This Date In Music History-January 10

Birthdays:

Michel Schenker (Scorpions) 1955

Pat Benatar (1953)

Cyril Neville -The Neville Brothers (1948)

Rod Stewart was born in London in 1945.

Scott McKenzie ("San Francisco") turns 70.

Donald Fagen of Steely Dan is 61.

Ronnie Hawkins is 74.

Drummer Aynsley Dunbar, who has played with Journey and Jefferson Starship, was born in Liverpool in 1946.

Brad Roberts- Crash Test Dummies (1964)

Matt Roberts- 3 Doors Down (1978)

Singer Shawn Colvin (1958)


They Are Missed:

In 2008, Rod Allen, the last remaining original member of The Fortunes, died of liver cancer at the age of 64.

Jim Croce was born in 1943.

Johnnie Ray ("Cry") was born in 1927.

Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler (worked with Ray Charles and many others) was born in 1917.

In 2001, Bryan Gregory, founding guitarist with the Cramps, passed away. He had suffered a heart attack weeks earlier and never fully recovered.

Delta bluesman Howlin' Wolf died at the age of 66 in 1976.


History:

In 1981, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" LP goes Platinum, a little over a month after Lennon's assassination. The album would be #1 in the US for eight weeks.

Vinyl records were introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm) in 1949.

In 1956, Elvis Presley recorded his first songs as an RCA Victor artist in Nashville. Elvis recorded "Heartbreak Hotel," "Money Honey," among others. Along with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, guitar-great Chet Atkins participated in the Nashville session. Floyd Cramer was on piano.

In 2003, a collection of 500 Beatles tapes known as the 'Get Back sessions', which were stolen in the 1970's, were found after UK police cracked a major bootleg operation in London and Amsterdam.

The first American Beatles' album, "Introducing The Beatles" was released in 1964 by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records.

In 1965, American promoter Sid Bernstein telephoned Beatles manager Brian Epstein to propose the Fab Four play Shea Stadium.

The trial over Paul McCartney's move to dissolve the Beatles partnership began today in 1971, in London's High Court. Ringo testified, "Paul behaved like a spoilt child."

In 1969, frustrated at Paul McCartney's dominance during the filming of Let It Be, George Harrison nonchalantly tells the rest of the band that he is quitting immediately and sarcastically says as he walked out, "See you around the clubs." George would later say that while he had a growing backlog of new material, he constantly had to work on Lennon and McCartney's songs before the group would work on his. John Lennon suggested getting Eric Clapton as Harrison’s replacement.

In 1955, Alan Freed hosted his first New York stage show, featuring The Clovers, The Drifters and Fats Domino.

In 1976, Foghat's "Slow Ride" became the first of their five Billboard chart entries and the only one to crack the Top 20.

In 1984, Cyndi Lauper became the first female recording artist since Bobbie Gentry in 1967, to be nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female), Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

In 2007, the Recording Academy announced the year's additions to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Albums inducted are "Who's Next" by the Who, "London Calling" by the Clash and "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother & the Holding Company. Singles getting the nod are Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" and Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl."