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Post by LS on Oct 21, 2005 22:47:34 GMT -5
August 31, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1948, Sonny Til & the Orioles' "It's Too Soon To Know" moves onto the charts ... the song will reach #11 on the pop chart and #1 on the R&B chart ... it is the first time that a black group singing a song in the "race style" penetrated such a high place on the pop chart...
1956, Elvis begins recording his second album in Los Angeles ... it is to include covers of Little Richard hits "Rip It Up," "Long Tall Sally," and "Ready Teddy" ... Elvis even plays piano on some of the tracks...
1962, The Beatles hit Abbey Road recording studio for the first time, recording "Love Me Do" in about 16 takes with drummer Andy White ... a demo of the song had been recorded with Pete Best on drums, but George Martin suggested, since Ringo had just joined the band, that they use him and session man Andy White ... a version was recorded with White on drums and another with Ringo ... the White version was released in England and the Ringo version was later released in Canada and the U.S ... six years later to the week, Eric Clapton lays down one of the most famous solos ever at Abbey Road on The Beatles' tune "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"...
1963, "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes hits the charts ... the song will later be cited as the perfect pop song by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and one can maybe hear a touch of it in Brian's own "Good Vibrations"...
1968, "Piece of My Heart" by Big Brother & The Holding Company with Janis Joplin singing lead hits the charts ... it is Joplin's and the band's first hit ... meanwhile in Chicago, because of fears of street violence during the National Democratic Convention, The Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man" is banned from air play in Chicago...
1976, Fleetwood Mac's album Fleetwood Mac reaches number one this week ... it has been on the charts for 13 months, relentlessly working its way toward the top...
1990, Tom Fogerty, an original member of Creedence Clearwater Revival and brother of John, dies of tuberculosis this day at age 48 ... he had parted from the band at the height of its success in 1971, a casualty of sibling rivalry ... and although he recorded a number of albums on his own, never scored a hit after his Creedence days...
1991, country music star Dottie West dies from internal injuries suffered in a car accident in the parking lot of The Grand Ole Opry ... the crash occured a few days earlier when an elderly neighbor who was giving West a ride to work lost control of the car ... also this week, Vincent Lance dies ... he is a leather-clad rocker from England who established a career in France ... often in trouble with the law and prone to messianic delusions, he served as the model for David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust...
1997, Pat Smear announces he will no longer be a Foo Fighter and that Franz Stahl will take his place...
2000, The Doobie Brothers offer 15 new tracks for free download to promote their latest album Sibling Rivalry...
...and that was the week that was.
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Arrivals:
August 31: tunesmith Alan Jay Lerner (1918), "Spider" John Koerner (1938), Jerry Allison of The Crickets (1939), Wilton Felder of The Crusaders (1940), Van Morrison (1945), Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions (1948), Gina Schock of The Go-Go's (1957), Squeeze singer/songwriter Glenn Tilbrook (1957), Tony DeFranco (1959), Chris Whitley (1960), Debbie Gibson (1970)
September 1: Brook Benton (1931), Conway Twitty (1933), Tommy Evans of The Drifters (1934), Archie Bell of The Drells (1944), Barry Gibb (1946), Greg Errico of Sly & The Family Stone (1946), The Jam's Bruce Foxton (1955), Gloria Estefan (1957), DJ Sprigg Nice of Lost Boyz (1970)
September 2: Bobby Purify (1939), Sam Gooden of The Impressions (1939), Rosalind Ashworth of Martha and The Vandellas (1943), Joe Simon (1943), Mik Kaminski of E.L.O. (1951), Simply Red's Fritz McIntyre (1956), Steve Porcaro of Toto (1957) Jerry Augustyniak of 10,000 Maniacs (1958), Jonathan Segal of Camper Van Beethoven (1963), K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci (1969)
September 3: bluesman Memphis Slim born Peter Chatman (1915), Hank Thompson (1925), Freddie King (1934), Al Jardine of The Beach Boys (1943), Walter Scott of The Whispers (1943), Greg Leads of The Walker Brothers (1944), George Biondi of Steppenwolf (1945), Thin Lizzy's Eric Bell (1947), Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad (1948), Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols (1955), Jennifer Paige (1973)
September 4: "Lighting Bug" Rhodes, guitarist for Otis Redding and B.B. King (1939), lead-singer George Lanuis of The Crescendos (1939), Merald Knight of Gladys Knight & The Pips (1942), fret wizard Danny Gatton (1945), Greg Elmore of Quicksilver Messenger Service (1946), Quicksilver Messenger Service's Gary Duncan (1946), Ronald LaPread of The Commodores (1950), Muscle Shoals session guitarist Wayne Perkins (1951), Martin Chambers of the Pretenders (1952), Kim Thayil of Soundgarden (1960), Dan Miller of O-Town (1980), Beyoncé Knowles (1981)
September 5: Chicago blues pianist Sunnyland Slim (1907), doo-wopper Jimmy Springs of The Red Caps (1911), guitarist Wille Woods of Junior Walker & The Allstars (1936), singer-songwriter and Kingston Trio member John Stewart (1939), Al "Year of the Cat" Stewart (1945), Freddie Mercury of Queen (1946), Buddy Miles (1946), singer-songwriter Loudon Wainright III (1947), David "Clem" Clempson of Humble Pie/Colosseum (1949), Terry Ellis of En Vogue (1966), Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine (1968), Dweezil Zappa (1969)
September 6: bluesman Jimmy Reed (1925), blues drummer Fred Below (1926), Pink Floyd's Roger Waters (1943), Dave Bargeron of Blood Sweat & Tears (1942), androgynous disco star Silvester aka Silvester James (1947), Dennis "Fast Fingers" Kambury (1953), Perry Bamonte of The Cure (1960), Pal Waaktar of A-Ha (1961), CeCe Pensiton (1969), Dolores O'Riordon of The Cranberries (1971), Nina Persson of The Cardigans (1974), Foxy Brown (1979)
Departures:
August 31: Hollies' singer Carl Wayne (2004), Cajun artist Joe Berry (2004), jazz vibes man and band leader Lionel Hampton (2002), Vincent Lance (1991), bluesman Son Bonds (1947)
September 1: Aussie rocker Ted Mulry (2001), composer Vagn Holmboe (1996)
September 2: New York Metropolitan Opera impressario Sir Rudolf Bing (1997), composer Otto Luening (1996), violinist Cyril Reuben (1996)
September 3: soul singer Major Lance (1994), Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (1970)
September 4: jazz saxophonist Charlie Barnet (1991) country singer Dottie West (1991)
September 5: swamp-boogie queen Katie Webster (1999), R&B pianist Sonny Knight (1998), conductor Georg Solti (1997), Joe Negronie of Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (1978), blues guitarist Joe Hill Louis (1957)
September 6: co-founder of Atari Teenage Riot, Carl Crack (2001), standup country bassist Roy Husky Jr. (1997), Tom Fogerty of CCR (1990), Josh White (1964)
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Post by LS on Oct 21, 2005 22:49:39 GMT -5
September 14, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1814, Francis Scott Key pens the lyrics to "The Star Spangled Banner" ... the song will be adopted as the U.S. national anthem over 100 years later on March 3, 1931, and continues to be among the most badly butchered vocal exercises to this day...
1970, 27-year-old Jimi Hendrix dies in a basement bedroom at the Samarkand Hotel in Notting Hill Gate, London ... the room is rented to Monika Danneman who later claims that she and Jimi were to be married ... he has taken about nine hits of quinalbarbitone and is already quite dead when the medics arrive, despite Danneman's later claims that he had been alive at that time ... the coroner's report cites "inhalation of vomit due to barbiturate intoxication" as the cause of death ... in 1993 the investigation into Hendrix's death is reopened by Scotland Yard in order to clear up discrepancies as to how and when the ambulance was called ... Danneman is vilified in books and other media and in 1996 commits suicide after losing a libel case brought by Kathy Etchingham, who originally reopened the Hendrix case...
1973, Gram Parsons of the Byrds dies after a fatal combination of alcohol and morphine in Joshua Tree, California ... his coffin is stolen from the airport by his manager, Phil Kaufman, and a former Byrds roadie before it can be sent to New Orleans for a family burial ... according to Kaufman, he and Parsons had made a pact months earlier that when one of them died "the survivor would take the other guy's body out to Joshua Tree, have a few drinks, and burn it" ... the two make their way into the desert night after toasting their departed friend at a local bar, pour five gallons of gasoline onto the body, and light it ... the fire is spotted quickly, before the cremation is complete ... Kaufman will be found and charged with stealing a coffin days later, and sentenced to pay $750 for the casket...
1973, Jim Croce, who made his big break with machismo songs "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and "You Don't Mess Around With Jim," meets his fate in a twin-engine prop plane when it hits a tree on takeoff, killing everyone aboard...
1977, Marc Bolan of T. Rex is killed outside of London when his intoxicated wife crashes their mini-GT into a tree...
1978, The Grateful Dead do a three-night stand at the Son Et Lumiere Theater in Giza, Egypt, with the Great Pyramids as a backdrop...
1981, Pink Floyd begin production on the film version of The Wall...
1983, the members of KISS appear on MTV sans their trademark makeup ... the band had already lost original members Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and sought to reinvent themselves for the '80s ... the ploy seemed to work, as their next release Lick it Up became their first platinum album in four years...
1984, the burgeoning MTV network holds its first Video Music Awards ceremony at New York's Radio City Music Hall ... the show is co-hosted by Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd and honors the top music videos of the year ... the event is conceived as a hip alternative to the Grammys ... winners are awarded "Moonman" trophies that depict an astronaut with an American flag, one of the network's earliest icons...
1990, the Department of Labor slaps Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park with a $20,000 fine ... the singer--whose hit song "9 to 5" complained of an overbearing boss--had been overworking teenage staff members of the park...
1991, Guns 'n Roses release Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II ... the albums are at times a departure from the raw, riff-laden rock of the band's debut, Appetite for Destruction, with songs like the epic ballad "November Rain" and "Don't Cry" showing the band's softer side ... the albums will both go platinum within two months, and secure Guns' place as the biggest rock band on the planet until Nirvana arrives the following year...
1995, Paul McCartney's hand-written lyrics to The Beatles' classic "Getting Better" sell for a cool quarter-million dollars at a Sotheby's auction...
1998, for the first time in 24 years, the members of '70s British rock band Mott The Hoople get back together to perform at the Virgin Megastore in London ... also this week in '98, an airliner is forced to make an unscheduled landing in Denver as an extremely intoxicated passenger goes berserk after meeting Hootie and the Blowfish ... the man had been pestering the band for autographs and advice, and blew up after being removed from the first-class area where the band was seated...
2001, McFarlane Toys, the brainchild of the Spawn comic book's creator Todd McFarlane, continues its line of rock star toys with the release of Metallica action figures...
2003, the ever-dramatic Billy Corgan announces that his latest band Zwan is no more ... "I really enjoyed my experience with Zwan, but at the end of the day, without that sense of deeper family loyalty, it just becomes like anything else"...
2004, police in Denver, Colorado arrest a man for criminal impersonation and theft after he walked into a local bank claiming to be Mike McCready of Pearl Jam ... he went on to tell patrons that Pearl Jam would be playing a benefit concert nearby that weekend, and that he would sell them fictional $1,000 tickets for a mere 20 bucks ... a female employee of the bank called her husband, a big fan of the band, to tell him about the tickets ... the savvy fan had heard of the scam, and had his wife promptly notify the police ... the man had apparently pulled the scam in Vegas, New York, Miami, and New Mexico despite looking nothing like McCready ... also this week in 2004, Johnny Ramone dies in his his Los Angeles home after five years battling prostate cancer ... Ramone passes surrounded by his wife Linda Cummings and friends Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, singer Rob Zombie and his wife Sherrie Zombie, Lisa Marie Presley, Pete Yorn, Vincent Gallo, and Talia Shire...
...and that was the week that was.
