Births
1938: Wolfman
Jack (DJ)
1941: Richie
Havens (Folk Singer)
1942: Mac
Davis (Singer / Songwriter)
1942: Edwin Starr (R&B Singer)
1950: Billy
Ocean (R&B Singer)
1965: Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) (DJ for
RUN-DMC)
1965: Cordell Crockett (Bass for Ugly Kid Joe)
1966: 3D (Robert Del Naja) (Singer for Massive
Attack)
1972: Cat
Power (Chan Marshall)
1973: Chris Kilmore (DJ for Incubus)
1976: Baby Spice (Emma Bunton) (Singer in The
Spice Girls)
1979: Nokio
the N-Tity (Tamir Mateen Raheem Hameed
Ruffin) (Singer in Dru Hill)
Events
1957: An
unknown singer named Patsy Cline wins on CBS' Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts program with a rendition of the
song "Walking After Midnight."
1965: The
Animals are forced to cancel a show at New York City's famous Apollo Theater
after US Immigration officials force the group to leave the country.
1966: The
Beatles' George Harrison marries Patricia Anne Boyd at the Esher Register
Office, Surrey, England. Fellow Beatle Paul McCartney and Manager Brian Epstein
are in attendance. Pattie, a fashion model, had been Harrison's girlfriend
since they met on the set of A Hard
Day's Night two years earlier. Eventually, Boyd would begin an affair
with Harrison's best friend, Eric Clapton, for whom the guitarist would write
the classic "Layla."
1968: Jimi Hendrix recorded his version of the
Bob Dylan song 'All Along the Watchtower' at Olympic Studios in London. Rolling
Stone Brian Jones and Dave Mason from Traffic both played on the session. The
track was released in the US as a single in 1968, peaking at #20.
1970: ABC
gives the "summer replacement" Johnny
Cash Show a permanent home on the prime time schedule.
1974:
Governor of Georgia (and future President) Jimmy Carter invites Bob Dylan to a
party at the Governor's Mansion at the insistence of his son Chip. Afterwards,
Carter declared that "He (Dylan) never initiates conversation, but he'll
answer a question if you ask him."
1978: The soundtrack album 'Saturday Night Fever'
started a 24 week run at No.1 on the US album charts, it went on to sell over
30 million copies world wide, making it the best selling soundtrack album of
all time.
1982: B.B.
King donates his entire record collection to the University of Mississippi's
Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The 20,000-record collection includes
7,000 discs King aired as a disc jockey at Memphis' WDIA in the Fifties.
1984, Soul singer Jackie Wilson died aged 49.
Wilson suffered a massive heart attack while playing a Dick Clark show at the
Latin Casino in New Jersey on September 29, 1975, falling head-first to the
stage while singing 'Lonely Teardrops', and had remained in a coma until his
death 8 years later.
1987: The
Second Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New
York City. Inductees include The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Aretha
Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, B. B. King, Clyde McPhatter, Ricky Nelson,
Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters, and
Jackie Wilson.
1990: MTV's "Unplugged" made its debut
with Squeeze as the first performers.
1996: Wynonna Judd marries Arch Kelley at the
Christ Church in Nashville, then holds the reception at her mother's Trilogy
restaurant.
1997: 'Colonel' Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's
manager and agent died of a stroke in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 87.
1998: James
Brown is released from a South Carolina hospital after undergoing treatment for
an addiction to painkillers.
2002: Peggy
Lee died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at age 81.
2003: David Palmer, former keyboard player for
Jethro Tull changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change
operation.
