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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2013 20:44:40 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 25 -- Births
1932: Glenn Gould 1933: Erik Darling (The Weavers, The Tarries, The Rooftop Singers) 1936: Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes 1943: Gary Alexander (The Association) 1945: Onnie McIntyre (Average White Band)
Deaths
1980: John Bonham (Led Zeppelin)
Events
1956: Elvis Presley's upcoming single, "Love Me Tender," becomes the first 45 to reach one million in pre-orders.
1964: The Beatles' Brian Epstein is offered three and one-half million pounds for the group's contract. Epstein declines.
1965: The Beatles' self-titled animated TV series debuts on ABC.
1970: The Partridge Family's self-titled TV show debuts on ABC.
1975: While performing "Lonely Teardrops" onstage at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ during a Dick Clark oldies revue, Jackie Wilson collapses from a heart attack, bashing his head on the stage and lapsing into a come from which he will remain until his death in 1983.
1979: The musical Evita premieres on Broadway.
1981: An infamous Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, PA, is recorded for use in the upcoming flop concert pic Let's Spend The Night Together.
1990: The mayor of Macon, GA, renames Mercer University Drive "Little Richard Penniman Boulevard" in honor of its native son.
1993: A Patsy Cline commemorative stamp is issued by the United States Postal Service.
1998: Johnny Cash suffers a relapse of pneumonia and is admitted to a Nashville, TN hospital, just one year after nearly dying from the disease.
2000: A collection of letters, drawings, and other writings from Janis Joplin circa 1965 is sold on eBay.
2001: The first worldwide broadcast of a satellite radio station takes place as XM Radio takes the air.
Releases
1954: Elvis Presley, "Good Rockin' Tonight" b/w "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine" 1970: Ringo Starr, Beaucoups Of Blues 1971: Cat Stevens, "Peace Train" 1979: The Eagles, The Long Run
Recording
1934: Henry Busse, "Hot Lips" 1962: Bobby Darin, "You're The Reason I'm Living" 1964: The Temptations, "My Girl" 1967: The Beatles, "The Fool On The Hill" 1968: The Beatles, "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" 1969: John Lennon, "Cold Turkey" 1970: Janis Joplin, "Me And Bobby McGee"
Charts
1954: Rosemary Clooney's "Hey There" hits #1 1965: Barry McGuire's "Eve Of Destruction" hits #1 1976: Blue Öyster Cult's Agents of Fortune LP enters the charts
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2013 19:05:07 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 26 -- Births
1898: George Gershwin 1901: Ted Weems 1918: John "Drac" Zacherle 1925: Marty Robbins 1926: Julie London 1931: George Chambers (The Chambers Brothers) 1941: Joe Bauer (The Youngbloods) 1945: Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music) 1947: Lynn Anderson 1948: Olivia Newton-John 1945: Bryan Ferry (Roxy Music) 1948: Stuart Tosh (Alan Parsons Project)
Deaths
1937: Bessie Smith 2000: Carl Sigman 2003: Robert Palmer
Events
1908: The first stereo advertisement, for an Edison Phonograph, appears in the Saturday Evening Post.
1955: Debbie Reynolds marries Eddie Fisher in New York City, a marriage that will last just four tumultuous years before Fisher leaves America's Sweetheart for Elizabeth Taylor.
1956: The mayor of Tupelo, MS declares today Elvis Presley Day in honor of its favorite son; among others, a young Tammy Wynette is in the audience at the concert Elvis gives later.
1957: The musical West Side Story, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet with New York City gang members, debuts on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. It would run for 732 performances.
1961: Folksinger Bob Dylan lands his first major gig, opening for the Greenbriar Boys for two weeks at Gerde's Folk City in New York. Critic Robert Shelton of the New York Times says of today's performance: "Bob Dylan is one of the most distinctive stylists to play in a Manhattan cabaret in months... there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent... Mr. Dylan's voice is anything but pretty... a searing intensity pervades his songs. Mr. Dylan's highly personalized approach toward folk song is still evolving." This review essentially launches Dylan's career.
1965: Queen Elizabeth II presents the Beatles with the Order of the British Empire, recommended by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who said later: "I saw the Beatles as having a transforming effect on the minds of youth, mostly for the good. It kept a lot of kids off the streets." The Beatles, who reportedly get high in a bathroom before the event, are said to be delighted, though many older and more conservative honorees return their honors in protest. John Lennon later gives his back, protesting "the war in Vietnam and also 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts."
1969: Legendary promoter Bill Graham opens the Fillmore West, a West Coast version of his popular New York "rock ballroom," in San Francisco.
1970: Motown announces that its newest singing sensation, the Jackson 5, have sold ten million records worldwide in just nine months.
1970: Returning to Abbey Road studios in London, ex-Beatle John Lennon begins work on his first proper solo album, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band.
1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and a young unknown singer who goes only by the name of Meat Loaf, opens in Westwood, CA. A film version of the popular off-Broadway musical hit, it is an instant flop nationwide, and is miraculously resuscitated some time later when audiences at the midnight showings in New York City begin to talk back to the screen, creating a cult phenomenon that lasts to this day.
1984: Paul Anka is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Blvd.
Releases
1964: The Kinks, "You Really Got Me" 1967: Elvis Presley, "Big Boss Man" 1974: John Lennon, Walls And Bridges
Recording
1957: The Monotones, "Book Of Love" 1967: The Beatles, "The Fool On The Hill" 1975: Vicki Sue Robinson, "Turn The Beat Around" 1976: Marvin Gaye, "Live At The London Palladium"
Charts
1953: The Ames Brothers' "You You You" hits #1 1954: Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" enters the charts 1960: Connie Francis' "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" hits #1 1964: Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" hits #1
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2013 19:07:28 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 27 -- Births
1898: Vincent Youmans 1941: Don Nix (Booker T. and the MGs) 1944: Randy Bachman (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) 1947: Meat Loaf 1952: Robbie Shakespeare 1958: Shaun Cassidy
Deaths
1967: Rory Storm 2007: Dale Houston (Dale and Grace)
Events
1938: Comedian Bob Hope premieres a new song, "Thanks For The Memory," on his eponymous NBC radio show.
1942: Glenn Miller plays what was to be his last concert as a civilian, performing at the Central Theatre in Passaic, NJ. In December 1944, Miller's plane would disappear over the Atlantic Ocean en route to play for fellow soldiers in liberated Paris.
1959: Rockabilly singer Carl Dobkins, Jr. of "My Heart Is An Open Book" fame enlists in the Kentucky National Guard.
1964: The Beach Boys make their national television debut on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show, performing their recent hit "I Get Around."
1966: Elvis Presley begins shooting his twenty-third film, entitled Easy Come, Easy Go.
1968: Local favorites the Jackson 5 open a Stevie Wonder / Gladys Knight concert in their hometown of Gary, IN, prompting Knight to recommend them to Motown head Berry Gordy.
1970: After 22 years on various networks, the last Ted Mack's Amateur Hour show airs on CBS.
