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Post by JamesP on Mar 14, 2015 13:58:25 GMT -5
This Day in Music for 14th March
Events in Music
1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London
1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1980 - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
1990 - 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson win
1991 - Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
Birthdays in Music
1623 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer
1726 - Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
1727 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
1755 - Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
1795 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer
1804 - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849)
1815 - Josephine Lang, composer
1826 - William Fisk Sherwin, composer
1831 - Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
1835 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer
1875 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer
1883 - Juan Manen, composer
1884 - Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1887 - Lawrence Collingwood, composer
1894 - Josef Schelb, composer
1906 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
1908 - Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1912 - Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1913 - Witold Rudzinski, composer
1914 - Jiri Reinberger, composer
1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
1915 - Alexander Brott, composer
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
1919 - Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show)
1922 - Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again)
1926 - Francois d'Assise Morel, composer
1930 - Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
1931 - Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
1933 - Quincy Jones Jr, composer/singer (We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois
1934 - Shirley Scott, swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1935 - Jo van den Booren, composer
1939 - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
1943 - Jim Pons, bassist (Turtles, Mothers of Invention), born in Santa Monica, California
1945 - Herman[us J] van Veen, Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer
1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, Dallas Tx, country singer (Wildfire)
1945 - Walt Parazaider, rock saxophonist (Chicago), born in Chicago, Illinois
1947 - Jimmy O'Rourke, rocker
1954 - Adrian Zmed, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 - Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 - Boon Gould, rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 - Patrick Dupond, Paris, dancer (La Bayadere)
1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
1983 - Jordan Taylor Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1985 - Idaira, Spanish singer
Deaths in Music
1760 - Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26
1768 - Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58
1801 - Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63
1861 - Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
1944 - Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66
1954 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72
1958 - Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1982 - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59
1986 - Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81
1986 - Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
1991 - Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1991 - Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
1995 - Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73
2009 - Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947)
2013 - Jack Greene, American country artist, dies from complications from Alzheimer's disease at 83
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Post by JamesP on Mar 17, 2015 7:28:26 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 17
Births
1919: Nat "King" Cole
1935: Adam Wade
1938: Zola Taylor (The Platters)
1941: Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)
1941: Clarence Collins (Little Anthony and the Imperials)
1944: John Sebastian (The Lovin' Spoonful)
1944: Bob Johnson (Steeleye Span)
1944: Pat McCauley (Them)
1946: Harold Brown (War)
1948: Patrick Lloyd (The Equals)
1951: Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy)
1954: Wally Stocker (The Babys)
Deaths
1982: Samuel George Jr. (The Capitols)
1990: Rick Grech (Family, Blind Faith, Traffic)
1995: Albert "Sunnyland Slim" Luandrew 1996: Terry Stafford
2008: Ola Brunkert (ABBA)
2010: Alex Chilton (The Box Tops, Big Star)
Events
1956: Carl Perkins makes his television debut on the ABC variety show Ozark Jamboree .
1956: Rock Around The Clock , starring Little Richard, The Platters, and Bill Haley and his Comets (of course), premieres in Washington DC.
1957: Elvis Presley purchases Memphis' Graceland mansion, featuring 23 rooms and 10,000 square feet of space on 13.8 acres, for $102,500.
1962: In a major development for British rock and roll, Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated becomes the Saturday night house band at the Ealing jazz club in London.
1962: Ray Charles starts his own artist-owned record label, Tangerine.
1968: The Bee Gees make their US television debut, performing "To Love Somebody" and "Words" on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show .
1975: At the height of her popularity, Cher makes the cover of Time magazine.
1976: Boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's murder case is reopened, largely due to the attention brought upon it by Bob Dylan's recent hit song "Hurricane."
1978: Perhaps the greatest film about the 50's rock and roll scene, American Hot Wax , premieres in Cleveland, featuring performances by Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Frankie Ford.
1990: That's What Friends Are For , an AIDS benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall that also serves to celebrate 15 years of the Arista label, features performances by label artists Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, Hall and Oates, and Whitney Houston.
2004: Ray Davies of the Kinks is awarded a Commander of the British Empire medal from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
2006: Beset by financial and legal woes, Michael Jackson closes his Neverland Ranch in California.
2008: Eight years to the day that their romance became public, model and activist Heather Mills is awarded $48.6 million in her divorce settlement from Paul McCartney.
Releases
1962: The Shirelles, "Soldier Boy"
1969: Cream, "Badge"
1977: Elvis Presley, Welcome To My World
Recording
1955: Sarah Vaughan, "Whatever Lola Wants"
1967: The Beatles, "She's Leaving Home"
1967: Bobby Vee, "Come Back When You Grow Up"
1971: Elvis Presley: "Help Me Make It Through The Night," "Lady Madonna," "Lead Me, Guide Me"
Charts
1958: The Champs' "Tequila" hits #1
1973: Eric Weissberg's album Dueling Banjos hits #1
Certifications
1969: Eddie Holman's "Hey There Lonely Girl" is certified gold
1970: The Beatles' "Let It Be" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Mar 18, 2015 2:50:06 GMT -5
March 18th: On this Day
1939, Frank Sinatra made his first recording, a song called 'Our Love', with the Frank Mane band.
1965, The Rolling Stones were each fined £5 ($8.50) for urinating in a public place, following an incident that had taken place at a petrol station after a gig at the ABC Theatre in Romford, Essex, England. This was after the last show on their fifth UK package tour with The Hollies, The Konrads, all girl-group Goldie and the Gingerbreads and Dave Berry and the Cruisers.
1965, John Lennon gave his friend and ex-Quarry Man Pete Shotton £20,000 to open Hayling Supermarkets. Lennon, George Harrison and Shotton became joint directors of Hayling Supermarkets Ltd.
1967, The UK music magazine New Musical Express announced that former Spence Davis Group member Steve Winwood was planning to form a new group with Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. The ensemble would choose the name Traffic.
1967, The Beatles scored their 13th US No.1 single with 'Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever'. The song's title is derived from the name of a street near Lennon's house, in Liverpool. McCartney and Lennon would meet at Penny Lane junction in the Mossley Hill area to catch a bus into the centre of the city.
1972, Neil Young started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Heart Of Gold'. His only Top 20 hit as a solo artist reached No.10 on the UK chart. More on Neil Young
1972, Paul Simon scored his first solo No.1 album when his self-titled debut went to the top on the UK charts. Featuring the singles 'Mother And Child Reunion' and 'Me And Julio Down By The School Yard.'
1972, T Rex played the first of two sold out nights at Wembley's Empire Pool; Ringo Starr filmed the shows for the 'Born To Boogie' Apple documentary.