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Arrivals:
September 14: composer Johann Michael Haydn (1737), Archibald born Leon T. Gross (1912), "Heartbreak Hotel" writer Mae Boren Axton (1914), Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1949), Free's Paul Kossoff (1950), Steve Berlin of Los Lobos (1955), Kay Gee of Naughty by Nature (1970), Everclear's Craig Montoya (1970)
September 15: Roy Acuff (1903), Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1928), Vic Venus (1928), Les Braid of The Swinging Blue Jeans (1941), Lee Dorman of Iron Butterfly (1942), George Howard of Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes (1957), Mitch Dorge of Crash Test Dummies (1960)
September 16: Florence Greenberg (1913), B. B. King (1925), Bernard Calvert of The Hollies (1943), Betty Kelly of Martha and The Vandellas (1944), Kenny Jones of The Small Faces and The Who (1948), Wire's Colin Newman (1954), Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones (1956), Richard Marx (1963), Marc Anthony (1968)
September 17: composer Gustav Holst of The Planets fame (1874), Hank Williams (1923), Bill Black (1926), LaMonte McLemore of The 5th Dimension (1940), Steely Dan drummer Jimmy Hodder (1947), Fee Waybill of The Tubes (1950), Chrissie Hynde (1951), BeBe Winans (1962), Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian (1968), Vinnie Brown of Naughty By Nature (1970), Maile Misajoin of Eden's Crush (1976), Chuck Comeau of Simple Plan (1979)
September 18: pop singer Jimmie Rodgers (1933), Frankie Avalon (1939), Kerry Livgren of Kansas (1949), Dee Dee Ramone (1952), Joanne Catherall of Human League (1962), Ian Spice of Breathe (1966), Ricky Bell of Bell Biv Devoe (1967)
September 19: Brook Benton (1931), Beatles manager Brian Epstein (1934), Nick Massi of The Four Seasons (1935), Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers (1940), songwriter Paul Williams (1940), Mama Cass Elliot (1943), Freda Payne (1945), David Bromberg (1945), Lol Creme of 10cc (1947), Daniel Lanois (1951), Nile Rodgers of Chic (1952), Trisha Yearwood (1964)
September 20: Gogi Grant (1924), Eric Gale (1939), John Panozzo of Styx (1948), Alannah Currie of The Thompson Twins (1959), Cowboy of the Furious Five (1960), Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme (1966), Matthew and Gunnar Nelson - twin sons of Ricky Nelson (1967), Ben Shepherd of Soundgarden (1968), Rick Woolstenhulme of Lifehouse (1979)
Departures:
September 14: crooner-actor Anthony Newley (1999), R&B vocalist Johnny Adams (1998), bluesman Walter "Furry" Lewis (1981)
September 15: jazz pianist Bill Evans (1980)
September 16: the legendary Johnny Ramone (2004), Izadora Rhodes of Weather Girls (2004), CBS producer Tom Wilson (1978), Marc Bolan of T-Rex (1977), opera diva Maria Callas (1977), Leroy Griffin of The Nutmegs (1966)
September 17: Rob Tyner of MC5 (1991), Dave Patillo of The Red Caps (1967)
September 18: Charlie Fox (1998), Jimmy Witherspoon (1997), Roy Milton (1983), Jimi Hendrix (1970)
September 19: Skeeter Davis (2004), Australian folkie Slim Dusty (2003), Rich Mullins (1997), Motown arranger and keyboardist Earl Van Dyke (1992), Gram Parsons (1973)
September 20: Nick Traina (1997), Steve Goodman (1984), Jim Croce (1973), Maury Muehleisen of Jim Croce's band (1973), Red Foley (1968)
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Post by LS on Oct 21, 2005 22:51:56 GMT -5
September 21, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1874, classical composer Gustav Theodore Holst is born in Cheltenham, England ... Holst will grow up to write The Planets, an orchestral suite that is among the most famous modern classical compositions ... bombastic movie composer John Williams (not to be confused with the classical guitar genius of the same name) will borrow freely from The Planets in his soundtrack for Star Wars...
1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller goes off to do his part for the war effort and eventually disappears over the English Channel...
1943, performing above and beyond the call of duty, Kate Smith goes on the air for 13 continuous hours and collects $39 million in war bond pledges to support the effort against Hitler and Hirohito...
1953, child-prodigy-concert-pianist-turned-popular-entertainer Liberace plays Carnegie Hall for the first time ... the hall is sold out...
1956, future Monkee Mickey Dolenz makes his first appearance as Corky on NBC's Circus Boy series ... he travels around the country promoting the show with the elephant, Bimbo ... Dolenz's career will go on to include lending his voice to characters in such cartoons as Scooby Doo and The Funky Fantom ... he will also direct Martin Mull's offbeat comedy show Fernwood Tonight and tour as a solo musical act for years...
1965, during a Scandinavian tour Who singer Roger Daltrey neatly lays out Keith Moon with a single punch and gets booted from the band, even though Daltrey founded the band and was the original lead guitar player ... the newly virtuous Daltrey is concerned that the band is getting into speed and the music is taking a downturn ... the specific precipitating event is Daltrey flushing Moon's pills down the loo ... a couple of days later, Daltrey eats crow, promises to be less violent, and is allowed back into the band...
1965, Great Society, a rock band started by singer Grace Slick, plays out for the first time in North Beach, San Francisco...
1968, Jimi Hendrix releases his version of "All Along the Watchtower," a Bob Dylan composition...
1969, London's Daily Mirror is the first paper to report the rumor that Paul McCartney is secretly dead ... Paul begs to differ, "Do I look dead?" he asks a reporter, "I'm fit as a fiddle"...
1972, depressed over heart problems and the recent death of his father, British rocker Rory Storm is found dead with his head in a gas oven ... Storm, born Alan Caldwell, fronted the Merseybeat group the Hurricanes who were regulars at Liverpool's Cavern Club and were perhaps most famous for once including a drummer named Richard Starkey...
1974, Robbie McIntosh, the funky drummer for the Scots soul outfit, Average White Band, dies of a heroin overdose at a Hollywood Hills party thrown for Gregg Allman ... McIntosh snorts the smack believing it is cocaine ... his band mate Alan Gorrie is saved from the same fate by Cher who is also in attendance and keeps him awake...
1975, soul singer Jackie Wilson suffers a heart attack in mid-performance at the Latin Casino in Camden, N.J. ... dubbed "Mr. Excitement," the singer falls off the stage and strikes his head on a concrete floor causing permanent brain damage ... he lapses into a coma and spends the rest of his life hospitalized until death overtakes him in 1984 ... the soul group The Spinners donate $60,000 for his medical care but much of that money is consumed in lawyer's fees due to relatives tussling over control of Wilson's estate ... the singer is laid to rest in an unmarked grave ... the Wilson family is haunted by tragedy ... son Jackie Jr. was killed in 1970 during a burglary; daughter Sandra will die of a heart attack in 1977; and daughter Jacqueline will be shot to death in a 1987 drive-by shooting...
1979, moments after launching into the song "Better Off Dead," under the influence of influenza, Elton John bites the stage ... after 10 minutes during which he is revived by undisclosed means, he returns to the stage to finish his three-hour set...
1980, 33-year-old Led Zeppelin powerhouse drummer John Bonham is found dead in Jimmy Page's house after a night out during which he is reported to have drunk 40 shots of vodka ... his death marks the end of the seventies' biggest band...
1985, the first FarmAid concert, organized by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp, is mounted in Champaign, Illinois, and raises $10 million to assist beleaguered family farms...
1986, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is killed when the tour bus he's riding in skids on an icy Swedish road, crashes, and then rolls on top of him...
1988, in an uncharacteristic lapse into lawlessness, James Brown threatens some tenants with a hand gun, then leads police on an hour-long, two-state car chase before he is arrested in Georgia...
1990, Little Richard gets a street named after him in his hometown of Macon, Georgia...
1990, Dave Grohl, former drummer for D.C. hard-core band Scream, joins Nirvana and finds fame...
1993, September 24 has figured large in the life of former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler ... on this day in 1993 he settles a lawsuit with GNR for $2.5 million ... he had been kicked out of the band for failing to kick his heroin habit ... five years to the day later, Adler receives a 150-day jail sentence for assaulting two women he dated and violating parole on an earlier domestic violence conviction...
1996, 23-year-old Hank Williams III stands up at the Grand Ol Opry in his grandfather's black western shirt trimmed with green fringe to sing "Lovesick Blues," the same song Hank Williams Sr. played for his Opry debut ... the Opry had fired Hank Sr. for drunkenness in August of 1952 ... he died four months later of a drug/booze overdose in the back of a Cadillac on the way to a gig on New Year's Eve...
1999, TV's "Judge Joe" decides that Coolio is not so cool, ruling that he owes his band, the Wyld Bunch, $4,000 in back pay...
2001, Cher wins a lawsuit brought against her by an accountant who claimed that he was fired and harassed after he alleged that there were labor violations during the construction of Cher's Malibu mansion...
2002, in an out-of-court settlement, British musician Mike Batt forks over an undisclosed six-figure compensation payment to the John Cage Trust for "plagiarizing" Cage's "4'33," which is totally silent ... Batt had included Cage's name along with his own when crediting the silent piece on The Planets' record Classical Graffiti ... he tells reporters that the lawyers who brought the suit and represent Cage's publisher don't really have much of a case but he agreed to make the contribution as a tribute in respect to Cage's work...
2004, famed record producer Phil Spector is finally charged with the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, who was shot to death in Spector's mansion February 3, 2003 ... the coroner deemed the death a homicide and Spector is the only suspect ... Spector's murder trial is scheduled to begin September 15, 2005...
...and that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
September 21: composer Gustav Holst (1874), Leonard Cohen (1934), Don Felder of the Eagles (1947), Tyler Stewart of Barenaked Ladies (1967), Faith Hill (1967), De La Soul's Trugoy the Dove (1968), David Silveria of Korn (1972)
September 22: David Coverdale (1951), Debby Boone (1956), Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde (1957), Joan Jett (1960), Liam Gallagher of Oasis (1972)
September 23: blues guitarist and DJ Joe Hill Louis (1921), John Coltrane (1926), Ray Charles (1930), Ben E. King (1938), Roy Buchanan (1939), Steve Boone of the Lovin' Spoonful (1941), Julio Iglesias (1943), Ron Bushy of Iron Butterfly (1945), jazz musician Don Grolnick (1947), Bruce Springsteen (1949), Lita Ford (1959), Ani DiFranco (1970), Jermaine Dupri (1972), Erik-Michael Estrada of O-Town (1979)
September 24: Ventures drummer Mel Taylor (1933), Linda McCartney (1942), Gerry Marsden of Gerry And The Pacemakers (1942), Cedric Dent of Take 6 (1962), Marty Cintron of No Mercy (1971)
September 25: Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich (1906), Erik Darling of The Rooftop Singers (1933), bluesman Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes (1936), Ian Tyson of Ian and Sylvia (1933), Wade Flemons of Earth, Wind and Fire (1940), cofounder of Love Bryan MacLean (1946), Zucchero (1955), Will Smith (1968), Diana Ortiz of Dream (1985)
September 26: George Gershwin (1898), Marty Robbins (1925), Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music (1945), Olivia Newton-John (1948), Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos (1954), Craig Chaquico of Jefferson Starship (1954), Carlene Carter (1955), Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl (1962), Cindy Herron of En Vogue (1965), Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men (1972), Christina Milian (1981)
September 27: bluesman "Mighty" Joe Young (1927), Don Nix (1941), Randy Bachman of BTO (1943), Meat Loaf aka Marvin Lee Aday (1947), Greg Ham of Men At Work (1953), reggae bassist Robbie Shakespeare (1953), teen throb Shaun Cassidy (1958), Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind (1966), Mark Calderon of Color Me Badd (1970), Avril Lavigne (1984)
Departures
September 22: virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern (2001), Irving Berlin (1989)
September 23: boogie woogie pianist Lawrence "Booker T." Laury (1995), Mississippi bluesman Houston Stackhouse (1980), Robbie McIntosh (1974)
September 24: singer-songwriter Matthew Jay (2003), folk rocker Tim Rose (2002)
September 25: Steve Canaday of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils (1999), John Bonham (1980)
September 26: Robert Palmer (2003), songwriter Carl Sigman (2000), jazz diva Betty Carter (1998), Arnold Shaw (1989), Auburn "Pat" Hare (1980), Bessie Smith (1937)
September 27: rockabilly guitarist Paul Burlison (2003), Wings guitarist Jimmy McCulloch (1979), Metallica's Cliff Burton (1986), Rory Storm of the Hurricanes (1972)
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Post by LS on Oct 21, 2005 22:53:37 GMT -5
September 28, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1963, "She Loves You" is played on the radio by influential DJ Murray "The K" Kaufman on station WINS in New York ... it is the first time a Beatles song is played on U.S. airwaves ... Murray later becomes a staunch Beatles advocate and supporter, helping to break them in New York and America...
1967, Woody Guthrie dies in Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens, New York, at the age of 55 ... the legendary singer-songwriter had been in and out of various New York area hospitals since 1954 receiving treatment for Huntington's disease ... a hereditary illness, Guthrie's mother, Nora, also died of Huntington's ... his son Arlo suffers from the disease...
1970, Jimi Hendrix is buried on October 1, 1970, at Greenwood Memorial Cemetery in Renton, Washington ... the planned memorial service is canceled because of lack of time and concerns with crowd control ... three days later Janis Joplin is found dead in her room at Hollywood's Landmark Hotel, the victim of a heroin overdose ... she had just finished recording her second solo album, titled Pearl ... she was only 27 years old...
1975, drummer Al Jackson Jr. is shot to death in his Memphis home ... the pulse of Booker T. & The MGs--the Stax Records house band--Jackson played on dozens of soul hits ... police initially suspect Jackson's wife who had shot him the previous July ... the case remains unsolved and Memphis police refuse to discuss it...
1976, Jerry Lee Lewis nearly lives up to his nickname while taking a little target practice at a soda bottle with his .357 magnum ... The Killer completely misses the bottle and shoots his bass player, Norman "Butch" Owens, twice in the chest ... Owens reportedly clutched his chest and staggered out onto the front porch before collapsing ... Owens lives to sue Lewis, who is charged with shooting a firearm within city limits ... it is Jerry Lee's 41st birthday...
1982, the first compact discs and players hit the market in Japan ... a joint venture between Sony and Philips, the CD will become the dominant musical format within five years...