1973: Rolling Stone announces that Carlos Santana has changed his name legally to add the middle name "Devadip," meaning "the Lamp of the Light Supreme" and a reflection of Santana's recent studies with Sri Chinmoy.
1976: Dolly Parton's short-lived television variety show, entitled simply Dolly!, premieres on ABC.
1979: While onstage at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, CA, Elton John collapses from "exhaustion." The song he'd been performing, ominously, was entitled "Better Off Dead."
1986: Bob Dylan performs "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" for Pope John Paul II at Bologna, Italy's World Eucharistic Congress.
1990: Marvin Gaye is posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street.
2001: Singer Jonathan King, best known for his 1965 hit "Everyone's Gone To The Moon," is found guilty of molesting several young boys and sentenced to seven years in prison.
2003: Carly Simon sues the owners of New York's famous Dakota apartment complex, claiming they kept her $59,000 down payment after rejecting her rental application.
2004: Legendary rock producer Phil Spector, best known for creating the "Wall Of Sound" on hits like the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," is indicted for the February 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson at his estate in Alhambra, CA.
Releases
none
Recording
1938: Artie Shaw, "Nightmare" 1962: Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, "I’ll Have To Let Him Go"
Charts
1947: Johnny Ace's "My Song" hits #1 R&B 1952: Patti Page's "I Went To Your Wedding" hits #1 1975: John Denver's "I'm Sorry" hits #1 1983: The Beatles' "Twist And Shout" re-enters the charts
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Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2013 11:02:05 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 28 -- Births
1902: Ed Sullivan 1930: Tommy Collins 1938: Ben E. King 1943: Nick St. Nicholas (Steppenwolf) 1946: Helen Shapiro 1953: Keni Burke (Five Stairsteps)
Deaths
1964: Nacio Herb Brown 1968: Dewey Phillips 1979: Jimmy McCulloch (Wings) 1991: Miles Davis
Events
1953: Johnny Horton marries Billie Jean Jones Eshliman, widow of Hank Williams Sr.
1962, The Beatles performed a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club, Liverpool. That night they performed aboard the vessel MV Royal Iris on the River Mersey. The Beatles' third and final "Riverboat Shuffle".
1963: A full two months before "I Want To Hold Your Hand" finally breaks Beatlemania in the US, New York disc jockey Murray The K obtains a copy of the Beatles' last single, "She Loves You," and plays it on his radio show for two solid weeks, becoming the first American DJ to play a Beatles record. The response is tepid.
1964: Connie Stevens premieres her first television sitcom, Wendy and Me, on ABC, featuring George Burns as her landlord. It lasts one season.
1965, The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre, Cardiff, Wales. During the 1960s The Capitol Theatre saw all the major acts of the era performing here including The Beatles and The Kinks.
1968: Janis Joplin manager Albert Grossman announces that his client is leaving her band Big Brother and the Holding Company, feeling that they weren't "growing together."
1968, American radio DJ Dewey Phillips died of heart failure aged 42. He was one of rock 'n' roll's pioneering disk jockeys. In July 1954, he was the first DJ to play the young Elvis Presley's debut record, 'That's All Right/Blue Moon Of Kentucky.'
1968, The Beatles started a nine week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Hey Jude'. The Paul McCartney song written about Lennon's son Julian gave the group their 16th US No.1 and the biggest selling single of 1968. In 1996, Julian paid £25,000 for the recording notes to the song at an auction. 1968, Bruce Springsteen and a local folk rock group The Founders appeared at the Off Broad Street Coffee House in Red Bank, New Jersey.
1972: David Bowie catapults into US superstardom overnight when he sells out tonight's gig at Carnegie Hall.
1973: The Rolling Stones appear on the premiere of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert on ABC, performing "It's Only Rock N' Roll (But I Like It)," marking their first appearance on US television in six years.
1976: George Harrison, currently ill with hepatitis, is sued by his American label, A&M, for failing to deliver his latest album, 33 1/3, on time.
1987: The British tabloid The Sun reports erroneously that Elton John keeps several guard dogs with their larynxes removed so that he can't hear them bark, sparking a successful libel lawsuit from John that revolutionizes the way the tabloids in England deal with celebrities.
1987: Smokey Robinson and Gladys Knight are the celebrity team players on tonight's episode of Dick Clark's $100,000 Pyramid.
1989: Jimmy Buffett publishes his first book, a collection of short fiction entitled Tales From Margaritaville.
1996: Bob Dylan is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his songwriting by Gordon Ball literature professor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA.
2000: Ballet For Life, a ballet tribute to late QUeen singer and AIDS casualty Freddie Mercury, premiers at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre.
2004: A Beverly Hills tribute concert in honor of Ray Charles, featuring Stevie Wonder, Michael McDonald, James Ingram, and Patti Austin, raises $15 million for Atlanta's African-American institution, Morehouse College.
2004, Producer Phil Spector was charged with the murder of actress Lana Clarkson in an unsealed indictment. Spector was in attendance at a Los Angeles court as the indictment about the slaying of 40-year-old Clarkson was read. He remained free on $1 million bail. 2007, The John Lennon Northern Lights Festival was held in Durness, Scotland, the most northwesterly and remote village on mainland Britain. Lennon spent his childhood holidays between the ages of nine and 13 in the village and returned with his son Julian, Yoko Ono and her daughter Kyoko in 1969. 2007, An ad for P Diddy's Unforgivable Woman perfume range, featuring a lingerie-clad model cavorting with the rapper in a New York hotel stairwell, was shown on Channel 4 in the UK. The ad had been banned in the US by the Federal Communications Commission, for being too sexually explicit for US audiences. 2007, Michael Jackson's spokeswoman, Raymone Bain, denied that the Pop star had married his children's nanny, Grace Rwaramba. A statement issued to the press read: "Wide-spreading reports regarding Michael Jackson being married are not true. Documents stating otherwise are a hoax." Jackson had already been married twice and had three children, Prince Michael I, Paris and Prince Michael II. 2008, Kings of Leon started a two week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Only by the Night' the bands fourth studio album. 2009, Adam Goldstein (DJ AM.), American club DJ and musician died of an accidental drug overdose at home in New York City aged 36. Had worked with Blink 182, Crazy Town, Madonna. Goldstein had surrived a plane crash along with Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker in September 2008. 2009, Lucy Vodden, the childhood pal of John Lennon's son Julian, passed away at the age of 46 after losing her battle with auto-immune disease lupus. She was the inspiration for The Beatles' track 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds', written mostly by John after Julian showed his father a nursery school drawing he called Lucy - in the sky with diamonds, depicting his classmate. 2010, Souvenir hunters were being condemned for "wanton vandalism" after sections of masonry were hacked off the house of Ringo Starr's birthplace. Fans who are campaigning to halt town hall plans to demolish 9 Madryn Street found that chunks of brickwork had been removed from the house
Releases
1958: The Teddy Bears, "To Know Him Is To Love Him"
Recording
1928: Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra, "Under A Blanket Of Blue"
1967: The Beatles, "Flying"
Charts
1968: The Beatles' "Hey Jude" b/w "Revolution" hits #1 1974: Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" hits #1 1974: Bad Company's self-titled LP hits #1
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Post by Admin on Sept 29, 2013 4:29:57 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 29 -- Births
1935: Jerry Lee Lewis 1942: Jean-Luc Ponty 1944: Tommy Boyce (Boyce and Hart) 1944: Mike Post 1944: Tommy Tate 1944: Anne Briggs 1947: Peter Hope-Evans (Medicine Head) 1948: Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad)
Deaths
2002: Ellis Larkins 2003: Wesley Tuttle
Events
1930: Bing Crosby marries Dixie Lee.
