etat Libre D'Orange announced that they have teamed up with The Sex Pistols to bottle the scent of the Punk era by launching the band's first fragrance. Company executives said "to wear this scent, you must resist tradition, fight conformity, and disregard aromatic conventions."
Birthdays
1745 - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
1769 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer
1849 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer
1856 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer
1856 - Jan Karol Gali, composer
1873 - Otto Harbach, songwriter (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)
1878 - Fritz Brun, composer
1881 - Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher, composer
1882 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer
1893 - Ernest MacMillan, composer
1900 - Walter O'Keefe, Hartford Ct, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood)
1902 - Julius Kalas, composer
1903 - Ake Olof Sebastian Udden, composer
1903 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1905 - Peter Paul Kreuder, composer
1907 - Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1907 - Howard Swanson, composer
1907 - Otto Mortensen, composer
1908 - Milan Ristic, composer
1910 - Herman Berlinski, composer
1916 - Moura Lympany, Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
1925 - Tonny Til, rocker
1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 - Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1934 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1935 - Lajos Papp, composer
1939 - Johnny Preston singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1940 - Frankie Avalon, rocker (Venus, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1943 - Sarah Dash, Trenton NJ, rock vocalist (Patti LaBelle & Bluebirds)
1944 - Carl Wayne, rocker (Move)
1945 - Barbara Harris, US singer (Toys-A Lover's Concerto)
1945 - Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1949 - Nigel Griggs, rocker (Split Enz)
1950 - Dennis Elliot, London, rock drummer (Foreigner)
1952 - Patrick Swayze, Houston Texas, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost)
1956 - John Debney, American composer
1956 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1957 - Ron Strykert, Australia, rock guitarist (Men At Work-Who Can it Be)
1964 - Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
1965 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1967 - Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 - Tracy Tracy, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1967 - Dan Peters, American musician
1967 - Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
1969 - Masta Killa, American rapper
1969 - Everlast, American musician
1971 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician (Aphex Twin)
1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 - Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1977 - Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician Arcade Fire
1981 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
Deaths in Music
1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1811 - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78
1853 - Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
1894 - William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57
1896 - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88
1901 - Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
1942 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48
1949 - Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
1957 - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41
1968 - Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
1969 - Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48
1980 - Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1994 - Gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88
2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
2012 - Scott McKenzie, American singer, dies at 73
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Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2013 8:49:15 GMT -5
August 22nd
Births
1917: John Lee Hooker 1926: Bob Flanagan (The Four Freshmen) 1938: Dale Hawkins 1939: Fred Milano (The Belmonts) 1942: Joe Chambers (The Chambers Brothers) 1945: Ron Dante (The Archies, The Cuff Links, The Detergents) 1946: Gary "Mutha" Withem (Gary Puckett and the Union Gap) 1947: Donna Godchaux (The Grateful Dead) 1948: David Marks (The Beach Boys) 1949: Sam Neely 1958: Ian Mitchell (Bay City Rollers)
Deaths
1990: David Rose
Events 1906: The Victor Talking Machine Company, headquartered in Camden, NJ, begins manufacturing the world's first mass-market home record player, the Victrola. Price: $200. 1938: America's most famous dancing partners, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, appear together on the cover of Life magazine. 1956, Elvis Presley began working on his first movie, Love Me Tender. In the drama that was set during and just after the Civil War, Elvis played Clint Reno, the youngest of four brothers. The original title for the movie was The Reno Brothers, but was changed to take advantage of the 'Love Me Tender' song recorded for the film. 1962, The first TV appearance of The Beatles was recorded by Manchester based Granada TV, who filmed a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, (the performance was shown on 17th October 1962). 1963, Billy J Kramer And The Dakotas were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Bad To Me.' A song John Lennon wrote for them while on holiday in Spain with Brian Epstein. The track later became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to reach the US Top 40 for an artist other than the Beatles. 1964, The Supremes started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Where Did Our Love Go' the girl group's first No.1. Holland–Dozier–Holland had originally composed the song for The Marvelettes to record it who rejected the song, thinking it childish. 