1986, CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather is attacked while walking down Park Avenue in New York City about 11 PM ... he is knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly by a mentally unstable citizen who asks over and over "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" .... his assailant is William Tager, a diagnosed psychotic who suspected the media of beaming hostile messages to him, and wanted Rather to tell him the frequency being used for the nefarious plot ... nearly ten years later R.E.M. will write a song loosely based on the event titled "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?"...
1989, Neil Young appears on Saturday Night Live and delivers an absolutely incendiary version of "Rockin' In The Free World" alongside Charlie Drayton, Steve Jordan, and Crazy Horse vet Frank "Poncho" Sampedro ... Young rips through the song at an ear-splitting level while wearing an Elvis tee, no less ... the performance even makes the 25th SNL Anniversary list of all-time best musical guest appearances ... it is so focused, raw, and electric critics hail it as one of the most intense live television performances ever, and proclaim Young to be "back" ... from where, no one knows...
1991, Garth Brooks' album Ropin' the Wind debuts at number one on the Billboard Pop chart ... it is the first country album to do so...
1991, following the theft of Michael Jackson's crystal-beaded glove from the Motown Museum in Detroit, rapper M.C. Hammer offers a $50,000 reward for the relic's return...
1997, a Wu-Tang fan files suit after Method Man leaps off the stage and lands on her, knocking her unconscious ... the suit is against band members Method Man, RZA, and Redman, as well as the student government that sponsored the show ... the fan, Juanita L. Evans, says she was distracted by Redman and therefore didn't see the flying Method Man...
1998, rock fan Drew Carey hosts a truckload of big-name musicians on The Drew Carey Show in an episode titled "La Ramada Vida" ... they all appear as themselves to try out for lead guitarist of Carey's band ... the list includes Joey Ramone, Slash, Dusty Hill, Roy Clark, Jonny Lang, Lisa Loeb, Matthew Sweet, Dave Mustaine, Rick Nielsen, and Joe Walsh...
2004, proving that rockers are really kids at heart, Wilco, Motörhead, Avril Lavigne, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, and Ween contribute tunes to the soundtrack for the film SpongeBob SquarePants ... all the artists crank out new songs for the film except weird-pop wizards Ween, who merely select a song from their water-centric 1997 album The Mollusk...
...and that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
September 28: Ed Sullivan (1902), Houston Stackhouse (1910), Tommy Collins (1930), Joseph Hutchinson (1931), soul singer and former Drifter Ben E. King (1938), Nick St. Nicholas of Steppenwolf (1943), Kenny Kirkland (1955), George Lynch of Dokken (1955), Alannah Currie of The Thompson Twins (1959), Jennifer Rush (1960), teen popster Hilary Duff (1987)
September 29: Gene Autry (1907), Jerry Lee Lewis (1935), Jean-Luc Ponty (1942), Tommy Boyce (1944), Mark Farner of Grand Funk (1948), Mike Pinera of Iron Butterfly (1948), Suzzy Roche of The Roches (1956), Les Claypool of Primus (1963), Barry D of Jesus Jones (1965), Brad Smith of Blind Melon (1968)
September 30: Buddy Rich (1917), Chris Kenner (1929), Cissy Houston (1933), crooner Johnny Mathis (1935), Z.Z. Hill (1935), Frankie Lymon (1942), Dewey Martin of Buffalo Springfield (1942), producer Gus Dudgeon (1942), Marilyn McCoo of The 5th Dimension (1943), Sylvia Peterson of The Chiffons (1946), Mark Bolan of T. Rex (1947), Patrice Rushen (1954), Basia (1956), Trey Anastasio of Phish (1964), Robby Takac of The Goo Goo Dolls (1964)
October 1: Vladimir Horowitz (1904), Albert Collins (1932), Julie Andrews (1935), Samuel George (1942), Jerry Martini of Sly & the Family Stone (1943), Scott McKenzie (1944), Herbert Rhoad of The Persuasions (1944), Barbara Paritt of The Toys (1944), Donnie Hathaway (1945), Martin Turner of Wishbone Ash (1947), Jane Dornacker (1947), Senegalese vocalist Youssou N'Dour (1959), Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra (1968), Xscape's LaTocha Scott (1974)
October 2: Don McLean (1945), Ron Griffiths of Badfinger (1946), Michael Rutherford of Genesis (1950), Sting (1951), Phillip Oakey of Human League (1955), Freddie Jackson (1958), Robbie Neville (1960), Siggi Baldursson of The Sugarcubes (1962), Sean McDonald (1965), Bud Graugh of Sublime (1967), Tiffany (1971)
October 3: Monk Higgins born Milton Bland (1930), Felix Pappalardi (1938), Eddie Cochran (1938), Chubby Checker (1941), Lindsey Buckingham (1948), Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954), Tommy Lee (1961), Gwen Stefani (1969), Kevin Richardson of Backstreet Boys (1971), India.Arie (1975)
October 4: Leon Thomas (1937), Orlons member Marlena Easley (1944), Jim Fielder of the Mothers Of Invention (1947), Keb' Mo' AKA Kevin Moore (1951), Barbara K. MacDonald of Timbuk 3 (1958), Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys (1959), Jon Secada (1961), Lena Katina of tATu (1984), Ashlee Simpson (1984)
Departures
September 28: Bob Gibson (1996), Allen Johnson (1995), Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery (1994), Miles Davis (1991), Rory Storm born Alan Caldwell (1972), Jimmy McCulloch of Wings (1979), Dewey Phillips (1968), Lucky Millinder (1966)
September 29: Scott Muni (2004)
September 30: Jacques Levy (2004), Texas rockabilly pioneer Ronnie Dawson (2003), disco-era songwriter Paul Jabara (1992), pop vocalist and former Mrs. Les Paul, Mary Ford (1977)
October 1: Richard Avedon (2004), Bruce Palmer (2004), Al Jackson Jr. (1975)
October 2: Gene Autry (1998), Evelyn Young (1990), Cousin Joe (1989)
October 3: Cars bassist Benjamin Orr (2000), blues singer Victoria Spivey (1976), Nehemiah "Skip" James (1969), Woody Guthrie (1967)
October 4: bebop trumpeter Art Farmer (1998), Zenas "Daddy" Sears (1998), country fiddler Jerry Rivers (1996), Varetta Dillard (1993), J. Frank Wilson (1991), Ray Stephens (1990), Jimmy Springs (1987), Janis Joplin (1970)
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Post by LS on Oct 21, 2005 22:55:45 GMT -5
October 5, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1944, Dinah Shore's "I'll Walk Alone" moves to top spot on the American singles chart ... it is the first-ever number-one U.S. hit for a female artist...
1957, Jerry Lee Lewis records "Great Balls of Fire"...
1958, doo-wop group The Vocal Chords releases its single "Please Accept My Love" ... singing lead for the group is young B.B. King...
1960, Tommy Roe & The Satins release "Sheila" on Judd Records ... the single will prove a flop ... a revised version will be released two years later by Tommy Roe alone on ABC-Paramount and will streak to the top of the chart, the first of over 20 hits for the artist...
1961, the Beatle haircut is born when Paul and John are celebrating Paul's 21st birthday in Paris ... they meet up with Jurgen Vollmer, a friend from Hamburg who wears his hair brushed forward in a cut popular with French teens ... Paul and John like the style and have Jurgen give them haircuts in their hotel room ... the rest is history...
1962, The Beatles release their first single in the U.K., "Love Me Do," backed by "P.S. I Love You" ... according to rumor, in an act of faith manager Brian Epstein orders 10,000 copies for the record store chain he owns ...all 10,000 are purchased assuring that the song will reach the British Top 20 ... this same week, Little Richard and Sam Cooke begin a European tour in Doncaster, England ... playing keyboards on the tour is a 16-year-old Billy Preston and the M.C. is Gene Vincent of "Be-Bop-A-Lula" fame, who wasn't allowed to perform because his work permit had expired ... for later concerts it is oddly decided by authorities that Vincent will be allowed to sing, but only in front of the stage, not on it...
1966, The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London...
1968, after just three million-seller albums, supergroup Cream begins its farewell tour...
1976, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler are injured during an Aerosmith concert in Philadephia when a fan throws a cherry bomb onto the stage...
1980, Bob Marley collapses in New York while preparing for a tour ... he is diagnosed with cancer and will die seven months later...
1986, Janet Jackson's "When I Think of You" reaches number one this week ... it makes her and her brother Michael the first siblings to each have a number-one hit in the rock era...
1996, former Smashing Pumpkin Jimmy Chamberlain pleads guilty to disorderly conduct ... the charges are related to fellow bandmember Johnathon Melvoin's death from a heroin O.D....
2001, U2 launches the third leg of its Elevation tour with a South Bend, Indiana, concert inviting the world to see and hear it for free ... the performance is webcast and accessible to U.S. fans on U2.com...
2004, five Vote for Change concerts are mounted on the same night in Florida, considered a state up for grabs in the 2004 presidential election ... Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M., Tracy Chapman, and John Fogerty perform in Orlando, where Chapman sings a stirring rendition of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" ... the lineup in Gainesville is Dave Matthews, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, and Jurassic 5 ... in Kissimmee, Pearl Jam and Death Cab for Cutie do their bit to try and unseat the incumbent ... Bonnie Raitt, Keb' Mo', and Sheryl Crow perform in Jacksonville where the three sing a show-closing rendition of the Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" ... meanwhile in Clearwater, the Dixie Chicks and James Taylor hit the stage ... Taylor describes himself as a "big old yellow-dog Democrat" and reveals that his songs "Line 'Em Up" and "Slap Leather" were composed to celebrate the end of the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan respectively ... the following night, John Mellencamp and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds perform in Chicago in support of the John Kerry candidacy...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
October 5: Jessie Mae Hemphill (1936), Abi Ofarim (1939), Richard Street of The Temptations (1942), Steve Miller (1943), keyboardist Richard Kermode (1946), Brian Johnson of AC/DC (1947), Bob Geldof (1954), Paul Thomas of Good Charlotte (1980)
October 6: violinist Cyril Reuben (1926), Walter Kimble (1938), Millie Small of "My Boy Lollipop" fame (1948), Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon (1951), David Hidalgo of Los Lobos (1954), Matthew Sweet (1964), Tommy Stinson of The Replacements (1966)
October 7: "Uncle" Dave Macon (1870), Martin Murray of The Honeycombs (1941), Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service (1943), Kevin Godley of 10cc (1945), David Hope of Kansas (1949), John Cougar Mellencamp (1951), Tico Torres of Bon Jovi (1953), Toni Braxton (1968), Radiohead's Thom Yorke (1968), Leeroy Thornhill of Prodigy (1969)
October 8: composer Toru Takemitsu (1930), Doc Green of The Drifters (1934), Ray Royer of Procol Harum (1945), Toni Wilson of Hot Chocolate (1947), Johnny Ramone (1948), Hamish Stewart of Average White Band (1949), Robert "Kool" Bell of Kool & The Gang (1950), Cliff Adams of Kool & The Gang (1952), Lonnie Pitchford (1955), Steve Perry of Cherry Poppin' Daddies (1963), C.J. Ramone aka Christopher James Ward (1965)
October 9: John Lennon (1940), John Entwistle (1944), Peter Tosh (1944), Jackson Browne (1948), P.J. Harvey (1969), Sean Ono Lennon (1975), Babe of Styx (1978)
October 10: composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Ivory Joe Hunter (1914), Thelonious Monk (1917), country chirper Dottie West (1932), Keith Reid of Procol Harum (1946), John Prine (1946), guitarist Edward Freche (1947), Midge Ure (1953), David Lee Roth (1955), Tanya Tucker (1958), Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys (1959), Kirsty MacColl (1959), Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet (1961), Mike Malinin of the Goo Goo Dolls (1967), Michael Bivens of Bell Biv Devoe (1968), Nine Days' Vinnie Tattanelli (1972), Mya (1979)
October 11: Art Blakey (1919), Little Willie Littlefield (1931), jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie (1941), Gary Mallaber of The Steve Miller Band (1946), Daryl Hall (1949), Andrew Woolfolk of Earth, Wind & Fire (1950), Scott Johnson of The Gin Blossoms (1962), MC Lyte (1971)
Departures
October 5: The Temptations' Eddie Kendricks (1992)
October 6: Portugese fado singer Amalia Rodriguez (1999), "Groovey" Joe Poovey (1998), Nelson Riddle (1985), Australian rocker Johnny O'Keefe (1978), Smiley Lewis (1966)
October 7: blues singer Overton Amos Lemons aka Smiley Lewis (1966), early British rocker Johnny Kidd (1966), Mario Lanza (1959)
October 8: guitarist Oscar Moore (1991), Cliff Gallup of Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps (1988), Harold Dorman of "Mountain of Love" fame (1988), Jimmy Cross (1978)
October 9: Milt Jackson (1999), Joseph August (1992), Jacques Brel (1978), gospel singer and guitar phenom Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1973)
October 10: Darren Robinson of The Fat Boys (1995). Earl Bostic (1965)
October 11: Edith Piaf (1963)
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Post by LS on Oct 21, 2005 22:58:07 GMT -5
October 12, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1957, in Sydney, Australia, Little Richard announces his intention to give up rock and roll and "live for the Lord" ... demonstrating his sincerity he tosses four diamond rings into a river ... Richard flies to Los Angeles the following day and is baptized as a Seventh Day Adventist ... five years later he resumes his music career...
