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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2013 6:06:02 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 5 -- Births
1912: John Cage 1936: Willie Woods (Jr. Walker and the All Stars) 1938: John Stewart (The Kingston Trio) 1945: Al Stewart 1946: Dean Ford (Marmalade) 1946: Buddy Miles (The Electric Flag, Band Of Gypsys) 1946: Freddie Mercury (Queen) 1946: Loudon Wainwright III 1949: Dave Clempson (Humble Pie)
Deaths
1969: Josh White 1978: Joe Negroni (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) 1998: Sonny Knight 2002: Peter Tetteroo (The Tee Set)
Events
1954, Kitty Kallen was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Little Things That Mean A Lot'. The American singer's only hit making her the first ever UK one hit wonder.
1957: Elvis Presley, flush from his new fame, gives his mother, Gladys, his pink 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood.
1962: The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, visits producer George Martin's London office to listen to the acetate of the group's first recording, "Love Me Do."
1963, The Rolling Stones kicked off their fourth UK tour at The Astoria London. A 32-date package tour with Mike Berry and the Innocents The Mojos and Simon Scott and the Leroy's. 1964, The Animals started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'House Of The Rising Sun'. When first released the record company printed the time of the song on the record as three minutes feeling that the real time of four minutes was too long for radio airplay. 1965, Sonny & Cher made their first live UK appearance when they appeared at the 100 Club in London. 1965, The Rolling Stones recorded their eighth single 'Get Off Of My Cloud' at RCA studios in Hollywood. The song peaked at No.1 in the US and the UK. 1966, John Lennon started work on his role as Private Gripweed in the film 'How I Won The War'. The black comedy directed by Richard Lester, was filmed in Spain in Almería Province and saw Lennon, taking a long-overdue break from the Beatles after nearly four years of constant touring. 1967, Working at Abbey Road studios, London, The Beatles began recording John Lennon’s new song ‘I Am the Walrus’, recording 16 takes of the basic backing track.
1968: Tiny Tim sues Bouget Records, his first label, for releasing some of his early recordings without permission.
1968: John Lennon takes a plane to Germany to begin filming his first and only major movie role, appearing as "Pvt. Gripweed" in director Richard Lester's latest movie, the WWI satire How I Won the War. While filming, Lennon is quite taken with the "granny glasses" his character uses, and begins to wear them upon returning home, resulting in a major piece of his visual iconography.
1976: During Jerry Lewis' annual Labor Day Telethon on NBC-TV, musical guest Frank Sinatra announces that he's brought a friend along -- and produces Dean Martin, Lewis' former comedy partner, who has not spoken to him since the duo's dissolution twenty years earlier. The tearful crowd erupts in laughter when Lewis greets Martin with, "So, you working?"
1987: After a full three decades on ABC, Dick Clark's American Bandstand is canceled, largely due to MTV's influence on the younger generation. The show will limp along on the USA cable channel and in syndication for another three years, with a different host, before finally throwing in the towel.
1990, Ian Dury And The Blockheads drummer Charley Charles died of cancer. Scored the 1978 UK No.1 single 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'. 1994, Oasis appeared at The Hacienda in Manchester to celebrate the launch of their debut album 'Definitely Maybe'. The album went on to become the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK and marked the beginning of Oasis' success in America, selling over one million copies there. 1998, Aerosmith scored their first US No.1 single with the Diane Warren written song 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing'. The song which was featured in the 1998 film Armageddon gave the band their first No.1 single after 28 years together. 1998, Manic Street Preachers scored their first UK No.1 single with 'If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next'. The group's 19th hit and the first Welsh act to have a No.1 single since Shakin' Stevens in 1985. The song is in the Guinness World Records as the longest title for a No.1 single without brackets. 1999, After spending 58 weeks on the UK album chart, Shania Twain went to No.1 with 'Come On Over'. It became the best-selling country music album, and the second best-selling studio album by a female act. To date, the album has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. 2002, Heather Mills, Sir Paul McCartney's second wife accepted £50,000 libel damages over an article in the Sunday Mirror. The paper had suggested that Mills acted dishonestly over cash collected for an earthquake appeal. 2006, Arctic Monkeys won this year's UK Mercury Prize for their album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.' The Sheffield-based bands album became the fastest-selling debut in chart history after shifting more than 360,000 copies in its first week of release in Feb 2006. 2008, A study of more than 36,000 people from around the world concluded that musical tastes and personality type were closely related. The research, which was carried out by Professor Adrian North of Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh in the UK suggested classical music fans were shy, while heavy metal fans were gentle and at ease with themselves. Fans of Indie music had low self-esteem and were not hard working, fans of Rap music had high self-esteem and were outgoing. Country & Western fans were hardworking and outgoing, Reggae fans were creative but not hardworking, and fans of chart pop had high self-esteem, were not creative, but where hardworking and outgoing. 2012, Singer-songwriter Joe South, who had hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s, including 'Games People Play,' 'Walk a Mile in My Shoes' and '(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,' died at home in Flowery Branch, Atlanta from a heart attack, aged 72.
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Post by Admin on Sept 6, 2013 7:32:26 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 6 -- Births
1925: Jimmy Reed 1940: Jackie Trent 1942: Dave Bargerdon (Blood Sweat & Tears) 1943: Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) 1947: Sylvester 1948: Claydes Smith (Kool and the Gang) 1954: Banner Thomas (Molly Hatchet)
Deaths
1978: Tom Wilson 1984: Ernest Tubb 1985: Johnny Desmond 1990: Tom Fogerty 1994: Nicky Hopkins
Events
1955: So many Elvis Presley fans crowd into the high school gym in Bono, AR, that the floor collapses under their weight. Fortunately, there are no injuries.
1957: Utilizing the latest technology in plastics, Nestle releases the world's first "flexi-disc" as a free giveaway with its latest candy bar.
1958: Georgia Gibbs capitalizes on the latest fad by singing "The Hula Hoop Song" on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show.
1961: Bob Dylan makes his New York City stage debut, performing at the Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village.
1963: Jerry Lee Lewis' contract with Sun expires, and, with the label refusing to release his latest records due to ongoing scandals, Lewis decides to sign with the Smash label, eventually gaining a whole new career as a country artist.
1967: Director D.A. Pennebaker's epochal movie about Bob Dylan, Don't Look Back, widely considered one of the greatest rockumentaries of all time, premieres in New York.
1968: George Harrison's friend Eric Clapton, also his neighbor in the UK county of Esher, gives George a lift to Abbey Road studios. Unhappy with the Beatles' infighting and his own attempts at a guitar solo for his latest song, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," George asks that Eric come into the studio and lay down a track. Clapton at first refuses, correctly noting that "nobody (famous) ever plays on the Beatles records!" but George insists. The invitation has its intended effect: the band members are completely professional and Eric's solo sounds great. But listening to the playback, the ex-Yardbird decides the result isn't "Beatle-y enough," so the solo is run through the Leslie rotating speaker of the Hammond B-3 organ cabinet, an effect the lads had been using at least as far back as "Tomorrow Never Knows."
1969: Declaring "I'm tired, man," James Brown announces after tonight's Memphis gig that his last live performance will be on July 4, 1970. Needless to say, he changes his mind.
1969: David Bowie gets his first big break as his psychedelic single "Space Oddity" enters the UK charts.
