Births
1923: Hank
Williams Sr. (Country Legend)
1926: Bill
Black (Bass for Elvis Presley)
1950: Fee Waybill (Vocals for The Tubes)
1951: Elvira (Cassandra
Peterson) (Actress)
1953: Steve Williams (Drummer for Budgie)
1961: Ty Tabor (Lead Guitar & Vocals for
King’s X)
1965: Guy Picciotto (Vocals & Guitar for
Fugazi & Rites Of Spring)
1968: Jonn Penney (Vocals for Neds Atomic
Dustbin)
1968: Lord
Jamer (Lorenzo Dechalus ) (Rapper
in Brand Nubian)
1969: Keith Flint (Vocals for The Prodigy)
1979: Chuck Comeau (Drums for Simple Plan)
1985: Jonathan Jacob Walker (Bassist for Panic!
at the Disco)
Events
1931: RCA
Victor unveils its new invention, the 33 1/3 rpm long-playing or "LP"
record, at the Savoy Plaza Hotel in New York. However, the company badly
overprices the record players themselves, leading the new format to lie dormant
for years until Columbia revives it in 1948.
1952: Frank
Sinatra records his final session for Columbia; he will be dropped from the
label due to poor sales, but rebound the next year after signing to Capitol and
singing more "mature" fare.
1955: The
Perry Como Show moves to NBC-TV, expanding from three 15-minute programs
per week to one hour-long variety show on Saturday night.
1955: After
DJs keep complaining that Les Paul's "Magic Melody" single ends
abruptly, Capitol Records releases the shortest single of all time, Les Paul's
"Magic Melody Part 2," which is merely the final two notes of the old
"shave and a haircut" tag. Released only as a promo, it lasts exactly
one second.
1964: The
Beatles break with established practice and agree to add an extra date to their
current US tour after the group is offered a then-record $150,000 by the owner
of the Kansas City (Missouri) Athletics to perform a gig in KC's Municipal
Stadium. The Beatles cannily add their medley of "Kansas
City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" to the setlist, the only time they would play this
song in America. Afterward, their hotel manager sells their unwashed bedsheets
to two businessmen from Chicago, who promptly cut them up and sell the pieces
for $10 a pop.
1967:
Appearing on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show, the Doors are asked to change
the line "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" in their hit "Light
My Fire." Lead singer Jim Morrison agrees, then sings the offending words
anyway, leading to a lifetime ban from the show.
1967: In an
ill-advised move, Keith Moon of the Who rigs his bass drum to explode at the
end of "My Generation" during the group's appearance on CBS-TV's Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour. A stagehand, unfortunately, packs far too much
explosive into the drum, and the resulting explosion damage's Keith's leg, and
causes permanent hearing damage to guitarist Pete Townshend.
1969: Tiny
Tim announces his forthcoming marriage to "Miss Vicki" Budinger,
which would break records for TV viewership when the ceremony is broadcast on
Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. The two are separated three years later,
and divorce in 1977.
1975: Mayor
Stephen Juba of Winnipeg, Canada, declares today "Guess Who Day" in
honor of its native sons.
1976: The Sex Pistols played a gig for the
inmates at Chelmsford Prison, Essex in England.
1977: Reba McEntire makes her first appearance on
the Grand Ole Opry, singing the Patsy Cline classic "Sweet Dreams"
and Roger Miller's "Invitation To The Blues," 30 years to the day
after her father won his first rodeo honor.
1983: Singer Vanessa Williams, as Miss New York,
became the first black woman to be crowned Miss America.
1989: Natalie Cole married Andre Fisher. Cole filed
for a divorce less than three years later.
1991: Rob
Tyner (Lead singer for MC5) Died of a heart attach at age 46.
1991: Over 4 million copies of Guns N' Roses
album, 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'Use Your Illusion II' were simultaneously
released for retail sale, making it the largest ship-out in pop history in the
US.
1992: Singer Tiffany gave birth to her son Elijah
Bulmaro.
1996: A bomb was found at a South London sorting
office addressed to Icelandic singer Bjork. Police in Miami had alerted the
post office after finding the body of Ricardo Lopez who had made a video of
himself making the bomb and then killing himself.
1997:
Fleetwood Mac begin their first tour in 20 years at the Meadows Music Theatre
in Hartford, CT.
1998: A 19-year-old man was taken off a plane in
Denver after harassing members of Hootie & the Blowfish who were travelling
in the first class section of the plane.
1998: Country Singer Terri Clark had her shoulder
dislocated when she was pulled from a moving car at the New Mexico State Fair.
A male fan had pulled her from the open car.
1998: Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard
(Russell Jones) was arrested on a charge of making terrorist threats in Los
Angeles. He had been ejected from the House of Blues nightclub and had
threatened to return and kill them all.
2000: Paula Yates was found dead in bed from a
suspected drug overdose. Yates had presented the UK music TV show 'The Tube'
during the 80's, married Bob Geldof and was the girlfriend of INXS singer
Michael Hutchence.
2003: David Lee Roth injured himself while doing a
very fast, complicated 15th-century samurai move onstage. Roth needed 21
stitches when a staff he was using hit him in the face. A few days later the
remainder of his tour was canceled.
2003: Moore and Bode Cigars were suing P Diddy
after film footage of their "secret" production process turned up in
his latest video. The company claimed an unidentified cameraman filmed their
"unique method of rolling cigars" which was then used in the rappers
'Shake Ya Tailfeather' video without permission.
2007: Barry
Manilow cancels his upcoming appearance on ABC-TV's The View after
learning he would not be allowed to ignore conservative co-host Elisabeth
Hasselbeck.