1977, The Clash released their debut single 'White Riot.' It peaked at No.38 on the UK charts.
1978, The Bee Gees had the Top 3 on the US singles charts, 'Night Fever' at No.1, '(Love is) Thicker Than Water', by brother Andy at No.2, co-written by Barry Gibb and 'Emotion' by Samantha Song written and produced by The Bee Gees at No.3.
1978, Aerosmith, Santana, Heart, Dave Mason, Ted Nugent and Mahogany Rush all appeared at the California Jam II festival, Ontario, California.
1989, A radio station in California arranged to have all it's Cat Stevens Records destroyed by having a steamroller run over them in protest of the singer's support of Ayatollah Khomeni.
1989, Stock, Aitken and Waterman had three singles in the UK Top 5: Jason Donovan's 'Too Many Broken Hearts', Bananarama's 'Help', and Donna Summer's 'This Time I Know Its For Real.'
1991, After attending an in-store promo appearance U2 were fined £500 ($850) after being found guilty of selling condoms illegally at the Virgin Megastore, Dublin.
1996, The Sex Pistols announced their comeback at the 100 Club in London, 20 years after they had split.
1997, Rap artist Notorious Big was cremated in New Jersey. The 24 year-old was gunned down and killed on 9th March of this year as he left a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
2001, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter John Phillips of Mamas and The Papas died of heart failure aged 65. His first band, The Journeymen, were a folk trio, Mamas and The Papas had the US No.1 'Monday, Monday'. Phillips was married to Michelle Gilliam, they had one child together, Chynna Phillips, vocalist of the 1990's pop trio Wilson Phillips. His second solo album was released on Rolling Stones records and featured Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood.
2001, Hear'Say started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Pure And Simple.' The winners of TV talent contest "Popstars", with sales of over half a million copies in the first week it became the biggest seller for a debut single.
2001, Tragedy struck at an in-store appearance by British boy band A1 in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta after a stampede amongst the fans. Four girls were killed and two others were seriously injured.
2002, The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam and close friend of the Ramones. The ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
2004, Courtney Love exposed her breasts during an appearance on David Letterman's TV talk show. The singer who had her back to the audience flashed at the presenter while singing the song Danny Boy. After the show, she went on to perform a surprise gig at the Plaid night-club in Manhattan where she was alleged to have injured a man by throwing a microphone stand into the crowd. Ms Love was charged with assault and reckless endangerment.
2008, Heather Mills' evidence in her divorce case with Sir Paul McCartney was "inconsistent, inaccurate" and "less than candid", according to judge Mr Justice Bennett's. His High Court ruling was revealed in full after Ms Mills was told she could not appeal against its publication. The full ruling was published a day after she was awarded £24.3m at the High Court in London. Mills was awarded £3.2m per year for herself and the couple's daughter Beatrice, £8m for a home in London and £3m to purchase a home in New York. The judge found the total value of Sir Paul's assets was about £400m. Ms Mills had sought £125m and been offered £15.8m.
2011, Organisers of an attempt to reunite 19 people who watched The Beatles play in a town hall in 1963 had claims from 24 people who said they were there. Billy Shanks was helping to lead the search for the audience members of the gig in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland in 1963. He said some who turned up thought the music was rubbish and left to join an audience of 1,200 watching a local band in nearby Strathpeffer.
2011, Jet Harris, bass guitarist for The Shadows, died from throat cancer at the age of 71. Jet played on the hit 'Apache' and during their days as Cliff Richard's backing band, performed on the chart-topper 'Living Doll'. In 1962 he left the group and had solo hits with 'Besame Mucho' and 'The Man With The Golden Arm'.
2013, David Bowie's first album in a decade become the fastest-selling of the year, hitting the No.1 spot in the UK in its first week of release. 'The Next Day' was the 66-year-old's first No.1 since 1993's 'Black Tie White Noise' and sold 94,000 copies in the first week. More on David Bowie
Births
1936: Robert Lee Smith (The Tams)
1938: Charlie Pride
1941: Wilson Pickett
1943: Dennis Linde (Songwriter - "Burning Love")
1947: B.J. Wilson (Procul Harum)
1950: John Hartman (The Doobie Brothers)
1964: Courtney Pine (Jazz Musician)
1966: Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains)
1967: Miki Berenyi (Guitar and Vocals - Lush)
1970: Queen Latifah
1974: Stuart Zender (Bass, Jamiroquai)
1977: Devin Lima, UK male singer, LFO, (1990 UK No.10 single 'LFO').
1979: Shola Ama, singer, (1997 UK No.3 single 'You're The One I Love').
1979: Adam Levine, guitar, vocals, Maroon 5, who had the 2004 UK No.1 album ‘Songs About Jane’, the 2004 US No.1 & UK No.4 single ‘She Will Be Loved’ and the 2014 US No.1 album V.
1985: Marvin Humes, singer, JLS, runners-up of the fifth series of The X Factor.
Deaths
2001: John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas)
2010: Fess Parker
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Post by voodoo on Mar 18, 2015 3:29:01 GMT -5
40 years ago today I sigmed my first real contract with JUNGLE RECORDS. I stayed with them for 5 years and then Arista signed us,.. though this was a step up this was also when they started changing my lyrics and asking for love songs etc.
Then within the industry, you became a commodity.
I love and miss everyday I had while a professional musician with a union card .
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Post by JamesP on Mar 19, 2015 11:21:56 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 19
Births
1914: Patricia Morison
1930: Ornette Coleman
1930: Bill Henderson
1937: Clarence "Frogman" Henry
1942: Robin Luke
1946: Ruth Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)
1946: Paul Atkinson (The Zombies)
1955: Derek Longmuir (The Bay City Rollers)
Deaths
1976: Paul Kossoff (Free)
2007: Luther Ingram
Events
1957: Although he wouldn't finalize the deal for six more days, Elvis Presley puts down a deposit to secure the 14-acre estate with a two-story colonial at 3734 Highway 51 South, Memphis, TN., later known as Graceland.
1958: As Tom and Jerry, Simon and Garfunkel release their third single, a ditty named "Our Song" (BIG 616).
1964: British PM Harold Wilson, who would later be satirized in the band's song "Taxman," presents the Beatles with the award for being "Show Business Personalities of 1963" at the Variety Club of Great Britain Annual Show Business Awards.
1965: Britain's Tailor and Cutter
1966: The Walker Brothers' Gary Lewis undergoes a fake abduction by college students as a charity stunt.
1966: Lesley Gore guest stars as herself on the final "By Line -- Jeffrey Stone" episode of ABC-TV's The Donna Reed Show.
