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Post by JamesP on Apr 1, 2015 2:34:34 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 1
Births
1921: Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
1932: Debbie Reynolds
1934: Jim Ed Brown (The Browns)
1939: Rudolph Isley (The Isley Brothers)
1942: Phil Margo (The Tokens)
1942: Frank Gari
1942: Alan Blakley (The Tremeloes)
1945: John Barbata (The Turtles, Jefferson Starship)
1946: Ronnie Lane (The Small Faces)
1947: M
1948: Jimmy Cliff
1948: Simon Cowe (Lindisfarne)
1949: Gil Scott-Heron
1951: Henry Gross (Sha Na Na)
Deaths
1917: Scott Joplin
1984: Marvin Gaye
2003: Edwin Starr
2004: Paul Atkinson (The Zombies)
Events
1877: Thomas Edison designs plans for a telephone with a "carbon transmitter," a device that would later be altered to create the microphone.
1928: The first gramophone with record-changing ability, Victor's "Automatic Orthophonic," goes on sale.
1955: George Martin becomes head of A&R for Parlophone, which will lead to his producing the Beatles seven years later when they are signed to the label.
1956: Elvis Presley arrives at Paramount Studios for a screen test, lip-synching "Blue Suede Shoes" and performing a scene as Bill Starbuck in The Rainmaker, still in production. Presley will eventually be passed over for this film, and his role taken over by Burt Lancaster. Still impressed, however, Paramount and director Hal Wallis sign Elvis to a seven-year contract five days later.
1957: Frankie Lymon becomes the youngest act to ever headline London's Palladium when he performs there with the Teenagers.
1957: Elvis Presley performs the first two of only four concerts he will ever stage outside the US when he headlines at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.
1959: James Darren guest stars as teen idol "Buzz Berry" on tonight's "April Fool" episode of ABC-TV's The Donna Reed Show.
1960: In Miami, Elvis Presley tapes his post-Army comeback special, Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home, Elvis, also starring Sammy Davis Jr., Nancy Sinatra, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. Elvis sings "Fame And Fortune" and "Stuck On You," as well as Sinatra's own "Witchcraft." Frank responds by singing "Love Me Tender."
1961: The Beatles begin their second, more successful string of gigs in Hamburg, the first of 92 nights at the Top Ten Club in the notorious Reeperbahn section of town. The lads will play seven hours a night, eight on weekends, with 15 minute breaks each hour, resulting in 503 total hours of live performance in just over three months. While in Germany, occasional member Stu Sutcliffe has his hair styled by his girlfriend, band photographer Astrid Kirchherr, into what would later be adopted by all band members as the "mop top."
1969: A band called Ambrose Slade, later to go on to glam glory as simply Slade, makes its stage debut at Walsall Town Hall in Walsall, England.
1969: The Beach Boys leave the Capitol label, suing them for over $2 million in back royalties and announcing their intention to start their own label, Brother.
1970: Woodstock, the acclaimed musical documentary of the happening, premieres in Hollywood.
1970: Ringo Starr enters Abbey Road alone for what would be the very last Beatles session, overdubbing percussion on "The Long and Winding Road," "Across The Universe," and "I Me Mine." Producer Phil Spector wraps things up by applying strings to all three.
1970: John Lennon and Yoko Ono play an April Fool's joke on an already confused press by announcing that they would undergo mutual sex-change operations.
1975: The Bay City Rollers' UK variety show Shang-A-Lang premieres on ITV.
1976: AC/DC makes its live UK debut at London club The Red Cow.
1978: Paul Simon, Peter Frampton, and James Taylor's jointly-owned soccer team, the Philadelphia Fury, plays its first match.
1992: Jimmy Buffett is the proud father of his second daughter, Sarah Delaney, with wife Jane Slagsvol.
2008: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich declares today "Cheap Trick Day" in honor of its native sons.
2009: Carlos Santana reaches an agreement with the Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino to stage 36 concerts called The Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits.
Releases
1957: The Everly Brothers, "Bye Bye Love"
1959: Freddy Cannon, "Tallahassee Lassie"
Recording
1961: Troy Shondell, "This Time"
1966: The Troggs, "Wild Thing"
1967: The Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
Charts
none
Certifications
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Post by JamesP on Apr 3, 2015 9:16:30 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 3
Births
1924: Doris Day
1928: Don Gibson
1938: Jeff Barry
1941: Jan Berry (Jan and Dean)
1941: Phillippe Wynne (The Spinners)
1942: Wayne Newton
1943: Richard Manuel (The Band)
1944: Tony Orlando
1944: Barry Pritchard (The Fortunes)
1945: Billy Joe Royal
1949: Richard Thompson
1951: Mel Schacher (Grand Funk Railroad)
Deaths
1990: Sarah Vaughan
1999: Lionel Bart
2003: Homer Banks
Events
1956: Elvis Presley makes the first of what would be two appearances on NBC-TV's Milton Berle Show , performing "Heartbreak Hotel," "Money Honey" and "Blue Suede Shoes" via live remote on the flight deck of the USS Hancock docked in San Diego. The show is seen by 40 million people around the US, approximately one-fourth of all TV sets. (Later in the show, Elvis plays "Blue Suede Shoes" again, this time with "Uncle Miltie" joining in as the King's "brother Melvin.")
1959: The BBC, objecting to the concept of "spitballs," bans the Coasters' hit "Charlie Brown." They will reconsider two weeks later.
1960: The Everly Brothers make their UK stage debut in London.
1961: Paul Anka guest stars as himself on tonight's "Old Man Danny" episode of CBS-TV's Make Room For Daddy.
1964: Bob Dylan has his first chart hit as "The Times They Are A-Changin'" enters the UK charts. One year later to the day, the single "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is his first to dent the US Top 40.
1966: Folksinger Peter Tork, who's auditioned for but not yet been accepted into The Monkees, opens a solo stint at the Troubadour in Hollywood.
1969: Having technically become a fugitive due to leaving Florida after his infamous stage antics in Miami, the Doors' Jim Morrison turns himself into the FBI in Los Angeles. He's released on $2000 bail, but not before being charged with six counts of lewd behavior and one of interstate flight. The case is eventually reduced to two misdemeanors and still pending appeal when Morrison dies in 1971.
1975: At his home, Steve Miller is arrested for an altercation with his party guest, Benita Diorio, when the veteran rocker sets fire to her clothes and personal effects. When the cops arrive Miller digs himself deeper by resisting arrest. Charges are dropped the next day.
1978: Cher's first solo TV special, appropriately titled Cher... Special , airs on CBS, featuring guest stars Dolly Parton, Rod Stewart, and The Tubes.
1984: Producer Jack Douglas is awarded $3 million in royalties owed him by the John Lennon estate for his work on the Lennon/Ono album Double Fantasy.
1987: While playing the opening night of their latest tour, onstage in Arizona, U2's "Bono introduces a version of "Helter Skelter" by announcing "This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it back."
1988: After working on each other's solo projects, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison gather in Malibu, FL, to record an all-star single called "Handle With Care." The session goes so well that the group, calling itself the Traveling Wilburys, goes on to record two whole albums together.
1991: Paul McCartney tapes his episode of MTV's acoustic showcase Unplugged.
1993: When his version of Leon Russell's "A Song For You" enters the Billboard singles chart, Ray Charles becomes the first performer to chart in six decades. (He'd first made the R&B charts in 1949 with the Maxin Trio's "Confession Blues."
1998: Michael Jackson and someone are the proud parents of Jackson's second child, daughter Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson.
2007: Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones denies to MTV his own earlier claim, made in an interview with the New Musical Express, that he once snorted the ashes of his late father.
2008: Mariah Carey's latest single, "Touch My Body," goes to #1, beating Elvis Presley's old record of 17 chart toppers. Only the Beatles have more with 20.
Releases
1965: Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, "Wooly Bully"
Recording
1952: Harry Belafonte: "A-Roving," "Chimney Smoke"
1960: Elvis Presley: "Fever," "Like A Baby," "It's Now Or Never"
1967: The Beatles, "Within You Without You"
1970: Bob Dylan, "Alberta"
Charts
1961: The Marcels' "Blue Moon" hits #1
1965: The Sir Douglas Quintet's "She's About A Mover" enters the charts
1965: Solomon Burke's "Got To Get You Off My Mind" hits #1 R&B
1971: The Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" hits #1
1976: Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady" hits #1
1976: Henry Gross' "Shannon" enters the charts
Certifications
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Post by JamesP on Apr 4, 2015 7:50:30 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 4
Births
1914: Frances Langford
1915: Muddy Waters
1934: Clive Davis
1936: Margo Sylvia (The Tune Weavers)
1938: Michael Parks
1938: Norro Wilson
1939: Hugh Masekela
1940: Sharon Sheeley
1941: Major Lance
1942: Kris Jensen
1948: Carol Douglas
1948: Berry Oakley (The Allman Brothers)
1948: Pick Withers (Dire Straits)
1950: Pip Pyle (Gong, Hatfield and the North, National Health)
1951: Steve Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers)
1952: Dave Hill (Slade)
1952: Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy)
1952: Pete Haycock (Climax Blues Band)
Deaths
1983: Danny Rapp (Danny and the Juniors)
Events
1960: RCA Victor decides to release all future singles -- starting with its next, Elvis Presley's "Stuck On You" -- in both mono and stereo versions.
1960: At tonight's Academy Awards, Frank Sinatra's "High Hopes" (from the comedy A Hole In The Head wins the Oscar for Best Original Song.
1961: Former teen idol Fabian graduates from Philadelphia's South Side High.
1964: The Beatles break all American chart records when the latest Billboard chart shows them with the Top Five records in the country simultaneously (#5: "Please Please Me," #4: "I Want To Hold Your Hand," #3: "She Loves You," #2: "Twist And Shout," #1: "Can't Buy Me Love"). Even more incredibly, nine other singles are scattered in various other positions around the "Hot 100." The Beatles had similarly dominated Canada and Australia's Top Ten earlier in the month.
1964: A court orders the Trashmen of "Surfin' Bird" fame to pay royalties to Beechwood Music, holder of the copyright for the Rivington's 1962 hit "Papa Oom Mow Mow," which the Trashmen hit borrows heavily from.
1967: Paul McCartney advises Beatles PR man Derek Taylor, currently producer of the upcoming Monterey Pop Festival, to consider this new guitar phenomenon he's seen named Jimi Hendrix.
1968: After hearing about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, riots break out in several black communities across the nation. In Boston, where James Brown is scheduled to perform, mayor Kevin White asks the singer to call for calm on stage and urge Bostonians not to riot. Meanwhile, at New York City's New Generation club, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Al Kooper, Buddy Guy, Ted Nugent, and Joni Mitchell respond by gathering for an all-night jam in tribute.
1970: Janis Joplin reunites with Big Brother and the Holding Company in San Francisco for a one-off reunion concert.
1973: A taped Elvis Presley concert entitled Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii is telecast on NBC and proves to be a huge success. The total worldwide audience for the show, the first commercial worldwide satellite broadcast, amounts to over a billion people.
1996: Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered in the Ganges river in India by Dead guitarist Bob Weir and Garcia's widow, Deborah.
1996: While on parole, Wilson Pickett is arrested for possession of two grams of cocaine at his home in Englewood, NJ.
2003: The Rolling Stones make their stage debut in India, performing at Bangalore Palace in the middle of a monsoon!
2005: A man who won an out-of-court settlement in 1994 against the singer for a similar charge testifies in Michael Jackson's current molestation trial.
2007: Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones retracts a statement made to Britain music magazine New Musical Express a few days earlier to the effect that he once snorted his dad's ashes. Richards calls the remark "an April Fool's joke."
2008: The Rolling Stones release their Martin Scorsese-directed concert documentary, Shine A Light.
2008: Procol Harum's Gary Brooker wins an appeal in London to an earlier ruling, which stated that Harum organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to 40 percent of the royalties from the band's 1967 smash "A White Shade Of Pale." Though the new ruling notes that Fisher wrote the organ line and should be co-credited, it also overturns the royalty award by noting that Fisher waited 38 years to sue.
Releases
1972: Elvis Presley, "An American Trilogy" b/w "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
Recording
1939: Glenn Miller, "Moonlight Serenade"
1958: Earl Grant, "(At) The End (Of A Rainbow)"
1960: Elvis Presley: "The Girl Of My Best Friend," "Dirty, Dirty Feeling," "Thrill Of Your Love," "I Gotta Know," "Such A Night," "Are You Lonesome To-night?" "The Girl Next Door Went A-walking," "I Will Be Home Again," "Reconsider Baby"
1967: The Beatles, "Within You Without You"
Charts
1970: Crosby Stills Nash & Young's LP Deja Vu hits #1
1971: The Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" hits #1
1976: Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady" hits #1
Certifications
1968: Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Apr 6, 2015 10:02:18 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 6
Births
1916: "Pappy" Wade Ray
1924: Dorothy Donegan
1927: Gerry Mulligan
1929: Andre Previn
1937: Merle Haggard
1942: Christopher Franke (Tangerine Dream)
1944: John Stax (The Pretty Things)
1944: Michelle Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas)
1947: Tony Connor (Hot Chocolate)
Deaths
1984: Ral Donner
1998: Tammy Wynette
2004: Niki Sullivan (The Crickets)
Events
1956: Having impressed Paramount Studios with his screen test five days earlier, Elvis Presley is signed to a seven-year, three-picture deal worth nearly half a million dollars.
