THIS DAY IN HISTORY OF MUSIC
THIS DAY IN HISTORY OF MUSIC
JANUARY 21
EVENTS
1957, English singer Frankie Vaughan was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Garden Of Eden'. (Vaughan recorded a large number of songs that were covers of United States hit songs).
1963, The Beatles made their third appearance on the Radio Luxembourg program The Friday Spectacular. The Beatles were interviewed by the host and played two tracks, 'Please Please Me' and 'Ask Me Why.
1965, Over 3,000 screaming fans met The Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison at Sydney Airport when they arrived for a 16 date tour of Australia and New Zealand.
1966, George Harrison married Patti Boyd at Leatherhead Register Office in Surrey with Paul McCartney as Best man. George had first met Patti on the set of The Beatles movie 'A Hard Day's Night'.
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 No.20.
1972, Pink Floyd appeared at The Guildhall, Portsmouth, England. This was the first time that they were able to perform the whole of what became the 'Dark Side of The Moon' album in its entirety, the previous night's performance in Brighton having been halted for technical reasons.
1973, The Rolling Stones kicked off an 11 date Pacific tour at Honolulu International Centre, Hawaii.
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 donated his entire record collection of over 20,000 discs to Mississippi University's centre for the Study of Southern Culture.
1984, Yes started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart 'a No.28 hit in the UK.
1987, Bruce Springsteen inducted Roy Orbison into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame.
1987, The Coasters, became the first vocal group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1987, Keith Richards inducted Aretha Franklin at the 2nd annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards, held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Keith later took part in a jam with Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Roy Orbison, Sting, and Daryl Hall. Also on this day, in Barbados, Jerry Hall was arrested at the airport for apparently attempting to smuggle marijuana. She was released on bail and all charges were later dropped after it was disclosed she had been set up.
1989, Bobby Brown went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Don't Be Cruel'.
1989, Phil Collins scored his seventh US No.1 single with 'Two Hearts'.
1989, Six weeks after his death Roy Orbison started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'The Legendary Roy Orbison' collection.
1992, Billy Idol pleaded guilty to assault and battery charges after an incident outside a West Hollywood restaurant. He was fined $2,700 (£1,588) and ordered to appear in a series of anti-drug commercials.
1999, Gary Glitter appeared at Bristol crown court charged with eight sexual offences on girls dating back to 1976 and 50 charges relating to indecent photographs.
2001, Limp Bizkit started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)', taken from their album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.
2003, David Palmer, former keyboard player for Jethro Tull changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change operation. Palmer was the keyboard player for Jethro Tull between 1969 and 1980. He played on all the Tull classics including 'Thick As A Brick' and 'Aqualung.'
2004, As the third season of American Idol was aired on US TV a memo was leaked showing a list of songs banned from being performed at this year's auditions that included, Elton John's 'Candle In The Wind' and 'Fallin' by Alicia Keys. Also all songs by Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, No Doubt, R. Kelly, Tom Petty, Korn and Linkin Park were not allowed after concerns over the cost of securing rights for the song's use, (or the composers not wanting their song's to be performed on the show).
2007, Mika scored his debut UK number one hit single with 'Grace Kelly', which went on to be became the third biggest-selling single in the UK in 2007. Amy Winehouse kept her place at the top of the UK album chart with 'Back to Black'.
2007, Former lead singer of boy band B2K, Omarion was at No.1 on the US album chart with '21', the R&B singers second US No.1 album.
BIRTHS
1925, Born on this day, Telly Savalas, singer, actor (1975 UK No.1 single 'If'). Played Lt. Theo Kojak a bald New York City detective in the television series Kojak, with a fondness for lollipops and whose trademark line was "Who loves ya, baby?" Died of cancer on 22nd January 1994.
1939, Born on this day, DJ Wolfman Jack. Master of ceremonies for the rock 'n' roll generation of the '60s on radio, and later on television during the '70s. Died of a heart attack 1/7/95.
1941, Born on this day, Placido Domingo, Spanish singer, (1994 UK No.21 single with Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti, 'Libiamo / La Donna E Mobile').
1941, Born on this day, Richie Havens, folk singer, (1971 US No.16 single with his version of George Harrison's' 'Here Comes The Sun', appeared at Woodstock, Newport, and Isle Of Wight festivals).
