This Day In Music History! The first two-sided vinyl record is for sale! ALSO- When Elvis sees a movie....he just rents the whole theater. Births 1917: Dizzy Gillespie 1937: Norman Wright (Dell-Vikings) 1940: Jimmy Beaumont (Skyliners) 1940: Manfred Mann 1941: Steve Cropper (Booker T. and the MGs) 1942: Elvin Bishop 1943: Ron Elliott (Beau Brummels) 1945: Kathy Young (Kathy Young and the Innocents) 1946: Lee Loughnane 1952: Brent Mydland (Grateful Dead) 1954: Eric Faulkner (Bay City Rollers) 1957: Steve Lukather (Toto) Deaths 1965: Bill Black 2006: Sandy West (Runaways) Events 1908: The first two-sided vinyl record (!) is offered for sale by the Columbia label in an ad running in this weeks Saturday Evening Post. 1956: Elvis Presley visits his favorite local movie theater, the Memphian, and is beset by a adoring crowd who, in the ensuing melee, scratch his new Cadillac. Thus begins Elvis new habit of renting the entire theater whenever he wants to watch a movie. 1971: In Paris, Mick Jagger and girlfriend Bianca become the proud parents of Micks first child, Jade. 1975: The city of Los Angeles declares this Elton John Week and awards the musician his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6915 Hollywood Blvd. 1976: Keith Moon plays what is to be his final show with the Who, a concert at the Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1985: The Cinemax cable TV special Carl Perkins and Friends , taped to honor the 30th anniversary of his hit Blue Suede Shoes, is taped with special guests George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, and Ringo Starr. 1992: Hank Williams Jr. becomes the proud father of his fourth child, Katherine Diana. 1992: Elvis first grandson, Benjamin Storm, is born to Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough. 1992: Elton John sues the syndicated US television show Hard Copy for alleging that the singer moved to the Atlanta suburbs to be near an AIDS treatment facility. 1994: Neil Diamond publicly announces his divorce from his second wife, Marcia Murphey, whom he has been with since 1969. 2003: Elton John signs the deal for the first of his famous Red Piano concerts at Las Vegas Ceasars Palace. 2003: David Gest, recent ex-husband of Liza Minelli, sues the singer for $10 million, alleging physical and emotional cruelty. 2004: Bo Diddley postpones a concert in California to have a toe amputated due to complications from diabetes. 2004: Bobby Boris Pickett rerecords his perennial novelty song Monster Mash as Monster Slash to protest President George W. Bushs environmental policies. A typical line: The guests included big timber, big oil / Mining magnates and their sons. 2005: Bob Seger sings the US national anthem before todays World Series game between the Detroit Tigers and the visiting St. Louis Cardinals. Releases 1970: Bob Dylan, New Morning Recording 1938: Jan Savitt, Quaker City Jazz 1958: Buddy Holly: True Love Ways, It Doesnt Matter Anymore, Moondreams, Raining In My Heart 1965: The Spencer Davis Group, Keep On Running 1965: The Beatles: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), Nowhere Man Charts 1957: Elvis Presleys Jailhouse Rock hits #1 1967: Lulus To Sir With Love hits #1 1972: Chuck Berrys My Ding-A-Ling hits #1 1972: Curtis Mayfields soundtrack LP Superfly h
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