1960: The Everly Brothers begin their first European tour at London's New Victoria Theatre.
1962: Russia's official newspaper, Pravda , warns Soviet teens of the decadent dangers of the new "twist" dance craze.
1963: Fats Domino leaves Imperial Records for his new home, ABC-Paramount.
1968: Founding member Syd Barrett, already in a mental downward spiral from LSD abuse, leaves Pink Floyd.
1969: Original bassist Pete Quaife leaves the Kinks.
1971: The Rolling Stones unveil their new custom record label, Rolling Stones Records, which also features the group's new logo, the infamous tongue-and-lips "pop art" drawing created by London graphic artist John Pasche.
1972: The Monkees' Micky Dolenz guest stars as himself in tonight's "Barbara Lost" episode of ABC-TV's My Three Sons.
1971: Carly Simon is introduced to James Taylor backstage after her concert at Los Angeles' famous Troubadour nightclub. Instantly smitten, they would marry in November of 1972.
1974: After initially arguing with his record company about releasing it as a single ("it's the same thing over and over"), Billy Joel gets his first Top 40 hit with "Piano Man."
1974: ABBA become European stars overnight when their composition "Waterloo" wins the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
1974: California's biggest annual rock concert, the California Jam, has its debut in Ontario, CA, featuring performances by The Eagles, Earth Wind and Fire, Seals and Crofts, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Black Oak Arkansas performing for a crowd of 200,000.
1974: The concert documentary Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones , the first-ever such film with a quadraphonic soundtrack, premieres at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York.
1975: Labelle performs their recent hit, "Lady Marmalade," on CBS-TV's Cher show.
1979: In Beverly Hills, Rod Stewart marries George Hamilton's ex-wife, Alana. The couple would divorce in 1984.
1983: Ronald Reagan's secretary of the Interior, James Watt, cancels an appearance by The Beach Boys at Washington DC's Independence Day festivities, infamously stating that the band would attract "an undesirable element."
1984: Longtime E Street Band guitarist "Miami" Steve Van Zandt, a/k/a Little Steven, announces he's leaving the group. He will return in 1995.
1985: Gilbert O'Sullivan wins a two-million-dollar judgment against his manager, Gordon Mills, for royalties owed him on his 1972 smash "Alone Again Naturally."
1991: Ringo Starr guest stars as himself in tonight's "Brush With Greatness" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.
1992: George Harrison performs his first full live solo concert since 1969, appearing in London in a benefit for the Natural Law political party.
1997: The Michael Jackson short film/theme ride Captain EO is shown for the last time at Disneyland.
1998: Chubby Checker, Lesley Gore, Fabian, and Dick Clark all guest star as themselves in tonight's "Opus One" episode of CBS-TV's Murphy Brown.
1999: Bob Weir and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead appear at an Al Gore Presidential fundraiser, with Gore's wife, notorious anti-rock crusader Tipper, playing congas.
Releases
1965: Elvis Presley, "Crying In The Chapel"
1971: The Rolling Stones, "Brown Sugar"
Recording
1925: Eddie Cantor, "If You Knew Susie"
1949: St. Louis Jimmy (Oden), "Shame on You Baby" (With Sunnyland Slim's Orchestra) 1949: Texas Johnny Brown, First Session - "the Blues Rock" 1950: T. Bone Walker, "The Hustle Is On" 1954: Junior Denby, "This Fool Has Learned" 1963: Bobby Darin, "18 Yellow Roses"
1963: The Kingsmen, "Louie Louie"
1965: The Beach Boys, "California Girls"
1966: The Beatles, "Tomorrow Never Knows"
Charts
1957: Perry Como's "Round And Round" hits #1
1959: Fabian's "Turn Me Loose" enters the charts
1965: Simon and Garfunkel's soundtrack LP The Graduate hits #1
1974: Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling" hits #1
Certifications
1973: The Stylistics' "Break Up To Make Up" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Apr 7, 2015 8:36:16 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 7
Births
1908: Percy Faith
1915: Billie Holiday
1919: Ralph Flanagan
1923: Mongo Santamaria
1935: Bobby Bare
1937: Charlie Thomas (The Drifters)
1938: Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane)
1943: Alan Buck (The Four Pennies)
1943: Mick Abrahams (Jethro Tull)
1946: Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead)
1947: Patricia Bennett (The Chiffons)
1947: Florian Schneider-Esleben (Kraftwerk)
1948: Carol Douglas (The Chantels)
1949: John Oates (Hall and Oates)
1950: Steve Ellis (Love Affair)
1951: Janis Ian
Deaths
1981: Kit Lambert
1994: Lee Brilleaux (Dr. Feelgood)
2000: Heinz (The Tornadoes)
Events
1956: The first national rock and roll radio series, Alan Freed's Rock 'N' Roll Dance Party , debuts on the CBS Radio Network.
1956: The Platters make their television debut on the Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show, broadcast on CBS.
1958: The Capitol label officially abandons issuing 78 rpm records.
1962: Elvis Presley arrives in Hawaii to begin shooting the ocean shots for his latest film, Blue Hawaii. At his hotel, the Kaiser Hawaiian Village, he is mobbed by over a thousand fans and sprints away from them, losing several pieces of jewelry in the process. (His ring was returned the next day.)
1962: Teen idol Bobby Rydell is ironically cast as Hugo Peabody in the film version of the hit Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie.
1962: Unknown London musicians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, attending a performance of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated at the Ealing Jazz Club, meet a young guitarist named Brian Jones.
1967: San Francisco's KMPX becomes the first FM station to play "deep cuts" from albums, rather than merely singles, a "free-form" non-format that will soon transform rock radio.
1967: Sonny and Cher's ill-fated comedy film, a collection of film spoof skits called Good Times , debuts in Chicago.
1970: B.J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," featured in the Robert Redford / Paul Newman film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, wins Best Original Song at this year's Academy Awards.
1975: Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore leaves the group to form Rainbow. He will be replaced by Tommy Bolin.
1981: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play their first concert outside North America, opening their new tour at the Congress Centre in Hamburg.
1988: While rehearsing a morbid "hanging" stunt for his upcoming tour, Alice Cooper is nearly killed when the safety rope breaks, leaving him swinging in the air for a few moments. Fortunately, a roadie quickly steps in and gets him down.
1990: As famed child AIDS victim Ryan White dies in his hospital bed, Elton John, who has taken up his cause, performs "Candle In The Wind" for him during Farm Aid IV in Indianapolis.
1994: Percy Sledge pleads guilty to evading taxes on $260,000 of his income and is sentenced to six months in prison (which he is allowed to serve in a "halfway house").
2006: A fan site for the legendary psych-pop band Love reports (correctly) that leader Arthur Lee is dying from leukemia.
2008: Bob Dylan is awarded an honorary Pulitzer for "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
2008: Olivia Newton-John begins a walk across the entire length of China's Great Wall in order to raise funds for and awareness of the battle to cure breast cancer. The walk will take three weeks and cover 141 miles.
Releases
1958: Elvis Presley, "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck"
1958: The Platters, "Twilight Time"
Recording
1959: Marty Robbins, "El Paso"
1960: Connie Francis, "Everybody's Somebody's Fool"
1965: P.J. Proby, "That Means A Lot"
1966: The Beatles: "Tomorrow Never Knows," "Got To Get You Into My Life"
Charts
1954: The Crows' "Gee" enters the charts
1956: Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" enters the charts
1962: Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel" hits #1
1973: Vicki Lawrence's "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" hits #1
1973: Diana Ross' LP Lady Sings The Blues hits #1
1979: The Doobie Brothers' LP Minute By Minute hits #1
Certifications
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Post by JamesP on Apr 9, 2015 12:29:05 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 9
Births
1898: Paul Robeson
1928: Tom Lehrer
1932: Carl Perkins
1943: Terry Knight
1944: Gene Parsons (The Byrds)
1945: Emil Stucchio (The Classics)
1946: Les Gray (Mud)
1948: Phil Wright (Paper Lace)
Deaths
1976: Phil Ochs
1988: Brook Benton
1988: Dave Prater (Sam and Dave)
1997: Laura Nyro
1997: Mae Axton
2009: Randy Cain (The Delfonics)
Events
1860: French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, not Thomas Edison, makes the first sound recording when he records a female voice singing onto his invention, the Phonautograph. Unfortunately, the inventor records the sound waves only to study them, not knowing how to play them back, though they have since been processed into a recordable format and heard.
1953: A 14-year-old Elvis Presley appears in his high school's minstrel show singing the Stanley Brothers' "Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off Me," then is called back to perform Teresa Brewer's "Till I Waltz Again With You."
1962: At tonight's Academy Awards ceremony in Santa Monica, Henry Mancini wins Best Original Song for "Moon River," his contribution to the film Breakfast At Tiffany's.
1964: The Vee-Jay label suffers a fatal blow when it settles out of court with Capitol, who charged that nonpayment of royalties invalidated the label's licensing agreement to sell the Beatles' first few singles in the US.
1965: Bruce Johnston replaces Brian Wilson in the touring band of the Beach Boys, Brian having suffered a nervous breakdown while on the band's recent flight to Houston.
1966: During a Yardbirds show in Marseilles, France, guitarist Jeff Beck collapses from exhaustion; eleven years later to the day, his former bandmate Jimmy Page causes the end of a Led Zeppelin gig in Chicago when he's struck down by stomach cramps.
1967: The Doors play before their first large crowd when they appear (along with Jefferson Airplane) in front of 3,000 at a show in Venice, CA.
1973: Queen play their first show since being signed, a "showcase" gig at London's Marquee Club.
1974: Bruce Springsteen meets rock critic Jon Landau, who would go on to manage the singer and successfully hype him as "rock and roll's future."
1979: At tonight's Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Best Original Song goes to Donna Summer's "Last Dance," from the flop movie Thank God It's Friday.
1982: Having revived her career in the UK with a hit cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," Tina Turner begins a comeback tour in London.
1989: Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, 52, announces his intention to marry model Mandy Smith, 19, further shocking the public by revealing that he's been dating Mandy for the past six years -- with her mother's permission. The marriage would last just under two years.
1994: Wayne Newton marries his second wife, lawyer Kathleen McCrone.
2003: Willie Nelson holds public celebrations of his 70th birthday at the Beacon Theatre in New York, featuring performances by (among many others) Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, ZZ Top, Leon Russell, and Ray Price.
2008: Elton John's benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall raises two and a half million dollars for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
Releases
1969: Bob Dylan, Nashville Skyline
Recording
1951: Sonny Thompson, "Mellow Blues, Part 1" 1956: Amos Milburn, "Juice" 1956: Gene Vincent, "Be Bop-A-Lula"
1957: Ike Turner, "Do You Mean It" 1964: Muddy Waters, "That Same Thing"
Charts
1966: The Righteous Brothers' "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" hits #1
1977: ABBA's "Dancing Queen" hits #1
Certifications
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Post by JamesP on Apr 10, 2015 10:22:11 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 10
Births
1911: Martin Denny
1921: Sheb Wooley
1932: Nate Nelson (The Flamingos)
1936: Bobbie Smith (The Spinners)
1947: Karl Russell (The Hues Corporation)
1947: Bunny Wailer (The Wailers)
1950: Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic)
Deaths
1958: Chuck Willis
1962: Stuart Sutcliffe
1979: Nino Rota
1984: Nate Nelson (The Flamingoes)
2003: Noel Fox (Oak Ridge Boys)
2003: Little Eva
Events
1953: Eddie Fisher is discharged from the US Army, having sold seven million records during his stint in the service.
1956: Leo Fender patents the successor to his popular "Telecaster" model of electric guitar, this time called the "Stratocaster."
1956: While performing at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, AL, Nat King Cole is assaulted by five segregationists and tackled on stage, although local police quickly arrest the perpetrators, who had originally planned to kidnap the singer. Cole bravely performs a second show later that night.
1957: Ricky Nelson, then all of sixteen, performs his recently-recorded version of Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" -- done to impress a date -- on his family's TV sitcom, ABC's The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet . The record sells half a million copies in the next week alone.
1961: Del Shannon is the guest on ABC-TV's American Bandstand, singing his recent breakthrough hit, "Runaway."
1965: A public school in Wrexham, North Wales, asks parents to make sure children attend in school uniforms after Rolling Stones fans at the school begin showing up in "corduroy trousers" like their heroes.
1968: Bill Kreutzmann invites Mickey Hart to join the Grateful Dead as its second drummer.
1970: Paul McCartney makes the Beatles' secret breakup public by issuing a press release to announce that he has left the group, done in the form of a fake interview: "Q: Is your break with the Beatles temporary or permanent, due to personal differences or musical ones? PAUL: Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family. Temporary or permanent? I don't really know." John Lennon is furious, especially since the breakup, already agreed upon by the group, was announced just one week prior to the British release of McCartney's first solo album. When a reporter tracks down Lennon for his thoughts, he replies, "Paul hasn't left. I sacked him."