1942, Born on this day, Edwin Starr, singer, 1970 US No.1 and UK No.3 single 'War'). Starr died on 2nd April 2003 aged 61.
1942, Born on this day, Mac Davis, singer, songwriter. (1972 US No.1 single 'Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me', No.29 in the UK. Wrote 'In The Ghetto' and 'Don't Cry Daddy' for Elvis Presley).
1947, Born on this day, Jim Ibbotson, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, (1971 US No.9 single 'Mr Bojangles').
1950, Born on this day, Billy Ocean, singer, (1988 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'Get Out Of My Dreams Get Into My Car').
1954, Born on this day, Nigel Glockler, drums, Saxon, (1980 UK No.5 album 'Wheels Of Steel').
1956, Born on this day, Rob Brill, drums, Berlin, (1986 UK & US No.1 single 'Take My Breath Away').
1959, Born on this day, Vic Reeves, one half of UK comedy act Reeves and Mortimer, (1991 UK No.1 single with The Wonder Stuff 'Dizzy').
1965, Born on this day, Jam Master Jay, (Jason Mizell), Run-DMC. Murdered by an assassin's single bullet on 30/10/02. (1986 UK No.8 single with Aerosmith 'Walk This Way', 1998 UK No.1 single 'It's Like That').
1965, Born on this day, Robert Del Naja, 3- D, Massive Attack, (1991 UK No.13 single 'Unfinished Sympathy').
1966, Born on this day, Wendy James, vocals, Transvision Vamp, (1989 UK No.3 single 'Baby I Don't Care').
1973, Born on this day, Chris Kilmore, Incubus, (2004 US No.2 and UK No.6 album 'A Crow Left of the Murder', 2006 US No.1 album 'Light Grenades').
1976, Born on this day, Emma Bunton, Baby Spice, The Spice Girls, (1996 UK No.1 & 1997 US No.1 single 'Wannabe', 2001 UK No.1 solo single 'What Took You So Long').
1977, Born on this day, Rick Ross (Chandler Broz), American hip-hop artist, (2006 US No.1 with his debut album 'Port of Miami').
1979, Born on this day, Nokio, Dru Hill, (1999 US No.1 & UK No.2 single with Will Smith, 'Wild Wild West').
1980, Born on this day, Benjamin Moody, guitar, Evanescence, (2003 UK No.1 & US No.5 single 'Bring Me To Life', 2003 UK No.1 & US No.3 album 'Fallen').
DEATHS
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. His 1957 single Reet Petite became a posthumous No.1 when re-issued in 1987 due in part to a new animated video made for the song, featuring a clay model of Wilson. Van Morrison wrote 'Jackie Wilson Said' which was covered by Dexy's Midnight Runners.
1996, Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller of The London Boys were killed in a car crash in The Alps, also killed was Edem's wife Bettina.
1997, 'Colonel' Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager and agent died of a stroke in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 87. Born Andreas van Kuijk, a Dutch immigrant who changed his name as soon as he arrived in the US, Parker never applied for a green card and feared deportation his entire life. He briefly managed country singers Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow.
1997, Songwriter Jesse Levine died of kidney failure aged 58. Co-wrote, 'Knock Three Times' and 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon' both US & UK No.1's for Dawn in the early 70's.
2002, American singer and actress Peggy Lee died of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81. 1958 US No. 8 & UK No.5 single 'Fever.' Lee worked with Benny Goodman, Randy Newman, Quincy Jones and was nominated for 12 Grammy Awards, winning Best Contemporary Vocal Performance for her 1969 hit 'Is That All There Is?'
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BIRTHS
1917: Billy Maxted
1927: Frank Virtue (The Virtues)
1936: Snooks Eaglin
1938: Wolfman Jack
1941: Richie Havens
1942: Mac Davis, Edwin Starr
1948: Peter Kircher (Status Quo)
1950: Billy Ocean
DEATHS
1984: Jackie Wilson
1996: Francisco Garcia (Cannibal and the Headhunters)
1997: Colonel Tom Parker
1999: Charles Brown
2002: Peggy Lee
EVENTS
1932: Annunzio Paolo Mantovani gives a concert at Queen’s Hall in England, garnering excellent reviews and launching his career. (You may know him better simply as Mantovani.)
1957: Filming begins on Elvis Presley's second movie, Loving You.
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."
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 intiates conversation, but he'll answer a question if you ask him."
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.
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.
1998: James Brown is released from a South Carolina hospital after undergoing treatment for an addiction to painkillers.
RECORDINGS
1942: Count Basie, "One O’Clock Jump"
1957: Chuck Berry, "School Day"
1965: The Byrds, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
1957: Elvis Presley, "Party"
1969: Elvis Presley: "Gentle on My Mind," "Rubberneckin'," "Hey Jude," "My Little Friend," "Inherit the Wind," "Mama Liked the Roses"
CERTIFICATIONS
1959: The Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley" is certified gold
CHARTS
1956: Bill Haley's album Rock Around the Clock enters the charts
1967: The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday" enters the pop charts
1978: The soundtrack album to Saturday Night Fever hits #1
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EVENTS
1904 - Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno
1927 - 1st national opera broadcast from a US opera house (Faust, Chicago)
1956 - "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden NYC after 849 perfs
1987 - BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
1993 - Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder
BIRTHS
1735 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer
1751 - Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer
1762 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
1775 - Manuel Garcia, composer
1801 - Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
1814 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer
1823 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer
1848 - Henri Duparc, French composer
1859 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
1887 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer
1891 - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer
1891 - Timothy Mather Spelman, composer
1898 - Avery Claflin, composer
1909 - Todor Skalovski, composer
1910 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
1916 - [JW] Al James Woodie exander, songwriter/vocalist
1920 - Torsten Nilsson, composer
1921 - Todor Popov, composer
1925 - Lola Flores, Cadiz Spain, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona)
1926 - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer
1926 - Brian Brockless, English organist (d. 1995)
1939 - Mary Ellen McAnally, Illinois, poet (Dance of the Zygotes)
1941 - Edwin Starr, [Charles Hatcher], US singer (War)
1941 - Placido Domingo, Madrid Spain, opera tenor (Pinkerton-Mme Butterfly)
1941 - Richie Havens, Bkln, folk singer (Here Comes the Sun)
1942 - Mac Davis, Lubbock Tx, singer/actor (Mac Davis Show, North Dallas 40)
1942 - Mac Davis, American musician
1944 - John Kenneth Tavener, composer
1944 - Neely Bruce, composer
1945 - Chris Britton, rocker (Troggs-Rock & Roll Goldmine)
1947 - Jimmy Ibbotson, Penn, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1947 - Pye Hastings, English singer and musician (Caravan)
1947 - Michel Jonasz, French singer and composer
1950 - Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)
1950 - Richie Ranno, rocker
1956 - Bob Brill, NYC, drummer (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
1965 - Cordell Crockett, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
1972 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Japanese composer
1972 - Cat Power (Chan Marshall), American musician
Pop star Emma Lee BuntonPop star Emma Lee Bunton (1976)
1976 - Emma Lee Bunton, "Baby Spice", Finchley London, vocalist (Spice Girls)
1977 - Rick Ross, American rapper
1978 - Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, American Singer
1979 - Spider Loc, American rapper, member of G-Unit
1980 - Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981 - Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)
1981 - Andy Lee, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1981 - Alex Ubago, Spanish-Basque singer-songwriter
1986 - Coffin Joe, English drummer ( The Horrors)
1988 - William Johansson, Swedish composer
DEATHS
1626 - John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62
1638 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (c. 1570)
1665 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 72
1746 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer, dies at 60
1851 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49
1882 - Anton Emil Titl, composer, dies at 72
1883 - Jacopo Tomadini, composer, dies at 62
1884 - Auguste Franchomme, composer, dies at 75
1888 - Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer, dies at 83
1891 - Calixa Lavallee, composer, dies at 48
1894 - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24
1931 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67
1942 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72
1943 - Otakar Sini, composer, dies at 61
1948 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer, dies at 72
1959 - Lamar Stringfield, composer, dies at 61
1961 - John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday
1977 - John Vincent, composer, dies at 74
1977 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer, dies at 76
1984 - Jackie Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1985 - Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema
1989 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
1991 - Frank Mitchell, actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke), dies
1992 - William T "Champion Jack" Dupree, US boxer/pianist, dies at 81
1999 - Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist (b. 1920)
2002 - Peggy Lee, American singer (b. 1920)
2010 - Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator (b. 1953)