1958, an article in Billboard reports that Phil Spector, the writer and arranger of the Teddy Bears' hit "To Know Him is to Love Him," is studying to be a court reporter ... though the reclusive producer famed for creating "wall of sound" recordings in the 1960s never takes up that profession, his indictment for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003 promises to provide him with lots of courtroom experience...
1960, Beatles-to-be record together in Hamburg, Germany, for the first time when Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison are called upon to provide backing for Lou Walters of The Hurricanes on his rendition of "Summertime" ... also on hand providing the backbeat is Ringo Starr, the Hurricanes' drummer ... the single that ensues sinks without a trace...
1964, The Zombies launch an English tour with The Isley Brothers, The Searchers, and Dionne Warwick along for the ride...
1966, Grace Slick replaces expectant mother Signe Anderson in The Jefferson Airplane ... she leaves her current band The Great Society bringing along two songs that will be at the forefront of the San Francisco music scene: "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit"...
1966, Joan Baez is arrested along with 124 others at an anti-draft demonstration outside a military induction center in Oakland, California...
1968, RCA releases Jose Feliciano's bluesy rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" ... the blind singer had been roundly booed for his performance of the song at a World Series game earlier that month...
1970, the musical Jesus Christ Superstar opens on Broadway...
1971, Creedence Clearwater Revival is sued by a music publisher claiming that John Fogerty's song "Travelin' Band" is a ripoff of "Good Golly, Miss Molly" ... the suit is later dropped...
1971, a crowd expecting '50s teen idol Rick Nelson to play all his old hits at a Madison Square Garden show turns surly when he insists on performing new material ... the hostile reception is later memorialized in his song "Garden Party" that becomes a hit the following year ... a line from the song goes, "If memories are all I'd sing, I'd rather drive a truck"...
1972, in the wake of weak sales of their latest album Mardi Gras, and dissension by band members over John Fogerty's lock on writing and publishing of Creedence Clearwater Revival's music, the band calls it quits ... leader Fogerty goes on to a robust solo career while the rest of the Revivalists descend into obscurity...
1972, Chuck Berry scores his first and last #1 Pop Chart hit with "My Ding-a-Ling," a slightly salacious bit of silliness...
1973, The Stones' "Angie" is the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit ... supposedly a paean to David Bowie's missus, the song is covered by Tori Amos in the '90s
1974, soul singer Al Green is seriously burned when a disturbed girlfriend tosses a pot of boiling grits on him ... the incident results in Green becoming a minister and leaving secular music behind ... it will be 2003 before he releases a non-religious record again...
1986, for the first time ever, three femme popsters hold down the first three positions on the Pop Chart ... in top-down order, they are: Janet Jackson with her "When I Think of You," "Typical Male" by Tina Turner, and Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors"...
1988, UB40's "Red Red Wine" is the Billboard No. 1 Pop Hit ... the British group originally released the Neil Diamond-penned song in 1984 when it rose to No. 34...
1991, John Mellencamp is hospitalized in Seattle after suffering a dizzy spell during a Seattle radio appearance ... a doctor later attributes his malady to "too much coffee, stress, and not enough breakfast"...
1992, Sinead O'Connor is booed off the stage at Madison Square Garden at a concert honoring Bob Dylan ... the hostile crowd is reacting to the singer's appearance two weeks earlier on Saturday Night Live when she tore up a picture of the Pope...
1992, country singer Lynn Anderson is sprung from a Nashville jail after doing two days for contempt of court ... the sentence stemmed from cursing at her former husband in front of their teenage children...
1995, Sting's former financial adviser is sentenced to six years in the cooler for bilking the performer out of $9.4 million...
1995, Rhino Home Video releases a 21-cassette collection encompassing all 58 episodes of The Monkees TV show ... it's the biggest video boxed set ever...
1997, singer-songwriter John Denver dies when his experimental aircraft goes down in California's Monterey Bay...
1997, Sir Paul McCartney receives six curtain calls at the Royal Albert Hall for the world premiere of his symphonic poem Standing Stone performed by the London Symphony ... despite this acclaim, critics give the composition low marks saying it's forgettable and dull...
1997, Patricia Richardson, a Virginia concert promoter, brings a suit against Snoop Doggy Dog and his manager charging that they duped her into bringing packages with seven pounds of pot to a venue where Snoop was performing, leading to her arrest...
1998, the Crossroads Centre of Antigua opens ... the treatment facility for drug addicts is bankrolled by Eric Clapton...
1999, Carlos Santana's Supernatural is the Billboard best-selling album ... it's the first No. 1 release for a Santana-led record in 28 years...
2000, Santana is presented with a key to the city of Tijuana where he grew up...
2004, Eminem's hit video Just Lose It shows the rapper impersonating Michael Jackson ... he's seen on a bed with young boys, with his hair ablaze, searching for his lost nose, and being vomited on ... a Jackson spokesman complains, "It's one thing to be spoofed, but Michael felt Eminem crossed the line" ... after an appeal from Jackson, BET agrees to stop airing the vid but MTV keeps it in heavy rotation...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
October 12: composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Guitar Gabriel aka Robert Lewis Jones (1925), Sam Moore of Sam Dave (1935), Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Melvin Franklin of The Temptations (1942), Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens (1955), Bob Mould (1960), Garfield Bright of Shai (1969), Martie Seidel of The Dixie Chicks (1969), Ashanti (1960)
October 13: Paul Simon (1941), Robert Lamm of Chicago (1944), Sammy Hagar (1947), Simon Nicol of Fairport Convention (1950), Marie Osmond (1959)
October 14: Victoria Spivey (1906), Jimmy Liggins (1922), monster picker Mickey "Guitar" Baker of Mickey Sylvia (1925), Bill Justis (1926), Robert "Barefootin" Parker (1930), Barry McGuire of The New Christy Minstrels (1935), Marv Johnson (1938), Cliff Richard (1940), Colin Hodgkinson of Whitesnake (1945), Moody Blues vocalist Justin Hayward (1946), Danish pop king Tommy Seebach (1949), Thomas Dolby (1958), A.J. Pero of Twisted Sister (1959), Karyn White (1965), Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks (1974), Shaznay Lewis of All Saints (1975), Usher (1978)
October 15: Bobby Gimby (1918), Barry Sadler (1939), Richard Carpenter of The Carpenters (1946), Chris DeBurgh of "Lady in Red" fame (1948), Tito Jackson (1953), Ginuwine (1970), John Mayer (1977)
October 16: Big Joe Williams (1899), Nico of the Velvet Underground (1938), Fred Turner of BTO (1943), Bob Weir (1947), Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet (1959), Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers (1962), Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips (1969), John Mayer (1977)
October 17: jazz drummer Cozy Cole (1909), recording expert John Mosley (1914), British record executive Louis Benjamin (1922), trombonist Rico Rodriguez of The Specials (1934), Jim Seals of Seals and Crofts (1941), Gary Puckett (1942), James Tucker of The Turtles (1946), Mike Hossack of the Doobie Bros. (1948), Allen Jackson (1958), Rene Dif of Aqua (1967), Ziggy Marley (1968), Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSYNC (1971), Eminem (1972), Wyclef Jean (1972)
October 18: Chuck Berry (1926), Ronnie Bright of the Coasters (1938), The Association's Russ Giguere (1943), Laura Nyro (1947), Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon (1949), Doobie Brother Keith Knudson (1952), Wynton Marsalis (1961), Peter Svensson of The Cardigans (1974)
Departures
October 12: bluesman Frank Frost (1999), John Denver (1997), Ricky Wilson of the B-52s (1985), Gene Vincent (1971)
October 13: Ralph "Pee Wee" Middlebrooks of The Ohio Players (1996), Shirley Brickley of The Orlons (1977), Ed Sullivan (1974)
October 14: Leonard Bernstein (1990), Bing Crosby (1977)
October 15: songwriter Terry Gilkyson (1999), Tasha Thomas (1984), Jud Strunk (1981), Bobby Lester of The Moonglows (1980), Cole Porter (1974)
October 16: jazz vocalist Etta Jones (2001), singer Ella Mae Morse of "Cow Cow Boogie" fame (1999), Richard Kermode (1996), Art Blakey (1990), Gene Krupa (1973), Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records (1969)
October 17: composer Berthold Goldschmidt (1996), Chris Acland of Lush (1996), Criss Oliva of Savatage (1993), Tennessee Ernie Ford (1991), Alberta Hunter (1984), Edgar V. Blanchard (1972)
October 18: singer-actress Julie London (2000), Broadway singer Gwen Verdon (2000), New Orleans sax man Lee Allen (1994), songwriter Ed Labunski (1980), L.C. Williams (1960)
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Post by LS on Oct 21, 2005 23:00:53 GMT -5
October 19, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1883, New York sees the grand opening of its Metropolitan Opera House...
1908, Columbia takes out an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting their new two-sided records...
1949, future Dead Boys leader Stiv Bators is born Stivan John Bator in Youngstown, Ohio...
1956, "Love Me Tender" is the first song to enter the pop charts at #1 ... Elvis' slow dance tune also appears on the Country and Western chart and the R&B chart, not to mention the Top 100 chart...
1961, 20-year-old Bob Dylan records his eponymous debut album accompanied only by his guitar and harmonica ... studio cost is a whopping $400 ... filling out the studio's tax reporting form, he lists his name as "Blind Boy Grunt" ... the young folkie goes on to become one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century...
1962, the artist known as Little Stevie Wonder makes his first recording ... Steveland Morris Judkins doesn't have instant success with this first record, but the accolades are not far away ... also this week in '62 "Live at the Apollo, Volume 1," one of James Brown's most brilliant performances, is captured at the Landmark Theater in Harlem ... the album will outsell all previous R&B records with over a million copies sold...
1964, a London band known as the High Numbers is rejected after an audition with EMI ... formerly known as The Who, the four young rockers have recently come under the influence of manager Pete Meaden, who suggested the name change and dressed the boys in mod suits ... Meaden's all wet, but the kids are alright ... they'll resume their name and climb to fame...
1969, The Who start a six-night stand at New York's Fillmore East in support of Tommy ... in another boost for rock and roll, Led Zeppelin II is released...
1976, Led Zeppelin's film The Song Remains the Same premieres in London...the film is mostly poorly edited concert footage from a three-night stand at Madison Square Garden in 1973...fantasy sequences created by the band are interspersed with the performance footage...also in '76, Keith Moon plays his last show with The Who...the legendary drummer will die within a year...
1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd fans take a gut shot this week when they learn that band members Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Ronnie Van Zant have died along with three members of their entourage in a plane crash in a swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi ... the band is flying between Greenville, SC, and Baton Rouge, LA, when their chartered plane goes down, probably due either to mechanical failure or lack of fuel ... the whole band is aboard and the surviving members are all severely injured ... three days earlier marked the release of their sixth album Street Survivor, the cover of which featured the band members surrounded by flames ... the cover is changed after the catastrophe ... the crash marks the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd until the survivors reform the band a decade later...
1978, Sid Vicious attempts to off himself at New York's Rikers Island jail, where he's awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen ... the bad Pistol will get out and OD before he can be prosecuted for the crime ... also in '78, Keith Richards receives a suspended sentence of one year after pleading guilty to heroin possession in Toronto...
1988, Fantasy Records, after more than a decade of rancorous relations with John Fogerty, launches a suit claiming he plagiarized his own song, "Run Through the Jungle," during the composition of "The Old Man Down the Road" ... it will be 1995 before it is finally decided that Fantasy is tripping...
1992, long before her career as a writer of children's books, Madonna releases Sex--a steel-bound book of erotic photos of herself and other beautiful people that sells out the first run of a half million copies in no time ... she also releases her album Erotica this week ... it will sell over 2 million copies...
1995, Generation X loses another of its greatest voices when Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon is found dead of a cocaine overdose on the band's tour bus in New Orleans...
1998, the company with publishing rights to Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" files suit against Cooper's primary make-up rock emulators, KISS, claiming they ripped off his song "Eighteen" for their song, "Dreamin'" ... Cooper has nothing to do with it, and hasn't even heard "Dreamin'" when the suit is filed ... asked about the outcome years later, Cooper says, "I think we all forgot to show up at court. Paul Stanley bought me a cheeseburger to make up for the whole thing"...
2001, VH1 hosts its Concert for New York, which raises over $30 million for victims of 9/11 with performances by such heavy hitters as The Who, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Elton John, and Bon Jovi...
2003, singer-songwriter Elliot Smith takes his own life in his Los Angeles apartment ... a hero of the Portland, Oregon, indie-rock scene in the '90s, Smith gained national prominence after director Gus Van Sant tapped him for the soundtrack to the 1997 film Good Will Hunting ... Smith's song "Miss Misery" was nominated for an Oscar the following year ... a posthumous release, From A Basement On A Hill, includes material the singer was working on when he died...