1970: Jimi Hendrix makes what is to be his last appearance on stage, performing at the Open Air Love and Peace Festival in Fehmarn, Germany. Just twelve days later, Jimi would die from complications of an overdose of sleeping pills.
1988: Elton John famously declares that he will never wear his trademark outrageous costumes again, auctioning off 2,000 pieces of wardrobe at Sotheby's in London. The auction would be memorialized in the title and cover of his next album, Reg Strikes Back.
1989: The NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers actually agree to practice somewhere besides their home, Three Rivers Stadium, after the Rolling Stones take it over in preparation for an upcoming concert.
2000: Michael Jackson is invited to give a speech to the Oxford University debating society,a and does so as a means of promoting his new charity, Heal The Kids. "Tonight I come before you less as an icon of pop," he says, "and more as an icon of a generation, a generation that no longer knows what it means to be children."
2001: Viagra sponsors its first pop music tour -- Earth, Wind and Fire's 30th anniversary jaunt.
2006: Village People lead singer Victor Willis is given three years probation in San Francisco for cocaine possession.
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2013 6:17:04 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 8 -- Births
1897: Jimmie Rodgers 1928: Earl Nelson (Bob & Earl) 1929: Harlan Howard 1932: Patsy Cline 1942: Sal Spampinato (The Beau Brummels) 1942: Brian Cole (The Association) 1945: Kelly Groucutt (Electric Light Orchestra) 1945: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) 1946: Dean Daughtry (Atlanta Rhythm Section) 1947: Benjamin Orr (The Cars)
Deaths
1997: Derek Taylor
Events
1935: A singing group called the Hoboken Four, one of whose members is named Frankie Sinatra, makes their first national appearance, performing on WOR's radio show Major Bowes Amateur Hour.
1956: Eddie Cochran signs his first and only recording contract, a one-year deal with Liberty Records.
1958: According to Billboard, rock impresario Dick Clark now has a deal with ABC-Paramount that allows him to release records of his own. First up is a LP called Dance With Dick Clark, featuring covers of recent hits and credited to "The Bandstanders."
1971: Elvis Presley receives the extremely prestigious Bing Crosby Award, the GRAMMY's forerunner of its Lifetime Achievement Award, making him only the sixth recording artist to be honored for having "made creative contributions of outstanding artistic or scientific significance to the field of phonograph records."
1972: In San Francisco, Neil Young is the proud parent of his first son, Zeke, by actress Carrie Snodgress. Zeke is born with cerebral palsy, which will lead young to later found the Bridge School for children with disabilities.
1977: Jimmy McCulloch, best known for playing lead guitar on Paul McCartney and Wings' Venus and Mars and Wings at the Speed of Sound albums, leaves the group to join a relaunched Small Faces.
1997: Having refused to release singles in their native UK during the band's lifetime, Led Zeppelin finally release "Whole Lotta Love" as a single in order to promote their newly-remastered albums.
2003: To celebrate the release of his latest album, •Reality, David Bowie performs the first interactive concert, broadcast to 21 theaters across the UK and allowing the singer to take requests through microphones connected to the internet.
2003: At his concert in Toronto, Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, who had succumbed to cancer the night before, by performing Warren's song "My Ride's Here."
2005: Rod Stewart is ordered to pay two million dollars in lost revenue to the Rio casino in Las Vegas for failing to perform a scheduled New Year's Eve concert in
2000. Stewart had claimed a loss of voice due to a recent throat operation.
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Post by Admin on Sept 9, 2013 9:45:15 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 9 -- Births
1926: Jake Carey (The Flamingos) 1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US, jazz musician 1940: Joe Negroni (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) 1941: Duffy Power 1941: Otis Redding 1942: Inez Foxx 1942: Luther Simmons (The Main Ingredient) 1945: Dee Dee Sharp 1946: Billy Preston 1946: Doug Ingle (Iron Butterfly) 1946: Bruce Palmer (Buffalo Springfield) 1946: Trevor Leslie Oaks (Showaddywaddy) 1947: Freddy Weller (Paul Revere and the Raiders 1951 - Corry Konings, Dutch singer 1952 - David Stewart, rock guitarist (Eurtyhmics-Here Comes the Rain Again) 1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel) 1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist 1959 - Eric Serra, French composer 1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin) 1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician 1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor 1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar) 1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer 1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003) 1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter)
Deaths
1996: Bill Monroe 2004: Ernie Ball 2007: Hughie Thomasson (The Outlaws) Events:
1954, Elvis played at the opening of the Lamar-Airways Shopping Center in Memphis Tennessee. Johnny Cash was in the audience and after the show met Elvis for the first time. 1956, Elvis Presley made his first appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan show', performing 'Don't Be Cruel', 'Love Me Tender' and 'Ready Teddy' from the CBS TV Studios in Los Angeles. 1963, The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'She Loves You.' 'Please Please Me' was at No.1 on the UK album chart. 'She Loves You' became The Beatles' best-selling single in the United Kingdom, and was the best selling single in Britain in 1963. 1965, US newspaper The Hollywood reporter ran the following advertisement; 'Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys. The Monkees were born. Read the full story 1965, The Rolling Stones were at No.1 in the UK with ('I Can't Get No) Satisfaction', giving the band their 4th UK No.1 single. Keith Richards recorded a rough version of the riff in a Florida hotel room. He ran through it once before falling asleep. He said when he listened back to it in the morning, there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes". 1965,
1968, Working at Abbey Road studios The Beatles recorded 'Helter Skelter'. John Lennon played bass and honked on a saxophone, roadie Mal Evans tried his best at playing trumpet. Paul McCartney recorded his lead vocal and George Harrison ran about the studio holding a flaming ashtray above his head. 1972, Slade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now', the group's third UK No.1. Taken from their album 'Slayed?' 1977, David Bowie appeared on Marc Bolan’s ITV show, Marc, singing ‘Heroes’ as well as a duet with Bolan, ‘Standing Next To You’, which is prematurely terminated when Bolan fell from the stage, much to Bowie’s amusement. After the show the pair recorded demos together which were never finished because Bolan was killed in a car crash a week later. 1978, A Taste Of Honey started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Boogie Oogie Oogie', it made No.3 in the UK. 1989, Italian based Black Box started a six-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Ride On Time'. The track sampled the uncredited use of Loleatta Holloway's song 'Love Sensation', who objected resulting in a settlement that paid the singer an undisclosed sum. New pressings had M People singer Heather Small singing the vocals. Biggest selling single of 1989. 1989, New Kids On The Block scored their second US No.1 single with 'Hangin' Tough', a No.1 in the UK in 1990. The group also went to No.1 on the US album chart on this day with 'Hangin Tough'. 1992, Nirvana's Krist Novoselic knocked himself unconscious during the MTV music and video awards after being hit on the head with his guitar after throwing it 'up in the air'. 1995, Coolio featuring L.V. scored his first US No.1 single with 'Gangsta's Paradise'. The song sampled the chorus of the 1976 Stevie Wonder song 'Pastime Paradise' and featured in the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds (starring Michelle Pfeiffer). Coolio was awarded a Grammy Award for the song. 1999, Fatboy Slim scored a hat trick at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York when he won best direction, breakthrough and choreography awards. 2004, US guitar maker Ernie Ball died after a long illness. In the late 50's Ball opened the first music store in the USA in Tarzana, California to sell guitars exclusively. He developed the guitar strings called 'Slinkys' specifically designed for rock and roll electric guitar. 2005, Terry Howard a studio engineer who had been accused of stealing recordings belonging to late soul singer Ray Charles was cleared of all charges in a Los Angeles court. Howard who had worked for Charles for 20 years had been arrested in February after dozens of recordings belonging to Ray Charles Enterprises were seized from his home. 2005, Liverpool City Council confirmed it was to demolish Ringo Starr's birthplace because it had "no historical significance." The house in Dingle, was one of 460 properties to be demolished for a regeneration project. The council said Madryn Street had no significance because Ringo had spent only three months of his life there. 2005, An international conference devoted to the life, work, and influence of Bruce Springsteen was held at Monmouth University, New Jersey. The festivities included various live acts, as well as keynote addresses by rock critics and figures from the music industry. More than 150 papers were presented to the course including Springsteen and American Folklore, Springsteen and Dylan's American Dreamscapes, Springsteen's Musical Legacy, Born to Run at 30-Years-Old, Springsteen and New Jersey and the Boss and the Bible. 2006, 50 Cent was stopped by police for alleged unsafe driving in New York and received citations for an unsafe lane change, driving with an expired permit, driving without insurance and driving without vehicle registration. A crowd gathered, taking photos, cheering the superstar and jeering the police after he was pulled over in his silver open-topped Lamborghini. 2006, Danity Kane went to No.1 on the US album chart with their self-titled debut album. The girl group was formed on the third installment of the US TV show Making the Band series. 2006, The Beijing Pop Festival was held in Chaoyang Park featuring rock bands from China as well as from overseas. Both Supergrass and Placebo appeared at the festival. 2008, A man was charged with assault after an attack on Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher during the band's set at the V Festival in Canada. Gallagher was admitted to hospital after a man ran on stage and pushed him over while he played guitar. Toronto police said Daniel Sullivan, 47, had been charged over the incident. A band statement said the guitarist "fell heavily on to his monitor speakers". 2008, Manchester group Elbow won the Mercury Music Prize in the UK for their album 'The Seldom Seen Kid.'