1947: Dizzy Gillespie makes his Carnegie Hall debut.
1954: The original musical version of A Star Is Born, featuring Judy Garland, opens in Hollywood.
1956: The Gale Storm Show debuts on CBS-TV.
1962: After a wildly successful six-and-a-half-year run, the musical My Fair Lady closes on Broadway.
1963: The Rolling Stones begin their first British tour, opening for Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and the Everly Brothers at London's New Victoria Theatre.
1966: Jimi Hendrix meets the final member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, bassist Noel Redding, when Redding unsuccessfully auditions for Eric Burdon's new Animals lineup at the Birdland club in London.
1967: While making mono mixes of The Beatles' new song, "I Am The Walrus," John Lennon turns on a radio in the studio and discovers a BBC radio broadcast of Shakespeare's King Lear. Intrigued, he mixes the live broadcast into the song. The words from the broadcast, at the time they are heard in the song, are as follows: Gloucester. (2:25) "Now, good sir, wh--" (Here Lennon changes the channel away from the station.) Edgar. (2:28) -- "poor man, made tame by fortune --" (2:34) "good pity--" Later, at the end of the song, John leaves the broadcast where it is, and we hear: Oswald. (3:52) Slave, thou hast slain me: Villain, take my purse. If ever thou wilt thrive, (4:02) bury my body, and give the (4:05) letters which thou findest about me to (4:08) Edmund Earl of Gloucester. (4:10) Seek him out upon the British party. O, (4:14) Untimely Death! Edgar. (4:23) I know thee well, a (4:25) serviceable villain. As duteous to the (4:27) vices of thy mistress as badness would desire. Gloucester. What, is he dead? Edgar. (4:31) Sit you down father, rest you.
1967: The Rolling Stones formally split from longtime manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
1967: Mickey Hart joins the Grateful Dead as its new drummer.
1976: At his 41st birthday party, a drunk Jerry Lee Lewis attempts to shoot a soda bottle with his .357 Magnum and instead hits his bass player, Norman Owens, twice in the chest. Owens makes a full recovery.
1977: David Bowie sets up a trust fund for Rolan Bolan, son of recently deceased T. Rex leader (and close Bowie friend) Marc Bolan.
1977: James Brown's backup band walks out on him before a gig in Hallendale, FL, complaining of being underpaid. Brown responds by hiring another band.
1989: Bruce Springsteen leaps onstage in Prescott, AZ, to jam with a local bar band called The Mile High Band, playing his own "I'm On Fire" and his favorite Sixties covers. A week later, a waitress who'd been complaining about her hospital bills receives a check from Springsteen for $100,000.
1994: The Pointer Sisters are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6363 Hollywood Blvd.
1997: Don Henley of the Eagles is awarded a National Medal of Humanities from the Clinton White House.
1998: Frank Sinatra's estate sues Ross clothing stores of California for selling a unauthorized collection of the legend's songs called The Sinatra Collection.
1999, Receivers were called in to concert promoter Harvey Goldsmith's empire after suffering losses on a series of shows. Goldsmith was awarded the MBE after his work on Live Aid. 1999, The Manic Street Preachers were given a bill for £28.000 after smashing up equipment during their show at Scotland's T In The Park festival. 2001, Jennifer Lopez married dancer Cris Judd in Calabasa California. The couple separated nine months later. 2002, US TV Pop Idol winner Kelly Clarkson started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'A Moment Like This.' 2002, UK Pop Idol winners Will Young and Gareth Gates started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Beatles 'The Long And Winding Road.' 2004, Keith Moon's five-piece drum kit, custom-made for The Who drummer in 1968, sold for £120,000 pounds ($215,772) in London to an American collector, setting a world auction record for a set of drums. 2004, The Sun reported that Michael Jackson had a secret fourth child who was now 19. The story claimed that Norwegian Omar Bhatti was born after a one night stand and had stayed with Jackson at his Neverland home in California. 2007, US rapper 50 Cent was beaten by rival rap star Kanye West in the stand-off to claim the best-selling album in the US. West's Graduation shifted 957,000 copies in its first week of sales while 50 Cent's album, Curtis, only sold 691,000. Before the albums went on sale 50 Cent vowed he would retire from making solo albums if he was outsold by West. 50 Cent axed his forthcoming European tour and a performance at London Mobo Awards the Vodafone Live Music Awards in London, as well as at an MTV show in Germany. 2012, The UK press reported that there really was a girl who works down the chip shop and swears she's Elvis' daughter, after Lisa Marie Presley was spotted serving up deep-fried treats on a mobile motor called Mr Chippy. The 44-year-old, offspring of Elvis and actress Priscilla, donned an apron and cooked battered cod for the locals. Kim Scales, who owned the business, said: "Lisa Marie likes to see how we live and experience British life. We were laughing because the customers didn't know who she was. She really enjoyed it." The singer, had moved to the quaint village of Rotherfield, East Sussex, two years ago from Los Angeles.
Releases
1967: Gladys Knight and the Pips, "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
Recording
1957: Buddy Holly and the Crickets, "Maybe Baby" 1959: Little Anthony and the Imperials, "Shimmy Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop" 1964: The Beatles, "Every Little Thing," "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party," "What You're Doing" 1966: Elvis Presley, "She's A Machine," "The Love Machine," "Yoga Is As Yoga Does," "You Gotta Stop" 1967: The Beatles, "I Am The Walrus," "Your Mother Should Know"
Charts
1958: Tommy Edwards' "It's All In The Game" hits #1 1973: Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band" hits #1
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2013 11:03:39 GMT -5
Today In Music History: September 30 -- Births
1922: Oscar Pettiford 1935: Jill Corey 1935: Johnny Mathis 1942: Dewey Martin (Buffalo Springfield) 1942: Frankie Lymon 1942: Gus Dudgeon 1943: Marilyn McCoo (The 5th Dimension) 1946: Sylvia Peterson (The Chiffons) 1947: Marc Bolan (T. Rex) 1953: Deborah Allen
Deaths
1977: Mary Ford 1992: Paul Jabara 2003: Ronnie Dawson
Events
1933: WLS radio in Chicago's popular program The National Barn Dance, one of the first country music radio programs, goes national with a move to NBC radio.
