Birthdays:
David Freiberg - Quicksilver Messenger Service/Jefferson Starship (1938)
Mason Williams - 1968 hit "Classical Gas" (1938)
Ernest Wright - Little Anthony and the Imperials (1941)
Joe Chambers - Chambers Brothers (1942)
Jimmy Soul - "If You Wanna Be Happy" (1942)
Marshall Thompson - Chi-Lites (1942)
John Cipollina - Quicksilver Messenger (1943)
Jim Brady - Sandpipers (1944)
Ken Hensley - Uriah Heep (1945)
Malcolm Duncan - Average White Band (1945)
Jim Fox - James Gang (1947)
Jean-Michel Jarre - French instrumentalist (1948)
Michael DeRosier - Heart (1951)
Jeffrey Daniel - Shalamar (1955)
Mark Bedford - Madness (1961)
John Bush - Anthrax (1963)
Andreas Kisser - Sepultura (1968)
Kristin Osborn - SheDaisy (1970)
They Are Missed:
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was born in 1905. The bluesman's "That's All Right Mama" was Elvis Presley's first single. Admirers like Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, and Fleetwood Mac have also covered his songs (died March 28, 1974 - age 69).
Jim Capaldi, drummer for Traffic, was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, England in 1944.
The original swinger, lounge lord Louis Prima died in 1978 (age 66).
81-year old Al Dvorin, the announcer who popularised the phrase "Elvis has left the building," died in a car crash in 2004, on his way home from an Elvis convention in California. Dvorin was in a car driven by Elvis photographer Ed Bonja. Dvorin was never paid for recordings of his words, and was bitter towards the multimillion pound Elvis Presley Enterprises. In the early 1970s, Colonel Parker asked Dvorin to inform fans at a gig that Presley would not be appearing for an encore. He took the stage and announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and goodnight."
Producer Gene Page died in 1998 after a long illness. Worked with Barbra Streisand, Barry White, The Righteous Brothers, Dobie Gray, Bob and Earl. Produced Whitney Houston's 'Greatest Love of All' and Roberta Flack's 'Tonight I Celebrate My Love.'
History:
Buddy Holly was in the audience as Little Richard played Lubbock, Texas' Cotton Club in 1956.
Elvis Presley recorded the classic hit "Love Me Tender" in 1956.
In 1959, a headline in Billboard read, "Rock and Roll Ain't Ready For The Ol' Rockin' Chair Yet." The story said rock & roll was losing popularity a year ago, but the record buyers now like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Lloyd Price along with newcomers, the Drifters, Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson.
In 1963, Little Stevie Wonder was the first artist to make the #1 position on the pop single chart, the pop albums chart and the R&B singles chart all at one time. In fact, nobody had made the pop single and album charts at the same time. The album is The Twelve Year-Old-Genius and the single is "Fingertips, Part Two."
The Doors started recording their first album at Sunset Sound Recording Studios, West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California in 1966.
17-year old singer and guitarist Bruce Springsteen joined a group called Earth in 1967.
In 1967, Patti Harrison convinced her husband George and the rest of the Beatles to attend a lecture at the Park Lane Hilton given by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They go and send a note to him requesting a private audience. In the meeting, the Beatles offer themselves as disciples. He accepts and invited them to an indoctrination course for spiritual regeneration two days later. They attended along with Mick Jagger and his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull. Brian Epstein was invited but declines. Afterwards, John Lennon compares the experience as "going somewhere without your trousers."
Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" hits #2 on the pop chart in 1968.
The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, drives a Lincoln into the pool of a Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan in 1968.
Iron Butterfly's "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" was released in 1968.
Paul Anka with Odia Coates started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1974 with the insipid cut '(You're Having My Baby', Anka's 24th US top 40 hit.
Queen started recording 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at Rockfield studio’s in Monmouth, Wales, in 1975 (the song was recorded over three weeks). Freddie Mercury had mentally prepared the song beforehand and directed the band throughout the sessions. May, Mercury, and Taylor sang their vocal parts continually for ten to twelve hours a day, resulting in 180 separate overdubs.
In 1977, outlaw country crooner Waylon Jennings—not long after being named honorary police chief in Nashville—was arrested on cocaine charges.
"I Wanna Be Your Lover" by Prince was released in 1979. It was his first U.S. hit.
B.B. King celebrated his 30th year in show business at a special celebration held at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, CA in 1979.
The Cars performed at New York's Central Park in 1979 for an audience of a half million people.
John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, was sentenced to prison for 20 years to life in 1981. Over the next few months, Chapman would claim many times to have been beaten by fellow inmates, some of whom allegedly tried to kill him with items like scissors. And we feel bad for you?
Huey Lewis and the News started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1985 with "The Power Of Love."
In 1989, the Who performed "Tommy" at the Universal Amphitheatre with special guests Steve Winwood, Elton John, Phil Collins, Patti LaBelle and Billy Idol.
In 1990, Sinead O'Connor refused to perform if the United States National Anthem was played before her show at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Homdel, New Jersey, as is custom. A patriotic uproar ensued and several radio stations banned her music.
Also in 1990, Judas Priest successfully defended themselves against a lawsuit, after two fans attempted suicide while listening to the Stained Class album. Both fans eventually died, one immediately from a shotgun blast, and the other on a second attempt three years later by a methadone overdose. The prosecution claimed that there were subliminal messages in the group’s music that caused the two seventeen year olds to carry out the suicide pact in 1985.
Pearl Jam drummer Dave Abruzzese quit the band in 1994 (or was fired, depends on who you ask). He reportedly wanted to study music formally. He was replaced by Jack Irons.
In 1994, Geffen Records announced Nirvana was planning to release a double album—the first since Kurt Cobain's suicide four months earlier. The album was to include previously unreleased live performances recorded between 1989 and '94. However, the remaining bandmembers later decided against releasing such an album for the time being.
Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut album was released in 1999.
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