1965, The Beatles, on tour in North America, performed two shows at Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon. Between performances, The Beatles were visited in their dressing-room by Carl Wilson and Mike Love of the Beach Boys. 1966, New York City teenagers Carol Hopkins and Susan Richmond climbed out onto the ledge on the second floor of a city hotel and threatened to jump unless they could get to meet The Beatles. Police talked then down. 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared on the BBC TV Simon Dee show. Kiki Dee and Cat Stevens were also guests on the show. 1968, Ringo Starr quit The Beatles during the White Album sessions when the constant bickering and tension became too much for him. The news of Ringo's departure was kept secret, and he rejoined the sessions on September 3rd. After Ringo walked out, the remaining Beatles recorded 'Back In the USSR', with Paul on drums and John playing bass. 1969, The Beatles met at John Lennon's Tittenhurst Park home in England for their final ever photo session. Three shots from this session (by Ethan Russell) formed the front and back covers of the Capitol compilation album Hey Jude. Yoko Ono and a pregnant Linda McCartney (she was to give birth to daughter Mary six days later) appeared in some photographs with The Beatles. 1970, Bread went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Make It With You', the group's only No.1 hit, which was a No.5 in the UK. Many artists have covered the song including: The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dusty Springfield, Andy Williams, and Marc Cohn. 1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival started a nine-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their fifth studio album 'Cosmo's Factory'. The name of the album comes from the warehouse in Berkeley where the band rehearsed. Bandleader John Fogerty was so insistent on practicing (nearly every day) that drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford began referring to the place as "the factory". 1978, Sex Pistol Sid Vicious made his last live stage appearance when he appeared with Rat Scabies from The Damned, former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock and Nancy Spungen at London's Electric Ballroom. In the audience: Elvis Costello, Blondie, Joan Jett , The Slits and Captain Sensible. 1979, In Through the Out Door was released in the US, Led Zeppelin's last album while all four members were alive. 'Fool in the Rain' was released as a single in the US. In Through The Out Door has now been certified 6 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 6 million copies. 1987, Madonna went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Who's That Girl', her sixth US No.1 and also a No.1 in the UK. The track was from the soundtrack album of the motion picture of same name. 1992, Sting and Trudie Styler held their wedding reception, (the couple married on 20th August 1992), after The Troggs had played a set, all three members of The Police got on stage and played a couple of numbers. 1999, Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell scored her first UK No.1 solo single with 'Mi Chico Latino' the second single from her debut solo album Schizophonic. 2003, Kjell Henning Bjoernestad a Norwegian Elvis Presley impersonator set a world record by singing the rock 'n' roll legend's hits non-stop for over 26 hours. The previous record was set by British Elvis fan Gary Jay who sang for 25 hours 33 minutes and 30 seconds. 2004, Al Dvorin the announcer who popularised the phrase "Elvis has left the building" died in a car crash, on his way home from an Elvis convention in California. Dvorin aged 81, was in a car driven by Elvis photographer Ed Bonja. Dvorin was never paid for recordings of his words, and was bitter towards the multimillion pound Elvis Presley Enterprises. In the early 1970s, Colonel Parker asked Dvorin to inform fans at a gig that Presley would not be appearing for an encore. He took the stage and announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and goodnight." 2004, Natasha Bedingfield started a two week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'These Words.' The sister of singer and producer Daniel Bedingfield. 2005, 50 Cent was suing a US car dealer for allegedly using his name in an advert without permission. Describing himself in the legal action as a "hugely successful" artist "known for his good looks, 'gangsta' image and hard knocks success story". The rapper was seeking more than $1m (£555,150) from Gary Barbera Enterprises for a Dodge Magnum advert with the line "Just Like 50 Says" alongside a photo of him. 2007, Former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes was arrested on suspicion of racially abusing a member of staff at a Thai restaurant in Soho, London. Hayes was released on bail pending further inquiries. 2009, Soul singer Johnny Carter, who was a member of doo-wop groups The Dells and The Flamingos, died aged 75. Carter who was famed for his falsetto vocals, was one of the few artists to be inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with two acts. 2011, Songwriter and producer Jerry Leiber died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 78 from cardio-pulmonary failure. With Mike Stoller he wrote many hits including: 'Hound Dog', 'Jailhouse Rock', 'King Creole', 'There Goes My Baby', 'Searchin', 'Yakety Yak', 'Stand By Me', 'Poison Ivy,' and 'Kansas City'. 2011, Nicholas Ashford, one half of Ashford and Simpson died of complications from throat cancer, in New York. With his wife Valerie Simpson they had the 1979 US No.36 single 'Found A Cure', and 1985 UK No. 3 single 'Solid'. The pair wrote hits such as: 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', 'You're All I Need To Get By', 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing', and 'Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)'.
