Birthdays:
Inez Foxx (1942)
Luther Simmons - Main Ingredient (1942)
Doug Ingle - Iron Butterfly (1945)
Dee Dee Sharp (1945)
Freddy Weller - Paul Revere and the Raiders Also co-wrote the immortal "Dizzy" with Tommy Roe (1947)
Dave Stewart - Eurythmics (1952)
Macy Gray (1970)
Michael Bublé (1975)
Stuart Price - British electronic musician (1977)
They Are Missed:
In Springfield, Tenn., Bill Monroe died in 1996 at the age of 84. The vocalist, fiddler, and guitar player is considered the father of bluegrass music.
Born on this day in 1940 , Joe Negroni - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers (died on September 5, 1978)
Born today in 1941, Otis Redding - soul singer. Redding was killed in a plane crash on December 10, 1967.
Born today in 1946, Billy Preston - singer, keyboard player, some called him the 5th Beatle (died on June 6, 2006)
Born on this day in 1946, Bruce Palmer, bass, Buffalo Springfield (died October 4, 2004)
In 2004, US guitar maker Ernie Ball died after a long illness. In the late 50’s Ball opened the first music store in the USA in Tarzana, California to sell guitars exclusively. He developed the guitar strings called ‘Slinkys’ specifically designed for rock and roll electric guitar.
In 2007, founding Outlaws guitarist-singer Hughie Thomasson died after apparently suffering a heart attack at his home in Brooksville, FL. Thomasson, 55 years old, was also a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd from '96 to '05. He left for another stint with the Outlaws. "We have lost another one of our brothers to the Rock & Roll heaven," says Lynyrd Skynyrd in a press release. "We had many a good time writing and playing with Hughie and spent many miles on the road together."
History:
Elvis played at the opening of the Lamar-Airways Shopping Center in Memphis Tennessee in 1954. Johnny Cash was in the audience and after the show met Elvis for the first time.
The J.P. Seeburg Corporation introduced its Dual Music System Jukebox in 1955. It was the first ever equipped to handle a hundred singles and two song per side EPs.
In 1956, Elvis Presley made the first of three appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show. He belted out "Love Me Tender," "Hound Dog," "Don't Be Cruel" and "Ready Teddy." But what's most notable about this performance was that Elvis was shot just from the waist up, so that his gyrating pelvis wouldn't corrupt the nation's youth. Yeah, that would have done it.
US newspaper The Hollywood Reporter ran the following advertisement in 1965: "Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys." The Monkees were born.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono met in an art gallery in 1966 and his life (or the Beatles) would never be the same.
Sam & Dave's soul classic, "Soul Man" was released in 1967.
While working at Abbey Road studios in 1968, the Beatles recorded "Helter Skelter." John Lennon played bass and honked on a saxophone, roadie Mal Evans tried his best at playing trumpet. Paul McCartney recorded his lead vocal and George Harrison ran about the studio holding a flaming ashtray above his head.
John Lennon's Imagine LP was released in 1971.
The Eagles' "Witchy Woman" was released in 1972.
Jim Croce started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1972 with 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim.'
In 1973, Todd Rundgren recorded a thousand of his fans singing in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the song "Sons of 1984." The session ends in disarray after police arrest one crowd member for allegedly dealing cannabis. In the ensuing fight, 11 arrests are made. If you dust off your copy of 1974's Todd, the San Francisco choir can be heard in the left channel of your stereo. In the right are the voices of 5,000 fans Rundgren previously recorded in New York.
In 1977, David Bowie appeared on Marc Bolan's ITV show, 'Marc', singing a duet with Bolan. After the show they recorded demo's together which were never finished after Bolan was killed in a car crash one week later.
A Taste Of Honey started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1978 with "Boogie Oogie Oogie."
(sad but true, people did dance like that, that could have been your dad dancing there - or me, I will admit to going to a disco, um, that's where the women were...yeah, that's it, the women, certainly not the music)
The Rolling Stones' "Beast Of Burden" was released in 1978.
The Who's final album with Keith Moon, "Who Are You" entered the LP charts in 1978.
U2 opened for The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom outside of Dublin in 1978. The Stranglers took up two dressing rooms, leaving U2 to dress behind their amps.
Amnesty International's "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball" took place in 1981. Sting played his first solo set as does Phil Collins.
In 1982, Al Green and Patti LaBelle made their Broadway debut in Vinnete Carroll's, "Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God." It opened at the Alvin Theatre in New York City. Both Green and LaBelle got rave reviews from both critics and the audiences and the intial performances of 30 were expanded to 80.
New Kids On The Block scored their second US #1 single in 1989 with "Hangin' Tough," (also #1 in the UK in 1990) Just proves that pop music sucked at the time.
In 1992, Nirvana's Chris Novoselic knocked himself unconscious during the MTV music and video awards after being hit on the head with his guitar after throwing it up in the air.
Aaliyah went to #1 on the US album chart in 2001 with her self-titled album.
An episode of "Judge Judy" aired in 1998 in which Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten appeared as the defendant in a case involving a drummer who sues Rotten for allegedly head-butting him in a contract dispute. No word if Judge Judy got an autograph.
In 2003, Sinead O'Connor released "She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty," which she claimed will be her final album. The double CD's title was a quote from the Bible and they stopped printing it becasue of a shortage of ink.
Also in 2003, Velvet Revolver - the "super-group" made of ex-members of Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland - signed a recording deal with RCA.
09/09/09 - The Beatles: Rock Band video game is out on Wii, Xbox and PlayStation 3 game systems. The soundtrack has 45 songs along with previously unreleased conversations between band members from their recording sessions. According to a press release, The Beatles: Rock Band "[takes] players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band's legendary career."
Also today - The Beatles' complete studio catalog is issued in a box set to coincide with the arrival of the The Beatles: Rock band video game (see above). Updated packaging and liner notes are among the enticements. 2009
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