1935: The Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess opens at Boston's Colonial Theatre. While not commercially successful, a revival in 1942 would turn it into one of the longest-running musicals in history.
1954: Julie Andrews makes her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend.
1955: James Dean, icon of Fifties youth, dies in a car accident. Upon hearing the news in his Gladewater, TX, hotel room while on tour, Elvis Presley breaks down and cries.
1965: Elvis Presley is introduced to singer Tom Jones on the set of the King's latest film Paradise, Hawaiian Style. The two become fast friends.
1967: The UK radio network BBC Radio One takes the airwaves tonight with an opening spin of the Move's "Flowers In The Rain."
1987: Roy Orbison engineers his comeback with the taping of the star-studded, acclaimed HBO special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night at Los Angeles' Coconut Grove. It features Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, and J.D. Souther, and is indeed filmed in black and white!
1988: John Lennon is posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine St.
1989: Bette Midler is awarded $400,000 in a landmark "intellectual property" lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. when the car giant used a soundalike version of Midler on one of their commercials.
1989: Neil Young performs his latest song, "Rockin' In The Free World," on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live.
1991: Liza Minnelli is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
1993: On tonight's fifth-season episode of The Simpsons, entitled "Homer's Barbershop Quartet," David Crosby and George Harrison make guest appearances.
1998: Joe Walsh, Rick Neilsen, Dave Mustaine, Matthew Sweet, Slash, and Joey Ramone appear on tonight's "In Ramada Da Vida" episode of ABC-TV's Drew Carey Show.
Releases
1977: Ringo Starr, Ringo The 4th
Recording
1941: The Larry Clinton Orchestra, "That Solid Old Man" 1963: The Beatles, "Money (That's What I Want)," "I Wanna Be Your Man" 1964: The Beatles, "Every Little Thing," "What You're Doing," "No Reply"
Charts
1977: Exile's "Kiss You All Over" hits #1
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Post by Admin on Sept 30, 2013 19:16:48 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 1 -- Births
1913: Charles Randolph Grean 1926: Max Morath 1930: Richard Harris 1932: Albert Collins 1934: Geoff Stephens (The New Vaudeville Band) 1935: Julie Andrews 1942: Herb Fame (Peaches and Herb) 1943: Jerry Martini (Sly and the Family Stone) 1944: Barbara Parritt (The Toys) 1944: Scott McKenzie 1945: Donny Hathaway 1947: Rob Davis (Mud) 1948: Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue) 1948: Cub Koda (Brownsville Station) 1957: Andy Walton (Kenny)
Deaths
1975: Al Jackson (Booker T. and The MGs) 1992: Harry Ray (The Moments)
Events
1956: When test audiences are horrified at Elvis' character dying in the original ending of Elvis' first film, Love Me Tender, the ending is quickly rewritten and Elvis called back to reshoot.
1956: Little Anthony and the Imperials record Neil Sedaka's "The Diary," and the results so displease the songwriter that he decides to record it himself, resulting in his first chart hit.
1962: The Beatles sign their first real management contract with Brian Epstein, with George and Paul's fathers signing for their sons, who are still minors. Epstein gets 25 percent of the group's earnings.
1962: Barbra Streisand is signed to Columbia Records.
1964: The Beatles' debut film, A Hard Day's Night, becomes the first movie to debut behind the "Iron Curtain" of Communist countries when it is shown in Prague.
1965: At Carnegie Hall, Bob Dylan presents his new backup band, formerly Ronnie Hawkins' backup band, known as the Hawks. Eventually, they will simply become known as (and famous as) The Band.
1966: Jimi Hendrix makes his UK stage debut when he jumps onstage to jam with Cream at London Polytechnic.
1967: The first edition of the program Top Gear, featuring host DJ John Peel, airs on BBC Radio 1.
1967: Traffic makes its stage debut at London's Saville Theatre.
1967: Mick Jagger's apartment in London is burglarized, with girlfriend Marianne Faithfull's furs and jewelry being among the items listed stolen.
1968: John Sebastian leaves the Lovin' Spoonful.
1970: Jimi Hendrix is laid to rest at Seattle's Greenwood Cemetery, under a headstone that reads "Forever In Our Hearts, James 'Jimi' Hendrix 1942 - 1970." Mourners include Eric Burdon, Johnny Winter, members of Derek and the Dominoes, and Miles Davis.
1970: Curtis Mayfield leaves the Impressions.
1976: In an attempt to end his cocaine addiction, David Bowie leaves England and moves to West Berlin, where he begins collaborating with Iggy Pop and Brian Eno.
1977: The Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame inducts its first musician, singer/songwriter Elton John.
1980: Paul Simon's semi-autobiographical film One Trick Pony, in which he stars, is released in the US. Critical and audience reaction is tepid.
1982: Sony introduces the world's first digital compact-disc player in Tokyo, which sells for about $650.
1983: The first worldwide David Bowie convention is held in London's Cunard Hotel.
1993: Wilson Pickett is sentenced to a year in jail for running into an 86-year-old man while driving drunk.
1998: Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty is awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
2002: Barry White's label reveals that the singer has been hospitalized with kidney failure.
Releases
1964: The Beatles Vs. The Four Seasons 1966: Cat Stevens, "I Love My Dog" 1969: The Beatles, Abbey Road 1970: Elvis Presley, Almost In Love
Recording
1928: Duke Ellington, "The Mooche" 1928: Ben Pollack, "Forever" 1968: The Beatles, "Honey Pie"
Charts
1977: Meco's "Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band" hits #1
Certifications
1971: John Lennon's LP Imagine is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Oct 4, 2013 9:42:00 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 4 -- Births
1929: Leroy Van Dyke 1937: Perkle Lee Moses (The El Dorados) 1942: Helen Reddy 1944: Marlena Davis (The Orlons) 1947: Jim Fielder (Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of Invention, Blood, Sweat and Tears) 1963: Lena Zavaroni
Deaths
1970: Janis Joplin 1991: J. Frank Wilson 1996: Jerry Rivers (Hank Williams Sr.) 1999: Art Farmer 2004: Michael Gibbins (Badfinger) 2004: Bruce Palmer (The Buffalo Springfield)
Events
1957: Elvis Presley comes in second as England's most popular vocalist in the annual New Musical Express (NME) music poll, coming in just behind... Pat Boone.
1961: Bob Dylan debuts at Carnegie Hall, playing for a grand total of 53 fans.
1961: Popular "recording" group Alvin and the Chipmunks get their own TV show when The Alvin Show debuts on CBS.
1963: A 17-year-old Eric Clapton, late of the Roosters and Casey Jones and the Engineers, joins the Yardbirds for tonight's gig at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England, replacing original guitarist Anthony "Top" Topham.
1964: Dusty Springfield interviews the Beatles on this, their first appearance on England's ITV television program Ready Steady Go!
1968: Cream begins their announced farewell tour with a performance at Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, CA.
1974: Thin Lizzy debut their new twin-guitar attack with new additions Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson at tonight's concert in Wales.
