Rocking50s Blog

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 a Manhattan model, 1989
Sly & the Family Stone fail to appear for a free concert in Chicago's Grant Park and a riot ensues, 1970
Bob Seger serves as the foreman of a jury in a Michigan criminal trial (and finds the defendant guilty), 1994
Bee Gee Robin Gibb is hospitalized for nervous exhaustion on the eve of their first full American tour, 1968
"The Bobby Darin Amusement Company" Summer TV series premieres on NBC, 1972
The Tokens record "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", 1961

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 a Manhattan model, 1989
Sly & the Family Stone fail to appear for a free concert in Chicago's Grant Park and a riot ensues, 1970
Bob Seger serves as the foreman of a jury in a Michigan criminal trial (and finds the defendant guilty), 1994
Bee Gee Robin Gibb is hospitalized for nervous exhaustion on the eve of their first full American tour, 1968
"The Bobby Darin Amusement Company" Summer TV series premieres on NBC, 1972
The Tokens record "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", 1961