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Post by Admin on Sept 9, 2013 20:31:12 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 10 -- Births
1927: Yma Sumac 1937: Tommy Overstreet 1945: Jose Feliciano 1946: Danny Hutton (Three Dog Night) 1949: Barriemore Barlow (Jethro Tull) 1950: Joe Perry (Aerosmith) 1950: Don Powell (Slade) 1951: Pete Tolson (Pretty Things)
Deaths
1996: Lee Baker
Events
1962: The BBC bans Bobby "Boris" Pickett's Halloween novelty single "Monster Mash," finding it in poor taste. However, in 1973 the radio giant lifts the ban, sending a re-release of the holiday favorite to #3.
1963: While en route to their London apartment in a taxi, John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who invites them to his clients' afternoon rehearsal for a show that night at the Ken Colyer Club. There, backstage, John and Paul offer to contribute a song to the group's repertoire; the duo immediately go off into a corner and finish one of Paul's latest ideas, a number called "I Wanna Be Your Man." The Stones get their recorded version out on November 1st, three weeks before the Beatles' version is released on the LP With The Beatles. "I Wanna Be Your Man" would prove to be an important early hit for the Stones, reaching #12 in the UK.
1964: Rod Stewart makes his first recording, a cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl" done with Rod's group the Hoochie Coochie Men. It fails to chart.
1965: Beatles manager Brian Epstein begins negotiating for a cartoon series on ABC-TV bearing the name and likenesses of the group.
1969: As part of their latest exhibition, celebrating the anonymity of "Bagism," John Lennon and Yoko Ono sit onstage for five hours in a white bag at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
1973: The Rolling Stones' single "Star Star" is banned by the BBC for its real lyrics, which feature the word "starf*****" sung a dozen times.
1974: After poor album sales and infighting caused by drug addiction, The New York Dolls break up for the first time.
1975: Bob Dylan performs three songs as tribute to the Columbia A&R man who discovered him during the PBS-TV special The World Of John Hammond.
1977: Bing Crosby invites David Bowie to appear on what would be his last annual Christmas TV special, suggesting they sing a duet. Bowie agrees.
1979: Having waited five years in vein for two #1 American singles in a row, ABBA finally begin their first US tour.
2008: Dan Fogelberg's hometown of Peoria, IL renames Abingdon Street after the soft-rock icon.
Releases
1966: The Monkees, "Last Train To Clarksville" 1975: KISS, Alive! 1976: Bob Dylan, Hard Rain
Recording
1954: Elvis Presley: "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine," "Just Because" 1965: The Byrds, "Turn! Turn! Turn!" 1967: Elvis Presley: "Guitar Man," "Big Boss Man" 1968: The Beatles, "Helter Skelter"
Charts
1966: The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" hits #1 1966: The Beatles' Revolver hits #1
Certifications
1975: Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2013 7:21:08 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 12 -- Births
1931: George Jones 1938: Gloria Jones 1940: Tony Bellamy (Redbone) 1940: Jewel Akens 1943: Maria Muldaur 1944: Barry White 1944: Colin Young (The Foundations) 1952: Gerry Beckley (America) 1952: Neil Peart (Rush) 1956: Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy)
Deaths
1997: Stig Anderson 2003: Johnny Cash 2004: Kenny Buttrey
Events
1954: Frank Sinatrs scores his first UK #1 with "Three Coins in the Fountain."
1964: Brooklyn's Fox Theatre hosts an all-star concert featuring The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Dusty Springfield, The Temptations, The Miracles, The Ronettes, The Shangri-La's, Little Anthony and the Imperials, and Millie Small.
1966: NBC-TV debuts its new musical comedy show, The Monkees. Designed as a half-hour American version of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, it featured two L.A. folk singers, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith, a British stage vet named Davy Jones, and a former child star named Micky Dolenz. The song featured in this episode, "Last Train to Clarksville," is already racing up the charts, but the TV debut vaults it all the way to #1. Four stars are born.
1966: NBC-TV debuts its new musical comedy show, The Monkees. Designed as a half-hour American version of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, it featured two folk singers, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith, British stage vet Davy Jones, and a former child star named Micky Dolenz. The songs featured in this episode, "This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day" and the Goffin-King song "Take a Giant Step," will not make much impact on the charts, but the band's first single, "Last Train to Clarksville," is already racing up the charts. The next episode would vault it all the way to #1. Four stars are born.
1967: The Beatles continue filming Magical Mystery Tour, with the famed psychedelic bus stopping off in Plymouth, Bodmin, and Newquay. An attempt is made to visit a nearby fair in Widecombe, but scrapped when the bus gets stuck on a bridge while avoiding traffic. That night in Newquay, the band finally decides to do some filming in one spot, rather than their original plan of roaming around the countryside.
1968: The BBC mainstay Top of the Pops is the first to broadcast a "promotional film" of the Beatles' new single, "Hey Jude."
1970: At a gig in New Orleans, Pink Floyd are the victims of thieves who steal $40,000 worth of their equipment.
1970: CBS debuts their new animated series about a female band, Josie and the Pussycats.
1970: The Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert is held at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Woody's son Arlo Guthrie.
1977: Paul and Linda McCartney are the proud parents of their third and last biological child, and only son, James Louis McCartney.