1978: Country singer Tammy Wynette is allegedly kidnapped at a Nashville shopping center by an unknown man in a ski mask, beaten, and forced at gunpoint to drive roughly 90 miles. Doubt still exists as to whether this incident took place, due to a puzzling lack of physical evidence.
1980: For their work on the recent Fleetwood Mac single "Tusk," the University of Southern California Country marching band is presented with a platinum version of the album of the same name by three members of the rock band.
1980: On stage during a concert in Pittburgh, PA, Carly Simon collapses from "nervous exhaustion."
1988: Determined to finally clean his system of the alcohol and drugs he's been abusing for years, Ringo Starr, along with wife Barbara Bach, flies to Tucson, AZ to enter the Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Clinic. He will stay six weeks.
1994: Singer Glenn Frey's stomach surgery causes the Eagles to postpone their much-anticipated reunion tour, puckishly titled Hell Freezes Over.
1996: The major motion picture That Thing You Do!, which deals with a fictional 1964 band attempting to break big, and starring Tom Hanks and Liv Tyler, opens in US theaters.
1999: Jimi Hendrix's half-sister Janie announces her plans to exhume the body of her famous brother and move it to a mausoleum where curious onlookers can view it for a price. The public outcry forces her to shelve the idea.
Releases
1943: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, "Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby?" 1974: John Lennon, Walls and Bridges
Recording
1939: Ted Weems, "That Old Gang Of Mine" 1968: The Beatles, "Martha My Dear," "Honey Pie"
Charts
1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival's LP Green River hits #1 1975: Pink Floyd's LP Wish You Were Here hits #1
Certifications
1966: Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Oct 5, 2013 6:48:21 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 5 -- Births
1907: Mrs. Miller 1924: Bill Dana 1935: Margie Singleton 1938: Carlo Mastrangelo (Dion and the Belmonts) 1938: Johnny Duncan 1939: Abi Ofarim 1942: Richard Street (The Temptations) 1943: Steve Miller 1947: Brian Johnson (AC/DC) 1948: Lucius Ross (Funkadelic) 1949: B.W. Stevenson 1949: Brian Connolly (sweet)
Deaths
1981: Jud Strunk 1992: Eddie Kendricks (The Temptations) 1997: Arthur Tracey 2005: Michael Gibbins (Badfinger)
Events
1947: The first taped radio show is broadcast on ABC, a performance by Bing Crosby that demonstrated the capabilities of the new Ampex 200 recorder.
1957: Cliff Richard plays his first gig with the Shadows at Hanley, England's Victoria Hall.
1959: The legendarily bad movie Girls Town, featuring Paul Anka and Mel Torme, premieres in US theaters.
1962: The Beatles release their first single, "Love Me Do" b/w "P.S. I Love You," in the UK. That night, it is played on Radio Luxembourg, owned by EMI, representing the first time a Beatles song is ever heard on the airwaves.
1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience forms in London.
1975: The three original Wailers -- Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer -- perform together for the last time at Stevie Wonder's benefit concert, the Wonder Dream Concert, in Kingston, Jamaica.
1999: After breaking up "permanently" in 1983, the Who reform with an announcement by singer Roger Daltrey that the trio will re-form for a Las Vegas concert.
2000: The book The Beatles Anthology, some twenty years in the making, is published in the US. Price: $60.
2006: Jeffrey Borer, owner of company that sold Michael Jackson his private Gulfstream jet, is sentenced to six months in prison for ordering employee Arvel Jett Reeves to install two videocameras in it in order to catch Jackson saying something for which he could be blackmailed.
2007: A federal jury finds a Minnesota woman guilty of online music file sharing through the public service KaZaa, fining her $220,000.
Releases
1961: The Marcels, "Heartaches" 1975: Harry Chapin, "Cat's In The Cradle" 1999: Paul McCartney, Run Devil Run
Recording
1939: Ted Weems, "I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now" 1961: Neil Sedaka, "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" 1968: The Beatles, "Savoy Truffle," "Martha My Dear"
Charts
1959: Paul Evans' "Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat)" enters the charts 1959: Bobby Darin's "Mack The Knife" hits #1 1974: The Beach Boys' LP Endless Summer hits #1 1974: Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You" hits #1
Certifications
1965: Henry Mancini's soundtrack LP The Pink Panther is certified gold 1976: Hall and Oates' LP Abandoned Luncheonette is certified gold 1979: The Who's LP soundtrack LP The Kids Are Alright is certified platinum
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Post by Admin on Oct 6, 2013 9:10:17 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 6 -- Births
1945: Robin Shaw (The Flowerpot Men) 1946: Millie Small 1949: Thomas McClary (The Commodores) 1949: Bobby Farrell (Boney M) 1951: Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) 1951: Gavin Sutherland (The Sutherland Brothers)
Deaths
1966: Johnny Kidd 1978: Johnny O'Keefe 1985: Nelson Riddle
Events
1967: Jimi Hendrix performs on the new BBC 1 radio show Top Gear, with Stevie Wonder, who was visiting the studios, sitting in on drums for a jam called (appropriately enough) "Jammin'" and a version of Stevie's "I Was Made To Love Her."
1971: Pat Boone guest-stars on tonight's "The Academy" episode of NBC-TV's thriller Night Gallery.
1977: Rod Stewart is named in a $15 million "palimony" suit by actress Britt Eklund.
1978: ABBA songwriter / musician Benny Anderson marries fellow band vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad in Sweden. The marriage lasts three years. (The group's other male-female pair had been married in 1971.)
1978: The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger apologizes to activist Jesse Jackson, who raised a public outcry over the lyrics of the Stones' recent song "Some Girls," specifically the line "black girls just want to get ------ all night." Jagger refuses calls to change the lyrics.
1980: With the disco craze officially over, The Bee Gees file a $200 million mismanagement lawsuit against longtime manager Robert Stigwood and his label RSO Records, one that would within the year be settled out of court.
1991: The Fox TV network airs the special Ray Charles: 50 Years Of Music, featuring guests Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Randy Travis, Michael Bolton, and more.
1991: Michael Jackson gives Elizabeth Taylor away to Larry Fortensky during her eighth wedding, held at Jackson's California ranch, Neverland.
2002: Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones donates 100,000 pounds to the school he once attended in Dartford, England, for musical instruments and a band director. The resultant musical center is named after the singer.
2006: Before Game Three of baseball's AL Divisional Playoff in Detroit, MI, the Four Tops sing the US national anthem.