2004, crusading New York Attorney general Eliot Spitzer announces that he has launched an investigation of payola practices in the music business ... EMI, Warner Music Group, Sony-BMG, and Universal all receive subpoenas demanding that they produce communications with independent record promoters, the middlemen paid by record companies to get airplay ... also this week in 2004, "singer" Ashlee Simpson gets busted for lip syncing during a performance on Saturday Night Live ... apparently her drummer cued up a backing track for the same song the band had played earlier in the evening, catching Ashlee and the band off guard ... the real fun begins when a pre-recorded vocal track begins to play, revealing that the song had been lip synced ... the track is quickly faded, but Ashlee is busted, and after dancing an awkward, vaudevillian type of jig, exits stage right ... the band continues to play along to the first song as the network cuts to a commercial ... to add insult to injury, at the show's closing credits, Simpson tries to explain the flaw by saying "My band played the wrong song" ... during the media s***storm that follows, Simpson's excuses for the pre-recorded track change from having acid reflux to laryngitis, until finally, during her Orange Bowl halftime performance the following January, it becomes apparent that the track was clearly used to hide the singer's tone deafness...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
October 19: Piano Red born William Lee Perryman (1911), Billy Gayles (1931), Dave Guard of The Kingston Trio (1934), Peter Tosh (1944), George McCrae (1944), Jeannie C. Riley (1945), Keith Reid of Procol Harum (1946), Wilbert Hart of The Delfonics (1947), Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers (1948), Karl Wallinger of World Party (1957), Jennifer Holliday (1960), Dan "Woody" Woodgate of Madness (1960), Pras Michel of the Fugees (1972)
October 20: Jellyroll Morton born Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe (1890), Johnny Moore of The Blazers (1906), Eddie Harris (1934), rockabillyette Wanda Jackson (1937), Ric Lee of Ten Years After (1945), Al Greenwood of Foreigner (1951), Tom Petty (1953), Mark King of Level 42 (1958), James George "Soni" Sonefeld of Hootie and The Blowfish (1964), Snoop Dogg (1971)
October 21: Dizzy Gillespie (1917), Jo Lustig (1925), Manfred Mann AKA Michael Lubowitz (1940), Memphis guitarist and producer Steve Cropper (1941), Elvin Bishop (1942), Lee Loughnane of Chicago (1946), Brent Mydland of the Grateful Dead (1952), Go-Go's guitarist Charlotte Caffey (1953), Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers (1955), Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes (1957), studio six-string slinger Steve Lukather of Toto (1957), Harold "Whiz Kid" McGuire (1961)
October 22: Franz Liszt (1811), Annette Funicello (1942), Bobby "I Fought The Law" Fuller (1943), Leslie West of Mountain (1945), Eddie Brigati of The (Young) Rascals (1945), Dean Kastran of The Ohio Express (1948), Dead Boy Stiv Bators (1949), Curt Kirkwood of The Meat Puppets (1960), Shaggy (1968), Zac Hanson of Hanson (1985)
October 23: Johnny Carroll (1937), songwriter Ellie Greenwich (1939), Charlie Foxx of Charlie & Inez Foxx (1939), Greg Ridley of Spooky Tooth/Humble Pie (1943), Pauline Black of The Selector (1953), Dwight Yoakam (1954), Take 6's David Thomas (1966), Shelby Lynne (1968)
October 24: blues harpist Sonny Terry (1911), Willie Mabon (1925), contemporary composer George Crumb (1929), The Big Bopper aka J.T. Richardson (1930), former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman born William Perks (1936), Jerry Edmonton of Steppenwolf (1946), Dale Griffin of Mott the Hoople (1950), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), Speech of Arrested Development (1968), Silverchair's Ben Gillies (1979), Monica (1980)
October 25: "Waltz King" Johann Strauss (1825), Georges "Carmen" Bizet (1838), Minnie Pearl born Sarah Ophelia Colley (1912), Helen "I Am Woman" Reddy (1942), Jon Anderson of Yes (1944), John Hall of Orleans (1947), Glen Tipton of Judas Priest (1948), Paul Hancox of Chicken Shack (1950), Matthias Jabs of The Scorpions (1956), Christina Amphlett of Divinyls (1960), Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith (1962), Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies (1970), Jerome Jones of Immature (1981)
Departures
October 19: rock journalist Greg Shaw (2004), Glen Buxton (1997), soul singer Wade Flemons (1993), Level 42 guitarist Alan Murphy (1989), Son House (1988)
October 20: Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, and Cassie Gaines--all of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1977)
October 21: Elliot Smith (2003), Henry Vestine of Canned Heat (1997), Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon (1995), Bill Black (1965), Jay Perkins, brother of Carl (1958)
October 22: album cover artist Reverend Howard Finster (2001), Vagabonds guitarist Robert E. True (1998), sideman and brother of Benny Goodman, Harry Goodman (1997), producer Jimmy Miller (1994), Ewan MacColl (1989), Jane Dornacker of The Tubes (1986), crooner Tommy Edwards (1969), pianist Walter Davis (1963)
October 23: singer Ted Taylor (1988), flatpicker Merle Watson (1985), "Mother" Maybelle Carter of The Carter Family (1978), Leonard Lee (1976), David Box (1964), singer Joe Henderson (1964), Al Jolson (1950)
October 25: BBC DJ John Peel (2004), George Lee of Ruby and the Romantics (1994), bassist Howard Blauvelt (1993), Roger "King of the Road" Miller (1992), promoter Bill Graham (1991), Margo Sylvia (1991), Johnnie Richardson (1988), Gary Holton of The Heavy Metal Kids (1985)
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Post by LS on Oct 30, 2005 23:02:02 GMT -5
October 26, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1936, country singer Hank Snow records for the first time ... the songs are "Lonesome Blue Yodel" and "Prisoned Cowboy"...
1958, Tommy Edwards' "It's All in the Game" is the Billboard No. 1 hit ... the melody was written in 1912 by Charles Gates Dawes who later became a U.S. vice president...
1964, "Oh Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbinson turns gold ... it is his ninth and last Top Ten single ... The Supremes release "Come See About Me" ... The Dave Clark Five appear on The Ed Sullivan Show during which the tic-ridden host refers to them as "nice, neat boys" in contrast to the Rolling Stones, with whom Sullivan had had run-ins...
1966, Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler scores a #1 hit with "The Ballad of the Green Berets" ... Sadler had been a medic in the Special Forces celebrated in the song ... he later worked as an actor, ran a Nashville bar, wrote a guide to the music biz, then wrote dozens of military adventure novels ... Sadler also was a soldier of fortune hiring himself out as a mercenary and was arrested in 1978 and 1981 in two separate incidents involving shootings ... in 1984 he settled in Guatemala City where he often gave locals medical care and established a trust fund for Vietnamese orphans ... he died of brain injuries in 1988 after being shot in the head while riding in a Guatemalan cab ... there are three versions of how he came to be shot: He was the target of robbery; he was assassinated; he accidentally shot himself while showing off his .380 Beretta ... Sadler finally dies in the V.A. hospital in Murfeesboro, Tennessee...
1967, hippiedom makes its way to the formal stage when Hair premieres off Broadway at The Public Theater in the East Village ... the musical production features a scene in which the entire company appears nude ... Hair will soon make the big time with 1,742 performances on Broadway ... the original cast makes an album of the score that produces three hit singles all penned by Jerome Ragni and James Rado: "Aquarius," "Let the Sun Shine In," and "Good Morning Starshine"...
1970, Jim Morrison is sentenced to eight months of hard labor for exposing his privates in Miami ... Morrison will never actually serve the time ... he is freed on bail pending appeal, skips to Paris, and dies in his bathtub of asthma-induced heart failure the following July ... Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas (the hot one) marries actor Dennis Hopper ... they divorce eight days later, proving wrong those who said the marriage wouldn't last a week ... "Cracklin Rosie" by schlock hook-meister Neil Diamond gets the gold...
1971, 24-year-old Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident near Macon, Georgia...
1972, Philly soul singer Billy Paul gets on the soul charts with "Me and Mrs. Jones" ... the song will hold the top position for three weeks and will become a soul classic...
1973, the Who's Quadrophenia--a grand-scale rock opera about a young British Mod with multiple personality disorder--goes gold...
1975, wearing a sequined Dodgers uniform, rock pomp giant Elton John takes the stage for a second SRO night at Dodger Stadium ... Bruce Springsteen appears simultaneously on the covers of both Time and Newsweek, causing great embarrassment to both publications ... Joan Baez signs on as a member of Dylan's The Rolling Thunder Revue...
1978, Boston's Rat Club hosts the first U.S. concert by the Police...
1980, Paul Kantner's brain starts bleeding during a recording session ... fortunately, a few weeks in the hospital is all it takes to bring him back to 100%...
1983, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon becomes the longest-listed album ever on the Billboard chart--491 continuous weeks...
1984, Linda Ronstadt debuts her operatic singing voice with La Boheme in New York...
1986, The Beastie Boys release their album License To Ill which will become the first rap album to reach number one on the album chart....
1994, Madonna feels the papal wrath when Catholic churches in San Juan, Puerto Rico, urge residents to tie black ribbons on trees as a protest against Madonna's first concert there ... the churches keep their doors open all night as an alternative place to hang...
1995, Yolanda Saldivar, the former president of Selena's fan club, is convicted of murdering the Tejano star that previous March ... the jury hands out a life sentence ... the same week, Gloria Estefan shows she ain't no Madonna when she performs for Pope John Paul II ... she is the only pop act asked to play the pope's gala celebration observing his 50 years in the priesthood...
1998, having trouble completing the lyrics to his tune, "What's Really Happening," David Bowie turns to his fans for help, hosting a contest to finish the piece ... the winner is 20-year-old Alex Grant, who will be allowed to sit in on the recording session...
