Today in Music History - July 14 1901 - Composer Gerald Finzi was born. 1942 - Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly sang their last duet together when they recorded the famous Brazil with the Jimmy Dorsey band. 1956 - Fats Domino hit #1 on the R&B chart and #3 on the pop chart with his song Im In Love Again. 1967 - The Who began their first full-scale U.S. tour as the opening act for Hermans Hermits. 1969 - Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance with The Band at the Mississippi River Rock Festival. He performed three songs. 1973 - The Everly Brothers announced their break up during a show at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA. 1987 - Steve Miller got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1987 - U Got The Look by Prince was released. 1988 - Michael Jackson began his first British tour at Wembley Stadium in London. 1989 - Cyndi Lauper released the first closed-captioned video. The video was for the song My First Night Without You. 1992 - Olivia Newton-John announced that she had breast cancer. Her publicist said that doctors expected a full recovery. 1993 - The U.S. Postal Service released 29-cent stamps that honored four Broadway musicals. The featured scenes were from My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, Show Boat and Oklahoma! 1995 - George Michael announced the settlement of his long running dispute with Sony and that he had been released from his contract. 1998 - Clive Davis held a party in Central Park to celebrate Sarah McLachlans album Surfacing, which had gone triple platinum. 1998 - Mariah Carey volunteered to record a public service announcement about a girl who had disappeared a month earlier in Seaside, CA. 2000 - It was announced that the Go-Gos had gotten back together again for a tour, new album, a book and a movie. 2000 - Dr. Dre filed suit against the city of Detroit alleging censorship. The lawsuit stemmed from a concert stop in Detroit on July 6, 2000, when Dre was told he and the tour organizers would be arrested if he showed a video during the concert. The video contained nudity and graphic violence. 2010 - Bono (U2) announced that he had fully recovered from an emergency back surgery in May 2010. 2010 - The BBC reported that Bob Geldofs global Live Aid concert was being made into a TV film entitled When Harvey met Bob. Source: On-This-Day
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:49:59 +0000
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