1980: The ABC-TV newsmagazine show 20/20 airs television's first "expose" questioning if Elvis Presley died of drug overdose rather than a heart attack.
1986: The Moody Blues' leader Justin Hayward collapses in Los Angeles and is hospitalized for exhaustion.
1987: Ritchie Valens' music enjoys a revival when the soundtrack to his biopic, La Bamba, hits #1 (although it features his songs done in cover versions by Los Lobos).
1990: Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie announce that they have left Fleetwood Mac -- but rejoin just two years later, to play Bill Clinton's Presidential Inauguration.
2001: The Band's Garth Hudson declares bankruptcy for a third time.
2003: The Beatles sue computer giant Apple, asserting that iTunes violates their copyright-infringement agreement not to market music under the apple name.
2007: Led Zeppelin announce plans for what will probably prove to be their last gig together -- a performance at London's O2 Arena to honor Atlantic co-founder Ahmet Ertegun.
Releases
1975: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Recording
1963: The Beatles: "Hold Me Tight," "Little Child," "Don't Bother Me," "I Wanna Be Your Man" 1967: Elvis Presley: "Mine," "Just Call Me Lonesome," "Hi-Heel Sneakers," "You Don't Know Me," "We Call On Him," "You'll Never Walk Alone" 1968: The Beatles, "Glass Onion"
Charts
1964: Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" enters the charts
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2013 7:55:31 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 13 -- Births
1911: Bill Monroe 1916: Dick Haymes 1922: Charles Brown 1925: Mel Torme 1939: Dave Quincy (Manfred Mann) 1941: David Clayton-Thomas (Blood Sweat and Tears) 1943: Ray Elliot (Them) 1944: Peter Cetera (Chicago) 1952: Randy Jones (The Village People) 1954: Dan Hegarty (The Darts) 1956: Joni Sledge (Sister Sledge)
Deaths
1997: Jimmy Witherspoon
Events
1958: Cliff Richard makes his television debut on the ITV variety show Oh Boy!, singing his new hit "Move It."
1959: While he is stationed in the US Army in Germany, Elvis Presley's friend, airman Currie Grant, brings Priscilla Ann Beaulieu to a party at his apartment after meeting her in the nearby Eagles Club, a popular hangout for officers and their families. Wearing a sailor dress for the occasion, Priscilla says "It's a pleasure to meet you" and remarks that it's a shame the Army has taken his sideburns. He plays her a few songs on guitar. Elvis and "Cilla" are immediately smitten with each other, with the singer describing her to friends as smart, saying that she treats him like an ordinary guy, and dubbing her "the woman I've been looking for my whole life."
1960: A movement to ban Ray Peterson's new single "Tell Laura I Love Her" begins in the UK when it is feared that the song's powerful story of a stock-car driver who dies young while racing for his girl's love will inspire a "death cult" amongst teens.
1960: The FCC bans "payola," the controversial practice of paying DJs for playing songs, as a result of the scandal involving, among others, Dick Clark and Alan Freed.
1963: The Hollies' Graham Nash (later of CSNY) falls out of his touring van after a Scottish gig, leaning on an unlocked door and tumbling out at 40 mph. 36 years later to the day, the singer breaks both legs in a boat accident off the coast of Hawaii.
1963: Barbra Streisand marries her first husband, actor Elliot Gould, in New York. The two would divorce in 1971.
1964: To prevent the spate of stage-rushing going on at recent frenzied Rolling Stones concerts, Liverpool's Empire Club hires two dozen rugby players to act as a human shield; the crowd of 5,000 washes right over them.
1964: Murray The K's latest rock and roll at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre ends after ten days, featuring Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Martha and the Vandellas, the Shangri-Las, and Jay & the Americans.
1965: The ill-fated variety program The Steve Lawrence Show, featuring guest star Lucille Ball, debuts on CBS-TV.
1965: Ringo Starr and wife Maureen become the proud parents of their first child, Zak Starkey. Six years later to the day, Paul and Linda McCartney celebrate the arrival of their second child, Stella.
1965: The Beatles win their first Grammys, for Best New Artist and Best Album (for A Hard Day's Night), at the awards ceremony in New York.
1969: John Lennon debuts the Plastic Ono Band at the Rock and Roll Revival Show in Toronto. So named because of the flexible "plastic" nature of the members, this lineup included Eric Clapton, longtime Beatles associate Klaus Voormann, and drummer Alan White, all of whom rehearsed for the first time on the plane trip over from England. The concert, mainly a mix of simple rock and roll oldies and stabs at "Give Peace A Chance," "Yer Blues," and John's forthcoming single "Cold Turkey," will later be released as Live Peace In Toronto 1969.
1982: David Bowie reports to the Cook Islands to begin filming his role in the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.
1993: Max Weinberg, drummer with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, begins his new job as bandleader for NBC-TV's new show Late Night With Conan O'Brien.
2000: Elton John storms out of the Estoril Casino in Portgual just before his planned gig there and flies back to England, fuming that the supposedly sell-out crowd had only half arrived. Turns out they were merely lingering at a VIP dinner given just before the show.
2005: Jimi Hendrix' boyhood home in Seattle is saved from destruction after his estate and the city agree to renovate the building and turn it into a community center.
2008: Come Dancing, a musical devoted to the music of the Kinks, opens in London.
Releases
1965: The Beatles, "Yesterday"
Recording
1955: Little Richard, "Tutti Frutti" 1963: Shirley Ellis, "The Nitty Gritty" 1967: Joe Tex, "Skinny Legs And All" 1968: The Beatles, "Glass Onion"
Charts
1952: Jo Stafford's "You Belong To Me" hits #1 1969: Santana's LP Santana hits #1 1975: The Isley Brothers' LP The Heat Is On hits #1 1975: Bruce Springsteen's LP Born To Run enters the charts
Certifications
1968: Clarence Carter's "Slip Away" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2013 9:19:09 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 15 -- Births
1903: Roy Acuff 1924: Bobby Short 1928: Cannonball Adderley 1933: Pat Barrett (The Crew Cuts) 1939: Jimmy Gilmer (Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs) 1941: Les Braid (The Swinging Blue Jeans) 1942: Signe Anderson (Jefferson Airplane) 1942: Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly) 1946: Ola Brunkert (ABBA)
Deaths
2008: Rick Wright (Pink Floyd)
Events
1961: The Pendletones, a quintet from nearby Hawthorne, CA, audition for Los Angeles music publishers with a version of a folk song called "Sloop John B." The suits, however, are more interested with an original song the group mentions, a novelty called "Surfin'," kicking off the career of the band that would soon come to be known as The Beach Boys.
1962: A distressed Chinese news media reports that kids in Maoming Cultural Park have been spotted dancing the Twist.
1964: During the Beatles' concert at Cleveland's Public Auditorium, a group of overzealous fans manages to rush the stage, forcing the venue's announcer to grab the mic from John Lennon in mid-song and force the band to leave the stage for 15 minutes until the crowd is under control.
1965: Frankie Avalon is the guest star on tonight's "A Foggy Day In Brooklyn Heights" episode of ABC-TV's Patty Duke Show.
1965: Ford becomes the first American car company to offer 8-track tape players in its new models; however, the lack of home players means that car buyers must visit the Ford dealership itself to get the actual tapes.
1968: CBS-TV airs the Barbra Streisand concert special A Happening In Central Park.