2004, shockjock Howard Stern calls in to a talk show on San Francisco radio station KGO ... the station is interviewing FCC Chairman Michael Powell whose agency had previously issued big fines against Stern and the stations carrying his broadcast for indecent on-air remarks ... Stern accuses Powell--among other things--of getting his government gig by virtue of his father Colin Powell's heft as U.S. Secretary of State...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
October 26: Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (1911), the world's funkiest human Bootsy Collins (1951), David Was of Was (Not Was) (1952), Keith Strickland of The B-52s (1953), Natalie Merchant (1963), Keith Urban (1967)
October 27: Floyd Cramer (1933), Lee Greenwood (1942), Kermit Chandler (1945), Garry Tallent of The E Street Band (1949), Kenneth K.K. Downing of Judas Priest (1951), Simon LeBon of Duran Duran (1958), Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots (1967), Kelly Osbourne (1984)
October 28: Charlie Daniels (1936), Ted Hawkins (1936), Graham Bond (1937), Hank Marvin of The Shadows (1941), Wayne Fontana (1945), Rickie Reynolds of Black Oak Arkansas (1948), Thelma Hopkins of Tony Orlando & Dawn (1948), Stephen Morris of New Order (1957), William Reid of The Jesus & Mary Chain (1958), Ben Harper (1969), Justin Guarini (1978)
October 29: composer Vivian Ellis (1904), jazz arranger/composer Neal Hefti (1922), The Big Bopper J.P. Richardson (1930), Mickey Gallagher of Frampton's Camel (1940), Denny Laine of the Moody Blues and Wings (1944), Peter Green founder of Fleetwood Mac (1946), Roger O'Donnell of the Cure (1955), Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot (1955), Randy Jackson of the Jackson 5 (1961), Einar Orn Benediktsson of The Sugarcubes (1962), Peter Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies (1965), Douglas "SA" Vincent Martinez of 311 (1970), Toby Smith of Jamiroquai (1970)
October 30: Clifford Brown (1930), Ray Smith (1934), Grace Slick born Grace Wing (1939), Timothy Schmidt of The Eagles (1947), Jim Messina (1947), David Green of Air Supply (1949), Otis Williams of the Temptations (1949), Joey BellaDonna of Anthrax (1960), Gavin Rossdale of Bush (1967)
October 31: Dale Evans (1912), Bernard Edwards of Chic (1952), Johnny Clegg (1953), U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. (1961), Adam Horovitz a.k.a. King Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys (1966), Vanilla Ice born Robert Van Winkle (1967), Linn Berggren of Ace Of Base (1970)
November 1: Sippie Wallace (1898), Don Robey (1903), Rick Grech, bass player for Blind Faith and Traffic (1946, some sources say '45), Dan Peek of America (1950), Ronald Bell of Kool and the Gang (1951), Lyle Lovett (1956), Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1962), Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen (1963), Willie D of The Geto Boys (1966), LaTavia Roberson of Destiny's Child (1981)
Departures
October 26: Hoyt Axton (1999), Wilbert Harrison of "Kansas City" fame (1994), rock promotor Bill Graham (1991)
October 27: composer/arranger/conductor Frank Devol (1999), Donnie Owens (1994), Latin bandleader Xavier Cugat (1990), Steve Peregrine-Took (1980)
October 28: producer Tom Dowd (2002), R&B keyboard man Jon Thomas who sang "It's Hurtin' Me (1995), R&B singer Billy Wright (1991), jazz arranger Oliver Nelson (1975), R&B reedman Earl Bostic (1965)
October 29: saxophonist Henry Berthold "Spike" Robinson (2001), Woody Herman (1987), Duane Allman (1971)
October 30: Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC (2002), early blues diva Jo-Ann Kelly (1990), hard swingin' sax man Chu Berry (1941)
October 31: Lester Sill (1994), A Chorus Line producer Joseph Papp (1991), Procol Harum drummer B.J. Wilson (1990), Barry Sadler (1989), guitarist Malcolm Hale of Spanky and Our Gang (1968)
November 1: classic blues singer and pianist Sippie Wallace (1986), Pioneer Delta blues singer Tommy Johnson (1956)
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Post by LS on Nov 4, 2005 22:27:02 GMT -5
November 2, 2005 This is the week that was in matters musical... 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis' single "Great Balls of Fire" is released on Sun Records ... it will be his highest-charting hit, reaching second place on the pop chart, third on the R&B chart, and number one on the Country and Western chart ... it shares the top five of all three charts with the Killer's previous single "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On" ... even though "Fire" outpaces it on the charts, "Shakin'" sells more records ... both tunes spend time at first place on the Country and Western chart... 1966, Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco opens its doors ... the venue is destined to become the focal point for psychedelic music... 1967, the film How I Won the War starring John Lennon opens in the U.S .... Lennon plays fascist soldier Sgt. Gripweed in the controversial and critically panned war satire ... it is the first film to feature a solo performance by a Beatle... 1970, MGM Records drops 18 acts from its roster in one fell swoop, a move president Mike Curb states is to discredit musicians who "exploit and promote hard drugs through music." ... among the dropped artists are notorious drug abusers the Cowsills, Connie Francis, and the estate of Judy Garland, while squeaky-clean Eric Burdon escapes the axe...  (Looks like some people never change  ;D ) 1975, The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St. Martin's School of Art in London... 1979, the movie version of Quadrophenia--sans the mental illness theme--premieres with future superstar Sting playing the part of Ace, a Mod hero character... 1988, The U2 concert film Rattle And Hum opens in theaters worldwide ... one of the highlights of the movie is a live rendition of "All Along the Watchtower" recorded in Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco ... during the song Bono spray-paints the words "Rock and Roll Stops the Traffic" on the monstrous Vaillancourt Fountain ... the graffiti is removed a few days later and the band issues a formal apology... 1991, blues, soul, rock, and country are all well represented when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Bobby "Blue" Bland, Booker T & The MGs, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, The Isley Brothers, The Yardbirds, and Sam and Dave... 1995, Hootie and the Blowfish and Bob Dylan reach an out-of-court settlement over the band's unauthorized use of Dylan's lyrics in their song "Only Want To Be With You"... 1995, Beat Farmer Country Dick Montana dies of a heart attack onstage during a gig at The Long Horn bar in Whistler, British Columbia ... a throat cancer survivor, Country Dick had recently recorded a solo album which was released posthumously... 2002, Dave Grohl is forced to deny a report that he is romantically involved with pop singer Christina Aguilera after an LA radio station airs the dubious report ... Grohl calls in to shoot down the rumor, "It's not true! I'm, like, 33--she's a kid, ya know?"... 2003, Sean whatever-his-name-is-this-month Combs runs in the New York City Marathon to raise money for charities dedicated to improving the lives of children ... Diddy finishes in 4 hours, 14 minutes and 54 seconds and raises two million dollars... 2004, Eric Clapton is made a commander of the Order of the British Empire in an official ceremony held at Buckingham Palace ... Commander Clapton uses the opportunity to announce he and wife Melia McEnery are expecting a child... And that was the week that was. ------------------------------------------------------- ArrivalsNovember 2: Bunny Berigan (1908), Keith Emerson (1944), J.D. Souther (1945), Dave Pegg of Jethro Tull (1947), Maxine Nightingale (1952), Carter Beauford of the Dave Matthews Band (1957), Bobby Dall of Poison (1958), Matt Sorum of Cult, Guns 'N' Roses, and Velvet Revolver (1960), k.d. lang (1961), Alex James of Blur (1968), Reginald Arvizu of Korn (1969), John Hampson of Nine Days (1971), Nelly (1978) November 3: Brian Poole of The Tremeloes (1941), Marie McDonald Lawrie a.k.a. Lulu (1948), Adam Ant (1954) November 4: Delbert McClinton (1940), Dan Hartman (1951), Squeeze singer-guitarist Chris Difford (1954), pianist Yanni (1954), James Honeyman-Scott, guitarist for the Pretenders (1957), Puff Daddy (1970) November 5: Roy Rogers born Leonard Slye (1911), Ike Turner (1931), Art Garfunkel (1941), Gram Parsons (1946), Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits (1947), Don McDougall of Guess Who (1948), Mike Score of A Flock Of Seagulls (1957), Bryan Adams (1959), David Bryson of Counting Crows (1961), singer-actress Andrea McArdle (1963), Jon Greenwood of Radiohead (1971), Ryan Adams (1974) November 6: Adolphe Sax, inventor of the sax (1814), John Philip Sousa (1854), composer-pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860), composer Gus Kahn (1886), Ray Conniff (1927), Joseph Pope (1933), Glenn Frey (1948), Rozz Williams (1963), Corey Glover of Living Colour (1964) November 7: John Jordan (1913), N'awlins trumpeter Al Hirt (1922), Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary (1937), Dee Clark (1938), Joe Gilbert (1940), Johnny Rivers (1942), Joni Mitchell born Roberta Joan Anderson (1943), Dino Valenti (1943), Nick Gilder (1951), Jellybean Benitez (1957), Liam O Maonlai of Hothouse Flowers (1964), Russell Barrett of Chapterhouse (1968) November 8: Patti Page (1927), R&B producer-label owner Bert Berns (1929), Gerald Alston of The Manhattans (1942), Bonnie Bramlett of Delaney and Bonnie (1944), Don Murray (1945), Roy Wood of ELO (1946), Minnie Riperton (1948), Bonnie Raitt (1949), Rickie Lee Jones (1954), Leif Garrett (1961), Stephen Patman of Chapterhouse (1968) DeparturesNovember 2: Sammy Kaye Band singer Wandra Merrell (1994), songwriter Mort Shuman (1991), Latin bandleader Xavier Cugat (1990), Steve Peregrine Took of T. Rex (1980), Mississippi John Hurt (1966) November 3: Lonnie Donegan (2002), blues harmonica player William Clarke (1996) November 4: Bobby Nunn of the Coasters (1987), Hi-Lites singer Ronnie Goodson (1980) November 5: Robert Lee "Bobby" Hatfield of The Righteous Brothers (2003), saxophonist Eddie Harris (1996), jazz pianist Bobby Scott (1990), Barry "Green Beret" Sadler (1989), Vladimir Horowitz (1989), Bobby Nunn (1986), Guy Lombardo (1977), Robert "Nighthawk" McCollum (1967), Johnny Horton (1960), piano magician Art Tatum (1956), Orioles singer Tommy Gaither (1950) November 6: Meadowlarks leader Don Julian (1998), Dickie Goodman (1989), New York Dolls drummer Billy Murcia (1972) November 7: jazz drummer Vernel Fournier (2000), studio bassist Jimmy Jones (1995), Carter Cornelius (1991), A.P. Delaney Carter of The Carter Family (1960) November 8: trumpeter Lester Bowie (1999), Lonnie Pitchford (1998), Tommy Comeaux (1997), Country Dick Montana of The Beat Farmers (1995), James Booker (1983), Ivory Joe Hunter (1974), pioneering blues guitarist Kokomo Arnold (1968)
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Post by LS on Nov 11, 2005 22:21:34 GMT -5
November 9, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1955, Elvis Presley is named Most Promising Country & Western Artist in Billboard's annual poll of disc jockeys...
1957, Patsy Cline is named Most Promising Country & Western Artist in this year's disc jockey poll by Billboard magazine...
1960, The Shirelles release "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" with songwriter Carole King on drums...
1963, "Louie Louie" is released by the Kingsmen ... one of the most-covered songs of all time (everyone from The Mothers of Invention to sultry Julie London), it is charged that the slurred lyrics are obscene ... the song is banned on some radio stations especially in Indiana where Governor Matthew Welch determines that the ditty is definitely dirty ... even the FBI gets caught up in the controversy though the Bureau ultimately wraps up its 31-month investigation inconclusively stating that they are "unable to interpret any of the wording in the record" ... in 2003, 754 guitarists play a 10-minute rendition of the song at Tacoma, Washington's, Cheney Stadium ... the event is thought to be the world's largest jam session...
1967, Rolling Stone magazine hits the newstands for the first time...
1970, Jim Morrison plays his last concert with The Doors in New Orleans...
1972, riding his motorcycle in Macon, Georgia, Allman Brothers bass man Berry Oakley crashes into the side of a city bus only three blocks from where Duane met his demise in a motorcycle accident the previous year ... Oakley refuses treatment at the site and goes home only to die of a brain hemorrhage later that night in the hospital...
1988, Whitney Houston's debut album goes multiplatinum with nine million copies sold ... only Boston has ever matched this performance with a debut LP...
1998, Ahmet Ertegun and Bobby "Blue" Bland are honored with lifetime achievement awards from the Blues Foundation ... also this week, Rick James suffers a stroke while headbanging during a Denver performance ... the doctor blames it on a bloodclot in his neck caused by rock 'n' roll whiplash...
1999, Kid Rock and Lauren Hill take top honors at the Billboard Music Video Awards...
2000, Michael Abram, the man who a year earlier broke into George Harrison's home and stabbed Harrison before being subdued by Harrison and his wife, is found guilty by reason of insanity and ordered confined to a mental hospital for an indefinite stay...
2003, Kid Rock announces plans for a continuing creative collaboration with Sheryl Crow ... the collaboration has thus far resulted in the hit duet "Picture," and they plan more writing and recording together in the future...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
November 9: Tommy Dorsey (1905), Dave Guard of The Kingston Trio (1934), bass singer Leroy Fann of Ruby & The Romantics (1936), Tom Fogerty of CCR (1941), Phil May of The Pretty Things (1944), Alan Gratzer of REO Speedwagon (1948), Joe Bauchard of Blue Oyster Cult (1948), Tommy Caldwell of The Marshall Tucker Band (1949), Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa born Sandra Denton (1961), Brad "Scarface" Jordan of the Geto Boys (1969), Diana King (1970), Nick Lachey of 98 Degrees (1973), Sisqo (1977)
November 10: Screaming Lord Sutch born David Sutch (1940), Dave Loggins (1947), Donna Fargo (1947), Greg Lake (1948), Ronnie Hammond of The Atlanta Rhythm Section (1950), Mario Cipollina of Huey Lewis and The News (1954), Frank Maudsley of A Flock of Seagulls (1959), Warren G (1970), Eve (1978)
November 11: Mose Allison (1927), LaVern Baker (1929), New Orleans session sax man David Lastie (1934), The Youngbloods' Jesse Colin Young born Perry Young (1944), Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds (1945), Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge (1945), Andy Partridge of XTC (1953), Marshall Crenshaw (1953), Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17 (1956), LeToya Luckett formerly of Destiny's Child (1980)
November 12: Bukka White born Booker T. Washington White (1906), Jo Stafford (1920), Ruby Nash Curtis of Ruby & The Romantics (1939), Brian Hyland (1943), John Maus of The Walker Brothers (1943), Booker T. Jones of Booker T and The MGs (1944), Neil Young (1945), Arthur Tavares (1946), Donald Roeser of Blue Oyster Cult (1947), Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate (1948), Leslie McKeown of The Bay City Rollers (1955), David Ellefson of Megadeth (1964), Tevin Campbell (1976)
November 13: John Novarese owner of Hi Records (1923), R&B singer Justine "Baby" Washington (1940), Annette Kleinbard of The Teddy Bears (1941), Timmy Thomas (1944), Bill Gibson of Huey Lewis and the News (1951), Walter Kibby of Fishbone (1964)
November 14: Aaron Copland (1900), Sir Joseph Lockwood of EMI Records (1904), Johnny Desmond (1921), Cornell Gunter of The Coasters (1938), Freddie Garrity of Freddie and the Dreamers (1940), Buckwheat Zydeco (1947), James Young of Styx (1948), Stephen Bishop (1951), Frankie Banali of Quiet Riot (1953), Alec John Such of Bon Jovi (1956), Rapper Joe "Run" Simmons of Run-D.M.C. (1964), Brian Yale of matchbox twenty (1968), Travis Barker of blink-182 (1975), Adina Howard (1975)
November 15: elevator-music maestro Mantovani (1905), Ike Turner's pianist Clayton Love (1927), Clyde McPhatter (1932), Petula Clark (1932), Little Willie John born William J. Woods (1937), Frida of ABBA (1945), Steve Fossen of Heart (1949), Michael Cooper of Con Funk Shun (1952), Alexander O'Neal (1953), Tony Thompson of Chic (1954), Kevin Eubanks (1957), Joe Leeway of Thompson Twins (1957), Ol' Dirty Bastard AKA Russell Jones of Wu-Tang Clan (1968)
Departures
November 10: jazz pianist Kenny Kirkland (1998), session guitarist Tommy Tedesco (1997), Carmen McRae (1994)
November 11: Patrick "Paddy" Clancy of The Clancy Brothers (1998), Ronnie Dyson (1990), Berry Oakley (1972)
November 12: Chic drummer Tony Thompson (2003), blues fingerpicker and former Robert Plant cohort Rainer Ptacek (1997), Sean Rowley (1992)
November 13: rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard (2004), Donald Mills of The Mills Brothers (1999), R.J. Vealey of the Atlanta Rhythm Section (1999), pianist Kenny Kirkland (1998), Bill Doggett (1996), Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. (1993), Ronnie Bond of The Troggs (1992)
November 20: album cover artist Gene Greif (2004), Roland Alphonso of the Skatalites (1998), rock critic and blues producer Robert Palmer (1997), Chess and Vee-Jay Records session drummer Earl Phillips (1990)
November 14: John Cascella, keyboardist with John Mellencamp (1992), singer Dallas Taylor (1986), dub pioneer Keith Hudson (1984)
November 15: composer-arranger Saul Chaplin (1997), disco producer Jacques Morali (1991)
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Post by LS on Nov 19, 2005 13:45:05 GMT -5
November 16, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1960, Patsy Cline waxes the classic country weeper "I Fall to Pieces" ... "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs holds down the #1 slot on the Billboard Pop Chart ... the song is notable for being the shortest single in the rock era running a mere one minute and 37 seconds ... a number of covers later reach the chart including Jackson Browne's 1978 rendition...
