Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Mon Jul 18 2022 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 18 Jul 1953 Truck driver Elvis Presley made his first ever o | | recording when he paid $3.98 at the Memphis recording | | o service singing two songs, 'My Happiness' and 'That's o | | When Your Heartaches Begin'. The so-called vanity disc, | | o was a gift for his mother. It would surface 37 years o | | later as part of an RCA compilation called 'Elvis - the | | o Great Performances'. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1960 Brenda Lee went to No.1 on the US singles chart with o | | 'I'm Sorry', it made No.12 in the UK. Seeking publicity | | o the 4'11" tall singer was once billed as a 32-year-old o | | midget and had the nickname Little Miss Dynamite. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1964 The Rolling Stones appeared on the US chart for the | | o first time when their cover of Buddy Holly's 'Not Fade o | | Away' peaked at No.48. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1964 The Four Seasons started a two week run at No.1 on the | | o US singles chart with 'Rag Doll', the group's fourth o | | No.1 and a No.2 hit on the UK chart. Co-writer Bob | | o Gaudio said that he got the inspiration for the song o | | from a young girl in tattered clothes that cleaned his | | o car windows at a stop light. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1966 Bobby Fuller leader of The Bobby Fuller Four was found o | | dead in his car in Los Angeles, aged 23. Fuller died | | o mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation while parked o | | outside his apartment. Police labelled it a suicide, | | o but the possibility of foul play has always been o | | mentioned. Had the 1966 US No.9 single 'I Fought The | | o Law' written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets o | | and covered by The Clash. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1968 Working at Abbey Road studios The Beatles recorded 'Cry | | o Baby Cry' and 'Helter Skelter'. One take of 'Helter o | | Skelter' lasted 27'11", the longest Beatle recording | | o ever. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1969 During sessions at Abbey Road studios, London, Ringo o | | Starr recorded his vocal to 'Octopus's Garden', for the | | o Abbey Road album. Starr had written the song when he o | | 'quit' The Beatles the previous year and was staying on | | o actor Peter Seller's yacht in the Mediterranean. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1970 Pink Floyd, Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers, and the Edgar o | | Broughton Band, all appeared at a free concert held in | | o Hyde Park, London, England. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1970 UK BBC Radio 1 DJ Kenny Everett was sacked after he o | | joked on air that the wife of the conservative | | o transport minister, Mary Peyton, had 'crammed a fiver o | | into the examiner's hand' when taking her driving test. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1972 Members from Sly and the Family Stone were arrested | | o after police found two pounds of marijuana in the o | | group's motor home. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1973 Bruce Springsteen played the first of four nights at | | o Max's Kansas City in New York City, New York, supported o | | by Bob Marley and The Wailers who were on their first | | o ever North American tour. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1974 The US Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of o | | the country by September 10th. The Immigration and | | o Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his o | | non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in | | o England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge. The US o | | Court of Appeal would overturn the deportation order in | | o 1975 and Lennon was granted permanent resident status o | | the following year. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1978 Def Leppard made their live debut at Westfield School, | | o Sheffield, England, in front of 150 students. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1980 Billy Joel held the top position of both the US albums o | | and singles charts. His album Glass Houses contained | | o his first and biggest No.1 hit, 'It's Still Rock 'n' o | | Roll to Me.' | | o o | | 18 Jul 1982 Willie Nelson was at No.1 on the country album chart | | o with 'Always on My Mind', which became the Billboard o | | No.1 country album of the year. The album spent 22 | | o weeks at the top of the charts and stayed for a total o | | of 253 weeks on the Billboard Country charts. The track | | o 'Always on My Mind' was originally recorded by B.J. o | | Thomas in 1970, and has since been recorded by dozens | | o of performers including Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, John o | | Wesley Ryles and Pet Shop Boys. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1988 Ike Turner was sentenced in Santa Monica, California, | | o to one year in jail for possessing and transporting o | | cocaine. Police had stopped Turner, former husband of | | o Tina Turner, in August 1987 for driving erratically and o | | found about six grams of rock cocaine in his car. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1988 Nico died after suffering a minor heart attack while | | o riding a bicycle on holiday with her son in Ibiza o | | Spain. The German born singer-songwriter and keyboard | | o player with Velvet Underground, had also worked as a o | | fashion model and actress. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1991 The first night of the 'Lollapalooza' tour at The | | o Compton Terrace, Phoenix, featuring, Living Colour, o | | Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch | | o Nails, Henry Rollins Band and The Butthole Surfers. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1992 Bobby Brown married Whitney Houston at her New Jersey o | | estate who was dressed in a $40,000 Marc Bouwer wedding | | o gown. Those in attendance included Stevie Wonder, o | | Gloria Estefan, Natalie Cole, Patti LaBelle and Freddie | | o Jackson. After years of making tabloid headlines, she o | | would file for divorce in September, 2006. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1998 The Beastie Boys went to No.1 on the UK album chart | | o with 'Hello Nasty', only the second rap album to make o | | No.1 in the UK, the first being Wu-Tang Clan. | | o o | | 18 Jul 2001 Kiss added another product to their ever-growing | | o merchandising universe: the "Kiss Kasket." The coffin o | | featured the faces of the four founding members of the | | o band, the Kiss logo and the words "Kiss Forever." o | | Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was buried in one | | o after he was shot and killed on-stage in Dec 2004. o | | | | o 18 Jul 2002 The Rolling Stones crew chief, 54 year old Royden o | | Magee, who had worked with the band for 30 years, died | | o during a rehearsal in Toronto. A spokesman for the band o | | said Magee had said that he wasn't feeling well and | | o went to another room to take a nap. The Stones had just o | | finished dinner and resumed rehearsing when they got | | o word that Magee had collapsed and stopped breathing. He o | | was taken by ambulance to nearby Sunnybrook Hospital. | | o He was pronounced dead on arrival. The members of the o | | band said they were devastated by his death. | | o o | | 18 Jul 2002 Rapper Mystikal and two other men were arrested on | | o suspicion of raping a 40-year-old woman in Baton Rouge, o | | Louisiana. Mystikal, (real name Michael Tyler), was | | o charged with the offence as well as one of extortion o | | after giving himself up to police. He was subsequently | | o released on $250,000 bail. o | | | | o 18 Jul 2007 Paul Simon filed a law suit against Rhythm USA Inc., a o | | Georgia-based subsidiary of a Japanese firm, claiming | | o the company never had his permission to sell wall o | | clocks that played 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'. The | | o suit claimed that as one of the best known songs o | | throughout the world, a proper licensing agreement | | o would earn at least a $1 million licensing fee. o | | | | o 18 Jul 2007 Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, were ordered to pay o | | their former chef compensation after losing a sexual | | o discrimination case. Jane Martin, 41, was awarded o | | 24,944 pounds at an employment tribunal in Southampton, | | o England, after she was sacked by Miss Styler from the o | | couple's estate in Wiltshire, because she became | | o pregnant. o | | | | o 18 Jul 2008 Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood was 'seeking help' o | | with his battle with alcohol in a rehabilitation | | o centre. The move followed tabloid speculation over the o | | state of his 23-year marriage to former model Jo Wood. | | o 'Following Ronnie's continued battle with alcohol he o | | has entered a period of rehab', his spokeswoman said. | | o o | | 18 Jul 2013 During her 'The Truth About Love' Tour, Pink broke two | | o records at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, o | | becoming the artist who had performed the most shows at | | o the venue, with 18 sold out shows and the first artist o | | to sell more than 250,000 tickets at the venue. | | o o | | 18 Jul 2017 R&B singer R Kelly denied allegations that he was | | o holding several young women in an "abusive cult". The o | | singer's lawyer said he would work "diligently and | | o forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name". A o | | report accused the singer of brainwashing women who | | o got close to him, in an effort to boost their musical o | | careers. He had faced previous accusations of sexual | | o misconduct, but was never found guilty. o | | | | o 18 Jul 2019 Ed Sheeran broke yet another streaming record. His o | | latest collaborative album 'No.6 Collaborations | | o Project', racked up 69 million streams in a month on o | | Spotify, which was the highest by any artist. This new | | o record wasn't the first that Sheeran has broken. His o | | last album 'Divide' set a new record of 56 million | | o streams on the day of release, while 'Shape Of You' o | | picked up over 10 million streams on its first day. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 18 Jul 1924 American singer Earl T. Beal from The Silhouettes. The | | o doo wop/R&B group's single 'Get A Job' was a No.1 hit o | | on the Billboard R&B singles chart and pop singles | | o chart in 1958. The doo-wop revival group Sha Na Na o | | derived their name from the song's lyrics. 'Get A Job' | | o is included in the soundtracks of the film 'American o | | Graffiti', 'Trading Places' and 'Stand By Me'. Beal | | o died on 22 March 2001. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1929 American singer, songwriter, musician Screamin' Jay o | | Hawkins. A Golden Gloves boxing champion at 16, he was | | o married nine times, fathered over 30 children, spent o | | two years in jail and was temporary blinded by one of | | o his flaming props on stage in 1976. He recorded 'I Put o | | A Spell On You' in 1956, (which was covered by many | | o acts including The Animals, Creedence Clearwater o | | Revival and Nina Simone). He died on 12 February 2000 | | o aged 70 after emergency surgery for an aneurysm. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1935 Johnny Funches, American singer with The Dells, (1968 o | | US No.10 single 'Stay In My Corner'). He died on 23 | | o January 1998, aged 62. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1938 Ian Stewart, keyboard player, The Rolling Stones. o | | Stewart died of a heart attack in his doctor's Harley | | o Street waiting room on 12th December 1985. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1939 Brian Auger, keyboards, (1968 UK No.5 single with Julie o | | Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity, 'This Wheel's On | | o Fire'). o | | | | o 18 Jul 1939 American singer and songwriter Dion Dimucci, best known o | | for his 1961 US No.1 & UK No.11 single 'Runaround Sue'. | | o He had 39 Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s o | | as a solo performer, with the Belmonts or with the Del | | o Satins. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1940 American saxophonist, songwriter, Mike Terry. His o | | baritone sax solos feature on the hits of Martha and | | o the Vandellas 'Heat Wave', 1963, and The Supremes o | | 'Where Did Our Love Go', 1964. As a member of the Funk | | o Brothers he performed on thousands of Motown recordings o | | from 1960-1967, including at least seven US No.1 hits. | | o As was Motown's policy at the time, none of the studio o | | musicians were credited by name. Terry was the musical | | o arranger of the 1966 hit 'Cool Jerk' by The Capitols, o | | and later became a record producer. He died age 68 on | | o October 30, 2008. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1941 Martha Reeves, American R&B and pop singer and former o | | politician, (1964 US No.2 & 1969 UK No.4 single with | | o The Vandellas 'Dancing In The Street', plus ten US & o | | six UK other top 40 singles). | | o o | | 18 Jul 1941 Lonnie Mack, American rock, blues and country singer- | | o guitarist. In the early 1960s he was a "pioneer" in o | | virtuoso rock guitar soloing, whose recordings were | | o pivotal to the emergence of the electric guitar as a o | | lead voice in rock music. For this, it has been said | | o that he launched the era of "modern rock guitar". He o | | scored the hit single instrumentals, 'Memphis' and | | o 'Wham!'. Mack died of natural causes on April 21, 2016, o | | in hospital near his log-cabin home seventy miles east | | o of Nashville, Tennessee. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1943 Robin McDonald, guitarist from Billy J Kramer and the o | | Dakotas who had the 1964 UK No.1 & US N0.7 single | | o 'Little Children'. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1945 Danny McCullock, guitarist in The Animals, who had the o | | 1964 UK & US No.1 single 'House Of The Rising Sun'. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1946 Tim Lynch, from American rock band The Flamin Groovies, | | o who had the 1976 album 'Shake Some Action. In addition o | | to the band's role in the advancement of power pop, the | | o Flamin' Groovies have also been called one of the o | | forerunners of punk rock. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1948 Phil Harris, Ace, (1974 UK No.20 single 'How Long'). | | o o | | 18 Jul 1949 Wally Bryson, The Raspberries, (1972 US N.5 single 'Go | | o All The Way'). o | | | | o 18 Jul 1950 Cesar Zuiderwijk from Golden Earring, who had the 1974 o | | UK No.7 & US No.13 single 'Radar Love'. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1950 Glenn Hughes from American disco group The Village | | o People. They had the hit singles 'Macho Man', 'In the o | | Navy', 'Go West', and the 1978 US No.2 hit 'YMCA'. The | | o group's name refers to New York City's Greenwich o | | Village, at the time known for its large gay | | o population. Hughes died on 4th March 2001. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1950 Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Records and the o | | Virgin Empire. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1954 Ricky Scaggs, country singer, 1982 Country Music | | o Association singer of the year, (US country No.1 single o | | 'Crying My Heart Out Over You'). | | o o | | 18 Jul 1955 Terry Chambers, drums, XTC, (1982 UK No.10 single | | o 'Senses Working Over Time'). o | | | | o 18 Jul 1957 Keith Levene, guitar, Public Image Ltd, (1983 UK No.5 o | | single 'This Is Not A Love Song'). | | o o | | 18 Jul 1958 Nigel Twist, drums, The Alarm, (1983 UK No.17 single | | o '68 Guns'). o | | | | o 18 Jul 1962 Jack Irons, drummer who has worked with Pearl Jam, Red o | | Hot Chili Peppers, Redd Kross and Joe Strummer. | | o o | | 18 Jul 1962 Daniel de los Reyes American musician with the Grammy | | o Award winning country music group, Zac Brown Band. o | | Their 2015 album 'Jekyll + Hyde' which debuted at No.1 | | o on the US chart, featured the single 'Heavy Is the o | | Head' with vocals from Chris Cornell. De los Reyes has | | o performed with various artists such as Don Henley, o | | Earth, Wind & Fire, Sting, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, | | o Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin. o | | | | o 18 Jul 1975 Daron Malakian, guitarist with Armenian-American heavy o | | metal band System of a Down who had the 2001 US No.1 | | o album 'Toxicity' and the 2005 US No.1 & UK No.2 album o | | 'Mezmerize.' | | 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) .