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Post by Admin on Aug 23, 2013 9:52:15 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 23 -- Births
1912: Gene Kelly 1917: Tex Williams 1936: Rudy Lewis (The Drifters) 1941: Pete Shannon (The Nashville Teens) 1942: Tony "Spaghetti" Micale (The Reflections) 1942: Roger Greenaway (Blue Mink) 1946: Jim Sohns (The Shadows Of Knight) 1946: Keith Moon (The Who) 1949: Rick Springfield 1951: Mark Hudson (The Hudson Brothers)
Deaths
2005: Hal Kalin (The Kalin Twins)
Events
1962: John Lennon marries Cynthia Powell, already two months pregnant with their son Julian, at Liverpool's Mount Pleasant Registry Office, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison as witnesses. Fans milling about the offices find out about the marriage immediately, spoiling plans to keep it a secret. Manager Brian Epstein, who had served as best man, then buys lunch for the wedding party at the local cafeteria Reece's and gives the new couple use of his apartment. The marriage would last six years. On the same day, local paper Mersey Beat officially announces the replacement of Pete Best with Ringo Starr.
1964: The Beatles play the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA, a concert which is recorded for a planned upcoming live album. However, the resultant sound quality is so poor due to screaming teenagers that it sits on the shelf until 1977, when the LP The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl is released, combining songs from this show and a similar Hollywood Bowl gig a year later. (Some applause from the tapes, however, was used on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, at the start of "With A Little Help From My Friends" and also tacked on to the end of the title track's reprise to suggest the end of the "concert.")
1965: The Beatles' second film, Help! has its US premiere in New York City.
1966: During their last tour of the US, the Beatles again play New York's famed Shea Stadium; however, numerous recent concerts in the area make selling out the show an impossibility.
1968: Disgusted by the acrimonious "White Album" sessions, Ringo Starr becomes the first band member to temporarily leave the Beatles, heading off to vacation in Sardinia. While there, he gets the idea for "Octopus's Garden" from a boat captain who tells him how the creatures create "gardens" for themselves out of shiny objects. While gone, Paul records the drum tracks for "Back In The USSR" and "Dear Prudence"; after a few days, Ringo returns to find flowers surrounding his drum kit in apology, and decides to stick it out.
1970: The Velvet Underground play their famous final show at Max's Kansas City in New York.
1974: The local papers report that John Lennon, while staying in mistress' May Pang's New York apartment during his infamous "lost weekend," has spotted a UFO. John's next album, Walls and Bridges, contains this notation in the inner booklet: "On 23 August 1974, I saw a UFO J.L."
1987: A 20th anniversary "Summer Of Love" concert headlined by the Grateful Dead at Calaveras County Fairgrounds in Angel Camp, CA goes horribly wrong when an escaped felon, wandering in the crowd, shoots a pursuing police officer while trying to escape.
1993: News of Michael Jackson's child molestation investigation is finally made public by the Los Angeles police.
1999: Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers marries his third wife, Patti Arnold, at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
2000: Kenny Loggins is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004: Queen becomes the first band officially sanctioned by the Iranian government since the 1979 cultural revolution that outlawed rock groups. Lead singer Freddie Mercury, born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar of Indian parents, had remained quite popular in the country.
2005: Bay City Rollers' lead singer Les McKeown is arraigned on cocaine possession and distribution charges in London. He is eventually acquitted of the intent to distribute.
2007: Queen guitarist Brian May is finally awarded his doctorate in astrophysics by London's Imperial College -- the very Ph. D. title he was seeking when he left the college during the band's first flush of success.
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Post by Admin on Aug 24, 2013 7:35:02 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 24 -- Births
1905: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup 1915: Wynonie Harris 1924: Louis Teicher (Ferrante and Teicher) 1938: Mason Williams 1938: David Frieberg (Jefferson Airplane) 1941: Ernest Wright (Little Anthony and the Imperials) 1942: Marshall Donald Thompson (The Chi-Lites) 1942: Carl Mann 1942: Jimmy Soul 1943: John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service) 1944: Jim Capaldi (Traffic) 1944: Jim Brady (The Sandpipers) 1945: Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep) 1945: Malcolm Duncan (Average White Band) 1947: Jim Fox (James Gang) 1948: Jean-Michel Jarre 1951: Michael Derosier (Heart)
Deaths
1978: Louis Prima 1998: Gene Page
Events
1956: Little Richard plays the Cotton Club in Lubbock, TX, making an indelible impression on audience member Buddy Holly.
1964: Taking him up on his telegram invitation to help out in any way he can in America, Beatles manager Brian Epstein meets Elvis Presley manager "Colonel" Tom Parker for the first time when they have lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
1967: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and their entourage attend a lecture by the Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the lobby of the London Hilton. The Maharishi (as he would come to be known) entrances the Beatles with his philosophy of TM, or Transcendental Meditation, which involves mental repetition of a single word or phrase to center the mind and relax the body. After the lecture, the three Beatles meet the Maharishi and accept his invitation to attend his next lecture in Bangor, Wales.