1970: David Bowie marries model Mary Angela Barnett, his first wife and the eventual subject of the Rolling Stones' 1974 hit, "Angie," in Kent, England.
1971: Teen idol Bobby Sherman guest stars as songwriter "Bobby Conway" on the "A Knight In Shining Armor" episode of ABC-TV's The Partridge Family.
1974: Jefferson Airplane reform with the core of their original members, rechristening themselves Jefferson Starship.
1978: Billy Joel plays his first live gig in the UK, performing at London's Drury Lane Theatre.
1980: Elvis Presley's autopsy is entered into proceedings held by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners against Dr. George Nichopoulos, better known to his clients -- including Elvis -- as "Dr. Nick." The doctor will eventually be found guilty of overprescribing the drugs that led to The King's death and will have his license revoked, even though he repeatedly took measures to cure Presley of his addiction.
1988: Michael Jackson begins construction on his 2,800-acre ranch and private amusement park in Santa Barbara, CA, which he will name "Neverland" after a fantasy location in his favorite book, Peter Pan
2003: The musical Cliff, based on the life of Cliff Richard, opens in London's East End.
2004: After she has an allergic reaction to antibiotics, Aretha Franklin is admitted to Detroit's Sinai-Grace Hospital.
Releases
none
Recording
1941: Jimmy Dorsey, "Green Eyes"
1971: Elvis Presley: "Miracle Of The Rosary," "Seeing Is Believing," "It's Still Here," "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," "I Will Be True"
Charts
none
Certifications
1968: Dean Martin's LP Houston is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Mar 21, 2015 7:43:36 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 21
Births
1902: Son House
1918: Sir Charles Thompson
1919: Billy Joe Hunter
1923: Mort Lindsey
1930: Otis Spann
1940: Solomon Burke
1941: John Boylan
1943: Viv Stanshall (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band)
1945: Rosemary Stone (Sly and the Family Stone)
1946: Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry)
1950: Roger Hodgson (Supertramp)
1951: Russell Thompkins Jr. (The Stylistics)
1953: Robert Johnson (KC and the Sunshine Band)
Deaths
1987: Dean Paul Martin (Dino, Desi and Billy)
1991: Leo Fender
2002: John "Speedy" Keene (Thunderclap Newman)
2004: Johnny Bristol
Events
1952: At the Cleveland Arena, influential DJ Alan Freed holds what is today considered the first true "rock and roll concert," as his Moondog Coronation Ball features Billy Ward and the Dominoes, Tiny Grimes, and Paul Williams and the Hucklebuckers. With ten thousand attendees (and twice that many outside, waiting to get in), the local police shut the concert down prematurely for fire code violations, causing a near-riot.
1956: After performing in Norfolk, VA (with Gene Vincent opening), and en route to New York to appear on The Perry Como Show , Carl Perkins is badly injured in a Dover, DE car crash that also kills his manager and his brother Jay. The crash derails Perkins career, almost for good, as he is forced to spend months in the hospital nursing a fractured neck, broken collarbone, and a severe concussion, while Elvis Presley has an ever bigger hit with Carl's hit "Blue Suede Shoes."
1961: The Beatles, still featuring Pete Best on drums, play their first evening gig at Liverpool's Cavern Club, opening for an act called The Bluegenes (later the Swinging Blue Jeans of "Hippy Hippy Shake" fame).
1963: Barbra Streisand marries her first husband, actor Elliott Gould, whom she'd met while both were performing in the Broadway hit I Can Get It for You Wholesale.
1964: Dean Martin immortalizes his handprints in the cement of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
1964: Judy Collins is catapulted into stardom after a momentous appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall.
1967: John Lennon takes his first major LSD trip and freaks out while recording backing vocals on the track "Getting Better." Producer George Martin, not realizing the effects of the drug, takes Lennon to the roof of Abbey Road Studios to get some fresh air. Paul and George, upon learning where John was, rush up to get him down. The group works on a piano track for "Lovely Rita" instead.
1973: After screaming teenage David Cassidy fangirls cause a riot on the set of the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops , the program bans all future teen idols from performing.
1976: David Bowie and Iggy Pop are arrested in New York and charged with marijuana possession, charges which are later dropped.
1984: John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, dedicates a section of New York City's Central Park as a place of meditation called Strawberry Fields. Every December 9, thousands of fans converge on the spot to remember her last husband, who was murdered by a deranged fan on that day in 1980.
1990: Tony Orlando is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6385 Hollywood Boulevard.
1994: Bruce Springsteen wins an Oscar for penning the song "Streets Of Philadelphia" for the Tom Hanks movie Philadelphia.
2003: Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry divorces his first wife, model Lucy Helmore, after 21 years, on grounds of adultery.
2006: After a six-year legal battle, the three surviving daughters of African musician Solomon Linda are awarded one-quarter of all future royalties from the Tokens' 1961 hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." The court ruled that the song, which the Tokens adapted from a Pete Seeger song called "Wimoweh," which was actually Linda's 1939 adaptation of a native folk song. Linda, who died in 1962, had nothing to leave to his family, who were destitute at the time of the ruling.
2008: Five years of legal wrangling comes to a close after the Beach Boys' Mike Love and Brian Wilson sued former member Al Jardine in an attempt to stop him from using the name while touring with his own band. Jardine's lawyer, while not disclosing the terms of the agreement, said his client "feels very happy and feels that this is a friendly settlement that allows them to focus on the talent and future of this American iconic band," words that have Beach Boys fans hopeful for the possibility of a full-scale group reunion.
Releases
1970: The Faces, First Step
Recording
1939: Kate Smith, "God Bless America"
1960: Elvis Presley: "Stuck On You," "Fame And Fortune," "A Mess Of Blues," "It Feels So Right"
1961: Elvis Presley: "Hawaiian Sunset," "Ku-u-i-po," "No More," "Slicin' Sand"
1967: The Beatles, "Lovely Rita"
1971: "Love Me, Love The Life I Lead"
Charts
1953: Patti Page's "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?" hits #1
1964: The Beatles' "She Loves You" hits #1
Certifications
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Post by JamesP on Mar 23, 2015 11:51:58 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 23
Births
1952: Dave Bartram (Showaddywaddy)
1953: Chaka Khan
Deaths
2008: Neil Aspinall
Events
1955: The juvenile-delinquent flick The Blackboard Jungle premieres in US theaters. While it is a solid and even daring drama, it's remembered mainly for prominently featuring Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock." The single, which had been released a full year earlier to little fanfare, rockets back into the charts and straight to #1, kicking off the rock and roll era in earnest.
