Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Wed Jul 20 2022 01:00:01 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 20 Jul 1940 Billboard's first comprehensive record chart was o | | published. The magazine had previously published best- | | o seller lists submitted by the individual record o | | companies, but the new chart combined the top sellers | | o from all major labels. Their first number one song was o | | 'I'll Never Smile Again' by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy | | o Dorsey Orchestra. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1954 The Blue Moon Boys made their live debut appearing on o | | the back of a flatbed truck outside a new drug store | | o for its grand opening in Memphis. The band line up was o | | Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black. The name | | o was taken from a song they had recorded just two weeks o | | previously, 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.' | | o o | | 20 Jul 1963 Jan and Dean started a two week run at No.1 on the US | | o singles chart with 'Surf City', written by The Beach o | | Boy's Brian Wilson, with the Beach Boys on backing | | o vocals. The single peaked at No.26 in the UK. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1968 Jane Asher announced on the national British TV show, o | | Dee Time, that her engagement to Paul McCartney was | | o off. Paul reportedly was watching at a friend's home o | | and was surprised by the news. She was said to have | | o inspired many of McCartney's songs, such as 'All My o | | Loving', 'And I Love Her', and 'We Can Work It Out'. | | o Jane went on to have a career in films and television o | | as well as becoming a successful author and business | | o woman. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1968 Cream started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album o | | chart with 'Wheels Of Fire'. The double album which | | o consisted of a studio and a live record reached No.3 in o | | the United Kingdom. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1968 Iron Butterfly's second album, 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida', | | o entered the US album chart for the first time. The o | | album contained the 17-minute title track that filled | | o the second side of the LP which went on sell over four o | | million copies in the US alone. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1971 The Carpenters show 'Make Your Own Kind Of Music', | | o started a six week run on NBC-TV. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1973 TV talent show Opportunity Knocks winners Peters And o | | Lee were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their | | o first single and only chart topper 'Welcome Home.' o | | | | o 20 Jul 1975 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the o | | opening night on their 'Born To Run' tour at The Palace | | o Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island. This also saw the o | | live debut of Steven Van Zandt, (Miami Steve) as a | | o member of The E Street Band. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1976 Buzzcocks made their live debut supporting the Sex o | | Pistols and Slaughter & The Dogs at The Lesser Free | | o Trade Hall, Manchester. In the audience was, Morrissey, o | | Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook (soon to form Joy Division) | | o and Mark E Smith, (The Fall) and Mick Hucknall. Tickets o | | cost 1 pound. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1977 Gary Kellgren studio engineer at the Los Angeles Record | | o Plant studio drowned in a Hollywood Swimming pool. o | | Kellgren had worked with John Lennon, George Harrison, | | o Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand and Rod Stewart. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1986 The film based on the life of Sex Pistols bassist, Sid o | | Vicious, 'Sid And Nancy' premiered in London, England. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1986 Carlos Santana celebrated his 39th birthday, and 20th | | o anniversary in the music business, with a concert in o | | San Francisco. Previous group members were assembled | | o for the event, as 17 of them performed together on o | | stage. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1991 EMF went to No.1 on the US singles chart with | | o 'Unbelievable'. It spent 14 weeks on the chart before o | | reaching the top. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1996 Gary Barlow scored his first UK No.1 single with | | o 'Forever Love', taken from his debut album 'Open Road.' o | | Barlow became the first member of Take That to top the | | o charts with a solo record. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1999 The Rolling Stones reported a gross income of $337 o | | million, from almost two years of touring from their | | o 'Bridges to Babylon' and 'No Security' tours. The o | | Stones had played to over 5.6 million people, selling | | o out all but 20 shows. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1999 Church group's in middle America claimed that pictures o | | of Britney Spears printed in Rolling Stone magazine | | o encouraged child pornography. The shots showed Britney o | | with not many clothes on in her bedroom. | | o o | | 20 Jul 2000 The Evergreen Ballroom in Lacey, Washington was | | o destroyed by a fire. During the ballroom's heyday in o | | the 1950s, 60s and 70s, many of music's greats played | | o there: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Duke Ellington, o | | Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ike & Tina Turner and Fats | | o Domino. Glen Campbell had lived in the kitchen at the o | | venue for a while before he became famous. | | o o | | 20 Jul 2003 A tooth said to have been pulled out of Elvis Presley's | | o mouth after an injury failed to sell on the auction o | | site eBay. The tooth had been put on a 10-day sale with | | o a reserve price of $100,000. Bids had pushed the price o | | up to $2m, but they were later found to be fraudulent. | | o o | | 20 Jul 2008 Rapper DMX was arrested on suspicion after he gave a | | o false name to get out of paying for hospital medical o | | expenses. County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the star told | | o Mayo Clinic in Arizona that his name was Troy Jones and o | | failed to pay a $7,500 bill in April. The rapper, whose | | o real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested at a shopping o | | centre in Phoenix. | | o o | | 20 Jul 2008 John Lydon denied claims by Kele Okereke from Bloc | | o Party that he was racially abused and attacked by a o | | member of the Sex Pistols' entourage at a music | | o festival in Barcelona. Okereke claimed he had been o | | attacked by several men after approaching Lydon | | o backstage at the Summercase festival. He said the o | | 'unprovoked' attack left him with a split lip and | | o bruises. Lydon said: 'I feel very sorry for a man that o | | needs to lie about what was a perfect evening.' | | o o | | 20 Jul 2009 Jackson Browne settled his lawsuit against US Senator | | o John McCain and the Republican Party after his 1977 hit o | | 'Running On Empty' was used without permission in a | | o 2008 McCain presidential campaign ad that aired on TV o | | and the Internet. McCain and the Republican Party | | o apologized for using the song in the ad and said that o | | McCain himself "had no knowledge of, or involvement in, | | o the creation or distribution of the video." o | | | | o 20 Jul 2011 Never-before seen photographs of The Beatles' first US o | | concert in Washington DC sold in New York for more than | | o $360,000. The Fab Four played their first US concert on o | | February 11 1964, at the Washington Coliseum, two days | | o after their debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Mike o | | Mitchell, of Washington, was 18 at the time and took | | o photographs just feet away. Among the highlights was a o | | backlit photograph Mitchell shot while standing | | o directly behind the Fab Four which sold for more than o | | $68,000. | | o o | | 20 Jul 2015 American country musician, songwriter and record | | o producer Wayne Carson died at the age of 72 after o | | suffering congestive heart failure. He co-wrote 'Always | | o on My Mind', (a hit for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson o | | and others), 'The Letter', (recorded by The Box Tops, | | o Joe Cocker and Leon Russell), and 'Soul Deep'. o | | | | o 20 Jul 2017 Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington died aged o | | 41. His body was found at a private home, Bennington | | o apparently hanged himself. The singer was said to be o | | close to Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, who took | | o his own life in May of this year. Formed in 1996, o | | Linkin Park had sold more than 70 million albums | | o worldwide and won two Grammy Awards. o | | | | o 20 Jul 2021 American songwriter and vocalist Chuck E. Weiss died o | | from cancer age 76. Weiss was the subject of Rickie Lee | | o Jones's hit song 'Chuck E.'s In Love', from her 1979 o | | debut album. At the time, Jones was linked romantically | | o to Tom Waits. All three lived in the Tropicana Hotel in o | | Los Angeles. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 20 Jul 1933 Buddy Knox, singer, songwriter who had the 1957 US No.1 | | o & UK No.29 single 'Party Doll' which sold over one o | | million copies. He was the first person in the rock 'n' | | o roll era to write and record a No.1 hit. His other hits o | | include 'Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep' and 'Hula | | o Love'. Knox died of lung cancer on 14 February 1999. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1945 John Lodge, bass, vocals, with English rock band The o | | Moody Blues who had the 1965 UK No.1 & US No.10 single | | o 'Go Now' and the hit singles 'Nights in White Satin' o | | and 'Question'. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1945 Kim Carnes, US female singer, (1981 US No.1 & UK No.10 | | o single 'Betty Davis Eyes'). o | | | | o 20 Jul 1946 Wendy Richard, actress, (1962 UK No.1 single with Mike o | | Sarne, 'Come Outside', cast member of UK TV soap | | o 'Eastenders'). o | | | | o 20 Jul 1947 Carlos Santana, Mexican and American rock guitarist. o | | Santana had the 1977 UK No.11 single 'She's Not There', | | o and their 1999 US No.1 single 'Smooth' spent eleven o | | weeks at No.1, (also No.1 in the UK). He won eight | | o Grammy Awards for his 'Supernatural' album at the 2000 o | | awards. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1947 Tony Thorpe, from English pop band The Rubettes who had | | o the 1974 UK No.1 single 'Sugar Baby Love'. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1952 Jay Jay French, guitar, Twisted Sister, (1983 UK No.18 o | | single 'I Am, I'm Me', 1984 album 'Stay Hungry'). | | o o | | 20 Jul 1955 Jem Finer, banjo, from Irish-British Celtic punk band | | o The Pogues who scored the 1987 UK No.8 single 'The o | | Irish Rover' and the 1987 UK No.2 single with Kirsty | | o MaCcoll, 'Fairytale Of New York'. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1955 Marisa DeFranco, from family pop group The DeFranco o | | Family, who scored the 1973 US No.3 single 'Heartbeat- | | o It's A Lovebeat', the biggest selling US single of o | | 1973. Based on The Osmonds, the group featured 10 year | | o old Tony DeFranco. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1956 Paul Cook, drums, Sex Pistols, (1977 UK No.2 single o | | 'God Save The Queen', and 1977 UK No.1 album 'Never | | o Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols'). o | | | | o 20 Jul 1958 Michael McNeil, keyboards, with Scottish rock band, o | | Simple Minds, who had the 1985 US No.1 single 'Don't | | o You, Forget About Me', and the 1989 UK No.1 single o | | 'Belfast Child', plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1959 James Irvin, singer from British new wave band | | o Furniture, who had the 1986 UK No.21 single 'Brilliant o | | Mind'. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1962 Dig Wayne, with British new wave group Jo Boxers, who | | o had the 1983 UK No.3 single 'Boxer Beat'. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1962 Lee Harris, English drummer who joined Talk Talk in o | | 1981. They had the hits 'It's My Life' (1984) and | | o 'Life's What You Make It', (1986). o | | | | o 20 Jul 1964 American musician, singer and songwriter Chris Cornell, o | | best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter and | | o rhythm guitarist for Seattle rock band Soundgarden and o | | as lead vocalist and songwriter for the group | | o Audioslave. Cornell died suddenly in Detroit on 17 May o | | 2017 after performing at a show with Soundgarden. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1966 Andrew Levy, bassist from English group The Brand New | | o Heavies, who had the 1994 UK No.13 single with their o | | version of 'Midnight At The Oasis'. | | o o | | 20 Jul 1966 Stone Gossard, guitar, Pearl Jam, (1992 UK No.15 single | | o 'Jeremy', 1993 US No.1 & UK No.2 album 'Vs', 1994 US o | | No.1 & UK No.4 album 'Vitalogy' and 1996 US No.1 & UK | | o No.3 album 'No Code') Also a member of Brad. o | | | | o 20 Jul 1999 American rapper, singer, and songwriter Pop Smoke. His o | | debut studio album, 'Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the | | o Moon', was posthumously released in July 2020 and o | | debuted at No.1 on the Billboard chart with all 19 | | o tracks from the album charting on the Billboard Hot o | | 100. He died on 19 Feb 2020 after being shot twice in | | o the chest during a home invasion in Hollywood Hills, o | | California. | | 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) .