Releases
1956: Elvis Presley, "Love Me Tender" 1969: The Beatles, "Something" b/w "Come Together" 1979: The Eagles, "Heartache Tonight"
Recording
1941: Claude Thornhill, "Autumn Nocturne" 1964: The Beatles, "Eight Days A Week" 1965: Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "She's Just My Style," "Sure Gonna Miss Her" 1967: The Beatles, "Blue Jay Way" 1976: Salsoul Orchestra, "Christmas Medley"
Charts
1973: Cher's "Half-Breed" hits #1 1979: Robert John's "Sad Eyes" hits #1
Certifications
1976: Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots' "Disco Duck" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2013 8:02:46 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 7 -- Births
1911: Vaughn Monroe 1911: "Papa" Jo Jones 1922: Martha Stewart 1927: Al Martino 1939: Colin Cooper (The Climax Blues Band) 1941: Tony Silvester (The Main Ingredient) 1941: Martin Murray (The Honeycombs) 1945: Kevin Godley (10cc) 1949: David Hope (Kansas) 1950: David Taylor (Edison Lighthouse)
Deaths
1966: Smiley Lewis
Events
1950: CBS debuts The Frank Sinatra Show, a variety program and the first TV show for the crooner. Though he has a five-year contract, the show only lasts two seasons.
1952: The Philadelphia dance show Bandstand, hosted by Bob Horn and, later, by Dick Clark as American Bandstand, debuts on WFIL-TV.
1957: Elvis Presley's upcoming first Christmas album, entitled simply Elvis' Christmas Album, goes gold in pre-orders nine days before its release.
1959: Connie Stevens lands the role that will make her famous, as the TV detective show Hawaiian Eye debuts on ABC-TV.
1964: The Beatles appear (on tape) during a special British Invasion-themed episode of the popular ABC-TV variety show Shindig!, performing "Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!," "I'm A Loser," and "Boys."
1967: After a London hotel accuses the Mamas and the Papas' Cass Elliot of running out on her bill, the singer is jailed overnight and strip-searched, forcing the cancellation of both an upcoming gig and television appearance.
1967: Promoter Sid Bernstein, who had promoted the Beatles at their first two Shea Stadium concerts, offers one million dollars to the group, who is retired from the road, to perform a third concert there. They refuse.
1968: At the fifth game in baseball's World Series (Detroit vs. St. Louis), Jose Feliciano stuns and outrages the attendees with his jazzy acoustic take on the US National Anthem.
1975: The US Court of Appeals overturns the longstanding deportation order for John Lennon, ruling that Lennon, in being held accountable for violating a foreign law (a 1968 rap for possession of marijuana in England), had been denied due process.
1976: Dennis Edwards announces he is leaving the Temptations. Four years later, he would rejoin for the group's successful Power album.
1978: The Rolling Stones perform their new single, "Beast Of Burden," on tonight's episode of NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live.
1978: Merle Haggard marries third wife Leona Williams, a bass player and singer with Loretta Lynn. The marriage lasts six years.
1978: Billboard magazine reveals that Marvin Gaye has declared bankruptcy twice in the past year claiming debts of over seven million dollars.
1982: Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is given a one year suspended sentence for cocaine possession.
1989, Paula Abdul went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Forever Your Girl'. Abdul spent sixty-four consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 before hitting number one, making it the longest time for an album to reach the number one spot. 1995, Alanis Morissette went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Jagged Little Pill'. The album went on to become the biggest selling album ever by a female artist with sales over 30m. Read the full story 1999, It was reported that four musicians who claimed they worked on her 'Miseducation' album were suing Lauryn Hill. The musicians were seeking unpaid royalties for co writers and producers. 1999, Winners at the Irish Hot Press awards included The Corrs for best Irish band, Andrea Corr won best female singer, Divine Comedy won best Irish band, the bands singer Neil Hannon won best male singer and Westlife won best pop act. 2002, Mick Jagger donated £100,000 to his old Grammar school in Dartford to help pay for a music director and buy musical instruments. The new centre was also named after Mick Jagger. 2004, 53 year old Motley Crue guitarist Mick Mars had a hip replacement operation in a LA hospital. 2005, Boy George was arrested in New York after Police found traces of drugs in his apartment. George had called the police after he thought somebody was breaking into his apartment. When police arrived and made a search they found traces of cocaine on a computer table. 2006, Babyshambles postponed their UK tour to give singer Pete Doherty more time to recover from drug treatment. The band postponed their five remaining dates to allow him to continue his "excellent" rehab efforts. 2007, 25 year-old Hip-hop artist Lil' Wayne was arrested during a US tour after a concert in Idaho on a warrant stemming from a drug possession charge. Because of the nature of the charges, the rapper - real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr - was not eligible for bail. 2007, Bruce Springsteen went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Magic', the singer, songwriter's 15th studio album and 7th UK No.1. Also a US No.1 album. 2007, Rascal Flatts were at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Still Feels Good' the American country pop bands fifth studio album and third No.1. 2009, Monkees vocalist Davy Jones ruled out ever reuniting with his former band mates after launching a scathing attack on each of his old pals in The National Enquirer. "It's not a case of dollars and cents. It's a case of satisfying yourself. I don't have anything to prove. The Monkees proved it for me."
Releases
1971: Michael Jackson, "Got To Be There"
Recording
1940: Artie Shaw, "Stardust" 1960: Elvis Presley, "Flaming Star" 1968: The Beatles, "Long Long Long"
Charts
none
Certifications
1969: The Youngbloods' "Get Together" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2013 6:07:12 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 8 -- Births
1934: Doc Green (The Drifters) 1940: Fred Cash (The Impressions) 1941: George Bellamy (The Tornadoes) 1941: Dave Arbus (East Of Eden) 1942: Buzz Clifford 1944: Susan Raye 1945: Ray Royer (Procol Harum) 1945: Butch Rillera (Redbone) 1947: Tony Wilson (Hot Chocolate) 1949: Hamish Stuart (The Average White Band) 1950: Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool and the Gang)
Deaths
1990: Barrie Wilson (Procol Harum)
Events
1935: Bandleader Ozzie Nelson marries his lead vocalist, Harriet Hilliard.
1962: Joining what he is told is a gospel music tour in England with Sam Cooke, Little Richard instead finds himself part of a rock and roll revue (featuring a young Billy Preston on keyboards). Cooke's popularity with his secular set convinces Richard to return to rock, and his self-imposed exile is ended... for the first time, anyway.
1966: Cream drummer Ginger Baker collapses while on stage at a Sussex University gig in England, just after completing his epic 20-minute solo on "Toad."
1968: "Mama" Cass Elliot's initial solo engagement at Caesars' Palace is a disaster, with Elliot collapsing from exhaustion and her backup band ill-rehearsed. While hospitalized, she contracts tonsillitis, forcing the cancellation of the entire two-week engagement.
1977: NBC airs The Paul Simon Special, which again reunites the singer with old friend Art Garfunkel.
1985: Little Richard passes out behind the wheel while driving his sports car in West Hollywood and runs into a telephone pole, seriously injuring him and forcing him to miss his induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After he recovers, he returns yet again to spiritual music.
1987: The acclaimed Chuck Berry documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll premieres in US theaters on the same day that Berry himself is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 1777 N. Vine.
1987: Promoting their space-themed Afterburner record, ZZ Top book passage on what is announced as the first passenger flight to the moon.
1988: The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards performs his first solo single, "Take It So Hard," on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live.