1968, the queens of Detroit, The Supremes, perform at the Royal Variety Show in London while Queen Elizabeth looks on...
1972, Danny Whitten, guitarist in Crazy Horse, Neil Young's backup band, dies of a heroin overdose ... the talented axeman and songwriter provided a perfect foil for Young, trading licks with him on the extended guitar jams on Young's long-form rockers "Down by the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand"... Whitten's OD will loom large in Young's dark album Tonight's The Night as well as in his song "Needle and the Damage Done"...
1974, John Lennon scores his only solo U.S. #1 single with "What Ever Gets You Through the Night"...
1976, Jerry Lee Lewis is busted for drunk driving after plunging his Rolls Royce into a ditch...
1979, Chuck Berry is released from the slammer following a stay on tax evasion charges...
1980, Don Henley of The Eagles is arrested after paramedics are called to treat a nude 16-year-old girl suffering from the effects of illicit drugs at his Los Angeles home ... he is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possession of an array of drugs...
1987, adopting the guise of a country-rock band called The Dalton Brothers, U2 opens for themselves at an LA show...
1988, Stan Love, brother of the Beach Boys' Mike Love and former manager of the band, is sentenced to five years probation after being convicted of embezzling more than $300,000 from the singing surfers...
1989, during Queen's performance of their hit "Fat Bottomed Girls" at a Madison Square Garden show, the band is accompanied by semi-nude women riding bicycles...
1990, in the wake of revelations that they had lip-synced their way to fame, the faux pop duo Milli Vanilli is ordered to return their Grammy award... "singer" Fabrice Morvan unrepentantly claims, "We can sing as good as any other pop star in the Top Ten."...
1993, Nirvana tapes an MTV Unplugged session in one take ... the show is aired with warts and all one month later...
1994, David Crosby gets a glistening, fresh liver...
1995, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Bruce Springsteen's 13th album, is released ... the title refers to a character in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, about the 1930s Dust Bowl emigration...
1997, rapper Coolio and his appropriately named backup band 40 Thevz are arrested in Boblingen, Germany, on charges of assaulting a boutique clerk and ripping off $2,000 worth of apparel...
1998, discount chain Kmart launches it MusicFavorites.com website offering 100,000 songs for download ... despite its early entry into the electronic commerce arena, the site soon is eclipsed by competitors ... ska saxman Roland Alphonso of the pioneering Skatalites collapses in mid-performance during a show at the Key Club in West Hollywood and later dies ... Motley Crue fans have cause for celebration when the S'Crue, a store stuffed with Crue-related merch, opens on LA's trendy Melrose Boulevard...
1999, Doug Sahm--who led the The Sir Douglas Quintet in the 1960s and was fluent in many music forms including Texas blues, Tex-Mex, rock, Cajun, and Western Swing--dies in Taos, NM, at 58 ... late in his career the singer and guitarist was a member of the critically acclaimed Tex-Mex supergroup The Texas Tornados ... pop singer Jewel pulls the plug on her planned Anchorage, AK, New Year's Eve show citing concerns over possible Y2K problems ... word has it, however, that the cancellation is due to weak ticket sales ... only 1,000 of the 8,000 available seats have been sold ... country star Patty Loveless rides a train across Appalachia distributing 15 tons of Christmas gifts to poor families in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia...
2003, Phil Spector is charged with the murder of Hollywood starlet Lana Clarkson...
2004, The New York Post reports that former Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth is training to become an emergency medical technician ... the story recounts how Roth, while riding with an ambulance crew, saved the life of a Bronx heart-attack victim using a defibrillator ... according to his tutor Linda Reissman, "You would never know you were dealing with a rock 'n' roll guy. His commitment really is touching. He wants to help people." ... The United States Postal Service settles with the group Postal Service following more than a year of legal wrangling over the band's name ... in a creative compromise the duo, comprised of Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard and electronic musician Jimmy Tamborello, agree to let the Postal Service use their music to promote the use of snail mail and refer to the USPS deal in Postal Service CDs ... the musicians also promise to perform at the Postmaster General's National Executive Conference in Washington ... Bill Wyman, the 68-year-old former Rolling Stones bassman, announces he will retire from touring with the Rhythm Kings, his current band...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
November 16: W.C. Handy (1873), Atlantic Records veteran Jesse Stone (1901), Toni Brown of Joy of Cooking (1928), folksinger Bob Gibson (1931), long-time Howlin' Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin (1931), Nashville producer Felton Jarvis (1934), Garnett Mimms (1937), John Ryanes of The Monotones (1940), George "Smitty" Smith of The Manhattans (1943), Winfred "Blue" Lovett of The Manhattans (1943), Will Ackerman (1949), Patti Santos of It's a Beautiful Day (1949), Mani of The Stone Roses (1962), Diana Krall (1964), Bryan Abrams of Color Me Badd (1969), Trevor Penick of O-Town (1979)
November 17: Gordon Lightfoot (1938), Bob Gaudio of The Four Seasons (1942), Gene Clark of The Byrds (1944), Martin Barre of Jethro Tull (1946), Jim Babjak of The Smithereens (1957), Harry Rushakoff of Concrete Blonde (1959), RuPaul (1960), Jeff Buckley (1966), Ben Wilson of Blues Traveler (1967), Ronnie DeVoe of Bell Biv DeVoe (1967), Isaac Hanson of Hanson (1980)
November 18: Sir William Gilbert of the Gilbert and Sullivan writing team (1836), Eugene Ormandy (1899), Imogene Coca (1908), Hank Ballard (1927), Bob Sanderson of The Royaltones (1935), Herman Rarebell of The Scorpions (1949), Graham Parker (1950), John McFee of The Doobie Brothers (1953), John Parr (1954), Michael Ramos of The BoDeans (1958), Kim Wilde (1960), Kirk Hammett (1962), Duncan Sheik (1969), Fabolous (1979)
November 19: Tommy Dorsey (1905), J.D. Sumner (1914), Ray Collins of The Mothers of Invention (1937), Pete Moore of The Miracles (1939), Graham Parker (1950), Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses (1960), Travis McNabb of Better Than Ezra (1969), Tamika Scott of Xscape (1977)
November 20: Dick Smothers (1939), Tony Butala of The Lettermen (1940), Norman Greenbaum (1942), Duane Allman (1946), Joe Walsh (1947), George Grantham of Poco (1947), Jim Brown of UB40 (1957), Todd Nance of Widespread Panic (1962), Mike "D" Diamond of The Beastie Boys (1965), Sen Dog of Cypress Hill (1965), songwriter Kevin Gilbert (1966), Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest (1970)
November 21: Coleman Hawkins (1904), R&B producer-manager Buck Ram (1907), blues and jazz pianist Lloyd Glenn (1909), vocalist-saxophonist "Big" John Greer (1923), Malcolm John Rebennack AKA Dr. John (1941), Lonnie Jordan of War (1948), Steve Ferguson of NRBQ (1949), Livingston Taylor (1950), Peter Koppes of The Church (1955), Stacy Guess of Squirrel Nut Zippers (1964), Bjork (1965), Blur's Alex James (1968), Pretty Lou of Lost Boyz (1974), Kelsi Osborn of SHeDAISY (1984)
November 22: Hoagy Carmichael (1899), Benjamin Britten (1913), Foghat's Rod Price (1940), Terry Stafford (1941), Steve Wahrer of The Trashmen (1941), Jamie Troy of The Classics (1942), Steve Caldwell of The Orlons (1942), Floyd Sneed of Three Dog Night (1943), Aston "Family Man" Barrett (1946), E Street Band's Little Steven Van Zandt (1950), Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads (1950), Craig Hundley (1953), Jason Ringenberg of Jason & the Scorchers (1958), Rasa Don of Arrested Development (1968)
Departures
November 16: British pop pianist Russ Conway (2000), Kid Rock sideman Joe C. AKA Joseph Calleja (2000), Gospel Music Hall of Fame member J.D. Sumner (1998), Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service (1994), Francis Donia of Tavares (1984), raw-voiced soulman O.V. Wright (1980), music journalist Mike Leadbitter (1974)
November 17: Terry Stafford (1996), blues scholar, producer, and label owner Pete Welding (1995), co-founder of RPM Records Jules Bihari (1984), John Glascock of Jethro Tull (1979)
November 18: Doug Sahm (1999), Alan Hull of Lindisfarne (1995), Cab Calloway (1994), prolific session drummer Freddie Waites (1989), Tom Evans of Badfinger (1983), Doug Roberts, drummer for Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs (1981), jazz singer Teddi King (1977), Danny Whitten of Crazy Horse (1972), Memphis bluesman "Little" Junior Parker (1971)
November 19: producer Terry Melcher (2004), songwriter Bobby Russell (1992), songwriter Carolyn Leigh (1983), Claude Feaster of The Chords (1975)
November 20: album cover artist Gene Greif (2004), Roland Alphonso of the Skatalites (1998), rock critic and blues producer Robert Palmer (1997), Chess and Vee-Jay Records session drummer Earl Phillips (1990)
November 21: Alvin Cash (1999), Matthew Ashman of Adam & the Ants and Bow Wow Wow (1995), Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant (1995)
November 22: jazz impresario Norman Ganz (2001), Michael Hutchence of INXS (1997), Epick Soundtracks of The Swell Maps (1997), June Abbit of The 5 Royals (1995), Janet Ertel Bleyer of The Chordettes (1988)
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Post by LS on Dec 6, 2005 13:56:56 GMT -5
November 23, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1938, Annie Mae Bullock is born in Nutbush, Tennessee ... she will later marry Ike Turner and become known to adoring fans as Tina Turner...
1961, blues shouter Howlin' Wolf arrives in London as part of a lineup of American blues musicians who take Britain, and later the continent, by storm ... a series of annual American Folk Blues Festivals follow, leading to a generation of Brits such as Clapton, Page, Watts, and Richards becoming blues devotees who during the mid-'60s introduce white America to its own roots-music heritage...
1964, Willie Nelson debuts at The Grand Ole Opry...
1966, the Jimi Hendrix Experience debuts at London's Bag O' Nails club ... also in 1966, The Temptations' "(I Know) I'm Losing You" enters the R&B chart and swiftly rises to the top slot ... the tune will chart three more times with covers by Rare Earth, Rod Stewart, and Uptown...
1968, Cream plays its farewell gig at London's Royal Albert Hall ... the show is released as the album Goodbye Cream the following year...
1969, As a show of disdain for British foreign policy, John Lennon returns his MBE to Queen Elizabeth "in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing and support of America in Vietnam," ... Lennon adds jokingly, "As well as 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts"...
1970, free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler is found dead in New York's East River ... rumors circulate that he was murdered though the consensus seems to point to a suicide...
1971, following the death of Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, the surviving members tell Rolling Stone that the band will continue ... it officially disbands two years later...
1974, John Lennon and Elton John duet on "I Saw Her Standing There" at Madison Square Garden...
1976, The Band bids adieu to its fans at San Francisco's Winterland with a star-studded show that includes their former boss Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, The Staple Singers, Dr. John, Eric Clapton, and many more ... Martin Scorsese is on hand to film the proceedings, resulting in the movie The Last Waltz--widely regarded as one of the best rock movies ever ... in 2002 the film is reissued in DVD format with gloriously remixed 5.1 sound and lots of additional performances not seen in the theatrical release ... one of the extras is an extended jam with Morrison, Clapton, Wood, et al, during which the motors in Scorsese's cinema cameras melted down as they were not designed to handle the continuous shooting ... the final part of the jam is an audio-only affair...
1981, a Grateful Dead/Allman Brothers Thanksgiving show at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida, is canceled when only 10,000 of 60,000 seats are sold ... apparently turkeys are a bigger draw that day...