1967: Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, drives his Lincoln Continental (not a Rolls Royce, as is often thought), into the swimming pool at the Holiday Inn in Flint, MI to celebrate his 21st birthday, earning the entire band a lifetime ban from the chain.
1969: Folksinger Arlo Guthrie's film Alice's Restaurant, based on his hit song of the same name, premieres in both Los Angeles and New York.
1969: John Lennon writes, rehearses, and records a song about his recent heroin withdrawal entitled "Cold Turkey," where he also puts into practice his recent introduction to "primal scream" therapy. Fans and critics are shocked and appalled by the emotionally raw recording, a prelude to his eventual Plastic Ono Band album.
1977: Country legend Waylon Jennings is arrested for cocaine possession in New York City by federal agents, an event which will inspire his song "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got out of Hand?" The charges are later dropped.
1981: John Lennon's killer is given a sentence of 20-years-to-life in prison, where he will be denied parole five times over the next 27 years.
1983: Jerry Lee Lewis' fifth wife, Shawn Michelle Stevens, dies of a methadone overdose at the Killers' home in Nesbit, MS, although several journalists suspect foul play. The couple had only been married three months. Lewis' fourth wife had died an accidental death only a year earlier.
1989: The Who perform a special 20th anniversary charity concert of their rock opera Tommy at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, featuring guests Elton John (as the Pinball Wizard), Patti Labelle (as the Acid Queen), Steve Winwood (as the Hawker), Phil Collins (as Uncle Ernie), and Billy Idol (as Cousin Kevin).
1998: 53-year-old Ingrid Pedersen announces that she is the long-lost illegitimate half-sister of John Lennon, explaining that she kept her secret for so many years as a way of protecting her now-deceased adoptive parents.
2007: During a routine medical exam in Gainesville, FL, Bo Diddley complains of dizziness and nausea and is admitted to a local hospital, where he is diagnosed as having had a heart attack. The rock legend had suffered a stroke only a few months earlier.
2007: Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders opens Mark Lindsay's Rock And Roll Cafe in his native Portland, OR.
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2013 15:02:45 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 28 -- Births
1925: Donald O'Connor 1925: Billy Grammer 1931: Clem Cattini (The Tornadoes) 1937: John Perkins (The Crew Cuts) 1943: Anne "Honey" Lantree (The Honeycombs) 1943: David Soul 1946: Ken Andrew (Middle Of The Road) 1948: Danny Seraphine (Chicago) 1949: Martin Lamble (Fairport Convention) 1951: Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds)
Deaths
1981: Guy Stevens
Events
1960: A 17-year-old Barry White completes his four-month prison term for stealing 300 tires from a Cadillac dealership. Having heard Elvis sing "It's Now Or Never" in prison, he leaves determined to make music his life.
1963: Just before Dr. Martin Luther King gives his famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, Peter, Paul and Mary serenade the crowd with their hit version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind."
1964: On the same day that the Beatles make their first appearance on the cover of Life Magazine, and just after finishing their set at New York's Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, the group is taken back to their suite at the city's Hotel Delmonico. Journalist Al Aronowitz arrives from Woodstock, NY with his friend Bob Dylan, and brings him up to the suite. John Lennon asks the folk singer what he'd like to drink, and Dylan replies simply, "cheap wine."
The Beatles offer Dylan their drug of choice, speed, but Al and Bob instead suggest marijuana, which the band had never tried. This shocks Dylan, who ventures that he always thought the band sang "I get high" in their song "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." John corrects him, telling him that the phrase is, in fact, "I can't hide." John makes Ringo smoke the joint first, and eventually each member of the band gets his own private marijuana cigarette. Paul, in particular, is quite taken with the thoughts it produces, ordering Mal Evans to follow him around with a notepad and take down all his pronouncements.
1965: The Rolling Stones sign with Decca records and ink a management contract with the soon-to-be-notorious Allen Klein.
1967: In San Francisco, The Grateful Dead, along with Janis Joplin's group Big Brother and the Holding Company, play the funeral of a Hell's Angel killed after being hit by a car.
1969: Paul and Linda McCartney become the proud parents of their first child, a daughter they name Mary after Paul's dear departed mother.
1984: With over one million ticket sales in only two months, the Jacksons' reunion tour, entitled Victory, becomes the most successful concert tour of all time.
1986: The anti-corporate-pollution benefit concert Get Tough On Toxics is held in Long Beach, CA, featuring members of the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and Neil Young.
