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August 17, 2010
Tuesday August 17
The late Mark Dinning ("Teen Angel") is born in 1933
The late Georgia Gibbs ("Tweedle Dee") is born in 1919
Paul Williams of the Temptations ("My Girl") dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in Detroit, 1973
John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas is arrested as part of a drug ring, 1980
Wayne Newton files for bankruptcy, owing $20 million, 1992
Gladys Knight appears on ABC-TV's "Dating Game", 1972
The Beatles perform for the first time outside England-- at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany, 1960
Microsoft buys the rights to use the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" to advertise their Windows 95 software, 1995
A riot breaks out at a Gary "U.S." Bonds concert in Boston, 1962
Gary Puckett & the Union Gap record "Woman Woman", 1967
The Hollies record "Stop, Stop, Stop", 1966
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August 17, 2010
Tuesday August 17
- The late Mark Dinning ("Teen Angel") is born in 1933
- The late Georgia Gibbs ("Tweedle Dee") is born in 1919
- Paul Williams of the Temptations ("My Girl") dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in Detroit, 1973
- John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas is arrested as part of a drug ring, 1980
- Wayne Newton files for bankruptcy, owing $20 million, 1992
- Gladys Knight appears on ABC-TV's "Dating Game", 1972
- The Beatles perform for the first time outside England-- at t...
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August 16, 2010
Monday August 16 The late Barbara George ("I Know") is born in 1942 The late Ernie Freeman ("Raunchy") is born in 1922 Eydie Gorme ("Blame It On The Bossa Nova") is 79 Ketty Lester ("Love Letters") is 76 The late Fess Parker ("Ballad Of Davy Crockett") is born in 1927 The late Al Hibbler ("Unchained Melody") is born in 1915 Gary Loizzo of the American Breed ("Bend Me, Shape Me") is 65 Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack at Graceland mansion in Memphis, 1977 Paul Simon marries actress Carrie F... Continue reading...
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August 15, 2010
Sunday August 15
- The late Bobby Helms ("My Special Angel") is born in 1933
- Johnny Thunder ("Loop De Loop") is 69
- Bobby Caldwell ("What You Won't Do For Love") is 59
- The late Jackie Brenston ("Rocket 88") is born in 1930
- The late Bill Pinkney of the original Drifters ("Honey Love") is born in 1925
- Songwriter Jimmy Webb ("Up-Up And Away", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "MacArthur Park" and many, many more) is 63
- Thomas Wayne ("Tragedy") dies in a car crash near Memphis, 1971 ...
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August 14, 2010
Saturday August 14 David Crosby of the Byrds ("Eight Miles High") and Crosby, Stills & Nash ("Suite: Judy Blue Eyes") is 69 Dash Crofts of Seals & Crofts ("Summer Breeze") is 70 Steve Martin ("King Tut") is 65 Larry Graham ("One In A Million You", bass player with Sly & the Family Stone and leader of Graham Central Station) is 64 Johnny Burnette ("Dreamin'") dies in a boating accident on Clear Lake in California, 1964 Tony Williams of the Platters ("Only You") dies of emphysema and diabetes in... Continue reading...
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August 6, 2010
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Prince Albert of Monaco and his fiancee visited the home of the "King of Rock 'N' Roll" and sampled some barbecue during a vacation stop in Memphis.
The couple took a tour Thursday of Graceland, the 38-room mansion where Elvis Presley died in 1977 and is buried.
The prince says he always wanted to visit Graceland and calls Elvis an "extraordinary figure."
He says: "Elvis touched our lives as well and the lives of so many people. We wanted to pay our respects and see what this place was all about."
Prince Albert and fiancee Charlene Wittstock are on a vacation tour of the United States. They came just before "Elvis Week," a series of events to mark the anniversary of Presley's death on Aug. 16.
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August 6, 2010
Friday August 6 Domenico Modugno ("Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu") dies in 1994 Rick James ("You And I") dies of a heart attack, 2004 Stevie Wonder is seriously injured in a North Carolina car crash (he's in a coma for four days, but recovers), 1973 Chubby Checker shows America how to do "The Twist" on Dick Clark's prime-time TV show on ABC, 1960 Production begins on the movie "Rock Rock Rock" with Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker, Frankie Lymon and Connie Francis singing for Tuesday Weld, 1956 Continue reading...