1968: The Doors are forced to go on as a trio for their concert at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw after lead singer Jim Morrison, trashed by days of binge drinking and hashish, collapses while dancing onstage to opening act Jefferson Airplane.
1968: NBC-TV airs a variety special simply called Soul, touted as being staffed and starring only African-Americans. Guests include Lou Rawls and Martha and the Vandellas.
1969: Ed Sullivan, perhaps a little late to the game, releases his first recording, a dance novelty called "The Sulli-Gulli." It flops.
1970: Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the US, claims that "The youth of America are being brainwashed into a drug culture of rock music, movies, books and tabloid newspapers."
1994: A recording of the Quarry Men playing at St. Peter's Parish Church garden party in 1957 Liverpool -- the earliest known recording of John Lennon -- fetches #125,000 at Sotheby's of London.
1997: Elton John's "Candle In The Wind 1997," rewritten and rerecorded with new lyrics paying tribute to the recently-deceased Princess Di, sells a record 600,000 copies in one day in Britain alone. It would go on to become the biggest-selling single of all time.
2003: Johnny Cash is laid to rest in the family cemetery at Hendersonville, TN, next to the grave of his recently-deceased wife June Carter Cash. Emmylou Harris, Al Gore, and Sheryl Crow attend the private ceremony along with family members including daughter Rosanne Cash.
Releases
1975: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here 1976: Ringo Starr, Ringo's Rotogravure 1979: Bob Dylan, Slow Train Coming
Recording
none
Charts
1962: The Four Season's "Sherry" hits #1 1973: Helen Reddy's "Delta Dawn" hits #1 1979: Led Zeppelin's LP In Through The Out Door hits #1
Certifications
1956: Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2013 19:10:12 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 16 -- Births
1925: Charlie Byrd 1925: B.B. King 1942: Bernie Calvert (The Hollies) 1943: Joe Butler (The Lovin' Spoonful) 1944: Betty Kelly (Martha and the Vandellas) 1948: Kenney Jones (The Small Faces, The Who) 1950: David Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) 1954: Frank Reed (The Chi-Lites)
Deaths
1977: Marc Bolan (T. Rex) 2003: Sheb Wooley 2008: Norman Whitfield
Events
1959: Dick Clark's first "Caravan of Stars" tour opens in New York, featuring The Coasters, The Drifters, Lloyd Price, LaVern Baker, Duane Eddy, Paul Anka and Annette Funicello.
1963: Currently the #1 song in England, the Beatles' "She Loves You" is released by the tiny Swan label in America, but the stateside public has no idea who the group is, and the single fails to chart. Four months later, after "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and the attendant Beatlemania, a re-released "She Loves You" single will reach #1 in the US as well.
1964: ABC-TV premieres the musical variety show Shindig!, featuring the Everly Brothers, the Righteous Brothers, and Bobby Sherman.
1965: NBC-TV premieres The Dean Martin Show, featuring the theme song (and recent hit) "Everybody Loves Somebody," and, later, a chorus of beautiful showgirls named The Golddiggers. The famously laid-back and largely improvised show, which made stars of Dom DeLuise, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tom Bosley, and Nipsey Russell, would run for a full decade.
1966: Tom Drilberg, MP of Barking, England, asks the House of Lords to censure a magistrate who'd recently spoken out aganist the Rolling Stones as "complete morons (who) wear their hair down to their shoulders, wear filthy clothes and act like clowns."
1966: Pete Quaife, bassist for the Kinks, leaves the band after injuries from a recent car crash threaten his ability to play. He will eventually return and stay with the band through 1969.
1970: Jimi Hendrix takes the stage at a Eric Burdon and War concert at London club Ronnie Scott's, marking the last time the guitarist will ever play in public.
1970: After eight straight years, the Beatles are finally knocked from their perch as England's top act in the Melody Maker fan poll... by Led Zeppelin.
1972: Former Herd and Humble Pie guitarist Peter Frampton plays his first solo gig, opening for the J. Geils Band in New York.
2006: Bob Dylan's new album Modern Times goes to #1 in Billboard's album chart, making the 65-year-old the oldest musician to ever hold that honor.
Releases
1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Some Time In New York City
Recording
1960: Johnny Burnette, "You're Sixteen" 1968: The Beatles, "I Will" 1974: Bob Dylan, "Meet Me In The Morning"
Charts
1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience's LP Are You Experienced? enters the charts 1972: Three Dog Night's "Black And White" hits #1 1978: Boston's LP Don't Look Back hits #1
Certifications
1965: The Beatles' "Eight Days A Week" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 17, 2013 7:44:24 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 17 -- Births
1923: Hank Williams 1926: Bill Black 1926: Brother Jack McDuff 1929: Sil Austin 1939: Lamonte McLemore (5th Dimension) 1947: Lol Creme (10cc) 1950: Mike Hossack (The Doobie Brothers)
Deaths
1991: Rob Tyner (MC5) 1996: Jessie Hill 1999: Frankie Vaughan 2006: Al Casey
Events
1931: RCA Victor unveils its new invention, the 33 1/3 rpm long-playing or "LP" record, at the Savoy Plaza Hotel in New York. However, the company badly overprices the record players themselves, leading the new format to lie dormant for years until Columbia revives it in 1948.
1952: Frank Sinatra records his final session for Columbia; he will be dropped from the label due to poor sales, but rebound the next year after signing to Capitol and singing more "mature" fare.
1955: The Perry Como Show moves to NBC-TV, expanding from three 15-minute programs per week to one hour-long variety show on Saturday night.
1955: After DJs keep complaining that Les Paul's "Magic Melody" single ends abruptly, Capitol Records releases the shortest single of all time, Les Paul's "Magic Melody Part 2," which is merely the final two notes of the old "shave and a haircut" tag. Released only as a promo, it lasts exactly one second.
1956: The BBC bans Bill Haley's new single "Rockin' Through The Rye," based on the 17th-century Scottish tune "Comin' Through The Rye," to avoid offending its Scots listeners.
1964: The Beatles break with established practice and agree to add an extra date to their current US tour after the group is offered a then-record $150,000 by the owner of the Kansas City (Missouri) Athletics to perform a gig in KC's Municipal Stadium. The Beatles cannily add their medley of "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" to the setlist, the only time they would play this song in America. Afterward, their hotel manager sells their unwashed bedsheets to two businessmen from Chicago, who promptly cut them up and sell the pieces for $10 a pop.
1967: Appearing on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show, the Doors are asked to change the line "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" in their hit "Light My Fire." Lead singer Jim Morrison agrees, then sings the offending words anyway, leading to a lifetime ban from the show.
1967: In an ill-advised move, Keith Moon of the Who rigs his bass drum to explode at the end of "My Generation" during the group's appearance on CBS-TV's Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. A stagehand, unfortunately, packs far too much explosive into the drum, and the resulting explosion damage's Keith's leg, and causes permanent hearing damage to guitarist Pete Townshend.
1969: Tiny Tim announces his forthcoming marriage to "Miss Vicki" Budinger, which would break records for TV viewership when the ceremony is broadcast on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. The two are separated three years later, and divorce in 1977.
1975: Mayor Stephen Juba of Winnipeg, Canada, declares today "Guess Who Day" in honor of its native sons.
1997: Fleetwood Mac begin their first tour in 20 years at the Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford, CT.