1986: Tina Turner receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1996: Isaac Hayes officially protests the use of Sam and Dave's classic "Soul Man" (which he wrote) by the Bob Dole US Presidential campaign (which had renamed it "I'm A Dole Man").
1998: The movie Why Do Fools Fall In Love, a biopic following the lives of The Teenagers and their leader, Frankie Lymon, opens in US theaters, starring Halle Berry, Vivica A. Fox, and Larenz Tate as Frankie. Little Richard and Ben Vereen also make cameos. The movie is not a huge success.
2004: Lou Rawls is awarded an honorary doctorate in from Ohio's Wilberforce University in recognition of his charity work with the United Negro College Fund and his "lifelong service to the education of historically disadvantaged populations."
2005: For the second time in two years, Art Garfunkel is arrested for marijuana possession.
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2013 7:14:03 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 29 -- Births
1920: Charlie "Bird" Parker 1924: Dinah Washington 1942: Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground) 1943: Dick Halligan (Blood, Sweat and Tears) 1945: Chris Copping (Procol Harum) 1953: Rick Downey (Blue Oyster Cult) 1958: Michael Jackson
Deaths
1976: Jimmy Reed 1998: Charlie Feathers 2006: "Jumpin'" Gene Simmons
Events
1958: The first of Alan Freed's Big Beat revues is held at Brooklyn, New York's Fox Theatre, featuring Chuck Berry, Billy Haley and his Comets, Frankie Avalon, The Elegants, Bobby Freeman, and Jimmy Clanton.
1959: When the Les Stewart Quartet breaks up just before its opening-night gig at the new Liverpool hotspot the Casbah, Quartet guitarist George Harrison recommends local skiffle group the Quarrymen, on the verge of breaking up and down to two members: John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Harrison joins the group, which still has no drummer, that night.
1962: Elvis' tenth movie, Kid Galahad, opens in US theaters, featuring the King as an amateur boxer. Charles Bronson also stars.
1964: In a clear case of rock and roll being saved by the British Invasion, Billboard magazine notes that guitar sales are the highest they've been since the advent of Elvis Presley.
1966: The last episode of ABC-TV's musical variety show Hullabaloo airs, featuring guest stars Lesley Gore, Paul Anka, Peter and Gordon, and The Cyrkle.
1966: The Beatles play the last live gig for a paying audience, winding up their last world tour at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The show, which ends with a cover of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally," is filmed by Beatles press officer Tony Barrow. Afterwardsm George Harrison is heard half-joking, "Well, that's it. I'm not a Beatle anymore."
1969: Bob Seger divorces his first wife after only ten months of marriage.
1977: Three men are arrested in Memphis after attempting to steal Elvis Presley's recently-deceased body from a Memphis mausoleum, causing the Presley family to move his body to its present location in the "meditation garden" at Graceland.
1986: The American Bandstand studio located at 4548 Market Street in Philadelphia, PA is entered into the US National Register of Historic Places.
1990: Elton John enters rehab in Chicago to combat his bulimia and his various drug and alcohol addictions.
1995: The US Internal Revenue Service places a lien on Aretha Franklin's home for $600,000 in back taxes.
1999: HBO premieres Cher: Live In Concert From Las Vegas.