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August 5, 2010
Thursday August 5 Samantha Sang ("Emotion") is 57 Rick Derringer ("Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo" and leader of the McCoys) is 63 The late Sammi Smith ("Help Me Make It Through The Night") is born in 1943 The late Damita Jo (Dublanc-- sang the answer records "I'll Save The Last Dance For You" and "I'll Be There") is born in 1940 Marilyn Monroe dies of an overdose of sleeping pills in 1962 Chuck Berry, Jr. (son of the legendary artist) is born in 1961 Billy Williams and the Chordettes appear on the f... Continue reading...
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August 4, 2010
Bobby Hebb, who propelled "Sunny" to #2 Pop, #3 R&B and a gold record in 1966, died of lung cancer Tuesday (August 3) in a Nashville hospital. He was 72. Born in Nashville in 1938 to musician parents who were both blind, Bobby joined with two of his seven brothers in a vaudeville act that got them on a local TV show. This was the beginning of a remarkable career that included playing trumpet in the U.S. Navy Jazz Band (performing for Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Hong Kong), singing backup for Bo... Continue reading...
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August 4, 2010
Wednesday August 4 Frankie Ford ("Sea Cruise") is 70 The late Timi Yuro ("Hurt") is born in 1941 The late Louis Armstrong ("Hello Dolly") is born in 1901 The late "Big Dee" Irwin ("Swinging On A Star" with Little Eva) is born in 1939 Lee Hazlewood ("Jackson" with Nancy Sinatra) dies of renal cancer, 2007 "Little" Milton (Campbell-- "We're Gonna Make It") dies of a stroke, 2005 The late Elsberry Hobbs of the Drifters ("There Goes My Baby") is born in 1930 Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin is serious... Continue reading...
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August 3, 2010
Mitch Miller, the goateed orchestra leader who asked Americans to "Sing Along
With Mitch" on television and records and produced hits for Tony Bennett, Patti
Page and other performers, has died at age 99.
His daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther, said Monday that Miller died Saturday
in Lenox Hill Hospital after a short illness.
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August 1, 2010
Sunday August 1 The late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead ("Truckin'") is born in 1942 Bill Buchanan (created "break-in" records like "Flying Saucer" with partner Dickie Goodman) dies of cancer, 1996 George Harrison becomes the last Beatle to father a child as his son Dhani is born (George marries Dhani's mother one month later), 1978 Gladys Knight gives birth to her son, Shanga-Ali, 1976 Elvis Presley is named "Public Enemy #1" by the East German newspaper Young World (four months after the ... Continue reading...
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July 31, 2010
Saturday July 31 Gary Lewis ("Green Grass") is 65 Lobo (real name Kent Lavoie-- "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo") is 67 Bob Welch ("Sentimental Lady" and one-time member of Fleetwood Mac) is 64 Daniel Boone ("Beautiful Sunday") is 68 The late Ahmet Ertegun (founder of Atlantic Records) is born in 1923 Jim Reeves ("He'll Have To Go") dies in a plane crash near Nashville in 1964 Donny Osmond's wife gives birth to Donny, Jr. in 1979 "Mac Davis Day" is held in Lubbock, Texas as a street is named i... Continue reading...
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July 28, 2010
Wednesday July 28
- Jonathan Edwards ("Sunshine") is 64
- The Allman Brothers and the Band appear before 600,000 people at the "Summer Jam" festival in Watkins Glen, New York, 1973
- The Beatles sue Nike over the use of their song "Revolution" in a TV commercial for the athletic company, 1987
- Jerry Lee Lewis makes his national TV debut on NBC's "Steve Allen Show", 1957
- Gene Vincent's TV debut is on the "Perry Como Show" on NBC (with guest-host Julius LaRosa) in 1956
- "Kingsmen Day" is d...
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July 27, 2010
Tuesday July 27 Bobbie Gentry ("Ode To Billie Joe") is 66 Maureen McGovern ("The Morning After") is 61 The late Harvey Fuqua of the Moonglows ("Ten Commandments Of Love") is born in 1929 The late Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio ("A Worried Man") is born in 1933 The late Bob Thiele (produced Buddy Holly's "Rave On" and produced and later married Teresa Brewer) is born in 1922 Bobby Day ("Rockin' Robin") dies of cancer and a stomach hemmorhage in 1990 Tom Jones loses a paternity suit filed by... Continue reading...
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