1955: Elvis Presley, along with bandmates Scotty Moore and Bill Black, audition for Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts
1956: At a Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers concert in Hartford, CT, eleven audience members are arrested for allegedly inciting a riot.
1960: Songwriter and future superstar Carole King gives birth to her first child, a daughter named Louise, with husband and writing partner Gerry Goffin.
1964: John Lennon's first whimsical, Lewis Carroll-like book of prose and poetry, In His Own Write, is published.
1969: In response to the Doors' infamous recent concert there (at which lead singer Jim Morrison allegedly exposed himself), a "Rally For Decency" is held in Miami featuring Jackie Gleason, The Lettermen, Kate Smith, and Anita Bryant and promising that the crowd of 30,000 will contain no "longhairs and weird dressers."
1970: Phil Spector takes the tapes for the aborted Beatles project "Get Back" into Abbey Road Studios to begin reshaping them into the album that would eventually be called Let It Be . Meanwhile, in the next room over, Paul McCartney works on his first solo album.
1977: Elvis Presley begins what will be his last tour with a concert at Arizona State University.
1985: John Fogerty engineers an amazing comeback when his LP Centerfield becomes a Number 1 hit 15 years after the breakup of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
1985: Billy Joel marries supermodel Christie Brinkley on a boat in New York Harbor, near the Statue of Liberty. The marriage will last ten years.
Releases
1957: Elvis Presley, "All Shook Up"
1959: Bobby Darin, That's All
1973: Paul McCartney and Wings, "My Love"
Recording
1959: Ray Peterson, "The Wonder Of You"
1961: Elvis Presley: "Aloha-Oe," "Can't Help Falling In Love," "Beach Boy Blues," "Rock-A-Hula Baby"
1963: Johnny Cash, "Ring Of Fire"
1967: The Beatles, "Getting Better"
Charts
1959: The Skyliners' "Since I Don't Have You" enters the charts
1963: Ruby and the Romantics' "Our Day Will Come" hits #1
1974: Cher's "Dark Lady" hits #1
Certifications
none
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Post by JamesP on Mar 24, 2015 6:42:56 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 24
Births
1912: Nervous Norvus
1922: Dave Appell (The Applejacks)
1937: Billy Stewart
1948: Lee Oskar (War)
1949: Nick Lowe
1951: Dougie Thomson (Supertramp)
1952: Dave Bartram (Showaddywaddy)
Deaths
1997: Harold Melvin (Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes)
2005: Rod Price (Foghat)
2007: Henson Cargill
2009: Uriel Jones
Events
1935: The godfather of all broadcast talent shows, Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour , moves from a New York show to national prominence with a new slot on the NBC radio network. In 1952, the show, now hosted by Ted Mack, made it to NBC-TV. It would run on various networks until 1970.
1941: Glenn Miller begins filming his first motion picture, Sun Valley Serenade.
1945: Billboard begins publishing its first album chart. The first Number One: A Collection Of Favorites by Nat King Cole.
1956: Elvis Presley visits friend and fellow Sun labelmate Carl Perkins in a Dover, DE hospital, where he is recovering from his near-fatal car crash.
1958: At 6:35 in the morning, Elvis Presley reports to the offices of Memphis' Local Draft Board 86, accompanied by his parents and longtime friend Lamar Fike, then is bused with twelve other new recruits to Kennedy Veterans Memorial Hospital. There, he is inducted into the US Army, a Private with serial number 53 310 761. Dozens of photographers and reporters attend. He will serve two years, and get paid $78 a month.
1962: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards take the stage for the first time in Ealing, England with their first band, unfortunately named Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys.
1965: While playing in Odense, Denmark, Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman is shocked by a poorly grounded mic stand, and is instantly knocked unconscious.
1966: The first major US bootleg law is passed in New York State, a bill that makes the processing of unlicensed recordings a misdemeanor. A dozen years later to the day, England grants their record companies the right to seize bootleg recordings.
1973: An overzealous male fan climbs onstage during Lou Reed's show in Buffalo, NY, and bites him on the butt. The audience member is, not surprisingly, thrown out.
1976, Transvestite singer Wayne County appeared in court charged with assault after an incident at New York club CBGB's. County had attacked Dictators singer Handsome Dick Manitobe with a mike stand fracturing his collarbone.
1979, The Bee Gees started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Tragedy', the group's eighth US No.1. Also No.1 in the UK.
1984, The former lead singer of the Commodores Lionel Richie started a six week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Hello.' Also a No.1 hit in the US.
1985, 'Easy Lover' by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. Bailey was a former vocalist with Earth Wind & Fire. Phil Collins produced, drummed and sang on the track.
1990, Canadian singer Alannah Myles started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Black Velvet', a No.2 hit in the UK.
1990, Sinead O'Connor went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got', featuring the single 'Nothing Compares To You. Also No.1 in 13 other countries and six weeks at No.1 in the US.
1991, The Black Crowes were dropped as the support act on ZZ Top's tour after repeatedly criticising the tour sponsor Miller Beer.
1992, A Chicago court settled the Milli Vanilli class action suit by approving cash rebates of up to $3 (£1.76) to anyone proving they bought the group’s music before November 27 1990, the date the lip synching scandal broke. Milli Vanilli won the 1989 best new artist Grammy after hits like 'Blame it on the Rain' and 'Girl, You Know It's True,' selling 30 million singles and 14 million albums. But in late 1990, the performers were stripped of the award after it was revealed that neither actually sang on the Milli Vanilli album.
1997, Singer with Philly soul group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Harold Melvin died aged 57. Had the 1972 US No.3 & 1974 UK No.9 single 'If You Don't Know Me By Know' and 1973 hit ‘The Love I Lost.’
1998, UK singer Mark Morrison was jailed for a year after trying to con his way out of doing community service. He sent his minder Gabriel Mafereka who wore sunglasses and hid his hair under a hat so he looked like the star.
2000, A film company paid £635,000, ($1,079,500) for over nine hours of film shot during the 70s by Yoko Ono. The film contained shots of Lennon smoking hash and talking about his political beliefs.
2000, Sir Elton John's Aida opened on Broadway. It took Elton 21 days to write the music and five years to make the production. More on Elton John
2001: The segment of Hwy 19 that runs through Macon, GA, is renamed Duane Allman Boulevard, in remembrance of the famed Allman Brothers guitarist who died in a motorcycle crash near there three decades earlier.
2002: After a record fifteen nominations, Randy Newman wins his first Oscar award for Best Song: the Monsters Inc. composition "If I Didn't Have You."
