Birthdays:
Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin (1962)
Simple Minds ("Don't You Forget About Me") guitarist Charlie Burchill (1959)
Charlie Benante, Anthrax (1962)
They Are Missed:
Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942.
Eddie Rabbitt was born in 1944.
Barbara Acklin ("Love Makes A Woman") died of pneumonia in 1998.
Joe Jones, a musician-turned producer who sang the 1961 Billboard #3 hit "You Talk Too Much" and went on to become an independent music publisher and advocate for Black artists' rights, died on November 27, 2005. He was 79.
Kevin DuBrow, the gravelly voiced singer for the heavy metal group Quiet Riot was found dead in Las Vegas in 2007. He was 52.
History:
In 2001, Elvis Presley was inducted into The Gospel Association Hall Of Fame. Didn’t know there is such a thing.
Elvis' movie “Fun in Acapulco,” co-starring Ursula Andress, was released in the US in 1963. While some exterior scenes were filmed on location, Elvis' scenes were all shot in Hollywood. The King never set foot in Acapulco, Mexico in his life.
In 1965, hippie/writer Ken Kesey held the first of his public acid tests. Far out man (yes, they really did say that!)
Also in 1965, The Lovin' Spoonful's "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice" and The Vogues' "5 O'Clock World" entered the US record charts.
In 1969, The Rolling Stones played Madison Square Garden, a show that was recorded and released as “Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!” The Ike & Tina Turner Revue supported them. During their performance, Janis Joplin joined Tina Turner onstage to sing a duet.
Led Zeppelin IV entered the Billboard album chart at #36 in 1971. Jimmy Page remembered, "We all had a good laugh when the record went into the charts and they had to reproduce the symbols instead of a conventional title."
Capitol Records released the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album in the U.S. in 1967.
Steppenwolf's first album, which included their biggest hits "Born to Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride,” was certified gold in 1968.
In 1970, George Harrison released his first post-Beatles album, "All Things Must Pass,” produced by Phil Spector and featuring Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Ringo Starr and Jim Gordon. The triple disc set would go on to be certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, making it the best selling album by a solo Beatle.
In 2005, multimillionaire defense contractor (and father of a very spoiled daughter) David H. Brooks booked New York’s Rainbow Rooms and his daughter Elizabeth’s favorite acts for her ‘bat mitzvah’ coming-of-age celebration. The stars who appeared included 50 Cent, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Stevie Nicks. 50 Cent, who was paid $500,000 to appear performed only four songs, but he did manage to work in the lyric, "Go shorty, it's your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah". The party cost an estimated $10 million, including the price of corporate jets to ferry the performers to and from the venue. And my parents got mad when I asked for a stereo….
Lionel Richie was No.1 in the US in 1982 with the cut “Truly.” Richie achieved a #1 hit each year from 1978-1986 as a writer, “Three Times A Lady,” “Still,” “Lady” (Kenny Rodgers), “Endless Love ”(Diana Ross), “All Night Long,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me” and as co-writer of “We Are The World.”
The New Vaudeville Band were at #1 on the US singles chart in 1966 with “Winchester Cathedral” (it made No.4 in the UK).
The Beatles recorded their first BBC radio session in 1962 at the BBC Paris studio on Regent Street in London. They played “Twist and Shout,” “Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You.” The tracks were aired on the BBC Light Program “Talent Spot.”
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass went to #1 on the US album chart in 1965 with “Whipped Cream & Other Delights.” (A little known fact about the Whipped Cream cover is that the model was three months pregnant at the time the photo was taken)
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