1970: Keith Emerson of the Nice, Greg Lake of King Crimson, and Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster join forces to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
1970: At one of the band's last concerts, in Boston, Doors frontman Jim Morrison asks the audience if they'd like to see something of his "that rhymes with 'sock,'" and then, more bluntly, screaming "Would you like to see my genitals?" The power in the stadium is switched off, and keyboardist Ray Manzarek pulls the singer, already facing similar charges from a Miami gig, off the stage.
1976: Stevie Wonder is featured in an ad in today's edition of Down Beat Magazine, edorsing the Mu-Tron III effects pedal, which uses synthesizer envelopes to create a wah effect for guitar. Wonder had used the pedal on his 1973 smash "Higher Ground."
1978: Aretha Franklin marries her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, in New York City. The Four Tops sing Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" at the ceremony.
1991: Peter Noone guest stars as a rock star on tonight's "Glitter Rock - April 12, 1974" episode of NBC-TV's Quantum Leap.
1999: The all-star tribute concert Here There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda is held at London's Royal Albert Hall, where Paul McCartney, George Michael, Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Costello and Sinead O'Connor raise money for animal charities while remembering Paul's wife Linda, who has recently succumbed to breast cancer.
2002: South Carolina Governor James Hodges makes it official by declaring James Brown the state's "Godfather Of Soul."
2007: Johnny Cash's last residence, a 14,000-square-foot house in Hendersonville, TN, burns to the ground. It had been purchased after Cash's death by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, and planned for renovation.
Releases
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Recording
1958: Bobby Darin: "Splish Splash," "Queen Of The Hop"
Charts
1954: Perry Como's "Wanted" hits #1
1965: Freddie and the Dreamers' "I'm Telling You Now" hits #1
1971: John Denver's "(Take Me Home) Country Roads" enters the charts
1976: Peter Frampton's LP Frampton Comes Alive! hits #1
Certifications
1973: Led Zeppelin's LP Houses Of The Holy is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Apr 11, 2015 9:59:58 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 11
Births
1918: Jimmy Lewis
1935: Richard Berry
1946: Bob Harris
Deaths
2006: June Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)
Events
1956: Elvis Presley's tour plane develops engine trouble while flying the singer from Amarillo, TX to Nashville, forcing an emergency landing in Arkansas. When he calls his mother Gladys to tell her, she begs him to never fly again, instilling a fear of flying in Elvis which will take him years to get over.
1961: New York City gets its first introduction to a young folksinger named Bob Dylan when he makes his live Gotham debut at Gerde's Folk City, opening for John Lee Hooker and performing a new song entitled "Blowin' In The Wind."
1964: Having already set a record the week before by taking over the entire Top Five of the Billboard singles charts, the Beatles set another record when 14 of their singles are listed at the same time in the "Hot 100." "Can't Buy Me Love" is at #1, while "Love Me Do" holds down the bottom at #81.
1965: The British music trade paper New Musical Express holds its Third Annual NME Poll Winners Concert at London's Wembley Empire Pool, featuring The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Animals, The Moody Blues, Tom Jones, Them, Donovan, The Seekers, Freddie and the Dreamers, Herman's Hermits, and Cilla Black.
1966: NBC-TV's musical variety show Hullabaloo airs its last episode after sixteen months on the air, featuring Lesley Gore, Peter and Gordon, Paul Anka, and the Cyrkle.
1967: Flying back to England after participating in the Beach Boys' aborted Smile sessions, Paul McCartney comes up with the idea for the Beatles film and album Magical Mystery Tour.
1968: Janis Joplin makes her television debut when Big Brother and the Holding Company perform on ABC-TV's variety show Hollywood Palace.
1970: In Germany, Fleetwood Mac founding member Peter Green, having just come down from a long acid trip, announces his intention to leave the band to follow an obscure religion. He agrees to stay on through the current tour, however, to satisfy the band's contract.
1976: Relaxing in his hotel after a record-breaking Sydney show, Alice Cooper is placed under house arrest for alleged breach of contract after refusing to pay another promoter $59,000 for an Australian tour the year before. When it is discovered that the promoter's fallen short on his end of the deal as well, Cooper is released to fly back to the States.
1986: A stage musical entitled Time, produced by Dave Clark and starring Cliff Richard, Dionne Warwick, Freddie Mercury, and Leo Sayer, opens at London's Dominion Theatre.
1988: Cher wins Best Actress for the romantic comedy Moonstruck at tonight's Oscar Awards in New York.
1990: Elton John performs at the Indianapolis, IN funeral of Ryan White, the hemophiliac 18-year-old who'd contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been shunned for it. Michael Jackson also attends the service.
1997: Grand Funk Railroad reforms for their first tour in years to benefit the Bosnian-American Relief Fund, which helps victims of the recent genocide in Bosnia.
2002: Aretha Franklin and seven other Motown stars are honored with street names in Detroit's new low-income housing project.
2006: Paul Anka guest-stars as himself in tonight's "The Real Paul Anka" episode of WB-TV's Gilmore Girls.
Releases
none
Recording
1956: Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula"
1963: Nat "King" Cole, "Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer"
1966: The Beatles: "Got To Get You Into My Life," "Love You To"
1966: Frank Sinatra, "Strangers In The Night"
Charts
1956: James Brown's "Please, Please, Please" enters the R&B charts
1970: The Beatles' "Let It Be" hits #1
Certifications
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Post by JamesP on Apr 14, 2015 15:09:51 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 14
Births
1933: Buddy Knox
1935: Loretta Lynn
1942: Tony Burrows (Edison Lighthouse)
1945: Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)
1946: Patrick Fairley (Marmalade)
1948: Larry Ferguson (Hot Chocolate)
1949: Dennis Bryon (Amen Corner)
1949: June Millington (Fanny)
1949: Sonja Kristina (Curved Air)
Deaths
1990: Thurston Harris
1998: Dorothy Squires
2005: Steve Jablecki (Wadsworth Mansion)
2007: Don Ho
Events
1956: Bobby Helms auditions for Decca Records and is signed on the spot.
1960: Inspired by the hysteria surrounding Elvis Presley and his Army stint, the musical Bye Bye Birdie , starring Dick Van Dyke, Dick Gautier, and Paul Lynde opens on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre. It will run for 607 performances.
1963: The Beatles visit the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, to see an unsigned band called The Rolling Stones.
1965: Elvis Presley's 17th movie, Girl Happy, co-starring Shelley Fabares, opens in US theaters.
1967: ABC-TV airs the final episode of their afternoon rock music variety show Where The Action Is, featuring the house band it made famous, Paul Revere and the Raiders.
