James Carr - Country/soul star (1942)
Paul deLisle - Smash Mouth (1963)
Rivers Cuomo - Weezer (1970)
David Gray - UK singer, songwriter (1968)
Robbie Merrill – Godsmack (1963)
Rolf Brendel – Nena (1957)
Howard Lees – Heart (1951)
Dennis Locorriere - Dr Hook (1949)
Bobby Freeman (1940)
They Are Missed:
"King of Swing" Benny Goodman died from a heart attack in New York City in 1986 at the age of 77.
Born on this day in 1934, Uriel Jones, session drummer for Motown Records' in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers, during the 1960s and early 1970s. Died on March 24, 2009.
Clyde McPhatter, original lead vocalist with The Drifters, died of a heart attack in New York in 1972. Joined Billy Ward & the Dominoes in 1950, formed The Drifters in 1953, had several solo hits including 1962 “Lover Please,” was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
History:
In 1924, Vernon Dalhart recorded "The Wreck of the Old '97," country music's first million-seller.
Louis Armstrong started a six week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1964 with “Hello Dolly!”
In 1995, Alanis Morissette released “Jagged Little Pill.” The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide making Morissette the first female Canadian to score a US #1 album.
The Arctic Monkeys made their live debut in 2003 at The Grapes pub in Sheffield, England.
In 1970, Grand Funk Railroad, supported by Steel Mill, (featuring Bruce Springsteen) appeared at the Ocean Ice Palace in Bricktown, New Jersey, tickets $5.00.
The Beatles started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1970 with “The Long And Winding Road,” the groups 20th US #1. The album “Let It Be” started a four-week run at #1 the US album chart on the same day.
John Lennon made his last ever TV appearance in 1975 we he appeared on “Salute To Sir Lew Grade,” performing “Slippin And Slidin,” and “Imagine.”
In 2005, Michael Jackson was cleared of all charges of child abuse by a jury of eight women and four men at the end of a 16-week hearing in Santa Maria, California. Jackson was found not guilty of all 10 charges including abusing a 13-year-old boy, conspiracy to kidnap and supplying alcohol to a minor to assist with a felony.
In 2008, a Chicago jury acquitted R Kelly of all 14 charges of child pornography against him. The US singer was found not guilty of making an explicit sex video that prosecutors had said showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, denied they were the people shown on the tape, which the jury saw. The defense argued that the man in the tape did not have a large mole on his back as does Mr. Kelly, and that the tape could have been doctored.
In 1983, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble release their debut album, Texas Flood. By the end of the year, Vaughan wins Guitar Player magazine's awards for Best New Talent, Best Electric Blues Guitar Player, and Best Guitar Album - the first person to win all three awards since Jeff Beck in 1976.
Barry and Greenwich's "Chapel of Love," recorded by the Dixie Cups, and "Leader of the Pack," recorded by the Shangri-Las, reached #1 in 1964.
Metallica’s “St. Anger” debuts at #1 in 2003. The album’s release date was moved up to thwart bootleggers.
In 2006, Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and Mike Love, Beach Boys founders and survivors, appear together publically for the first time in 10 years to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the classic “Pet Sounds” album.
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