2005: Fats Domino, now 77, is rescued from his Ninth Ward home in New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2013 7:50:38 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 30 -- Births 1919: Kitty Wells 1939: John Peel 1935: "Papa" John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas) 1941: John McNally (The Searchers) 1944: Charles Colbert (The American Breed) 1950: Micky Moody (Juicy Lucy, Whitesnake) 1951: Dana 1952: Kenny Andrews (The Darts) 1954: Ronald Beitle (Wild Cherry)
Deaths 1988: "Papa Dee" Allen (War) 1995: Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground)
Events 1959: Brill Building songwriter Carole King, already two months pregnant, marries her writing partner Gerry Goffin in New York City. The marriage lasts nine years. 1963: Jerry Lee Lewis welcomes his second child with wife (and cousin) Myra Gale Brown, a daughter named Phoebe, who would later become the Killer's manager. 1963: The Beatles are filmed for a English documentary on the "Mersey Beat" scene; some of this footage ends up being broadcast on NBC-TV's Jack Parr Show, which represents America's first broadcast of the group performing. 1963: ABC-TV's American Bandstand airs its final weekday show, becoming a weekly, rather than daily, show and moving to Saturdays for the rest of its run. 1965: The Beatles perform at their second Hollywood Bowl show of 1965, seven songs of which will make it to the eventual Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl LP released in 1977. 1969: The second annual Isle of Wight Festival takes place in England just two weeks after the triumphant Woodstock concert, featuring Bob Dylan, The Who, The Band, Joe Cocker, Free, Richie Havens, The Moody Blues, The Nice, Tom Paxton, Pentangle and The Pretty Things. 1972: The "One on One" benefit concert for mentally disabled children, instituted by John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the behest of friend Geraldo Rivera, takes place in New York City's Madison Square Garden, featuring performances by Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Sha Na Na, and the duo themselves, who played many of their new "protest" songs at the event (later issued on the LP Live In New York City). The show raises somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars for Willowbrook Handicapped Children's Home. 1973: After two years and two unsuccessful albums without deceased former frontman Jim Morrison, the Doors officially break up. 1975: Free's guitarist, Paul Kossoff, goes into a drug-induced coma and is legally dead for over 35 minutes, supposedly revived only after stirring at the morgue. 1988: Brenda Lee sues MCA for back royalties totaling over $20 million, but the suit is eventually settled out of court for an unknown amount. 1988: After tabloids publish photos of Bruce Springsteen, already married to actress Julianne Phillips, frolicking with back up singer Patti Scialfa, Phillips files for divorce. (Springsteen married Scialfa two years later.) 1989: Billy Joel fires Frank Weber as his manager after discovering an alleged $90 million Weber had embezzled from his savings. Weber was the brother of Joel's ex-wife and former business manager Elizabeth Weber Small. 1990: Canadian-born singer Paul Anka finally becomes a US citizen in Las Vegas, but finds his car has been towed away during the naturalization service. 1991: Jan Berry of Jan and Dean marries his second wife, Gertie Filip, onstage during a concert at Las Vegas' Stardust Hotel. 1991: In a rush to make her performance at the Grand Ole Opry, country legend Dottie West is critically injured in a car crash near the Opry itself and dies five days later. 1993: Billy Joel appears as the first musical guest on David Letterman's new talk show, CBS-TV's Late Show With David Letterman. 1995: James Taylor and ex-wife Carly Simon reunite onstage for the first time in 16 years for a benefit concert in Martha's Vineyard, MA.
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Post by Admin on Aug 31, 2013 7:30:03 GMT -5
Today In Music History: August 31 -- Births
1918: Alan Jay Lerner 1938: Jerry Allison (The Crickets) 1945: Van Morrison 1960: Tony DeFranco (The DeFranco Family)
Deaths
2004: Joe Barry 2004: Carl Wayne (The Move)
Events
1955: London resident Sidney Turner is brought before the court and fined three pounds for attempting to drive his neighbors "mad" (his words) by playing Bill Haley's version of "Shake Rattle And Roll" all night long.
1956: Rock and roll's dominance of the UK is complete: for the first time, all of the Top Ten singles are those of American artists (although not quite all are rock).
1957: Elvis Presley makes his last concert appearance ever outside the US, performing at Canada Empire Stadium in Vancouver for a crowd of 26,000.
1958: Ricky Nelson takes the stage for the first time as a solo rock star, performing at Atlantic City's famous Steel Pier for two dates and selling a record 44,000 tickets.
1961: Bob Wooler's piece about the Beatles in today's edition of Mersey Beat is the first ink given to the still-unknown group.
1968: The Beatles' new single, "Hey Jude," debuts at #10, a record for Billboard at the time.
1969: After spending three years supposedly recuperating from a motorcycle accident that happily derailed his stardom, Bob Dylan reappears on stage for the first time since 1966, playing the Isle of Wight festival in England with backing by a group known simply as The Band.
1974: The final episode of The Partridge Family airs on ABC-TV.
1974: During his deportation battle, John Lennon testifies in court that President Nixon had started the proceedings in order to silence the ex-Beatle for his anti-Vietnam War stance.
1976: Though no one ever claims George Harrison stole the song intentionally, the ex-Beatle is nonetheless found guilty of "subconsciously" lifting several key melodic elements from the Chiffons' 1963 smash "He's So Fine" for his 1970 smash "My Sweet Lord." Harrison, who always maintained he was really trying to write something like the Edwin Hawkins Singers' hit "Oh Happy Day," would appeal for five years but eventually be ordered to pay the publisher $587,000. The Chiffons, who never saw royalties from their original hit, head back into the studio to cut a version of... "My Sweet Lord."
1980: In Beverly Hills, Karen Carpenter marries her first and only husband, real estate developer Thomas Burris.