2007: Barry Manilow cancels his upcoming appearance on ABC-TV's The View after learning he would not be allowed to ignore conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
Releases
1962: Arthur Alexander, "Anna (Go To Him)"
Recording
1955: Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Sixteen Tons" 1960: The Everly Brothers, "Walk Right Back" 1968: The Supremes, "Love Child" 1973: Billy Joel, "Piano Man" 1974: Bob Dylan: "Shelter From The Storm," "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"
Charts
none
Certifications
1968: 5th Dimension's "Stoned Soul Picnic" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2013 5:57:20 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 19 -- Births
1931: Brook Benton 1934: Brian Epstein 1935: Nick Massi (The Four Seasons) 1936: Brother Gene Dinwiddie (Paul Butterfield Blues Band) 1940: Bill Medley (The Righteous Brothers) 1940: Paul Williams 1941: Lee Dorman (Iron Butterfly) 1941: Cass Elliot 1945: Freda Payne 1945: Austin Roberts 1945: David Bromberg 1946: John Coghlan (Status Quo) 1947: Lol Creme (10cc) 1949: Twiggy 1952: Nile Rodgers (Chic)
Deaths
1973: Gram Parsons 1998: Red Foley 1999: Ed Cobb (The Four Preps) 2004: Skeeter Davis 2005: Willie Hutch 2006: Danny Flores (The Champs) 2008: Earl Palmer
Events
1955: Pat Boone gains everlasting notoriety when his cleaned-up version of Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" goes to the top of the charts, kicking off a string of bland copies of rock and roll hits that will deprive black artists of exposure in the still-segregated world of radio.
1957: Cliff Richard, only 16 and still going by his birth name of Harry Webb, gets his first break when he joins the Dick Teague Skiffle Group.
1960: Now at the peak of their popularity, Hank Ballard and the Midnighters become the first artists to have three songs in the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time: "Finger Poppin’ Time," "Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go," and "The Twist" recently given more exposure by Chubby Checker's hit version.
1966: Also at the height of their popularity, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass give a command performance for Princess Grace of Monaco at her palace.
1967: The beleaguered Beatles search desperately for a place in which to wrap filming on their trouble-plagued Magical Mystery Tour film. Having forgotten to book their primary choice, Surrey's Shepperton Film Studios, in advance, the band settles on an abandoned US Air Force station in Kent, filming most of the uncompleted movie on and around the grounds over the next week.
1969, Creedence Clearwater Revival scored their only UK No.1 single with 'Bad Moon Rising' a US No.2 hit. Also on this day the group started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Green River.' 1969, Child (featuring Bruce Springsteen) played the first of two nights at the Free University, Richmond, Virginia
1970: The first Glastonbury rock festival is held, with a lineup consisting of Marc Bolan, Quintessence, Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson, and others.
1971: A major component in the band's sudden fame, the Jackson 5's Goin' Back to Indiana TV special airs on ABC, featuring Diana Ross and Bobby Darin.
1973, Country rock singer, songwriter 26-year-old Gram Parsons, formerly of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, died under mysterious conditions in Joshua Tree, California. His death was attributed to heart failure but later was officially announced as a drug overdose. His coffin was stolen by two of his associates, manager Phil Kaufman and Michael Martin, a former roadie for The Byrds, and was taken to Cap Rock in the California desert, where it was set alight, in accordance to Parson's wishes. The two were later arrested by police.
1974: Drummer Max Weinberg joins the E Street Band, playing with them onstage for the first time at the Main Point in Philadelphia.
1975: After a notorious and ugly split with their original manager, Norman Sheffield, and after an abortive attempt by Led Zeppelin's Peter Grant to represent them, Queen sign a new contract with Elton John's manager, John Reid.
1976: Promoter Sid Bernstein, who had brought the Beatles to America and presented them in Shea Stadium, attempts to get the band to reunite as a "symbol of hope" by placing a full-page ad in the New York Times. Three years later to the day, the New York Post, excited by another Bernstein reunion appeal, this time to benefit the "boat people" of Kampuchea, runs a headline declaring "The Beatles are Back!"
1978: An unprecedented two million advance orders are placed for Linda Ronstadt's new album, Living in the U.S.A., ensuring it will ship double platinum.
1979: Madison Square Garden hosts the No Nukes benefit against nuclear power, featuring performances by Bruce Springsteen, The Doobie Brothers, Jackson Browne, Tom Petty, Carly Simon, Poco, Stephen Stills and David Crosby, and James Taylor.
1981: Simon and Garfunkel play their first concert since breaking up in 1970, a free show in Central Park that was so successful it spawned a hit live album and a planned year-long tour. Unfortunately, the reunion doesn't last that long.
1991: In Pasadena, an all-star benefit concert honoring Ray Charles features performances of Ray songs by Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Michael McDonald and more. Entitled Ray Charles: 50 Years in Music, Uh-Huh!, the concert (and accompanying TV show) benefits the Starlight and Starbright Pavilion Foundations for terminally ill children.
1993: Ex-Mamas and Papas' vocalist Michelle Phillips is robbed by an unknown gunman outside a West Hollywood restaurant.
1995, P.M. Dawn's DJ JC Eternal was arrested on charges of sexual assault and child abuse after an alleged affair with his 14 year-old cousin. He was released on $10,000 bail. 1998, American country music star Red Foley died aged 58. Sold over 25 million records, hosted the first popular country music series on network television, Ozark Jubilee. 1998, Robbie Williams scored his first solo UK No.1 single with 'Millennium', taken from his from his second album, I've Been Expecting You. 1999, Edward Cobb died of Leukaemia aged 61. Singer songwriter & producer, member of The Four Preps (1958 US No.3 & UK No. 2 single 'Big Man'), wrote 'Tainted Love' a hit for Soft Cell in 1981. 1999, Italian group Eiffel 65 went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Blue (Da Ba Dee'). The single was also No.1 in Norway, Austria, Finland, Germany and Denmark 2002, James Brown was being sued by his own daughters for more than £650,000 of song royalties they said they were owed. Deanna Brown Thomas and Dr Yamma Brown Lumar, a Texas physician, said Brown had withheld royalties on 25 co-written songs because of a family grudge. The lawsuit claimed that Brown had held a grudge against his daughters since 1998, when Ms Thomas had her father committed to a psychiatric hospital to be treated for addiction to painkillers.
2003, Police were investigating reports that Paul McCartney scuffled with a photographer when the singer went to see magician David Blaine, who was in a plastic box dangling over the River Thames. The London Evening Standard said one of its photographers had clashed with McCartney resulting in a scuffle.
2003: Former Cream bassist Jack Bruce, diagnosed with liver cancer, undergoes a successful liver transplant in Los Angeles.
2004: With their latest hit, "You'll Come Around," Status Quo become the artists with the most all-time chart hits in the UK, an amazing 61 charted singles from 1968's "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (their only US hit).