1985, pre-bad Bobby Brown announces he is leaving New Edition to begin a solo career...
1994, Boyz II Men's "I'll Make Love to You" registers its 14th and final week at number one on the Billboard singles chart, tying Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" ... Houston's tune had displaced the earlier record-holder, Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" ... continuing this pattern of Houston/Boyz chart domination, "On Bended Knee" by the Boyz usurps "I'll Make Love to You" in the No. 1 slot...
1997, Garth Brooks' much-delayed seventh album, Sevens, is finally released ... a day after its release the album sets a record by placing 12 of its 14 tracks in the Hot Country 100 Singles and Tracks chart, eclipsing the former record of eight tracks also set by Brooks with his album Fresh Horses...
1998, Craig Marks, an editor for Spin magazine, reports to police that he was roughed up by Marilyn Manson's bodyguards at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York ... Marks says he was initially invited backstage to talk to Manson but things turned sinister when, according to Marks, the shock rocker warned him, "You know I can kill you, your family, and everyone you know"...
1999, influential indie rockers Pavement reach the end of the road when Steve Malkmus announces the band's demise during a gig at London's Brixton Academy...
2001, the man who wrote "All Things Must Pass" faces his destiny ... George Harrison dies at the home of a friend in Los Angeles at 58 ... Harrison had been battling lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain ... following his death, his family releases the statement, "He left this world as he lived in it: conscious of God, fearless of death and at peace, surrounded by family and friends. He often said 'Everything else can wait, but the search of God can't wait; and love one another..."
2002, one year to the day following his death, The Concert for George, a tribute to George Harrison, takes place at Royal Albert Hall in London ... the star-studded lineup includes Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jeff Lynne, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston, and many more...
2004, U2 puts on an unannounced free show at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge ... also this week in 2004, in discussing his impending wedding to partner David Furnish, Elton John says, "I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that." ... Craig Nicholls, vocalist with The Vines is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism ... the singer had been notorious for his bizarre behavior...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
November 23: Harpo Marx (1888), Betty Everett (1939), Bruce Hornsby (1954), Charlie Grover of Sponge (1966), Ken Block of Sister Hazel (1966), Kurupt of The Dogg Pound (1972)
November 24: Scott Joplin (1868), Pete Best (1941), Donald "Duck" Dunn (1941), Robin Williamson of The Incredible String Band (1943), Lee Michaels (1945), Clement Burke of Blondie (1955), Chris Hayes of Huey Lewis & The News (1957), John Squire of Stone Roses (1962), Chad Taylor of Live (1970)
November 25: Percy Sledge (1940), Bev Bevan of ELO (1946), Amy Grant (1960), Stacy Lattisaw (1966), Rodney Sheppard of Sugar Ray (1967)
November 26: Robert Goulet (1933), Tina Turner (1938), Alan Henderson of Them (1944), John McVie (1945), Matchbox 20's Adam Gaynor (1963), Lil Fizz of B2K (1985)
November 27: Al Jackson of Booker T. and the MGs (1935), Jimi Hendrix (1942), Eddie Rabbitt (1944), Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds (1959), Charlie Benante of Anthrax (1962), Mike Bordin of Faith No More (1962), Fiachna O'Braonian of Hothouse Flowers (1965), Skoob of Das EFX (1970)
November 28: Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. (1929), Randy Newman (1943), Beeb Birtles of the Little River Band (1948), Paul Shaffer (1949), Michael Dempsey of The Cure (1958), Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron (1962), Dawn Robinson of En Vogue (1968), Apl.de.Ap of Black Eyed Peas (1974)
November 29: jazz composer, lyricist, and pianist Billy Strayhorn (1915), Merle Travis (1917), John Mayall (1933), Chuck Mangione (1940), Dennis Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas (1941), Felix Cavaliere of The Young Rascals (1943), Boston's Barry Goudreau (1951), Michael Dempsey of The Cure (1958), Steve Scott of Bleach (1963), Wallace Buchanan of Jarimoquai (1965), Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block (1968)
Departures
November 23: Junior Walker (1995), Tommy Boyce (1994), Roy Acuff (1992), Tom Evans of Badfinger (1983)
November 24: Melanie Thornton of La Bouche (2001), Freddie Mercury (1991), Kiss drummer Eric Carr (1991), Big Joe Turner (1985)
November 25: blues singer-guitarist Fenton Robinson (1997), French chanteuse Barbara (1997), Albert Ayler (1970)
November 26: prison singer James Carter (2003), James Tapp AKA Soulja Slim (2003), Tommy Dorsey (1956)
November 28: Dave "Snaker" Ray of Koerner, Ray & Glover (2002), lyricist Kal Mann (2001), big band arranger and composer Ralph Burns (2001)
November 29: George Harrison (2001), David "Butch" McDade of The Amazing Rhythm Aces ( 1998), Giacomo Puccini (1924)
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Post by LS on Dec 6, 2005 13:58:59 GMT -5
November 30, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1956, Elvis drops in at Sun Studios to visit with buddies Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, who are working on a Perkins recording session ... Johnny's wife calls him away to go shopping before the "record" button gets pushed, but the others lay down some historically significant tracks that will be released under Presley's name as The Million Dollar Quartet ... Cash appears on the album cover even though he didn't record (some argue the point, but Cash is certainly not audible on the album)
1957, Ed Sullivan hosts the TV debuts of Sam Cooke singing "You Send Me" and Buddy Holly and the Crickets performing "That'll Be the Day"...
1965, the infamous blue flame strikes Keith Richards down on a stage in Sacramento when he grabs an ungrounded mic ... the indestructible Stone is on his feet and performing again inside of seven minutes...
1967, pop singer Jimmie F. Rodgers cracks up his car and is found with a fractured skull ... he will survive but his career is over...
1968, Graham Nash quits the Hollies ... three days later he announces the formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash...
1969, this week sees the infamous Altamont Speedway concert with the Rolling Stones; Jefferson Airplane; Santana; and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young on the playbill ... violence erupts and four people are killed, at least two in deliberate bloody assaults...
1970, a gold record goes to Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, and Steve Stills for Supersession, an album they put together out of an extended studio jam session...
1970, the documentary film Gimme Shelter, documenting the 1969 Stones tour and the Altamont debacle, is released on the occasion of the fateful concert's anniversary...
1971, The Montreux Casino in Geneva, Switzerland, catches fire during a show by the Mothers of Invention, inspiring Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" ... Deep Purple was across Lake Geneva from Montreaux watching the fire from their hotel ... the smoke drifted across the lake, hence the song's title ...
1972, Carly Simon releases "You're So Vain," a song which sets the whole country to wondering exactly who is so insufferably vain ... candidates for the post include Carly's relatively recent famous conquests Mick Jagger (who sang on the record), Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, and Warren Beatty ... when asked if she's "gone with" Beatty, she says, "Hasn't everybody?" ... "I felt I was one among thousands at that point--it hadn't reached, you know, the populations of small countries" ... in 2003 Carly Simon volunteers to tell the highest bidder at the Possible Dreams charity auction who the song is actually about, but only if the winner will abide by a confidentiality agreement ... NBC exec Dick Ebersol wins the bidding at $50,000, but he's not talking...
1973, the Who and friends trash a Montreal hotel suite to the tune of $6,000 in damages and spend a night in the pokey for their troubles ... John Entwistle later writes a song about the occasion, "Cell Block Number Seven"...
1976, during a Battersea Power Station photo shoot for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals, a 40-foot helium-filled pig breaks loose from its moorings and floats up to an estimated 18,000 feet before finally touching down in Kent...
1976, Bob Marley and the Wailers are rehearsing at Marley's house in Kingston, Jamaica, when seven gunmen appear and shower the house with a hail of gunfire ... Marley, wife Rita, and manager Don Taylor are all hit but miraculously nobody is seriously injured ... the band plays a gig two nights later...
1976, the Sex Pistols' Glenn Matlock uses the "F" word during an English TV interview and the resulting uproar proves that the Brits can be every bit as priggish and sanctimonious as the Yanks ... most of the Pistols' upcoming gigs are cancelled and by the next month they can't book a date anywhere in the U.K....
1978, Ian Druy--the hot new British new waver--releases "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick," which will sell two million copies worldwide and hit number one in the U.K. without ever charting in the U.S....
1986, Annie Lennox, lead singer for the Eurythmics, gets so carried away at a concert in Birmingham, England, that she rips off her bra, which is the only thing covering her breasts ... this does not cause a national scandal...
1988, early pop/rock crooner Roy Orbison dies of a heart attack while visiting his mother in Henderson, Tennessee ... after huge success as a songwriter and performer in the early '60s, Orbison lost two of his three sons in a house fire and lost his wife in a motorcycle accident in 1966 ... he emigrated to Europe and remained famous in the U.K., returning in the late '70s ... his gig with the Traveling Wilburys, a movie deal, and several of his songs charting for other artists had Orbison almost back to the top of his game by the time he died ...
1993, revered rock weirdo, musical wizard, and spokesman for lyrical freedom Frank Zappa meets his demise from prostate cancer at the young age of 53...
1996, Tiny Tim, born Herbert Khaury--who made a career of singing old '20s and '30s tunes in a decidedly unmasculine warbling falsetto accompanied by a ukulele--dies of a heart condition at a Minneapolis hospital after collapsing while performing "Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" at a nearby women's club meeting ...
2004, Marianne Faithfull cancels the remaining 12 dates of a European tour following her onstage collapse in Milan ... her health has deteriorated due to exhaustion after working herself to the bone for the previous year ... America's oldest teenager, 75-year-old Dick Clark, suffers a mild stroke ... doctors say he'll be on his feet soon, but he will not make the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration, which he has hosted for 32 consecutive years...
And that was the week that was.
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Arrivals
November 30: bluesman Brownie McGhee (1915), Dick Clark (1929), Johnny Horton (1929), Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul & Mary (1937), Leo Lyons of Ten Years After (1943), Deep Purple's Roger Glover (1945), The Little River Band's George McArdale (1954), Billy Idol (1955), June Pointer of The Pointer Sisters (1956), Japan's Richard Barbieri (1957), John Ashton of the Psychedelic Furs (1957), Stacey Q (1958), Jalil of Whodini (1963), Paul Wheeler of Icehouse (1965), Des'ree (1968), Mindy McCready (1975)
December 1: Billy Paul (1934), Lou Rawls (1935), Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult (1944), John Densmore of The Doors (1944), Bette Midler (1945), Jaco Pastorius (1951), Japan's Steve Jansen (1959), Brad Delson of Linkin Park (1977)
December 2: Pop Staples (1915), Tom McGuinness of Manfred Mann (1941), Michael McDonald (1952), Joe Henry (1960), Def Leppard's Rick Savage (1960), Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters (1968), Jay-Z (1970), Nelly Furtado (1978), Britney Spears (1981)
December 3: D.J. William "Hoss" Allen (1922), pop crooner Andy Williams (1930), Ralph McTell (1944), Ozzy Osbourne (1948), "Buffalo" Bruce Barlow of Commander Cody (1948), Mickey Thomas of Starship (1949), Molly Hatchet's Duane Roland (1952), Steve Forbert (1955), Montell Jordan (1971)
December 4: film singer Deanna Durbin (1922), Freddy Cannon aka Anthony Picariello (1940), Chris Hillman of The Byrds (1942), Bob Mosely of Moby Grape (1942), Beach Boy Dennis Wilson (1944), Southside Johnny (1948), Tommy Bolin (1950), Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1951), Bob Griffin of The BoDeans (1959), Vinnie Dombroskie of Sponge (1962)
December 5: Little Richard (1935), J.J. Cale born Jean Jacques Cale (1938), Jim Messina (1947), Great White's Jack Russell (1960), Johnny Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls (1965)
December 6: Broadway lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896), Dave Brubeck (1920), Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five (1943), Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown (1947), Joe X. Dube of Looking Glass (1950), Jam's Rick Buckler (1955), Peter Buck of R.E.M. (1956), Randy Rhoads (1956), Dave Lovering of The Pixies (1961), Ben Watt of Everything but the Girl (1962), Ace of Base's Ulf Ekberg (1970)
Departures
November 30: jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd (1999), Tiny Tim (1996), Doors producer Paul Rothschild (1995), crossover country singer David Houston (1993)
December 1: jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli (1997), the "Unforgettable" songwriter Irving Gordon (1996), metal singer Ray Gillen (1993), balladeer Harry Ray (1992), Lee Dorsey (1986), Westside Chicago bluesman Magic Sam aka Sam Maghett (1969), bluegrass guitarist Carter Stanley (1966)
December 2: singer-songwriter Kevin Coyne (2004), guitarist/composer Michael Hedges (1997), Aaron Copland (1990), folk singer David Blue (1982)
December 3: jazz pianist Mal Waldron (2002)
December 4: MC5 fret man Fred "Sonic" Smith (1994), Frank Zappa (1993), Deep Purple's Tommy Bolin (1976)
December 5: tenor saxist Bob Berg (2002), New Orleans session sax man David Lastie (1987), multi-instrumentalist jazz behemoth Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1977)
December 6: Memphis bass man Busta Jones (1995), Roy Orbison (1988), Leadbelly (1949)
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