Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Sun Jul 16 2023 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 16 Jul 1955 Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the national o | | charts when 'Baby, Let's Play House' entered the Cash | | o Box country charts at No.15. Written by Arthur Gunter o | | and recorded by him in 1954, Presley's version differs | | o greatly from the original: Elvis started the song with o | | the chorus, where Gunter began with the first verse, | | o and he replaced Gunter's line "You may get religion" o | | with the words "You may have a Pink Cadillac", | | o referring to his custom-painted 1955 Cadillac that had o | | been serving as the band's transportation at the time. | | o o | | 16 Jul 1962 The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in the US. | | o Their first hit was in September this year with o | | 'Surfin' Safari.' Written by Brian Wilson and Mike | | o Love, The Beach Boys first recorded the song at World o | | Pacific Studios on February 8, 1962, in what was the | | o band's second ever recording session. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1966 Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton formed Cream. o | | The three piece group only lasted two years, leaving | | o behind some classic recordings including 'Sunshine of o | | Your Love', 'Badge', 'Strange Brew' and 'White Room.' | | o o | | 16 Jul 1967 Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, | | o David Blue, Mike Settle, Tom Paxton and Eric Andersen, o | | all appeared at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, | | o Rhode Island. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1969 During recordings for their Abbey Road album, The o | | Beatles worked on two new George Harrison songs, | | o 'Here Comes The Sun' and 'Something.' Harrison was o | | inspired to write 'Here Comes The Sun' when taking a | | o day off from Apple business and spending the day o | | walking around the garden at Eric Clapton's house. | | o o | | 16 Jul 1970 Pink Floyd recorded a show at the BBC Paris Cinema, in | | o London, England, for broadcast on the John Peel Sunday o | | Concert on BBC Radio 1 (broadcast on 19 July of this | | o year.) o | | | | o 16 Jul 1977 Shaun Cassidy went to No.1 on the US singles chart with o | | 'Da Doo Ron Ron', his only US No.1. Shaun is the half | | o brother of David Cassidy. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1981 US singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, who had success in o | | the 70s with 'Taxi', 'W-O-L-D' and a No. 1 'Cat's In | | o The Cradle', was killed aged 38 suffering a cardiac o | | arrest while driving on a New York expressway. His car | | o was hit from behind by a tractor-trailer, causing the o | | gas tank to explode. | | o o | | 16 Jul 1993 The first of the three day Phoenix festival in England | | o started, featuring Sonic Youth, Faith No More, The o | | Black Crowes, Julian Cope, Pop Will Eat Itself, | | o Radiohead, Living Colour, Manic Street Preachers, Pulp. o | | Tickets cost 49 pounds. | | o o | | 16 Jul 1995 Rap singer Queen Latifah was the victim of a car- | | o jacking attempt that went wrong, leaving her bodyguard o | | shot and wounded. | | o o | | 16 Jul 1995 Wayne Osmond, from The Osmonds, underwent a brain | | o tumour operation at Duke University Medical Centre, o | | North Carolina. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2000 Coldplay went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their | | o debut release 'Parachutes'. The release spawned the hit o | | singles 'Shiver', 'Yellow', 'Trouble', and 'Don't | | o Panic', and won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative o | | Music Album in 2002. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2000 Matchbox Twenty went to No.1 on the US singles chart | | o with 'Bent.' The single was taken from their second o | | album 'Mad Season.' | | o o | | 16 Jul 2000 The Corrs presented a petition to the European | | o Commission demanding legislation to end piracy on the o | | Internet. The Manic Street Preachers and The Spice | | o Girls also added their names to the petition. o | | | | o 16 Jul 2001 Robbie Williams started a two week run at No.1 on the o | | UK singles chart with 'Eternity / The Road To | | o Mandalay.' The 4th No.1 for the former Take That o | | singer. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2007 The White Stripes played their 'shortest live show | | o ever' at George Street, St. John's, Newfoundland, o | | Canada. Jack White played a single C# note accompanied | | o by a bass drum/crash cymbal hit from Meg. At the end of o | | the show, Jack announced, "We have now officially | | o played in every province and territory in Canada." They o | | then left the stage and performed a full show later | | o that night in St John's. o | | | | o 16 Jul 2007 Three masked men, carrying sledgehammers and crowbars, o | | broke into the home of former Atomic Kitten singer | | o Kerry Katona and escaped with goods including the o | | singers BMW M5 sports car, two laptops, two gaming | | o machines and two televisions. The robbers held a knife o | | to the neck of the former pop star during the raid on | | o her home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. o | | | | o 16 Jul 2009 A stage being built in France for a concert by Madonna o | | collapsed, killing two workers and injuring six others. | | o Technicians had been setting up the stage at the o | | Velodrome stadium in Marseille, when the partially- | | o built roof fell in bringing down a crane. Madonna was o | | performing on her 'Sticky and Sweet' tour in Udine, | | o Italy, when she received news of the incident, and was o | | said to be "devastated" by the news. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2012 Jon Lord, the former keyboard player with Deep Purple, | | o died aged 71. Lord was a co-founder of Deep Purple in o | | 1968 and co-wrote many of the group's songs including | | o 'Smoke On The Water'. He also played with bands o | | including Whitesnake. He had been receiving treatment | | o for pancreatic cancer since last August. o | | | | o 16 Jul 2012 Hungarian-American bassist, Bob Babbitt died aged 74, o | | from brain cancer. He is most famous for his work as a | | o member of Motown Records' studio band, the Funk o | | Brothers, from 1966 to 1972. Babbitt's most notable | | o bass performances include 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered o | | I'm Yours' by Stevie Wonder, 'War' by Edwin Starr, 'The | | o Tears of a Clown' by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, o | | 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)' and 'Inner City Blues' | | o by Marvin Gaye, 'Band Of Gold' by Freda Payne, 'Ball of o | | Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)', and 'Just | | o My Imagination (Running Away With Me)' by The o | | Temptations. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2012 American country music singer Kitty Wells died in | | o Madison, Tennessee, from complications of a stroke. She o | | was 92. Her 1952 hit 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk | | o Angels', made her the first female country singer to o | | top the US country charts, and turned her into the | | o first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued o | | until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female | | o country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s. o | | | | o 16 Jul 2012 Queen's 1975 classic 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was voted as o | | the UK's "Favorite No. 1 Single," narrowly beating out | | o Michael Jackson's 'Billie Jean' for the top spot. The o | | poll conducted by the Official Charts Company had The | | o Beatles' 'Hey Jude' at No.5, with Adele's hit 'Someone o | | Like You' at No.3. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2014 Blues guitarist Johnny Winter died at the age of 70 in | | o Zurich, just days after playing at the Lovely Days o | | Festival in Austria. Winter, who was instantly | | o recognisable by his long white hair, worked with some o | | of the greatest bluesmen, producing several albums for | | o his childhood hero Muddy Waters - with whom he won a o | | number of Grammys. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2015 A sports car belonging to US hip-hop pioneer | | o Grandmaster Flash which contained valuable vintage o | | records was mistakenly given away by a parking | | o attendant. The incident happened in a Manhattan garage o | | where the musician returned to pick up the vehicle | | o after nearly two hours, and the attendant said he had o | | given it to someone else thinking he was the owner. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2016 American vocalist, punk icon and visual artist Alan | | o Vega died aged 78. Primarily known for his work with o | | the electronic protopunk duo Suicide. The duo released | | o their influential self-titled debut in 1977, one of o | | Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2017 DMX was charged with tax fraud in the US after | | o allegedly hiding millions of dollars in earnings. The o | | rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested | | o in New York. Law enforcement officers claimed he owed o | | millions of dollars in taxes from songs and said he | | o "went out of his way" to break the law. He faced up to o | | 44 years in prison if he was found guilty on all 14 | | o counts. o | | | | o 16 Jul 2019 Metallica brought their 'WorldWired' tour to Finland o | | drawing almost one per cent of the country's population | | o in a record-breaking concert. The show at Kantola Event o | | Park in the city of Hameenlinna was attended by over | | o 55,000 people. That's about one per cent of Finland's o | | entire population of more than 5.5 million people. | | o o | | 16 Jul 2020 Drummer Jamie Oldaker, whose career included stints | | o alongside Eric Clapton and Peter Frampton, died of o | | cancer at the age of 68. In 1974, Oldaker played on | | o Clapton's '461 Ocean Boulevard', the first of 11 o | | Clapton albums to feature Oldaker on drums. Oldaker | | o also played alongside Leon Russell and Bob Seger, with o | | Ace Frehley and Peter Frampton, and appeared on | | o recordings with artists as diverse as the Bee Gees, o | | Stephen Stills and the Bellamy Brothers. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 16 Jul 1927 Joe Guercio, American musical director and conductor of | | o Elvis Presley's band from 1970 until the legend's death o | | in 1977. He conducted the majority of Elvis concerts, | | o and also worked with Diana Ross, Patti Page and many o | | others. Guercio died on 4 January 2015. | | o o | | 16 Jul 1939 Blues/R&B singer Denise LaSalle. Her first hit 'Trapped | | o By A Thing Called Love,' topped the R&B chart and o | | peaked at No.13 on the Hot 100 in 1971. She died | | o January 8, 2018 age 83. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1940 Tony Jackson, bass, vocals, The Searchers, (1964 UK o | | No.1 & US No.13 single 'Needles And Pins'). Jackson | | o died 18th August 2003. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1941 Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer, (with The Aces, 1969 o | | UK No.1 & US No.9 single 'Israelites'). Died May 25, | | o 2006. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1947 Thomas Boggs, drums, The Box Tops, (1967 US No.1 & UK o | | No.5 single 'The Letter'). | | o o | | 16 Jul 1952 American musician, multi-instrumentalist and composer | | o Stewart Copeland, best known as the drummer for The o | | Police and for his film music soundtracks. He was also | | o a member of Curved Air who had 1971 UK No.4 single o | | 'Back Street Luv'. The Police scored the 1983 UK & US | | o No.1 single 'Every Breath You Take' plus four other UK o | | No.1 singles. | | o o | | 16 Jul 1952 Mark McEntee, Australian musician and former guitarist | | o for the Australian rock band Divinyls, who had the 1991 o | | US No.4 & UK No.10 single 'I Touch Myself'. McEntee | | o also worked with Australian band Air Supply. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1964 Polly Hancock, guitar, vocals, Popinjays, (1990 UK o | | album 'Bang Up To Date With The Popinjays'). | | o o | | 16 Jul 1971 Edward Joel Kowalczyk, singer, from American rock band | | o Live, who achieved worldwide success with their 1994 o | | album 'Throwing Copper' which sold eight million copies | | o in the US. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1978 TJ, vocals, 3T, (1996 UK No.2 single 'Anything'). o | | | | o 16 Jul 1990 Nigerian songwriter and performer Wizkid who started o | | his musical career at age 11, releasing a collaborative | | o album with Glorious Five. His work and contribution to o | | the Nigerian Music Industry has earned him several | | o achievements, including a BET Award, a MOBO Award. o | | | | o 16 Jul 1996 American rapper, singer-songwriter Clifford Ian Simpson o | | well known by his stage name Kevin Abstract, and a | | o founding member of Brockhampton who had the 2018 US o | | No.1 album 'Iridescence.' | | o o | | 16 Jul 1996 Luke Hemmings, guitarist and lead vocalist for the | | o Australian rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. The o | | Australian rock band achieved the biggest first-week | | o sales for a debut album by a group since Daughtry's o | | self-titled album in 2006. 5 Seconds of Summer were | | o also the first Australian act to achieve a US No.1 o | | album with their debut album. | | 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) .