2004, Canadian singer Celine Dion extended her Las Vegas show for another year. Dion was reportedly being paid $100m (£66m) for the original three-year run of five 90-minute concerts a week. 2005, Research published by Guinness World Records showed that Status Quo have had more hit singles than any other band in UK chart history. The band had scored 61 chart successes, dating from ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men’ in 1968 to ‘You'll Come Around’ in 2004. Queen came second with 52 hits, with the Rolling Stones and UB40 with 51 hits each. 2008, American drummer Earl Palmer died. Worked with The Beach Boys, Little Richard (‘Tutti Frutti’), Frank Sinatra, Ike And Tina Turner (‘River Deep, Mountain High’), The Monkees, Fats Domino (‘I'm Walkin’), Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, The Righteous Brothers (‘You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin’), and Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Buckley, Little Feat and Elvis Costello. 2008, George Michael was arrested in a public toilet in the Hampstead Heath area of London for possession of Class A and C drugs. He was taken to a local police station and cautioned for controlled substance possession. 2010, John Lennon's son Julian told the press that he has ended his long-running feud with his half-brother Sean and his step-mother Yoko Ono, which started after the former Beatle was murdered in December, 1980. The trio battled in court for a share of the singer's estate, but Julian now said "Things are good between us. Whenever I'm in New York, we all get together."
Releases
1970: Neil Young, After the Gold Rush
Recording
1968: The Beatles, "Piggies" 1968: Diana Ross and the Supremes, "Love Child" 1974: Bob Dylan: "Buckets of Rain," "Simple Twist of Fate"
Charts
1960: Chubby Checker's "The Twist" hits #1 1964: Chad and Jeremy's "A Summer Song" enters the charts 1970: Diana Ross' "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" hits #1
Certifications
1968: Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2013 8:06:17 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 20 -- Births
1924: Gogi Grant 1925: Billy Nunn (The Coasters) 1930: Eddie Bo 1946: Michael Oldroyd (Manfred Mann's Earth Band) 1949: John Panozzo (Styx) 1949: Chuck Panozzo (Styx)
Deaths
1973: Jim Croce 1984: Steve Goodman 2008: Nappy Brown
Events
1967: Rick (no longer Ricky) Nelson becomes the proud father of his first two sons, Matthew and Gunnar. 22 years later, the two would form the hair-metal band Nelson.
1969: Frustrated by what he sees as a lack of artistic fulfillment, John Lennon announces privately to the rest of the Beatles that he will be leaving the band. The announcement, which comes at one of several grueling financial meetings designed to untangle the band's mismanaged assets, comes abruptly and takes everyone by surprise: when Paul announces that the band should go out on tour anonymously, playing small clubs to get back the feel of band unity, Lennon declares "I think you’re daft. I want a divorce." The band realizes they cannot go on without him, but agrees to delay the announcement until after the release of the Let It Be soundtrack -- an agreement Paul will break. On the same day, ATV (Associated Television) of Britain buys up controlling interest in the Beatles' songwriting catalog.
1970: In Miami, Jim Morrison of the Doors is sentenced to six months hard labor and a fine of $500 for allegedly exposing himself during an infamous show in the Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove, FL. The verdict will still be on appeal when Morrison dies of a drug overdose in Paris ten months later.
1971: Humble Pie guitarist and British teen idol Peter Frampton leaves the group to start his solo career.
1972: For the second time in a month, Paul McCartney and wife Linda are arrested on marijuana charges, this time for growing the drug on their farm in Campbeltown, Scotland.
1973: The Sunset Strip's legendary Roxy club opens in Los Angeles with a performance by Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse.
1975: The main competitor for the new late-night NBC sketch show Saturday Night, an ABC program entitled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, debuts with a performance by England's newest rage, boy band The Bay City Rollers. Though their performance of "Saturday Night," the song, will eventually push the single to #1, the show itself fizzles out after six months, at which point NBC's Saturday Night renames itself Saturday Night Live.
1976: The Captain and Tenille musical variety and comedy show debuts on ABC-TV, but will be canceled in six months after the duo find the workload of producing a weekly show too heavy.
1982: A seriously ill Karen Carpenter, now weighing only 77 pounds due to her anorexia, is admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and fed intravenously in order to get her weight back to normal. Six weeks later and 30 pounds heavier, she decides to check herself out of the facility.
1983: Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, John Paul Jones, Charlie Watts and Kenney Jones perform at the first ARMS (Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis) concert in London, a benefit for former Faces guitarist Ronnie Lane, now fighting MS.
1994: The Temptations are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood Blvd.
1997: Elton John's rewritten version of "Candle in the Wind," performed at Princess Diana's funeral as "Goodbye England's Rose," is released on record as "Candle in the Wind '97" and goes straight to #1 in the UK, quickly becoming the biggest selling single in world history.
2003: An unknown arsonist sets fire to the Wentzville, Missouri ranch of Chuck Berry, destroying most of it.
2004: Billy Joel is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6233 Hollywood Blvd.
2004: In an interview with England's The Sun tabloid, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones claims to have finally given up illegal drugs, in part because "the quality's gone down. All they do is try and take the high out of everything. I don't like the way they're working on the brain area instead of just through the blood system. That's why I don't take them any more. And you're talking to a person who knows his drugs."
2005, Canadian JD Fortune, beat two other finalists to become the new lead singer with INXS after a worldwide search to replace the late Michael Hutchence. INXS held auditions in six continents as part of a reality TV series. 2007, Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones was admitted to hospital when he was injured during an altercation with a member of a club's security team. The band had gone to a west London club after appearing at the Vodafone Live Music Awards. 2009, Muse went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'The Resistance' the bands fifth studio album. 2012, The former north London home of the original band members of Pink Floyd was bought by a Singaporean developer. Sham Masterman, who admitted not being a big fan of the rock band, bought the Highgate house and the one next door for £1.2m each. Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett had all lived in the house in the 1960s. The previous owner, lighting technician Mike Leonard, was landlord and friend to the band and even inspired their earliest name, Leonard's Lodgers.
Releases none
Recording 1965: The Animals, "It's My Life" 1968: The Beatles, "Piggies"
Charts 1969: The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" hits #1 1969: The Blind Faith LP hits #1 1975: David Bowie's "Fame" hits #1
Certifications 1978: The Who's LP Who Are You is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 21, 2013 8:47:06 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 21 -- Births
1917: Dizzy Gillespie 1937: Norman Wright (Dell-Vikings) 1940: Jimmy Beaumont (Skyliners) 1940: Manfred Mann 1941: Steve Cropper (Booker T. and the MGs) 1942: Elvin Bishop 1943: Ron Elliott (Beau Brummels) 1945: Kathy Young (Kathy Young and the Innocents) 1946: Lee Loughnane 1952: Brent Mydland (Grateful Dead) 1954: Eric Faulkner (Bay City Rollers) 1957: Steve Lukather (Toto)
Deaths
1965: Bill Black 2006: Sandy West (Runaways)
Events
1908: The first two-sided vinyl record (!) was offered for sale by the Columbia label in an ad running in this week's Saturday Evening Post.
1956: Elvis Presley visits his favorite local movie theater, the Memphian, and is beset by a adoring crowd who, in the ensuing melee, scratch his new Cadillac. Thus begins Elvis' new habit of renting the entire theater whenever he wants to watch a movie.
1971: In Paris, Mick Jagger and girlfriend Bianca become the proud parents of Mick's first child, Jade.
1975: The city of Los Angeles declares this "Elton John Week" and awards the musician his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6915 Hollywood Blvd.
1976: Keith Moon plays what is to be his final show with the Who, a concert at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1985: The Cinemax cable TV special Carl Perkins and Friends, taped to honor the 30th anniversary of his hit "Blue Suede Shoes," is taped with special guests George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, and Ringo Starr.
1992: Hank Williams Jr. becomes the proud father of his fourth child, Katherine Diana.