Releases
none
Recording
1960: The Everly Brothers, "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
Charts
1958: Perry Como's "Catch A Falling Star" hits #1
1973: The O'Jays' "Love Train" hits #1
1979: The Bee Gees' "Tragedy" hits #1
Certifications
none
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Post by JamesP on Mar 25, 2015 7:36:31 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 25
Births
1699 - Composer Johann Adolph Hasse was born.
1784 - Composer Francois-Joseph Fetis was born.
1881 - Composer Bela Bartok was born. 1924: Bonnie Guitar
1934: Johnny Burnette
1938: Hoyt Axton
1940: Anita Bryant
1942: Aretha Franklin
1947: Elton John
1947: Jack Hall (The Charlie Daniels Band)
1947: Duncan Browne
1949: Nick Lowe (Brinsley Schwarz, Rockpile)
1949: Neil Jones (Amen Corner)
1951: Maisie Williams (Boney M)
Deaths
1978: Bill Kenny (The Ink Spots)
2002: Joe Schermie (Three Dog Night)
2006: Buck Owens
2009: Dan Seals (England Dan and John Ford Coley)
Events
1852 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premiered in Munich.
1958: Reporting to Ft. Chaffee, AK by bus for his induction into the service, Elvis Presley has his famous hair shorn off by an Army barber. The media follows close behind. The pop icon is assigned to Second Medium Tank Battalion, Second Armored Division, the "Hell On Wheels" division once led by General George S. Patton. Elvis, however, receives an assignment as a jeep driver. Within days, manager "Colonel" Tom Parker receives 5,000 pieces of mail addressed to the singer at Fort Chaffee.
1961: Elvis Presley holds an afternoon press conference and, in the evening, performs the USS Arizona concert at Pearl Harbor's Bloch Arena, raising $62,000 for the memorial dedicated to the 1,177 US servicemen killed when the ship went down on December 7, 1941. This would be Presley's last live performance for seven years.
1965: London session guitarist Jeff Beck joins the Yardbirds after being recommended by the group's first choice, another session man named Jimmy Page.
1968: Roy Orbison marries his second wife, Barbara Wellhonen, in Nashville. They would remain married until Orbison's death twenty years later.
1968: "The Frodis Caper," the 58th and last episode of The Monkees, directed by Micky Dolenz and featuring the lone band song "Zor and Zam," airs on NBC-TV.
1969: A just-married John Lennon and Yoko Ono decide to use the press circus of their honeymoon to promote an end to the Vietnam war, and wars in general. The duo stay, fully clothed, in their bed at the Amsterdam Hilton for the next four days, talking about peace to a cadre of largely skeptical reporters from around the world.
1971: New York's flagship radio station WNBC becomes the first to ban Brewer and Shipley's hit "One Toke Over The Line" due to alleged marijuana references.
1976: Jackson Browne's wife, Phyllis Major, commits suicide with sleeping pills just months after their marriage, leading the singer-songwriter to spend much of his next record, The Pretender , dealing with the tragedy.
1983: Motown tapes an all-star concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California in order to celebrate the label's anniversary. Performers include Stevie Wonder, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, The Commodores, Martha Reeves, and Jr. Walker. Also appearing, in what would be his last TV performance, is Marvin Gaye. A very brief Supremes reunion and a Jackson 5 performance top off the night, but when the show is broadcast on May 16, 1983, it is Michael Jackson's solo performance of his new single "Billie Jean" -- complete with moonwalk -- that would steal the show, kicking off the Thriller juggernaut and turning Michael from a superstar to a megastar overnight.
1985: Stevie Wonder wins his first Oscar for his theme to the film The Woman In Red, entitled "I Just Called To Say I Love You." Sixteen years later to the day, Bob Dylan will win his first Oscar for his Wonder Boys song "Things Have Changed."
1989: The recording studio at Chuck Berry's ranch in Wentzville, MO is destroyed by a fire, taking with it 13 of Berry's unreleased songs.
Releases
1969: Elvis Presley, "His Hand In Mine" b/w "How Great Thou Art"
Recording
1960: Ray Charles, "Georgia On My Mind"
1960: Roy Orbison, "Only The Lonely"
1974: Barbra Streisand, "Butterfly"
Charts
1950: Eileen Barton's "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" hits #1
1967: The Turtles' "Happy Together" hits #1
1967: The Doors LP The Doors enters the charts
1972: America's "A Horse With No Name" hits #1
1972: Roberta Flack's LP First Take hits #1
Certifications
1971: Tom Jones' "She's A Lady" is certified gold
1977: Bob Seger's LP Night Moves is certified platinum
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Post by JamesP on Mar 26, 2015 4:04:03 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 26
Births
1917: Rufus Thomas
1921: Joe Loco
1936: Freddie Parris (The Five Satins)
1936: Alan Arkin (The Tarriers)
1940: Rod Lauren
1944: Diana Ross
1946: Johnny Crawford
1948: Richard Tandy (Electric Light Orchestra)
1948: Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)
1949: Vicki Lawrence
1949: Fran Sheehan (Boston)
1950: Teddy Pendergrass
1950: Ronnie McDowell
1953: William Lyall (Pilot)
Deaths
1968: Little Willie John
1976: Duster Bennett
1980: Jon-Jon Paulos (The Buckinghams)
2004: Jan Berry (Jan and Dean)
Events
1962: Elvis Presley begins filming his 11th motion picture, titled Girls! Girls! Girls!
1963: Funny Girl, a musical about Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice, opens on Broadway, starring Barbra Streisand. It features the hits "Don't Rain On My Parade" and the song that would become her trademark, "People."
1964: Tonight's guest on CBS-TV's "panel show" I've Got A Secret is former Beatles drummer Pete Best, whose "secret" occupation is guessed almost immediately. When host Gary Moore asks Best why he "left" the group (Best was fired), he replied: "I thought I'd like to start a group of my own."
1965: The Walker Brothers make their first UK television appearance, performing on ITV's Ready Steady Go!
1969: Pat Boone guest-stars as himself on tonight's "Collard Greens An' Fatback" episode of CBS-TV's Beverly Hillbillies.
1970: Mere days after winning a Grammy for Best Recording for Children with their album Peter, Paul and Mommy, Peter Paul and Mary are scandalized when group leader Peter Yarrow is arrested in Washington, DC for "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl. He would spend three months in prison and would later be given clemency by President Jimmy Carter.
1972: Mott The Hoople are about to call it quits when friend of the band David Bowie offers to produce their next album, even offering them two new songs he's written: "Suffragette City," which the band turns down, and "All The Young Dudes."
