Births
1937: Don
Everly (Singer in The Everly Brothers)
1939: Del
McCoury (Bluegrass Musician)
1948: Rick
James (R&B Singer / Songwriter)
1951: Sonny
Landreth (Blues Guitarist)
1954: Mike
Campbell (Guitar for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
1954: Chuck Dukowski (Bass for Black Flag)
1956: Exene Cervenka (Singer for X & Solo)
1957: Dennis Brown (Reggae Artist)
1964: Jani Lane (Singer for Warrant)
1968: Lisa
Marie Presley (Singer)
1969: Patrick Wilson (Drummer for Weezer)
1971: Ron Welty (Drummer for The Offspring)
1971: Dexter (Michael C. Hall) (Actor)
1975: Big Boi (Antoine Patton) (Rapper in Outkast
& Solo)
1994: Harry Styles (Singer in One Direction)
Events
1940: Frank Sinatra sang "Too Romantic"
and "The Sky Fell Down" in his first recording session with the Tommy
Dorsey Band. Frank replaced Jack Leonard as lead singer with the band.
1941: Downbeat
magazine reports that Glenn Miller has signed a new three-year contract with
RCA Victor... for the unprecedented sum of $750 per side.
1949: In
response to Columbia's recent 33-1/3 "long play," or LP, vinyl
record, RCA Victor unveils the first 45-rpm, 7-inch version, as well as a
phonograph that plays the new invention. The vinyl "single" would
eventually kill off the old 78-rpm record.
1962: Brian
Epstein's managerial contract with the Beatles officially goes into effect.
1963: Paul
Simon graduates from New York City's Queens College.
1964: Newsmen
learn that Indiana Governor Matthew Walsh has banned the Kingsmen's "Louie
Louie," then sitting at Number Six on Billboard's Hot 100, for
allegedly containing obscene lyrics. Claiming it makes his "ears
tingle" to listen to it, Walsh requests that the Indiana Broadcasters
Association ban the record from airplay on all radio stations in the state. For
his part, the song's publisher, Max Firetag, offers $1000 to anyone who can
prove that the song contains obscene lyrics. The FBI eventually gets involved,
and after extensive study reports that the lyrics of this version of the song,
originally recorded by Richard Berry and the Pharoahs, are so garbled as to be
unintelligible.
1968: Nine
months after their marriage, Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
become the proud parents of their only child, Lisa Marie, delivered at Memphis'
Baptist Memorial Hospital. She remains Elvis' only offspring and sole heir.
1968: The
Doors announce that Universal International film studios have offered the group
an unprecedented half-million dollars to star in a feature film. An ABC
television special, a group "humor book," and a book of poetry by
leader Jim Morrison are also announced as in the planning stages. The poetry
book alone will see the light of day.
1973: Gladys
Knight and the Pips leave Motown's Soul label for a new career at Buddah.
1974:
Guitarist Eric Bell leaves Thin Lizzy due to ill health brought on by alcohol
abuse.
1975: On her
seventh birthday, Lisa Marie Presley gets to meet her favorite singer, Elton
John (a meeting arranged by her father).
1976: Despite
the very public divorce of its two stars and two ill-fated solo variety shows
in the interim, the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour reappears on CBS as The
Sonny and Cher Show.
1977: Led
Zeppelin's North American tour is postponed due to tonsillitis in lead singer
Robert Plant.
1982:
Memphis, TN mayor Wyeth Chandler declares today "Bar-Kays Day" in
honor of Otis Redding's backup band, who went on to success in their own right
with "Soul Finger."
1985: The
Eagles' Glenn Frey makes his acting debut in an episode of NBC's Miami Vice.
1986: Diana
Ross weds Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Geneva, Switzerland.
2000: Guitarist C.C. DeVille announced that he was
leaving Poison. The band later convinced him to come back.
2002: Winona Ryder was charged with four felony
counts that stemmed from her shoplifting arrest on December 12, 2001. She was
charged with theft, burglary, vandalism and possession of a controlled
substance.
2012: Don Cornelius, the host of
US TV's Soul Train, (from 1971 until 1993) died. Police officers responded to a
report of a shooting at 12685 Mulholland Drive and found Cornelius with an
apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 75.