1992: Elvis' first grandson, Benjamin Storm, is born to Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough.
1992: Elton John sues the syndicated US television show Hard Copy for alleging that the singer moved to the Atlanta suburbs to be near an AIDS treatment facility.
1994: Neil Diamond publicly announces his divorce from his second wife, Marcia Murphey, whom he has been with since 1969.
2003: Elton John signs the deal for the first of his famous "Red Piano" concerts at Las Vegas' Ceasar's Palace.
2003: David Gest, recent ex-husband of Liza Minelli, sues the singer for $10 million, alleging physical and emotional cruelty.
2004: Bo Diddley postpones a concert in California to have a toe amputated due to complications from diabetes.
2004: Bobby "Boris" Pickett rerecords his perennial novelty song "Monster Mash" as "Monster Slash" to protest President George W. Bush's environmental policies. A typical line: "The guests included big timber, big oil / Mining magnates and their sons."
2005: Bob Seger sings the US national anthem before today's World Series game between the Detroit Tigers and the visiting St. Louis Cardinals.
Releases
1970: Bob Dylan, New Morning
Recording
1938: Jan Savitt, "Quaker City Jazz" 1958: Buddy Holly: "True Love Ways," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," "Moondreams," "Raining In My Heart" 1965: The Spencer Davis Group, "Keep On Running" 1965: The Beatles: "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Nowhere Man"
Charts
1957: Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" hits #1 1967: Lulu's "To Sir With Love" hits #1 1972: Chuck Berry's "My Ding-A-Ling" hits #1 1972: Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack LP Superfly hits #1
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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2013 7:59:17 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 23 -- Births
1926: John Coltrane 1930: Ray Charles 1935: Les McCann 1938: Ben E. King 1939: Roy Buchanan 1943: John Banks (The Merseybeats) 1943: Steve Boone, (The Lovin' Spoonful) 1947: Jerry Corbetta (Sugarloaf) 1947: Neal Smith (Alice Cooper) 1949: Bruce Springsteen
Deaths
1974: Robbie McIntosh (Average White Band)
Events
1966: The Rolling Stones begin their biggest-ever headlining tour of Britain at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with an impressive array of opening acts including Ike and Tina Turner and the Yardbirds. The crowd is unusually well-behaved for a Stones audience, rushing the stage but avoiding a full-scale riot.
1967: The Strawberry Alarm Clock perform their one and only hit, "Incense and Peppermints," on ABC-TV's American Bandstand.
1970: After his band's concert at the Olympia in Paris, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones meets heiress Bianca Pérez Morena De Macías for the first time, beginning a courtship that will end in their first marriage the next year. Naturally, there will be a bitter divorce in 1978, leading to some, er, inspired "tribute" songs in the Stones catalog.
1980: David Bowie makes a splash on Broadway when he takes over the title role in The Elephant Man from Philip Anglim.
1980: Having already collapsed in Central Park a few days earlier, a weak Bob Marley insists on continuing his US tour, and collapses again onstage during tonight's show at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theater. It will prove to be his last performance; the tour is canceled, and Marley heads to Germany for treatment where he will defy his original grim prognosis somewhat by staying alive until the following May.
1992: A scandal erupts when Jackson Browne is accused of physical assault by his girlfriend, actress Daryl Hannah.
1996: Agnetha Faltskog, one of ABBA's two female leads, publishes her biography, As I Am.
1998: Elvis Presley, once rejected for the Grand Old Opry, is inducted into Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.
2007: Lionel Richie guest-stars as himself on tonight's "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" season opener of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.
Releases
1957: Elvis Presley, "Jailhouse Rock" b/w "Treat Me Nice" 1967: The Doors, "People Are Strange" 1972: Mott The Hoople, "All The Young Dudes" 1974: John Lennon, "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" 1978: Foreigner, Double Vision
Recording
1953: The Spaniels, "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight" 1958: Fats Domino, "Whole Lotta Loving" 1968: The Beatles, "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" 1973: Elvis Presley: "I Miss You," "Are You Sincere?"
Charts
1957: The Crickets' "That'll Be The Day" hits #1 1967: The Box Tops' "The Letter" hits #1 1967: Lulu's "To Sir With Love" enters the charts 1972: Mac Davis' "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" hits #1
Certifications
1971: Honey Cone's "Stick-Up" are certified gold
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2013 8:22:55 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 24 -- Births
1931: Anthony Newley 1933: Mel Taylor (The Ventures) 1936: Jim Henson 1940: Barbara Allbut (The Angels) 1941: Linda McCartney 1942: Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) 1942: Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut (The Angels) 1946: Jerry Donahue (Fairport Convention)
Deaths
1997: Larry Hall
Events
1942: Bandleader Glenn Miller makes his last radio broadcast on CBS' Moonlight Serenade program before leaving to enlist in the Army.
1955: Judy Garland makes her television debut on CBS' variety show Ford Star Jubilee, breaking all previous ratings records.
1957: Legendary DJ Alan Freed debuts his fourth movie, Mister Rock And Roll, at New York City's Paramount Theatre. The film, named after Freed's nickname, features Alan playing himself and also several musical performances by Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Brook Benton, LaVern Baker, Ferlin Husky, Lionel Hampton, and, for some reason, former middleweight boxing champion Rocky Graziano.
1966: En route from New York to London with his new manager, Chas Chandler, the guitarist formerly known as Jimmy James decides to change his name to Jimi Hendrix. Upon arrival, Jimi ends up in a jam session with British bluesman Zoot Money, witnessed by Andy Summers, later the guitarist for the Police.
1967: The Beatles film the (in)famous "Your Mother Should Know" dance segment of their film Magical Mystery Tour at the West Malling Air Force Station in Kent, England. Paul wears a black carnation when the group runs out of red ones, creating more "clues" for the "Paul is Dead" theorists.
1971: The Jackson 5 appear on the cover of Life magazine, with the headline "Rock Stars At Home With Their Parents."
1977: Just a month or so after his untimely death, the first national Elvis Presley convention takes place in Memphis.
1988: After allegedly breaking into an insurance class being held in a building he owns and waving a gun around, demandig to know who used his bathroom, James Brown becomes involved in a hour-long, two-state car chase with police in Augusta, GA, who were tipped off that Brown was behaving erratically and armed. Driving over six miles in his pickup truck after authorities shoot out his two front tires, Brown is arrested and charged with illegal possession of drugs and firearms, simple assault, carrying a deadly weapon in public, resisting arrest, and seven misdemeanors. He is released from jail after serving two years of a five-year sentence.
1989: Bob Dylan, as "Moishe Rubenstein," appears on the annual Los Angeles telethon L'Chaim -- To Life, playing flute and recorder with Harry Dean Stanton in a band called Chopped Liver. With vocals by Dylan's son-in-law Peter Himmelman, the band performs a traditional Jewish folksong.
1993: Following his recent arrest for drunk driving, John Denver is ordered to perform a benefit concert for victims of same.
Releases
1977: Styx, "Come Sail Away"
Recording
1940: Bob Chester, "Flinging A Wing-Ding" 1954: Sarah Vaughan, "Make Yourself Comfortable" 1958: The Platters, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" 1968: The Beatles, "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
Charts
1966: The Association's "Cherish" hits #1 1966: Stevie Wonder's Uptight LP enters the charts
Certifications
1968: The Vogues' "Turn Around, Look At Me" is certified gold
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