1975: The movie musical Tommy , directed by Ken Russell and based on the Who album of the same name, premieres in London, starring Who lead singer Roger Daltrey in the title role, as well as Ann-Margret and Jack Nicholson. Guest stars include Elton John and Tina Turner.
1976: Keith Richards and model girlfriend Anita Pallenberg become the proud parents of a son, Tara. Sadly, he would die ten weeks later from pneumonia.
1976: Riding near the scene of a multi-car pileup in Memphis, Elvis Presley jumps out of his limo, displays his honorary police captain's badge from the city, and attempts to help the victims before police and rescue teams arrive.
1980: Pink Floyd's landmark 1973 LP Dark Side Of The Moon surpasses Carole King's Tapestry as the album with the longest consecutive stay on the Billboard 200 album chart. It would remain on the chart until 1988.
1985: After Stevie Wonder's Oscar speech the previous night, at which he dedicated his Best Song Award to Nelson Mandela, South Africa bans all Wonder records from its nation's radio stations.
Releases
none
Recording
1957: Ricky Nelson: "I'm Walkin'," "A Teenager's Romance"
1958: Dee Clark, "Hey Little Girl"
1958: Eddie Cochran, "Summertime Blues"
1964: Chuck Berry, "No Particular Place To Go"
1974: Dionne Warwick and The Spinners, "Then Came You"
Charts
1955: Bill Hayes' "The Ballad Of Davy Crockett" hits #1
1977: Daryl Hall and John Oates' "Rich Girl" hits #1
Certifications
1974: David Essex's "Rock On" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Mar 27, 2015 10:23:31 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 27
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Births
1914: Snooky Lanson
1924: Sarah Vaughan
1947: Tom Sullivan
1947: Andrew Brown (The Herd)
1950: Tony Banks (Genesis)
1953: Wally Stocker (The Babys)
Deaths
none
Events
1955: Frustrated over Ike Turner's inability to find a label to record the follow up to his hit, Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88," Sam Phillips decides to form his own independent label in Memphis, known as Sun Records. Within a matter of days, Sun will release its first single, Johnny London's "Drivin' Slow" b/w "Flat Tire" (Sun 175).
1958: CBS Records announces its sound lab's latest invention, stereophonic sound, which when played on a compatible phonograph will send sound through two channels instead of one.
1960: Representative Emanuel Celler (D-NY) introduces two bills designed to halt the practice of "payola" -- that is, DJs receiving cash or gifts to promote certain records. Celler, echoing the sentiments of his era, declares that "the cacophonous music called Rock and Roll" could not possibly have risen up the charts without the practice of payola.
1965: P.J. Proby splits his tight pants while onstage in Hereford, England, a standard occurrence that on this occasion results in his concert being canceled.
1966: Roy Orbison takes a curve too tightly while out motorcycling in Hawkstone Park in Birmingham, England, fracturing his foot and resulting in the Big O playing his next few English dates in crutches on a stool.
1967: Fats Domino plays his first UK gig at London's Saville Theatre, on a ticket that includes the Bee Gees and Gerry & the Pacemakers.
1972: Grand Funk Railroad fires producer/manager Terry Knight for alleged nonpayment of royalties.
1973: Rolling Stone reports that Carlos Santana has become a devotee of Sri Chimnoy, and has therefore changed his name to "Devadip," which means "the lamp of the light of the Supreme."
1973: A routine speeding ticket in New Jersey becomes a headache for Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia when police search his car and find a significant quantity of LSD. He is released on two thousand dollars bail.
1978: All You Need Is Cash, a Beatles parody film developed from a skit by Eric Idle on BBC2's Rutland Weekend Television, introduces The Rutles to the world when it is shown for the first time on the BBC.
1979: Eric Clapton finally gets his "Layla" when he marries Pattie Boyd, ex-wife of best friend George Harrison. Harrison attends the wedding in Tucson, AZ, as do fellow Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. Eric and Pattie would divorce in 1988.
1979: Bruce Springsteen's first video -- a live version of "Rosalita" -- makes its world debut on the BBC.
1982: Ronnie Lane, former bassist for the (Small) Faces, is taken to the hospital for treatment of his multiple sclerosis. Lane would succumb to the wasting muscle disorder in 1997.
2003: The Rolling Stones postpone a planned series of concerts in Hong Kong after the deadly SARS flu epidemic breaks out there; ironically, the Stones would later perform a benefit there to show the city was safe to visit.
2003: The city of Liverpool finally opens John Lennon's "Mendips" boyhood home, located at 251 Menlove Avenue, to the public.
2006: Victor Willis, the "policeman" in the Village People, is arrested in San Francisco for failing to appear at his trial for cocaine and gun possession. After agreeing to enter rehab, his sentence is reduced to three years probation.
2007: Jefferson Airplane/Starship vocalist Grace Slick sues former bandmate Paul Kantner for touring with different musicians under the name "Paul Kantner's Starship."
Releases
none
Recording
1945: Ella Fitzgerald, "(It's Only A) Paper Moon"
1951: Frank Sinatra, "I'm a Fool To Want You"
1967: The Young Rascals, "Groovin'"
1972: Elvis Presley: "Separate Ways," "For The Good Times," "Where Do I Go From Here?"
Charts
1961: Del Shannon's "Runaway" enters the charts
1965: The Who's "I Can't Explain" enters the charts
1965: The Supremes' "Stop! In The Name of Love" hits #1
1971: Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World" enters the charts
Certifications
none
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Post by JamesP on Mar 28, 2015 6:54:15 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 28
Births
1895: Paul Whiteman
1915: Jay Livingston
1923: Thad Jones
1941: Charlie McCoy (Area Code 615)
1945: Chuck Portz (The Turtles)
1948: John Evans (Jethro Tull)
1948: Milan Williams (The Commodores)
1949: Sally Carr (Middle Of The Road)
Deaths
1958: W.C. Handy
1974: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
2003: Rusty Draper
Events
1957: Ral Donner, later to hit with the Elvis-soundalike
"The Girl Of My Friend," sees Elvis for the first time, performing at the International Amphitheater in Chicago.
1958: Alan Freed's Big Beat Show tour kicks off the first of its 43 shows at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater with Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Danny and the Juniors, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Chantels, The Diamonds, Screaming Jay Hawkins, and more.
1964: Radio Caroline, the UK's first all-day English-language "pirate" radio station, begins broadcasting from the Fredericia, a former Danish ferry, in the North Sea.