2007, Hilly Kristal, founder of the New York punk club CBGB died from complications arising from lung cancer at the age of 75. Kristal was credited with discovering Patti Smith and The Ramones and his club became a breeding ground for punk rock. The New York City venue, whose full title CBGB OMFUG stood for 'country, bluegrass, blues and other music for uplifting gourmandisers', was originally launched to showcase country music
2009: Patti Labelle is ordered by the IRS to pay $330,000 in back taxes.
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Post by Admin on Sept 1, 2013 6:44:34 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 1 -- Births
1927: Tommy Evans (The Drifters) 1931: Boxcar Willie 1933: Conway Twitty 1940: Dave White (Danny and the Juniors) 1941: Roy Head 1941: Diane Ray 1944: Archie Bell (Archie Bell and the Drells) 1946: Barry Gibb (The Bee Gees) 1946: Greg Errico (Sly and the Family Stone) 1949: Russ Field (Showaddywaddy) 1950: Peter Hewson (Chicory Tip)
Deaths
2005: Barry Cowsill (The Cowsills) 2008: Jerry Reed
Events
1887: Emile Berliner files the first patent for the gramophone, beating Thomas Edison to the punch.
1952: Ray Charles signs to Atlantic after leaving Swingtime Records; the label will take him in a harder R&B direction than the crooner-style pop and West Coast Blues he had been recording.
1953: Buddy and Bob, a country duo from Lubbock, TX, audition at local radio station KDAV, earning themselves a weekly Sunday afternoon show and officially kicking off the career of rock legend Buddy Holly.
1955: Legendary DJ Alan Freed holds his "First Anniversary Rock 'n Roll Party" at Brooklyn's Paramount Theater, featuring Chuck Berry, and for some reason, Tony Bennett.
1956: Jerry Lee Lewis, then all of nineteen years old, travels to Memphis to audition for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. However, Phillips is vacationing in Florida, so Jerry Lee records a few songs for him to hear when he returns.
1957: A young Jimi Hendrix catches Elvis Presley's performance at Seattle's Sicks Stadium.
1965: James Brown introduces America to "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag," his latest single, on tonight's episode of ABC-TV's Shindig!
1967: A young guitarist named Boz Scaggs joins the blues band led by his childhood friend, Steve Miller.
1967: The Beatles meet at Paul McCartney's home in St. John's Wood, London, to decide what course to follow after the recent death of their only manager, Brian Epstein. They postpone their trip to India to study under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, but also agree to finally begin filming their next movie, Magical Mystery Tour, while managing their own business affairs.
1971: After their successful summer-replacement series, Sonny and Cher begin their fall TV variety series on CBS-TV.
1976: West Coast musical impresario Lou Adler and his right-hand man, Neil Silver, are kidnapped in Los Angeles by a couple who ransom them for $25,000. The couple are caught within the week, but an accomplice flees and is never caught.
2000: The last remaining original member of the Platters, Herb Reed, is awarded a court injunction against a group using the same name but containing no actual original members.
2006: While still fighting his first murder trial for the death of actress Lana Clarkson, Phil Spector marries his fourth wife, Rachelle.
2006: Ronald Isley of the Isley Brothers is sentenced to 37 months in jail for federal income tax evasion. He is scheduled for release in April 2010.
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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2013 11:51:36 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 3 -- Births
1925: Hank Thompson 1933: Tompall Glaser (The Glaser Brothers) 1934: Freddie King 1942: Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) 1944: Gary Leeds (The Walker Brothers) 1945: Mike Harrison (Spooky Tooth) 1947: Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy) 1948: Don Brewer (Grand Funk Railroad) 1952: Leroy Smith (Sweet Sensation)
Deaths
1970: Alan Wilson (Canned Heat) 1994: Major Lance 2004: Billy Davis 2007: Janis Martin
Events
1963: Three years after its inception, Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records is bought by Warner Brothers.
1965: Yet another riot during a Rolling Stones concert as 30 fans rush the stage during their performance in Dublin, Ireland, knocking lead singer Mick Jagger to the floor and forcing the band to flee.
1966: After 14 years on TV (and ten years on radio before that), the last episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which made Ricky Nelson a household name, airs on ABC.
1967: A young Swedish singer named Anni-Frid Lyngstad wins a talent-show contest on the TV program Hyland's Corner with her group the Anni-Frid Four. She would later become famous as one of the two female lead singers of ABBA.
1968: Sly and the Family Stone's career gets another boost when the band wins the final round on NBC-TV's summer talent competition Showcase '68.
1968: Having quit the band in disgust a few weeks earlier due to endless band infighting during the "White Album" sessions, Ringo returns to Abbey Road Studios to find his drum kit covered in flowers.
