On This Day In Music ♫ - 16th October. Please share your favourite music for the day :) 1922 Max Bygraves (Walter Bygraves) born in London, England. English Singer. 1923 Bert Kaempfert born in Germany. German Composer/Producer, (1961 US No.1 single Wonderland By Night), Presley and Sinatra covered his songs, produced the first recorded Beatles session. He died on 21st June 1980 aged 56. 1937 Emile Ford born in Castries, St. Lucia, West Indies ( grew up in Nassau, Bahamas).. né: Emile Sweetman. UK Singer with Emile Ford & The Checkmates. 1959 UK No.1 single with The Checkmates, What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For 1942 Dave Loveday born in Liverpool, England. UK Drummer with Fourmost, (1964 UK No.6 single A Little Loving). 1943 Fred Turner (Charles Frederick Turner) born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Canadian Bassist/Singer/Songwriter with Bachman Turner Overdrive, (1974 US No.1 & UK No.2 single You Aint Seen Nothing Yet). 1951 Little Richard made his first recordings for RCA in Atlanta. 1953 Tony Carey born in Turlock, California. Keyboardist with Rainbow, (1981 UK No.3 single I Surrender). 1956 Frankie Laine was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with A Woman In Love, the singers fourth and final UK No.1. 1959 Gary Kemp born in London, England. Guitarist with British Band Spandau Ballet, (1983 UK No.1 single True, plus 16 other UK top 40 singles). 1962 Michael Balzary, (Flea) born in Melbourne, Australia. When Flea was five, his family relocated to Rye, New York. Bass Player & founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, (1994 UK No.9 single Give It Away and 1992 UK No.26 single Under The Bridge, 2002 UK No.1 album By The Way). 1962 Appearing live at the Gaumont Theatre, Southampton, England, Little Richard. 1962 The first night of a two month Motown Records package tour started in Washington DC, featuring Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Mary Wells, The Miracles and 12 year old Stevie Wonder. 1965 The Beatles recorded Day Tripper. Interviewed in 1966, John & Paul admitted that the song was a forced composition, written under the pressure of having to come up with a new single. It became a double-sided No.1 hit with We Can Work It Out sharing 1968 Jay & The Americans recorded This Magic Moment on this day. 1969 Wendy Wilson born in Los Angeles, California. Vocalist with Wilson Phillips, daughter of Beach Boy Brain Wilson, (1990 US No.1 & UK No.6 single Hold On). 1969 The founder of the Chess record label Leonard Chess died of a heart attack aged 52. Home to John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. 1969 Bobbie Gentry was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Ill Never Fall In Love Again, the singers only UK No.1. 1976 One hit wonder Rick Dees and his Cast Of Idiots went to No.1 on the US singles chart with Disco Duck, (part one). Dees was a US TV and radio presenter, the song became a No.6 hit in the UK. 1976 Stevie Wonders Songs In The Key Of Life, went to No.1 on the US album chart, featuring Sir Duke, I Wish, Pastime Paradise and Isnt She Lovely. It was Wonders third US No.1. 1977 John Mayer born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. US singer, songwriter, 2003 Grammy award winner for Our Body Is A Wonderland, 2004 US No.1 single Daughters). 1982 Culture Club appeared on UK TVS Top Of The Pops performing Do You Really Want To Hurt Me. 1986 Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Robert Cray joined other artists on stage in St Louis, for Chuck Berrys 60th birthday concert, as featured in the film Hail Hail! Rock & Roll. 1987 BBC Radio 1 announced that they would be broadcasting on the FM wavelength, starting in the Southeast with the rest of the UK over the following 18 months. 1987 Founder of Stiff Records Dave Robinson resigned as managing director after 11 years with the company. 1988 Whitney Houston had her third UK No.1 single with One Moment In Time. 1992 Bob Dylans 30th Anniversary, tribute took place at New Yorks Madison Square Gardens, guests include Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roger McGuinn. 1999 Santana started a 12 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Smooth. 2001 Two security guards were sacked after refusing to allow Bob Dylan into his own concert. Dylan who had demanded that security on his Love and Theft tour should be tighter than ever didnt have a pass when he arrived backstage. 2002 Billy Joel checked out of a Connecticut hospital known for treating substance abuse. 2006 CBGB, the legendary New York punk club credited with discovering Patti Smith and The Ramones, closed after a final gig by Smith herself. Blondie and Talking Heads also found fame after performing at the club, which helped launch US punk music. The venue first opened in December 1973, its full name CBGB OMFUG standing for country, bluegrass, blues and other music for uplifting gormandizers. 2007 French rock star Bertrand Cantat was freed from jail after serving half of an eight-year sentence for killing his actress girlfriend. Cantat, singer with Noir Desir, was jailed for the manslaughter of Marie Trintignant after a violent row in a Lithuanian hotel in July 2003. She died after spending days in a coma. 2007 Macedonian pop star Tose Proeski was killed in a car crash in Croatia. Proeski sang for Macedonia in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest and won many awards in former Yugoslavia. The 26-year-olds car was in a collision with a lorry on a motorway near the eastern Croatian town of Nova Gradiska. 2007 Madonna signed a ground-breaking recording and touring contract with concert promoter Live Nation becoming the first major star to choose an all-in-one agreement with a tour company over a traditional record contract. The deal reported to be worth $120m (£59m) over 10 years, would give Live Nation rights to all her music-related projects - including new albums, tours, merchandise, websites, DVDs, sponsorship, TV shows and films. 2008 Britney Spears went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Womanizer’ the singers second No.1 after her debut single ‘...Baby One More Time’ in 1999. 2010 Auburn University graduate student Justin Havird named a new species of fish, Lepidocephalichthys zeppelini, because the fishs pectoral fin reminded him of the double-neck guitar used by Jimmy Page. Im a big Led Zeppelin fan, and I was listening to them while I was working on the fish, Havird said. The structure that makes this species unique just reminded me of the guitar that Jimmy Page played
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 07:21:08 +0000
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