1989: After Rolling Stone Ron Wood suggested the Who were reforming for the money alone, Who guitarist Pete Townshend publicly answered: "Mick needs a lot more than I do. His last album was a flop," referring to the Stones' legendary miscue Dirty Work.
1992: The US Postal Service issues a booklet of commemorative rock and roll stamps featuring Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Bill Haley, Ritchie Valens, Clyde McPhatter, and Dinah Washington.
Releases
1979: Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
Recording
1941: Benny Goodman, "Buckle Down Winsocki" 1957: Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls Of Fire" 1964: The Beatles, "She's A Woman" 1968: The Beatles, "Long Long Long," "I'm So Tired," "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill"
Charts
1955: The Four Aces' "Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" hits #1 1977: Billy Joel's LP The Stranger enters the charts
Certifications
1974: Dionne Warwick and The Spinners' "Then Came You" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2013 8:03:35 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 9 -- Births
1937: Pat Burke (The Foundations) 1939: O.V. Wright 1940: John Lennon 1944: John Entwistle (The Who) 1944: Peter Tosh 1948: Jackson Browne
Deaths
1978: Jacques Brel 1988: Cliff Gallup (Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps)
Events
1959: At 22 years of age, Bobby Darin becomes the youngest performer to headline the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas' famed Copa Room.
1962: The BBC bans Bobby "Boris" Pickett's hit "Monster Mash," feeling the subject matter -- comical as it is -- may be deemed grotesque or otherwise tasteless to some listeners.
1964: The Rolling Stones cancel an upcoming South African tour when the British Musicians Union declares an embargo of the country due to their apartheid polices.
1964: Bobby Darin begins filming his eighth movie, That Funny Feeling, in Hollywood.
1967: Legendary New York DJ Murray The K is fired from station WOR-FM, where he had moved to take advantage of the new free-form format of FM radio, when the station's new owners decided to move to a set playlist.
1967: Doc Severinsen, already a member of the house band on NBC-TV's Tonight Show, replaces Skitch Henderson as its leader.
1969: BBC's Top Of The Pops refuses to play the Number One hit in the country for the first time. The song, Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus," is considered one of the first "orgasm records," that is, one of the first to feature heavy female breathing and moaning.
1973: Priscilla Presley finalizes her divorce from Elvis with a second, revised settlement giving her $14,200 a year in support, $725,000 in cash now, half of the sale of the couple's Palm Springs home, and five percent of all new recordings. The ex-couple leave the courthouse holding hands.
1975: On father John Lennon's 35th birthday, Yoko Ono gives birth to Sean Ono Taro Lennon.
1978: The Faces' Ian McLagan marries his longtime girlfriend, former model (and first wife of Keith Moon) Kim Kerrigan.
1980: Despite years of hits in the UK, Gary Glitter declares bankruptcy.
1984: The extraordinarily popular children's show Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends begins its run on BBC-TV, featuring a narrator by the name of Ringo Starr.
2000: Barry White gives a speech to the debate squad at Oxford University.
2006: During tonight's show at Madison Square Garden, Barbra Streisand loses control and yells at a heckler to "Shut the ---- up."
Releases
1971: Van Morrison, "Wild Night" 1978: David Bowie, Stage 1979: Styx, "Babe"
Recording
1931: Russ Columbo, "Prisoner Of Love" 1958: Eddie Cochran, "C'mon Everybody" 1964: The Beach Boys, "Dance, Dance, Dance" 1968: The Beatles, "Long Long Long," "Why Don't We Do It In The Road"
Charts
1961: Ray Charles' "Hit The Road, Jack" hits #1 1965: The Beatles' "Yesterday" hits #1 1965: The Miracles' "My Girl Has Gone" enters the charts 1976: Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band's "A Fifth Of Beethoven" hits #1
Certifications
1973: Paul Simon's "Loves Me Like A Rock" is certified gold
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2013 4:44:08 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 10 -- Births
1908: Johnny Green 1914: Ivory Joe Hunter 1917: Thelonious Monk 1923: Louis Gottlieb 1943: Denis D'Ell (The Honeycombs) 1945: Alan Cartwright (Procol Harum) 1945: Jerry Lacroix (Blood Sweat and Tears, Edgar Winter's White Trash) 1946: John Prine 1946: Ben Vereen 1948: Cyril Neville (The Neville Brothers) 1958: Tanya Tucker
Deaths
2007: Art Todd
Events
1902: Kalamazoo, MI, mandolin maker Orville Gibson founds the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co, Ltd. In 1936 it would create the first commercially successful electric guitar.
1959: Paul McCartney helps to force the last non-Beatle member of the Quarrymen, Ken Brown, from the skiffle group after Brown gets paid for an engagement at Liverpool's Casbah Club for which he was too sick to perform. This leaves the Quarrymen as John, Paul, and George; by May of the following year, the group, now featuring Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best, would be known as the "Beatals."
1959: Brenda Lee is diagnosed with thyroid deficiency -- the first of many neck problems for the full-throated singer -- and admitted to a Nashville hospital.
1970: The first issue of the legendary UK rock newspaper Sounds is published.
1970: The US' Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head, Nicholas Johnson, responds to recent comments made by Vice President Spiro Agnew that attacked radio stations for playing songs that contained "drug culture propaganda... (in) too many of the lyrics the message of the drug culture is purveyed," saying, "If we really want to do something about drugs, let's do something about life... The song writers are trying to help us understand our plight and deal with it. It's about the only leadership we're getting. They're not really urging you to adopt a heroin distribution program, Mr. Vice President."
1978: At tonight's Aerosmith show in Philadelphia, PA, an audience member tosses a "cherry bomb" firecracker onto the stage, injuring singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry. Thereafter, the band performs behind a chain-link fence.
1979: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley declares today "Fleetwood Mac Day" and unveils a star for the band on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Blvd.
1979: The film The Rose, a thinly-veiled biopic of Janis Joplin starring Bette Midler, premieres in Hollywood.
1980, The funeral took place of Led Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham. ‘Bonzo’ was found dead at guitarists Jimmy Page's house of what was described as asphyxiation, after inhaling his own vomit after excessive vodka consumption, (40 shots in 4 hours) aged 32. Read the full story 1981, The Police went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Ghost In The Machine', the bands third No.1 LP. 1987, Whitesnake went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Here I Go Again', a No.9 hit in the UK in 1987. 1987, Wanda Nicholls made an official complaint that David Bowie raped her and bit her on the legs and back. Bowie dismissed the alleged incident, claiming Nicholls was 'publicity seeking.' 1992, R.E.M. scored their second UK No.1 album with 'Automatic For The People', featuring the singles 'Drive', 'Everybody Hurts', 'Man On The Moon' and 'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.
1997: Jimmy Osmond becomes the proud father of his second child, Zachary James, who becomes the 50th member of the Osmond clan.
1999: Las Vegas' Grand Hotel holds an auction of several hundred thousand dollars' worth of Elvis memorabilia, including the King's wristwatch, cigar box, and his 1956 Lincoln Continental.