1969: The 30th Elvis Presley movie, the '20s period piece The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get Into It), is released.
1970: The Dave Clark Band call it quits after ten years.
1970: An affair with Mick Jagger is cited in Marianne Faithfull's divorce proceedings from art dealer John Dunbar.
1970: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown suffers a setback when Brown is arrested after a performance at the Palermo Pop Festival in Italy for completely disrobing on stage. He spends four days in solitary confinement, during which he receives a petition signed by 200 locals advising him to leave the country immediately.
1970: The very first "bootleg" recording, a collection of Bob Dylan outtakes entitled Great White Wonder, reaches its peak sales figure of 350,000 copies.
1971: Paul McCartney decides to name his new band "Wings."
1991: Ike Turner is released from his four-year stint in the California Men's Colony state prison in San Luis Obispo after serving 18 months.
2002: The Ronettes sue ex-producer Phil Spector for $3 million in unpaid royalties from movie, TV, and commercial usage of their big early-Sixties hits.
2004: After 46 years with EMI, Cliff Richard shocks the music world by moving to Universal Records.
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Post by Admin on Sept 4, 2013 7:00:03 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 4 -- Births
1942: Gene Parsons (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers) 1942: Bubba Knight (Gladys Knight and the Pips 1946: Ronald LePread (The Commodores) 1946: Gary Duncan (Quicksilver Messenger Service) 1946: Greg Elmore (Quicksilver Messenger Service) 1951: Martin Chambers (Pretenders)
Deaths
1991: Dottie West
Events
1952: At the birthday party for her cousin Bubba, eight-year-old gospel vocalist Gladys Knight forms a secular singing group The Pips, including Bubba and (eventually) two other cousins. They name themselves the Pips after their cousin (and manager) James Woods, who was nicknamed Pip.
1957: Baltimore's local dance program The Buddy Deane Show, premieres on WJZ-TV, becoming a regional institution and a major inspiration behind Baltimore native John Waters' film Hairspray.
1959: Dick Clark's first package tour opens at the Michigan State Fair, featuring The Coasters, LaVern Baker, Duane Eddy, Jan and Dean, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello.
1959: After 17-year-old gang member Salvador Agron fatally stabs two teens in New York, station WCBS bans the Bobby Darin hit "Mack the Knife."
1962: The Beatles enter EMI's Abbey Road studios for their first formal recording session, rehearsing "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me." Producer George Martin likes the former, but also insists the band record a song by Mitch Murray, "How Do You Do It." Unhappy with the song, which they feel inferior to their own, the Beatles tape it anyway; Martin later relents after the band revamps "Please Please Me," and "How Do You Do It" will become a #1 hit for Gerry and the Pacemakers -- but only after "Please Please Me" takes the top spot. It's then knocked off the #1 spot by another Lennon-McCartney original, "From Me To You."
1964: The Animals make their US stsge debut at Brooklyn's Paramount Theatre.
1965: While buying a guard dog for protection at England's Battersea Dog's Home, the Who's equipment van, parked just outside, is ironically stolen.
1968: The Beatles visit Twickenham Film Studios in London to film videos for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution," the two sides of their latest single. In order to cirsumvent union rules against lip-synching, John and Paul sing over the backing tracks for their respective songs.
1968: Anticipating a protest firestorm at the upcoming Democratic National Convention, Chicago bans the new Rolling Stones single, "Street Fighting Man," from its airwaves. The song calls for "fighting in the street" and a "palace revolution."
1969: In a notorious incident, the Youngbloods are canceled from NBC's Tonight Show at the last minute. The band was there to play "Get Together" as a replacement for CSNY, who'd just canceled due to Neil Young abruptly leaving the group. The Youngbloods tell the press they left because the show went back on their promise to let them play two songs. Host Johnny Carson, for his part, famously went on air that night and gave his side of the story: "They complained about the set, the lighting, the sound, the show -- everything. So we wiped their noses, told them they'd been in show business a day and a half, and sent them home." It would be years before the show would book another rock band.
1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Jerry Lewis' nationally syndicated institution, the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. Lennon performs "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance."
1986: The Allman Brothers' leader, Gregg Allman, is arrested for drunk driving in Florida, notable mainly because he'd just gotten his license back after a five year suspension for another such incident.
2008: The very first Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix set on fire while performing is auctioned off at Sotheby's in London for approximately half a million dollars.
2008: Michael Jackson's funeral, a relatively small affair, is held at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles, with attendees including Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy, and ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley. The gold-plated coffin is borne by the surviving five Jackson brothers.
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