Today In Oldies Music History: April 7 -- Births 1908: Percy Faith 1915: Billie Holiday 1919: Ralph Flanagan 1923: Mongo Santamaria 1935: Bobby Bare 1937: Charlie Thomas (The Drifters) 1938: Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane) 1943: Alan Buck (The Four Pennies) 1943: Mick Abrahams (Jethro Tull) 1946: Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead) 1947: Patricia Bennett (The Chiffons) 1947: Florian Schneider-Esleben (Kraftwerk) 1948: Carol Douglas (The Chantels) 1949: John Oates (Hall and Oates) 1950: Steve Ellis (Love Affair) 1951: Janis Ian Deaths 1981: Kit Lambert 1994: Lee Brilleaux (Dr. Feelgood) 2000: Heinz (The Tornadoes) Events 1956: The first national rock and roll radio series, Alan Freeds Rock N Roll Dance Party, debuts on the CBS Radio Network. 1956: The Platters make their television debut on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show, broadcast on CBS. 1958: The Capitol label officially abandons issuing 78 rpm records. 1962: Elvis Presley arrives in Hawaii to begin shooting the ocean shots for his latest film, Blue Hawaii. At his hotel, the Kaiser Hawaiian Village, he is mobbed by over a thousand fans and sprints away from them, losing several pieces of jewelry in the process. (His ring was returned the next day.) 1962: Teen idol Bobby Rydell is ironically cast as Hugo Peabody in the film version of the hit Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie. 1962: Unknown London musicians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, attending a performance of Alexis Korners Blues Incorporated at the Ealing Jazz Club, meet a young guitarist named Brian Jones. 1967: San Franciscos KMPX becomes the first FM station to play deep cuts from albums, rather than merely singles, a free-form non-format that will soon transform rock radio. 1967: Sonny and Chers ill-fated comedy film, a collection of film spoof skits called Good Times, debuts in Chicago. 1970: B.J. Thomas Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, featured in the Robert Redford / Paul Newman film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, wins Best Original Song at this years Academy Awards. 1975: Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore leaves the group to form Rainbow. He will be replaced by Tommy Bolin. 1981: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play their first concert outside North America, opening their new tour at the Congress Centre in Hamburg. 1988: While rehearsing a morbid hanging stunt for his upcoming tour, Alice Cooper is nearly killed when the safety rope breaks, leaving him swinging in the air for a few moments. Fortunately, a roadie quickly steps in and gets him down. 1990: As famed child AIDS victim Ryan White dies in his hospital bed, Elton John, who has taken up his cause, performs Candle In The Wind for him during Farm Aid IV in Indianapolis. 1994: Percy Sledge pleads guilty to evading taxes on $260,000 of his income and is sentenced to six months in prison (which he is allowed to serve in a halfway house). 2006: A fan site for the legendary psych-pop band Love reports (correctly) that leader Arthur Lee is dying from leukemia. 2008: Bob Dylan is awarded an honorary Pulitzer for profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power. 2008: Olivia Newton-John begins a walk across the entire length of Chinas Great Wall in order to raise funds for and awareness of the battle to cure breast cancer. The walk will take three weeks and cover 141 miles. Releases 1958: Elvis Presley, Wear My Ring Around Your Neck 1958: The Platters, Twilight Time Recording 1959: Marty Robbins, El Paso 1960: Connie Francis, Everybodys Somebodys Fool 1965: P.J. Proby, That Means A Lot 1966: The Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows, Got To Get You Into My Life Charts 1954: The Crows Gee enters the charts 1956: Little Richards Long Tall Sally enters the charts 1962: Shelley Fabares Johnny Angel hits #1 1973: Vicki Lawrences The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia hits #1 1973: Diana Ross LP Lady Sings The Blues hits #1 1979: The Doobie Brothers LP Minute By Minute hits #1 Certifications none
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:07:52 +0000
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