2001: Dennis DeYoung sues Styx, his former band, for touring and singing his songs without him. He'd left the band in 1999 due to chronic fatigue syndrome.
2002, Twelve protesters dressed as monkeys picketed outside the north Wales holiday home of former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown. The demonstrators argued Brown, was selling the five-bedroom house, in the small village of Llithfaen on the Llyn Peninsula for an inflated price - £150,000 - which local people could not afford. The monkey costumes worn by the anonymous protesters, referred to the name of Brown's recent solo album 'Unfinished Monkey Business.' 2007, Sting topped a list of the worst lyricists ever, for such alleged sins as name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the Police tune "Don't Stand So Close to Me," quoting a Volvo bumper sticker ("If You Love Someone Set Them Free"), and co-opting the works of Chaucer, St. Augustine and Shakespeare. The survey in Blender magazine placed Rush drummer Neil Peart at No. 2, Creed frontman Scott Stapp at No. 3 and Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher at No. 4 saying Gallagher "seemed incapable of following a metaphor through a single line, let alone a whole verse." 2009, Pearl Jam went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Backspacer', the group's ninth studio album. 2009, Boyzone singer Stephen Gately died suddenly at the age of 33 while on holiday in Majorca. Spanish police said there were no signs of suspicious circumstances, but the cause of death was not yet known. Gately was on holiday with his long-term partner Andy Cowles
Releases
1959: The Miracles, "Bad Girls" 1964: The Shangri-Las, "Leader Of The Pack" 1970: Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother 1970: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, "The Tears Of A Clown"
Recording
1940: Lanny Ross, "Moonlight And Roses" 1963: Elvis Presley: "Once Is Enough," "Catchin' On Fast," "Anyone," "Smokey Mountain Boy," "There's Gold In The Mountains," "One Boy, Two Little Girls," "Kissin' Cousins," "Barefoot Ballad," "Tender Feeling" 1968: The Beatles: "Piggies," "Glass Onion," "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"
Charts
1953: Stan Freberg's "St. George And The Dragonet" hits #1 1956: Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender" enters the charts 1960: Larry Verne's "Mr. Custer" hits #1 1970: Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie" hits #1
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Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2013 19:55:13 GMT -5
Today In Music History: October 11 -- Births
1919: Art Blakey 1928: Ennio Morricone 1932: Dottie West 1943: Gene Watson 1946: Gary Mallaber (The Steve Miller Band) 1948: Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates) 1950: Andrew Woolfolk 1955: Lindy Boone (The Boone Family)
Deaths
1963: Edith Piaf 2004: Bruce Palmer (Buffalo Springfield)
Events
1960: Aretha Franklin delivers her first secular performance tonight, at New York's famed Village Vanguard.
1965: Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers marries his first wife, Pauline Behan -- the former secretary of his fan club!
1967: CBS presents Barbra Streisand's third television special, The Belle Of 14th Street, also starring Jason Robards.
1969: Muddy Waters is severely injured in a car crash just outside Chicago that leaves three other passengers dead. Waters will remain absent from music for about a year, and will rarely stand up on stage again.
1970: Elvis Presley is made an honorary "special" deputy sheriff of Bel Air, CA.
1975: The very first musical guest on the new NBC-TV series Saturday Night (later Saturday Night Live) is Janis Ian, who performs her hit "At Seventeen."
1976, Pussycat started a four week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mississippi' making them the first Dutch act to top the UK chart. 1980, The Police scored their second UK No.1 album with their third studio release 'Zenyatta Mondatta', which featured, 'Don't Stand So Close to Me', 'Canary in a Coalmine and 'De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da.' Read the full story 1981, The Rolling Stones performed at the Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California, USA, as part of a 50-date North American tour. 95 fans were arrested after trouble broke out at the venue. The tour became the largest grossing of 1981, with $50 million in ticket sales. 1986, Janet Jackson started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'When I Think Of You', her first US No.1, a No.10 hit in the UK. 1986, Madonna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the title track from her album. 'True Blue' her third UK No.1. The title came from a favorite expression of her then husband Sean Penn and was a direct tribute to him. 1989, Michael Jackson attended the opening ceremony of the Michael Jackson Auditorium at his former school, Gardner Street Elementary in Hollywood, California. In November, 2003, school officials covered over Jackson's name with painted plywood, leaving only the word "Auditorium" showing, after receiving requests from angry parents when Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation. 1990, Drummer Dave Grohl played his first gig with Nirvana when they appeared at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia
1991: Apple Computers settles their first trademark lawsuit against the Beatles' Apple Corps for a paltry $29 million, an issue that the Beatles' handlers would open back up when the Internet made music sales possible on computers.
1999: Deborah Rowe, Michael Jackson's first wife and the former nurse at his plastic surgeon's office, files for divorce from the singer.
2003, Mojo magazine readers voted the studio session for Elvis Presley's debut single 'That's All Right' the most pivotal moment in rock history. Bob Dylan's switch from acoustic to electric guitars in 1965 came second, and 'White Riot, the debut single by The Clash released in 1977 was voted third. 2005, Freddie Mercury's 1974 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was offered for auction on eBay by his sister, Kashmira Cooke, who had inherited the car from him. The luxury vehicle had not appeared in public since 2002, when it had been used to transport the Bulsara family to the premiere of the Queen stage musical We Will Rock You. It came with a box of Kleenex Mansize tissues left in the car by Freddie. Going Going Gone 2006, Madonna adopted a one-year-old boy in Malawi, Africa, the boy's father, Yohane Banda, told reporters "I know he will be very happy in America." The boy's mother had died a week after he was born. 2009, Barbra Streisand went to No.1 on the US album charts with 'Love Is the Answer'. Streisand's ninth No.1 album, making her the only artist to have a number one album in America in five different decades. 2009, 54-year-old Jo Wood, wife of The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, was granted a divorce after 24 years of marriage on the grounds of adultery. The couple split in 2008 after the guitarist, 64, began a relationship with a 20-year-old woman. 2010, George Michael was released from Highpoint Prison in Suffolk, England after serving four of an eight week sentence for driving under the influence of drugs. The singer had been arrested after crashing his car into the front of a Snappy Snaps store in Hampstead, North London in July of this year. Read more on George Michael 2012, The Rolling Stones' new single, 'Doom And Gloom', was released, the first new studio recordings since 2005's A Bigger Bang. Doom And Gloom was the lead single from the band’s most recent greatest hits collection, GRRR!
Releases
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Recording
1939: Coleman Hawkins, "Body And Soul" 1940: Glenn Miller, "Make Believe Ballroom Time"
Charts
1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival's LP Green River hits #1 1969: Grand Funk Railroad's LP On Time enters the charts 1975: Neil Sedaka's "Bad Blood" hits #1
Certifications
1963: The Beatles' "She Loves You" is certified gold 1968: Aretha Franklin's "I Say A Little Prayer" is certified gold
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