1968: Famed producer Phil Spector takes his first wife, Ronnie Bennett of Ronettes fame. The legendarily unhappy marriage will finally end in 1972.
1969: The Monkees' dismal last gasp, the NBC-TV special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, airs to bad ratings and worse reviews.
1969: In a first for the Academy Awards, the Oscar for Best Actress is a tie: Katherine Hepburn for The Lion In Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.
1970: Stephen Stills breaks his wrist while driving into a parked car, forcing the cancellation of CSNY's upcoming American tour.
1970: Creedence Clearwater Revival makes their live UK debut at London's Royal Albert Hall.
1974: Pete Townshend of the Who makes his solo concert debut at the Roundhouse in London, backed solely by his own pre-recorded audio tapes.
1975: After a long audition process during the recording of their album Black and Blue , and after a slew of rumors about who would fill the position, the Rolling Stones announce former Faces member Ron Wood as their new guitarist, replacing the departed Mick Taylor.
1976: Stevie Wonder signs the largest music contract to that time when he resigns with Motown/Tamla for $13 million.
1976: Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers takes too many Seconal and Valium and nearly dies from the overdose, which he claims is accidental and was brought on by sheer exhaustion from the group's touring and recording schedule.
1980: New Jersey considers a resolution to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born To Run" the new official state anthem, but eventually designate it as merely the Garden State's "rock anthem."
1980: Olivia Newton John's TV special Olivia's Hollywood Nights, also starring Elton John, The Carpenters, and Andy Gibb, airs on ABC.
1986: Ironton, OH evangelist Jim Brown famously claims that the Mr. Ed theme is just one of many popular songs that contain Satanic backwards messages.
2008: Liverpool's John Moore University names a new Chancellor -- Queen's Brian May.
2009: George Harrison is posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine -- not coincidentally in front of the offices of George's old US label, Capitol.
Releases
1955: Fats Domino, "Ain't It A Shame" (a/k/a "Ain't That A Shame")
1967: The Bee Gees, "New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones)"
Recording
1966: The Beatles: "Paperback Writer," "Rain"
1969: The Beatles, "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"
Charts
1958: Laurie London's "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" hits #1
1979: The Doobie Brothers' "What A Fool Believes" hits #1
Certifications
1967: Herman's Hermits' "There's A Kind Of Hush" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Apr 15, 2015 7:33:50 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 15
Births
1894: Bessie Smith
1918: Eddy Arnold
1933: Roy Clark
1937: Bob Luman
1939: Marty Wilde
1940: Clarence Satchell (The Ohio Players)
1942: Allan Clark (The Hollies)
1944: Dave Edmunds
1947: Mike Chapman
Deaths
1989: Nesuhi Ertegun
2005: John Fred Gourrier (John Fred and his Playboy Band)
2007: Don Ho
Events
1956: Mitch Miller and DJ Alan Freed appear, along with two psychiatrists, on Eric Sevareid's television program CBS Sunday News to discuss the "potentially negative effects of Rock 'n' Roll on teenagers."
1958: Buddy Holly has his guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, stolen from the Crickets' station wagon while the group stops to have lunch before a concert in St. Louis, MO.
1960: Dick Clark's movie Because They're Young, a friendlier Blackboard Jungle of sorts with appearances by James Darren and Duane Eddy, premieres in New York.
1964: After a long day of filming for their first movie, which is still titled Beatlemania!, The Beatles relax as Ringo Starr declares, oddly, that it's been "a hard day's night." John immediately begins writing the song of the same name on the back of an old greeting card; it will eventually become the title track for the film.
1966: Buffalo Springfield make their live debut, opening for the Byrds at the Orange County Showgrounds in San Bernardino, CA.
1969: Archie Bell of the Drells completes his tour of duty in Vietnam and is discharged from the US Army.
1971: The Illinois Crime Commission releases a list of "drug-oriented rock records" that include Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" and Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," but also, for some reason, The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends" and "Puff The Magic Dragon," by Peter, Paul and Mary.
1971: At tonight's Oscar ceremonies in Los Angeles, The Beatles are awarded their one and only statuette, in the category of Original Song Score, for the title track to the film Let It Be.
1982: While riding his motorcycle in his native Long Island, New York (presumably not in the rain), Billy Joel slams into a moving car, breaking his wrist and requiring a month of hospitalization.
1989: Roy Orbison's comeback single, "You Got It," produced by Jeff Lynne, becomes his last big hit as it reaches the US Top Ten four months after his death from a heart attack.
1996: The remainder of Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered near the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco; a week earlier, a portion had been scattered into India's Ganges river.
Releases
1966: The Rolling Stones, Aftermath
Recording
1966: The Beatles: "Paperback Writer," "Rain"
1968: Aretha Franklin, "Think"
1969: The Beatles, "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"
Charts
1972: Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" hits #1
1972: Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen's "Hot Rod Lincoln" enters the charts
Certifications
1977: Lynyrd Skynyrd's LP One More For The Road is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Apr 16, 2015 14:44:29 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 16
Births
1924: Henry Mancini
1924: Rudy Pompilli (Bill Haley and His Comets)
1929: Ed Townsend
1929: Roy Hamilton
1930: Herbie Mann
1935: Bobby Vinton
1939: Dusty Springfield
1943: Lonesome Dave Peverett (Foghat)
1947: Gerry Rafferty
1963: Jimmy Osmond (The Osmonds)
Deaths
1980: Morris Stoloff
1999: Skip Spence (Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape)
Events
1955: A young Roy Orbison sees Elvis for the first time, performing at the Sportatorium in Dallas, TX.
1965: The Hollies make their US stage debut at New York's Paramount Theatre.
1969: The Elektra label drops Detroit's MC5 from their roster after an infamous ad in a local music zine, replete with Elektra logo, advised buyers to "Kick in the door if the store won't sell you the album... and f*** Hudson's." Hudson's was a Michigan record chain that had refused to stock the band's latest album Kick Out The Jams, due to the lyric "Kick out the jams, mother*******!"
1972: Electric Light Orchestra make their live debut at Croydon, England's Fox and Greyhound pub.
1973: Paul McCartney's first television special, James Paul McCartney, airs on ABC, featuring a few Beatles songs, new Wings tracks, sketches, and a final performance of a song called "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance," originally written for Twiggy.
1974: Queen make their US live debut at Regis College in Denver, CO.
1976: Boz Scaggs goes to visit friend Bobby "Blue" Bland backstage at the famed Antone's in Austin, TX, and is beaten unconscious by two bouncers.
1977: Stevie Wonder becomes the proud father of his second child, son Kieta, by Yolanda Simmons.
1990: Neil Young, Natalie Cole, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Tracy Chapman, Simple Minds, and more take part in the concert Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa, an "international reception" for the famed civil-rights leader, who had just been released from a 27-year prison sentence.
