Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Wed Jul 12 2023 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 12 Jul 1954 19-year-old Elvis Presley signed a recording contract o | | with Sun Records. He also gave in his notice at his day | | o job at The Crown Electric Company. Sam Phillips from o | | Sun Records originally wanted to use the 19-year-old to | | o make demos of songs meant for other artists, but soon o | | realized that here was the man who could bridge the gap | | o between white and black performances. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1958 The Quarrymen, featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, o | | George Harrison, John "Duff" Lowe on piano and Colin | | o Hanton on drums, recorded a vanity disc at a small o | | studio in an electronics shop owned by a man named | | o Percy Phillips. The band recorded 'That'll Be The Day' o | | and 'In Spite Of Danger' in one take each. With the | | o names of the tunes and the song's writers hand written o | | on the label, each band member was to keep the 10-inch | | o 78 RPM disc for a week before passing it on. Both o | | recordings eventually ended up on 'Anthology 1'. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1962 Ray Charles was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with | | o the Don Gibson penned country ballad 'I Can't Stop o | | Loving You'. His only UK No.1 was taken from his | | o 'Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music' album. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1962 The Rolling Stones made their live debut at the Marquee o | | Jazz Club, London, with Dick Taylor on bass (later of | | o The Pretty Things) and Mick Avory on drums, (later of o | | The Kinks). Billed as The Rollin' Stones, they were | | o paid 20 pounds for the gig, the equivalent of 330 o | | pounds in 2010. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1964 The Beatles appeared at the Hippodrome Theatre in | | o Brighton with The Fourmost and the Shubdubs (whose o | | drummer, Jimmy Nicol, had filled in for an ill Ringo | | o Starr on The Beatles' world tour). Also in the US The o | | Ed Sullivan Show re-broadcast The Beatles' first live | | o television appearance on the Sullivan show (from o | | February 9). On the way to tonight's gig George | | o Harrison was involved in a minor crash in his brand new o | | E-Type Jaguar in Kings Road, Fulham, London. Passing | | o pedestrians collected bits of broken glass as o | | souvenirs. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1968 Mickey Dolenz from The Monkees married Samantha Juste | | o who he met when working in the UK on the BBC TV show o | | Top Of The Pops. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1969 One Hit Wonders Zager and Evans started a six week run | | o at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'In The Year 2525, o | | (Exordium And Terminus)'. The song was also No.1 in the | | o UK, making them the only one hit wonders ever in both o | | the US and UK singles charts. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1979 American singer songwriter Minnie Riperton died of | | o cancer aged 31. The Stevie Wonder produced 'Loving You' o | | gave Minnie a US No.1 single in 1975. She worked at | | o Chess records singing backup for various artists such o | | as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry | | o and Muddy Waters. She also sang lead for the o | | experimental rock/soul group Rotary Connection, from | | o 1967 to 1971. Also a member of Wonderlove in 1973, a o | | backup group for Stevie Wonder. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1980 During their 23 date '11 O'clock Tick Tock' U2 played | | o at The Moonlight, West Hampstead in London, England. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1980 Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra had o | | the UK No.1 single with 'Xanadu', taken from the film | | o of the same name. It gave Olivia Newton-John her third o | | UK No.1 single. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1983 Former Traffic member Chris Wood died of liver failure | | o after a lengthy illness. He also played with Jimi o | | Hendrix in 1968, appearing on the Electric Ladyland | | o album and worked with Free, John Martyn and the Small o | | Faces. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1986 Boy George and singer Marilyn were arrested in London, | | o England, for possession of drugs. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1986 Simply Red scored their first US No.1 single with o | | 'Holding Back The Years'. Simply Red singer Mick | | o Hucknall wrote the song when he was seventeen, while o | | living at his father's house. The chorus did not come | | o to him until many years later. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1988 Michael Jackson arrived in the UK for his first ever o | | solo appearances. He performed a total of eight nights | | o to 794,000 people. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1991 Take That released their debut single 'Do What U Like' o | | which was a commercial failure, peaking at No. 82 on | | o the UK Singles Chart. The low-budget video for the o | | track featured the band getting naked, showing their | | o bare buttocks and smearing jelly over themselves, o | | resulting in the video being banned from daytime | | o television. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1996 Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was charged o | | with drug possession after the death of the band's | | o keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin in his New York Hotel o | | room. | | o o | | 12 Jul 2000 A statue erected in the memory of John Lennon was | | o unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square. The sculpture o | | featured a revolver with a knotted barrel created by | | o Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward. o | | | | o 12 Jul 2003 Saxophonist, composer and arranger Benny Carter died o | | aged 95. He worked with Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, | | o Ray Charles and composed many TV theme's including o | | Ironside and M-Squad. | | o o | | 12 Jul 2008 Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood left his wife of 23 years and | | o moved in with an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress. o | | The 61-year-old dad-of-four had met the teenager while | | o out drinking and had taken her away to his luxury pad o | | in Ireland. | | o o | | 12 Jul 2008 American singer Earl Nelson (Earl Lee Nelson) died in | | o Lake Charles, Louisiana. One half of the duo, Bob And o | | Earl, (recorded 'Harlem Shuffle' in 1963). Nelson sang | | o background vocals on 'Rockin' Robin', a US No. 2 for o | | the Jackson 5 in 1972. | | o o | | 12 Jul 2012 Pollstar magazine announced that former Pink Floyd | | o bassist Roger Waters had grossed up $158.1 million in o | | concert ticket sales worldwide so far this year with | | o 'The Wall Live Show'. Bruce Springsteen came in second o | | place with $79.9 million. | | o o | | 12 Jul 2019 Tarazaga-Orero was arrested by police and remanded in | | o custody for stalking former One Direction singer Harry o | | Styles. The Spaniard had been sleeping on a bench near | | o the London house owned by Styles and had been posting o | | notes through his letter box for over two months. | | o Permission was granted for Styles to give evidence from o | | behind a screen during the trial. | | o o | | 12 Jul 2020 English singer-songwriter Judy Dyble died age 71. She | | o was a founding member of Fairport Convention and Trader o | | Horne. In addition, she and multi-instrumental Ian | | o McDonald joined and recorded several tracks with Giles, o | | Giles and Fripp, who later became King Crimson. During | | o Fairport's early live shows in London in the late 1960s o | | Dyble shared stages with acts such as Jimi Hendrix, and | | o Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd). Famously, she sat on the o | | front of the stage at the Speakeasy Club knitting, | | o while Hendrix and Fairport Convention guitarist Richard o | | Thompson jammed. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 12 Jul 1935 English songwriter Barry Mason. A leading songwriter of | | o the 1960s, he wrote the bulk of his most successful o | | songs in partnership with Les Reed. His song writing | | o credits included three UK Singles Chart No.1s, "Love o | | Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)", "The Last Waltz", and | | o "I Pretend". His songs have been recorded by many o | | artists including Tom Jones, David Essex, The Drifters, | | o Rod Stewart, Petula Clark, Perry Como, Elvis Presley o | | and Engelbert Humperdinck. He died age 85 on 16 April | | o 2021. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1937 Saxophonist Howie Casey who was a member of Derry and o | | the Seniors, the first rock and roll band from | | o Liverpool to play clubs in Germany and later, as leader o | | of the renamed Howie Casey and the Seniors, the first | | o Liverpool group to record an LP. He later featured on o | | several albums by Paul McCartney ('Band on the Run', | | o 'Wings at the Speed of Sound' and 'Back to the Egg') o | | and played live with Paul McCartney on the 'Wings Over | | o the World' tour. He also worked with Marc Bolan, The o | | Who, Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1943 Christine McVie, keyboards, vocals, Chicken Shack, and | | o then Fleetwood Mac, who scored the US No.1 single o | | 'Dreams' taken from their worldwide No.1 album | | o 'Rumours' which spent 31 weeks on the US chart. Eight o | | of her songs appeared on Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest | | o Hits album. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1947 English singer, guitarist, songwriter Wilko Johnson who o | | with Dr Feelgood had the 1979 UK No.9 single 'Milk And | | o Alcohol' and a founding member of Solid Senders. Wilko o | | stated in early 2013 that he had terminal cancer and | | o was given just 10 months to live, and aptly announced o | | he was going on a farewell tour. On 22 March 2013, | | o Wilko played what he thought would be his final show o | | guesting with Madness on the television programme | | o 'Madness Live: Goodbye Television Centre' which was o | | broadcast on BBC Four. In Oct 2014 Johnson said he has | | o been "cured" of the terminal pancreatic cancer. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1950 Eric Carr, drummer with American hard rock band Kiss. o | | Their 1976 US No 11 album 'Rock and Roll Over' spent 26 | | o weeks on the chart and they had the 1987 UK No.4 single o | | 'Crazy Crazy Nights'. Carr died on 24th November 1991. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1952 Philip Taylor Kramer, bass guitar, Iron Butterfly. His | | o disappearance on February 12, 1995 caused a mystery o | | lasting four years. On May 29, 1999, Kramer's Ford | | o Aerostar minivan and skeletal remains were found by o | | photographers looking for old car wrecks to shoot at | | o the bottom of Decker Canyon near Malibu, California. o | | Based on forensic evidence, his death was ruled as a | | o probable suicide. o | | | | o 12 Jul 1952 Liz Mitchell, singer, from German vocal group Boney M, o | | who had the 1978 UK No.1 & US No.30 single 'Rivers Of | | o Babylon' and with more than 150 million records sold, o | | they are one of the best-selling artists of all time. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1953 Billy and Bobby Alessi, (identical twin brothers), | | o known as the Alessi Brothers who scored the 1977 UK o | | No.8 single 'Oh. Lori.' Both Billy and Bobby Alessi had | | o previously worked in the Broadway cast of the musical o | | Hair. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1962 American musician Dan Murphy, guitarist with American | | o alternative rock band Soul Asylum, who had the 1993 US o | | No.5 and UK No.7 single 'Runaway Train'. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1964 Tim Gane, guitar, keyboards, with British indie group | | o Stereolab, who had the 1994 UK minor hit single 'Ping o | | Pong'. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1967 American guitarist John Petrucci, best known as a | | o founding member of the progressive metal/rock band o | | Dream Theater. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1968 American hip-hop and R&B record producer Chucky | | o Thompson. He was a member of Bad Boy Entertainment's o | | 'Hitmen' team of in-house producers during the 1990s, | | o and worked with Bad Boy mogul Sean Combs on material o | | for artists such as The Notorious B.I.G. and Faith | | o Evans. He died of complications from COVID-19 on 9 o | | August 2021. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1977 Dominic Howard, drums, from English rock band Muse who | | o scored the 2003 UK No.1 album 'Absolution', and the o | | 2003 UK No.8 single, 'Time Is Running Out'. Muse were | | o nominated for five Grammy Awards, of which they won o | | Best Rock Album for 'The Resistance'. | | o o | | 12 Jul 1983 Kimberly Perry, singer with American country music | | o group The Band Perry, who scored the US Country No.1 o | | hit 'If I Die Young'. The bands second album, | | o 'Pioneer', released in 2013 produced additional No.1 o | | singles in 'Better Dig Two', and 'DONE.' | | o o | | 12 Jul 1984 Gareth Gates, UK singer, TV's Pop Idol runner up, (2002 | | o UK No.1 single 'Unchained Melody'). o | | | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | Posted courtesy of TALIADON BBS (taliadon.ddns.net) | | o E&EO : All information taken directly from WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM o | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: TALIADON BBS (21:3/138) .