1964: Madame Tussaud's famous Wax Museum in London unveils its four new statues of the Beatles -- the first of any rock star to be created and displayed there. The figures will eventually become even more famous when the Beatles decide to use them on the cover of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
1975: Barbra Streisand attends tonight's Elvis Presley show in Vegas and meets the King backstage to discuss offering him the lead role in her latest film project: a remake of the classic A Star Is Born. Despite the fact that Streisand's boyfriend, stylist Jon Peters, is slated to produce and direct, Presley is said to be ecstatic about the project.
1982: After driving erratically due to a toxic shock from drug abuse, David Crosby is arrested in San Diego for driving under the influence and possession of Quaaludes, cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and an unlicensed .45 pistol. When cops ask why Crosby is carrying the gun, he says two words: "John Lennon."
1984: Mick Fleetwood, whose band, Fleetwood Mac, had the biggest-selling album of all time just seven years earlier, files for bankruptcy.
1985: At 10:15 am EST, 6,000 North American radio stations begin playing the all-star benefit single, "We Are The World," written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and performed by a cast of 45 of music's biggest stars, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Billy Joel, Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, and Daryl Hall. Proceeds from the sale of the single and related items -- some $38 million -- go to benefit victims of the recent Ethiopian famine.
1987: After hearing that Arizona Governor Evan Mecham would not honor the new national holiday Martin Luther King Day, the racially integrated Doobie Brothers move their upcoming show from Phoenix to Las Vegas.
1991: Eric Clapton quietly lays his son Conor, 4, to rest in England. The child, who had fallen from an apartment window a few days earlier, would later be the subject of Clapton's song "Tears in Heaven."
1996: Twenty years to the day after first appearing with them on stage as their new lead singer, Genesis frontman Phil Collins announces he is leaving the group.
2000: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page wins his libel lawsuit against Ministry, a UK magazine that claimed Page actually watched bandmate John Bonham choke to death while trying to revive him with Satanic spells.
2003: The recent SARS scare forces the Rolling Stones to cancel their upcoming series of shows in Hong Kong -- though they would later reschedule those shows and play them as a sign to visitors that China was safe to visit.
2005: On Rev. Jesse Jackson's internet radio show, Michael Jackson claims that his recent child-molestation charges are a racist conspiracy.
Releases
1960: Elvis Presley, "Stuck On You" b/w "Fame And Fortune"
1970: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Woodstock"
1973: Led Zeppelin, Houses Of The Holy
Recording
1939: Hal Kemp, "Three Little Fishies"
1958: Eddie Cochran, "Summertime Blues"
1960: Brenda Lee, "I'm Sorry"
1961: Elvis Presley, "Moonlight Swim"
1962: Elvis Presley: "Mama," "Earth Boy," "Dainty Little Moonbeams," "I Don't Want To Be Tied," "Plantation Rock," "We'll Be Together"
1966: Gary Lewis and the Playboys, "Green Grass"
1967: Van Morrison, "Brown Eyed Girl"
1967: The Beatles, "Good Morning Good Morning," "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!"
1972: Elvis Presley: "Burning Love," "Fool"
Charts
1964: The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" enters the charts
1964: Jan and Dean's "Dead Man's Curve" enters the charts
1973: Pink Floyd's LP Dark Side Of The Moon hits #1
Certifications
1974: Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Mar 29, 2015 11:30:38 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 29
Births
1918: Pearl Bailey
1942: Eden Kane
1943: Chad Allan (The Guess Who)
1944: Terry Jacks
1945: Speedy Keen (Thunderclap Newman)
1947: Bobby Kimball (Toto)
1949: Michael Brecker (The Brecker Brothers)
Deaths
1980: Mantovani
1985: The Singing Nun
Events
1958: New Army recruit Elvis Presley arrives for boot camp at Ft. Hood, TX. He is stationed there for six months, and insists on performing KP and guard duty like any other soldier. With a bank account larger than most soldiers, he is able to afford his own housing. His family arrives and moves into an off-base trailer.
1966: During a show in Marseilles, France, a rabid Rolling Stones fan throws a chair at singer Mick Jagger, opening a gash in his forehead that would require eight stitches to close. That same night in Cheshire, England, fans mobbing the Walker Brothers outside their hotel caused concussions in two of the band members.
1968: Glen Campbell becomes a television star overnight when the Smothers Brothers, on whose show he had been a featured regular, give him his own Summer replacement show on CBS-TV.
1970: Tonight's Ed Sullivan Show on CBS-TV features performances by Bobbie Gentry and Gladys Knight and the Pips, broadcast live from VA hospitals caring for Vietnam wounded.
1972: Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and Jimmy Page travel to Bombay (Mumbai) India to record versions of the band's songs "Friends" and "Four Sticks" with the city's symphony orchestra. Musical and cultural barriers prevent the experiment from being a success, but the duo would return two decades later triumphant, recording those songs and many more for the MTV special Unledded.
1973: In a move that was destined to happen, the group Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show get their picture (an illustration) on the cover of Rolling Stone after their recent novelty hit, in which they daydreamed about doing just that. The cover puckishly refers to the group as "What's-Their-Names," but the band does indeed "buy five copies for (their) mother(s)."
1975: This week's Billboard shows Led Zeppelin with all six of their studio albums currently present on the "Billboard 200" album chart, including a Number One with their latest, Physical Graffiti.
1978: Tina Turner is officially divorced from husband Ike.
1980: A Chicago antiques dealer named Ronald Selle sues the Bee Gees, claiming that their 1978 hit "How Deep Is Your Love" borrows heavily from his own composition "Let It End." Although the Bee Gees deny the charge and claim to have never heard the track, a court would rule in Selle's favor. The group would win an appeal three years later.
1980: Pink Floyd's 1973 album Dark Side Of The Moon marks its 303rd week on the Billboard album charts, passing Carole King's Tapestry for longest stay on the "Billboard 200."
1985: Michael Jackson is honored with a wax statue at London's famous Madame Tussaud's museum.
1986: The Beatles' records are officially licensed for sale in the Soviet Union.
1996: Phil Spector's former bandmates in the Teddy Bears, Carol Connors and Marshall Lieb, sue the producer to collect royalties they claim are still owed from the group's 1958 smash "To Know Him Is To Love Him."
2001: A three-hour musical tribute is held at New York City's Radio City Music Hall in honor of the Beach Boys' guiding genius Brian Wilson, with vocal tributes in the form of covers by Paul Simon ("Surfer Girl"), Elton John ("God Only Knows"), and Billy Joel ("Don't Worry Baby"), as well as Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson, the Go-Go's, Carly Simon, David Crosby, Wilson Phillips, Aimee Mann, and songwriter Jimmy Webb. Wilson himself performs "Barbara Ann," "Fun, Fun, Fun," and "Surfin' U.S.A."
