Today In Entertainment History - 1932: Legendary songwriting team Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammersteins first production, Music In The Air, opens on Broadway. 1953: Buddy Hollys Sunday radio show (featuring the singer as part of a country duo called Buddy and Bob) premieres on Lubbock, TXs KDAV. 1960: Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles was a hit. 1961: Liverpool record store owner Brian Epstein calls Liverpools Cavern Club to see when the Beatles would next be performing, with the intent to see if their live show matched their reputation. 1962: A bullet is fired at Motowns tour bus while traveling through Savannah, GA, but fortunately none of the (all African-American) stars are hurt. 1963: Having heard Priscilla Presley was with her fiancee Elvis, and reportedly attempting to beat her to the altar, actress and Viva Las Vegas co-star Ann-Margret is quoted in the L.A. press as being in love with Elvis and ruminating marriage with him. Priscilla, on the Colonels advice, is sent back to Memphis to avoid controversy (but not before Pris throws a vase across the room, screaming that the expatriate Ann should keep her ass in Sweden where she belongs). * Dick Clark begins his latest Caravan of Stars tour in Teaneck, NJ, featuring The Ronettes, Little Eva, Bobby Vee, Brian Hyland, and the Dovells. 1964: Judy Garland and Liza Minelli perform together at the London Palladium, a performance recorded for American television and the LP Live At The London Palladium. 1965: The Dave Clark Five perform for Queen Elizabeth II at Londons annual Royal Variety Performance. 1968: Diana Ross leaves the Supremes to begin her solo career, and is replaced by Jean-Claude Van Damme Terrell. * John Lennons divorce from first wife Cynthia is finalized, without Lennon present; the Beatle is at Queen Charlottes Hospital in London with Yoko Ono, currently pregnant with the child she will miscarry later in the month. 1969: The Allman Brothers Bands self-titled debut is released on Capricorn Records. 1970: Jim Morrison of the Doors makes the spoken-word recordings which would later become the basis of the groups album An American Prayer. 1971: Paul McCartney throws a party at Londons Empire Ballroom to officially launch his new group, Wings. 1973: David Bowie hits #8 with David Live. 1974: After returning to her Howard Johnsons hotel room in Jericho, CT, following a show at the nearby Westbury Music Fair, singer Connie Francis is attacked at knifepoint and raped. Francis successfully sues the chain for $3 million for neglecting to repair a broken lock and torn screen on her room before the attack. Her rapist is never brought to justice, and Francis finds herself so shattered by the incident she quits touring for seven years and eventually divorces her husband, Joseph Garzilli. 1975: David Bowie makes his US television debut on CBS Cher variety show, performing his latest hit, Fame. * John Lennon names close friend Elton John the godfather of his new son, Sean. * Leon Russell hits #14 with Lady Blue. * Peoples Choice hits #11 with Do It Any Way You Wanna. * Roxy Music hits #2 in the UK with Love is the Drug. (! HR) 1976: Rushs double performance album All the Worlds a Stage, hits #40 in the US. (!! HR) * Talking Heads sign with Sire Records after being courted by label president Seymour Stein. 1977: Glam queen Suzi Quatro makes her first appearance as Leather Tuscadero, the little sister of Fonzies girlfriend Pinky, on ABC-TVs Happy Days. 1980: AC/DC hits #35 with You Shook Me All Night Long. * Kansas hits #40 with Hold On. 1983: Rufus and Chaka Khan hit #22 with Aint Nobody. 1986: Boston hits #1 with Amanda. * Triumph hits #27 with Somebodys Out There. 1987: The Beach Boys Carl Wilson marries his second wife, Gina Martin, daughter of legendary crooner Dean. 1988: Jerry Lee Lewis declares bankruptcy. 1994: Hell Freezes Over, the first album of new recordings by the Eagles since 1980, is released. It includes four new studio compositions, including the hit single Get Over It. (What an album! HR) * Sonny Bono, half of Sonny and Cher and former mayor of Palm Springs, CA, is elected to the US House of Representatives. * A memorial service is held for legendary guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, late of the MC5 and The Sonics, at Mariners Church in Detroit, MI. 1995: A financially strapped Michael Jackson merges his company, ATV Music Publishing -- the one with all the Beatles hits -- with Sony Music Publishing in a deal worth some $110 million. Jackson keeps half-ownership of the new company, but as debts mount, that share is whittled down over time. 2002: David Gilmour, longtime guitarist for Pink Floyd, is made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. Todays Birthdays Include: 1927: Ken Dodd 1927: Patti Page 1927: Chris Connor 1941: Rodney Slater (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) 1942: Gerald Alston (The Manhattans) 1942: John Perez (The Sir Douglas Quintet) 1944: Bonnie Bramlett (Delaney and Bonnie) 1944: Michael Johnson 1945: Don Murray (Turtles) 1946: Roy Wood (The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, Wizzard) 1947: Minnie Riperton 1949: Bonnie Raitt 1949: Alan Berger (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes) 1961: Leif Garrett Deaths 1974: Ivory Joe Hunter 1999: Lester Bowie
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:33:41 +0000
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