1995: Bob Seger becomes the proud parent of his second child, daughter Samantha Char, by his second wife, Annette Sinclair.
1996: At tonight's Grammy Awards ceremonies in New York, KISS, back again in full makeup, announce their reunion and upcoming tour, the first time all four original members have taken the stage together since 1981.
1996: Judy Collins marries her second husband, designer Louis Nelson.
1997: Elton John is awarded an honorary membership to his old alma mater, Britain's Royal Academy of Music.
2003: After suffering a stroke in his Manhattan apartment, Luther Vandross is admitted to a local hospital.
2003: Jerry Lee Lewis files for divorce from his sixth wife, former Jerry Lee Lewis fan club president Kerrie McCarver.
2008: Barbra Streisand donates $5 million to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for a women's heart education and research program.
Releases
1964: The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones
1964: Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams"
Recording
1957: Chuck Berry, "After School Sessions: 1964: Dean Martin, "Everybody Loves Somebody"
1964: The Beatles, "A Hard Day's Night"
1966: The Beatles, "Rain"
1969: The Beatles: "Old Brown Shoe," "Something"
Charts
1977: David Soul's "Don't Give Up On Us" hits #1
Certifications
none
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Post by JamesP on Apr 19, 2015 4:51:56 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 19
Births
1927: Don Barbour (The Four Freshmen)
1928: Alexis Korner
1934: Dickie Goodman
1936: Ruby Johnson
1941: Bobby Russell
1942: Alan Price (The Animals)
1942: Larry Ramos, Jr. (The Association)
1943: Eve Graham (The New Seekers)
1944: Bernie Worrell (Parliament, Funkadelic)
1946: Tim Curry
1947: Mark Volman (The Turtles)
Deaths
1985: Willie Mabon
Events
1924: The first national country radio show in the US, The Chicago Barn Dance , debuts on WLS radio. (Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry wouldn't hit the airwaves for another year.)
1945: The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel featuring the soon-to-be-standards "If I Loved You," "June Is Bustin' Out All Over," and "You'll Never Walk Alone," debuts on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre.
1956: Drifters singer Clyde McPhatter receives his discharge from the US Army, leading him to immediately leave the group for a solo career.
1962: In another big step forward for soul, Jackie Wilson begins a headlining stint at New York's famous Copacabana Club.
1965: The epochal T.A.M.I. (Teen-Age Music International) Show has its premiere in the UK under the title Teenage Command Performance.
1967: While mixing tracks for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Beatles producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick discover that the clucking of the hen at the end of "Good Morning Good Morning" meshes perfectly with George Harrison's opening guitar note on the "Sgt. Pepper" reprise.
1968: With Ringo having left much earlier due to the vegetarian diet, and Paul having left to supervise the launch of Apple, John and George are the last two Beatles to leave the Maharishi Maheshi Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, India, where they had been studying his practices of meditation and yoga. Lennon in particular believes the stories of band associate Alex Mardas, who claims the Maharishi is only interested in the Beatles' money and, although claiming to be celibate, has been making sexual advances at the group's traveling companion, actress Mia Farrow. When the guru asks why everyone is leaving, John shoots back "You're the cosmic one, you should know." When back in London, he writes a song about the incident, entitled "Maharishi" but later changed to "Sexy Sadie."
1980: For the first time, the five spots atop Billboard's country music chart are all female: Crystal Gayle ("It's Like We Never Said Goodbye"), Dottie West ("A Lesson in Leavin'"), Debbie Boone ("Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again"), Emmylou Harris ("Beneath Still Waters"), and Tammy Wynette ("Two Story House," shared with George Jones).
1982: Flush from the success of their recent Central Park concert, Simon and Garfunkel mount their first tour since their breakup, a swing through Europe that sadly falls apart before it can get to the US. The split is so dramatic this time around that Simon wipes all of Garfunkel's contributions to the pair's latest album, Hearts and Bones, and releases it as a solo album instead.
1988: Sonny Bono is inaugurated as mayor of Palm Springs, CA.
1990: Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Gary Moore, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister and Level 42's Mark King all appear as themselves on tonight's episode of BBC's French & Saunders sketch comedy show, jamming together in a courtroom sketch.
1990: The TV docudrama Summer Dreams: The History Of The Beach Boys, airs on ABC.
2003: Alt-rock heroes The White Stripes join Loretta Lynn during a concert in New York to join her on her hits "Fist City," ""Rated X," and "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man."
2004: A stage musical of the Elvis movie Jailhouse Rock opens in London.
2005: Elvis Presley Enterprises announces that for the first time it will air TV commercials to lure visitors to the refurbished Graceland mansion where he spent his days.
2010: Ringo Starr comments on the Vatican's recent "apology" for its part in the 1966 "Bigger Than Jesus" scandal, saying, "Didn't the Vatican say we were Satanic or possibly Satanic? And they've still forgiven us? I think the Vatican, they've got more to talk about than the Beatles."
Releases
1965: The Beatles, "Ticket To Ride"
1973: The Beatles, The Beatles 1962-1966, The Beatles 1967-1970 (UK)
1978: Patti Smith, "Because The Night"
Recording
1966: The Beatles, "Doctor Robert"
Charts
none
Certifications
1967: Frank and Nancy Sinatra's "Something Stupid" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Apr 25, 2015 16:03:28 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 25
Births
1917: Ella Fitzgerald
1923: Albert King
1925: Prentiss Barnes (The Moonglows)
1932: Willis "Gator" Jackson
1933: Jerry Leiber
1944: Michael Kogel (Los Bravos)
1945: Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA)
1945: Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1946: Ronnie Gilbert (Blues Magoos)
1949: Michael Brown (The Left Banke)
1950: Steve Ferrone (Average White Band)
Deaths
2007: Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Events
1955: The UN's commission on narcotics releases a report stating "definite connection between increased marijuana smoking and that form of entertainment known as bebop and rebop."
1960: Eddie Cochran is laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, CA.
1970: At today's concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, the interracial band Pacific Gas and Electric is subject to verbal abuse on stage. Later, when they leave the club, four bullets are fired at their van. No one is injured.
1974: According to the new issue of Rolling Stone, "streaking" has become so popular that Yes and Gregg Allman concerts have been interrupted by the fad. At a recent Beach Boys concert, the magazine says, the band was streaked by its own crew.
1977: Elvis Presley performs at the Civic Center in Saginaw, MI, with a mobile unit capturing what would be his very last recording (released on the album Moody Blue).
1977: The musical variety television special Paul Anka -- Music My Way, featuring Natalie Cole, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and a host of famous cameos, airs on ABC.
