GOOD MORNING!!! Today is International Sushi Day! I think thats it... Oh! Sir Paul is 39 today!! On this day in music history: Births 1897: Kay Kyser 1903: Jeanette MacDonald 1913: Sammy Cahn 1938: Don Sugarcane Harris (Don and Dewey) 1942: Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings) 1942: Carl Radle (Derek and the Dominoes) 1942: Richard Perry 1947: Sandy Posey 1952: Ricky Gazda (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes) 1953: Jerome Smith (KC and the Sunshine Band) Deaths 1954: Danny Cedrone (Bill Haley and His Comets) 2007: Hank Medress (The Tokens) Events 1915: A.P. Carter marries Sara Dougherty in Maces Spring, VA, forming two-thirds of what would eventually, with the addition of Saras sister, Maybelle, become country musics legendary Carter Family. 1948: The Columbia label becomes the first to mass-manufacture the new long-playing or LP record format, to be played at 33 1/3 rpm rather than the standard 78. Unlike 78 rpm discs, which only held three minutes of music, the LP could hold a full 23 minutes per side. 1967: The Apple record label is formed. 1967: After wresting the coveted closing spot from the Who, Jimi Hendrix goes to wow concertgoers at the Monterey Pop music festival by setting his guitar on fire during his set. 1974: Rare Earth drummer Peter Hoorelbeke is arrested for throwing his drumsticks into the crowd at the end of the bands concert. 1975: Elvis Presley enters Memphis Mid-South Hospital, ostensibly to have an extensive eye examination; reports persist, however, that the King is actually having his crows feet removed from his aging face. 1976: After eleven years with the group, guitarist Phil May leaves the Pretty Things. 1977: The night before their royal wedding, Swedens King Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia Sommerlath are serenaded in a Stockholm performance by the nations biggest export, ABBA. 1984: Dolly Parton releases the unfortunate career misstep Rhinestone in US movie theaters, featuring Parton as a country crooner who teaches Sylvester Stallone how to sing in the style. 1987: After only two years of marriage, Bruce Springsteen is separated from his first wife, model and actress Julianne Phillips. 1993: Having sold their label to Polygram three years earlier for half a billion dollars, A&M label founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss announce their intention to leave the company entirely. Begun in 1962, A&M was one of the first artist-owned labels, and the first successful independent label. 2002: Billy Joel is admitted to Connecticuts Silver Hill Hospital for ten days in order to get his drinking under control. 2004: Ray Charles funeral is held in Los Angeles at the First AME Church, featuring performances by Stevie Wonder, Glen Campbell, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, and Willie Nelson. Non-performing attendees include Little Richard, Clint Eastwood, and Berry Gordy, Jr. Recording 1958: Connie Francis, Stupid Cupid 1959: Fats Domino, I Want To Walk You Home Charts 1977: Fleetwood Macs Dreams hits #1 1977: James Taylors Handy Man enters the charts Certifications 1976: Electric Light Orchestras LP OLE ELO is certified gold
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:36:20 +0000
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