2005: After experiencing blurred vision at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony the month before, Neil Young enters a New York hospital to have a brain aneurysm removed.
2006: Tom Jones is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
Releases
none
Recording
1967: The Beatles: "Good Morning Good Morning," "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!," "With A Little Help From My Friends"
1972: Elvis Presley: "Always On My Mind," "It's A Matter Of Time"
Charts
1969: Blood Sweat & Tears' LP Blood Sweat & Tears hits #1
1975: Labelle's "Lady Marmalade" hits #1
Certifications
1962: Gene Chandler's "Duke Of Earl" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Mar 30, 2015 6:42:53 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 30
Births
1913: Frankie Laine
1914: Sonny Boy Williamson
1930: Rolf Harris
1942: Graeme Edge (The Moody Blues)
1944: Ronnie Rice (New Colony Six)
1945: Eric Clapton
1948: Jim "Dandy" Mangrum (Black Oak Arkansas)
1955: Randy VanWarmer
Deaths
1971: Arlester "Dyke" Christian (Dyke and the Blazers)
2004: Timi Yuro
Events
1923: The world's first dance marathon, which would become quite the fad in the Roaring Twenties, was held in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.
1962: Pravda , the official newspaper of the USSR, runs an article warning Russians against falling victim to the decadent new Western fad known as "The Twist."
1966: A famous riot occurs at a Rolling Stones show in Paris, one which leads to the arrest of no less than 85 concertgoers.
1966: Barbra Streisand's second TV special Color Me Barbra airs on CBS.
1967: The Beatles visit Chelsea Manor Studios in London to photograph the cover of their newest album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, wearing satin marching band outfits of various bright colors and posing amid cardboard cutouts of several dozen famous personages. Michael Cooper's series of photographs would become amongst the most famous in rock history.
1967: While set to perform "Purple Haze" on BBC-TV's Top Of The Pops, a technician instead mistakenly cues up Alan Price's version of Randy Newman's "Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear." Hendrix good-naturedly replies: "I don't know the words to this one, man."
1967: After Florence Ballard of the Supremes misses a series of gigs, Berry Gordy asks former Bluebelles member Cindy Birdsong to fill in; she would soon become a permanent member.
1972: The concert documentary Elvis: On Tour (working title: Standing Room Only) begins filming with a simulated recording session in Hollywood.
1989: Gladys Knight performs her first solo show ever at Bally's in Las Vegas.
2004: At a restaurant near Lake Tahoe, the jazz trio house band are shocked when Paul McCartney steps onstage to join them for a rendition of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." Then again, he'd done the same thing there one year earlier.
2005: Neil Young undergoes successful surgery to remove a brain aneurysm.
2007: A crazed stalker is arrested in Peasmarsh, Sussex, England, after driving at high speed through Paul McCartney's security checkpoint and up to just a few yards from his mansion. Led away after leading police on three-mile chase, the trespasser began screaming "I must get to him!" He was later judged mentally ill.
Releases
1970: Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
1975: Jeff Beck, Blow By Blow
Recording
1955: Fats Domino, "Blue Monday"
1963: Lesley Gore, "It's My Party"
1967: The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends"
Charts
1957: Buddy Knox's "Party Doll" hits #1
1963: The Chiffons' "He's So Fine" hits #1
1974: John Denver's "Sunshine On My Shoulders" hits #1
Certifications
1971: The Bee Gees' "Lonely Days" is certified gold
1971: Jimi Hendrix's The Cry Of Love is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Mar 31, 2015 11:27:21 GMT -5
Today In Music History: March 31
Births
1908: Red Norvo
1921: Lowell Fulson
1928: Lefty Frizzell
1933: Ina Anita Carter (The Carter Family)
1934: Shirley Jones
1934: John D. Loudermilk
1935: Herb Alpert
1944: Rod Allen (The Fortunes)
1944: Mick Ralphs (Mott The Hoople)
1946: Allan Nichol (The Turtles)
1947: Jon Jon Poulos (The Buckinghams)
1948: Thijs Van Leer (Focus)
1947: Al Goodman (The Moments)
1954: Tony Brock (The Tubes, The Babys)
1955: Angus Young (AC/DC)
1958: Pat McGlynn (Bay City Rollers)
Deaths
1986: O’Kelly Isley (The Isley Brothers)
1993: Mitchell Parish
Events
1949: After nine years of development, the first 45 rpm record is introduced by the RCA Victor label, a 7-inch wonder promising better sound and easier playability than the current standard, the 12" 78 rpm record.
1956: Brenda Lee makes her US television debut, singing an unrehearsed version of Hank Williams' "Jambalaya" on ABC-TV's Ozark Jamboree
1957: Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins begin their first and only tour together, a Southern swing that begins tonight in Little Rock, AK.
1959: NBC-TV's Jimmie Rodgers Show -- featuring a regular performer by the name of Connie Francis -- debuts.
1967: Jimi Hendrix plays his first British concert, on a bill with Cat Stevens, The Walker Brothers, and Englebert Humperdinck at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, England. (Seriously.) On a whim, Hendrix sets fire to his guitar with lighter fluid for the first time, but burns his hands so badly he is admitted to a nearby hospital.
1969: George Harrison and his wife, Pattie, appear in court in Surrey, England, to answer recent charges of marijuana resin possession. Both are fined 250 pounds. On the same day, John Lennon and new wife Yoko Ono leave their "bed-in" at the Amsterdam Hilton in order to "make a lightning trip" to Vienna and premiere Yoko's new film Rape. During their stay, they enjoy the Hotel Sacher's famous chocolate cake, the Sachertorte. The Viennese trip is detailed in the next Beatles single, "The Ballad Of John And Yoko."
1972: The official Beatles Fan Club disbands.
1977: During intermission at Elvis Presley's latest show in Baton Rouge, LA, the King becomes too ill to return to the stage. The concert is canceled and Elvis is admitted to Baptist Hospital in Memphis the next day, suffering from "fatigue" and "intestinal flu."
1982: After twelve years together, the Doobie Brothers announce their breakup.
1995: An audience member rushes the stage at a Jimmy Page/Robert Plant concert at The Palace in Auburn Hills, MI, determined to stab the guitarist to end his "Satanic" music. Two security guards that apprehend him are stabbed instead, but recover.
2002: Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees buys his childhood home in Manchester, England.
Releases
1958: Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode"
1962: The Shirelles, "Soldier Boy"
Recording
1960: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, "Finger Poppin' Time"
1967: The Beatles, "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!"
Charts
1962: Connie Francis' "Don't Break The Heart That Loves You" hits #1
1972: America's LP America hits #1
Certifications
none
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