1981: Denny Laine leaves the trio Wings, essentially leaving Paul McCartney a solo act once more.
1985: The musical Big River, based on Mark Twain's work and featuring a score by Roger Miller, opens on Broadway. Miller would go on to win a Tony award for the music.
1990: A London auction house sells the Fender Stratocaster on which Jimi Hendrix played the US national anthem at Woodstock for $295,000.
1993: Legendary album artist Stanley "Mouse" Miller, designer of the Grateful Dead's "skull and roses" logo, has his upcoming liver transplant financed by the band.
1994: After fourteen years, The Eagles reform at Warner's Burbank Studios for the first of what will be two reunion concerts chronicled on the live/studio album Hell Freezes Over.
1994: A judge finds Michael Bolton's 1991 hit "Love Is A Wonderful Thing" plagiarizes the Isley Brothers' 1966 song of the same name, despite Bolton's protests that he's never heard the song.
1994: Yankee Stadium in New York holds their first "Joe DiMaggio Day," featuring Paul Simon singing "Mrs. Robinson" (and cheers when he gets to the "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" part).
2003: The parents of the late Doors frontman Jim Morrison sue the remaining members for touring with a new singer as "The Doors 21st Century" using the band's image and logo.
2003: Nina Simone is laid to rest in Carry-Le-Rouet, France, with attendees including Miriam Makeba and gifts from luminaries like Elton John.
2004: For the third time in two years, Billy Joel is involved in a minor traffic accident, driving his car into a home in Bayville, Long Island, New York. No one is injured.
Releases
none
Recording
1967: The Beatles, "Magical Mystery Tour"
1978: Bob Dylan, "Changing Of The Guards"
Charts
1960: Elvis Presley's "Stuck On You" hits #1
1970: The Jackson 5's "ABC" hits #1
Certifications
1973: Sweet's "Little Willy" is certified gold
1978: Queen's "We Are The Champions" is certified gold
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Post by JamesP on Apr 26, 2015 11:45:32 GMT -5
Today In Music History: April 26
Births
1886: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey 1925: Jorgen Ingmann
1938: Maurice Williams
1938: Duane Eddy
1940: Giorgio Moroder
1941: Claudine Clark
1942: Bobby Rydell
1943: Gary Wright
1945: Tony Murray (The Troggs)
1946: Ronny Dayton (Ronny and the Daytonas)
Deaths
1984: Count Basie
1997: Ernest Stewart (KC and the Sunshine Band)
Events
1957: Calypso star Harry Belafonte resigns to his record label, RCA Victor, for an unprecedented million dollars.
1962: Jerry Lee Lewis, still stricken from the tragedy of losing his three-year-old son Steve Allen Lewis in a swimming pool drowning, arrives in the UK to tour for the first time since he was forced out in 1958 for marrying his 13-year-old cousin.
1963: Teen idol Frankie Avalon agrees to star in Beach Party, the first of what would become known as the "Beach Movies" starring himself and Annette Funicello.
1964: The Beatles attend a birthday party for Roy Orbison in London (Orbison had actually turned 28 three days earlier). That night, the group headlines the poll winner's concert for the magazine New Musical Express, which also features fan favorites The Rolling Stones and the Dave Clark Five.
1965: Bob Dylan makes his first trip to England to promote his new album, called Bringing It All Back Home. The tour is chronicled by filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker for a film that will eventually become the iconic Don't Look Back.
1966: According to the New York Times, Ray Charles is being forced to undergo tests in Boston to confirm that he has kicked the heroin habit, as ordered by a court after a drug-possession rap the previous year.
1967: Janis Ian, then only sixteen, appears on Leonard Bernstein's CBS special Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution, singing her single from a year earlier, "Society's Child." Though the song, which details a forbidden interracial relationship, was banned from airwaves in its initial run, this exposure turns it into a Top 20 hit.
1967: The Mamas and the Papas' "Mama Cass" Elliot gives birth to her one and only child, daughter Owen Vanessa. She would take the father's name to the grave.
1970: Tom Jones (along with John Wayne and Bob Hope) guest-stars on Raquel Welch's NBC television special, entitled simply Raquel!.
1977: The disco boom gets rolling in earnest with the opening of Steve Rubell's new glitzy and ultra-exclusive club, Studio 54, in New York. Among the guests invited opening night: Cher, Mick Jagger and wife Bianca, Debbie Harry, Donald and Ivana Trump, Liza Minnelli, Jerry Hall, Halston, Margaux Hemingway, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Salvador Dali, Brooke Shields, Martha Graham, and Robin Leach.
1978: Ringo Starr plays two roles in a musical version of Prince and the Pauper entitled simply Ringo, also starring Art Carney, John Ritter, Carrie Fisher, Vincent Price, Angie Dickinson, Mike Douglas, and featuring George Harrison's narration. Airing on NBC, the show is a dismal flop.
1980: The Carpenters' fifth TV variety special, entitled Music, Music, Music and also starring John Davidson and Ella Fitzgerald, airs on ABC.
1982: While shopping for clothes on Hollywood Boulevard in the middle of the day, Rod Stewart is robbed at gunpoint of, among other things, his $50,000 Porsche.
1994: The Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick pleads guilty to assault after turning a shotgun on police who visited her California home the previous month. Although she claims she was edgy due to a recent fire, the judge nonetheless sentences her to a short stint in Alcoholics Anonymous.
2003: The Morgan Creek Bridge in Chapel Hill, NC, is renamed the James Taylor Bridge in honor of the city's native son.
2003: David Cassidy guest-stars as wealthy CEO "Everett Price" in the "War, Inc." episode of CBS-TV's The Agency.
2004: June Pointer of the Pointer Sisters is arrested in Los Angeles for possession of cocaine.
Releases
none
Recording
1952: Fats Domino, "Long Lonesome Journey""Poor Poor Me", "Trust in Me", "Cheatin" 1957: Larry Williams, "Short Fat Fannie"
1962: Sam Cooke: "Having A Party," "Bring It On Home To Me"
1963: Jesse Fortune: "Too Many Cooks", "Good Things, "Heavy Heart Beat", "God's Gift to Man" 1966: The Beatles, "And Your Bird Can Sing"
1967: The Beatles, "Magical Mystery Tour"
1969: The Beatles: "Oh! Darling," "Octopus's Garden"
1969: Bob Dylan: "Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)," "A Fool Such As I," "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know," "Let It Be Me"
1978: Bob Dylan: "Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)," "Is Your Love In Vain?," "New Pony," "We Better Talk This Over," "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)"
Charts
1969: The Original Broadway Cast Soundtrack of Hair hits #1
1975: B.J. Thomas' "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" hits #1
Certifications
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