Musical birthdays today include chanteuse Isabelle Aubret (83), Bobbie Gentry (70), Runrig bassist Rory MacDonald (65), Maureen McGovern (65), former Blue Öyster Cult drummer Bobby Rondinelli (59), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds keyboardist Conway Savage (54), ex-Pantera bassist Rex Brown (50), Juliana Hatfield (47), Deftones drummer Abe Cunningham (41), Pete Yorn (40), ex-Taking Back Sunday led guitarist Fred Mascherino (39), and country singer Cheyenne Kimball (24).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for classical pianist & conductor Ernő Dohnányi, born on this day in 1877... for sxophonist & Duke Ellington sideman Elmer 'Skippy' Williams, born in 1916... for Moonglows vocalist, producer & record company executive Harvey Fuqua, who would have been 85 today... for Soul Asylum bassist Karl Mueller, who would have been 52... for Bobby 'Rockin' Robin' Day, who died on this date in 1990... for trumpeter & Count Basie sideman Harry Edison, who passed away in 1999... for Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson, who left us in 2001.
Also on July 27th: Chuck Berry's debut single 'Maybellene' enters the Billboard charts for the first time; it will soon rise to № 1 on the R&B listings and remain there for 11 weeks, while on the Hot 100 it peaks at № 5... According to an editorial in today's Billboard, only two American singers currently have any kind of enduring popularity ~ Nat 'King' Cole and Webb Pierce. The latter is on his way to having a remarkable 37 consecutive top 10 hits on the country chart (1955)... A study commissioned by Esso Oil finds that drivers speed more and therefore consume more gas when listening to the new fad of rock and roll music (1958)... A riot breaks out in Chicago's Grant Park when Sly and the Family Stone fail to show for a scheduled concert (1968)... Led Zeppelin and the Doors are both on the bill today at the Seattle Pop Festival, but Robert Plant is considerably less than impressed with Jim Morrison. Plant later recalls "He hung on the side of the stage and nearly toppled into the audience and did all those things that I suppose were originally sexual, but as he got fatter and dirtier and more screwed up, they became more bizarre... So it was really sickening to watch" (1969)... Bruce Springsteen sues his former manager Mike Appel for fraud and breach of contract. Appel files a countersuit, and obtains an injunction barring the Boss from going into a recording studio, effectively halting work on the follow-up to Born to Run... John Lennon wins his four-year battle to stay in the US as a special INS hearing grants him a green card [#A-17-597-321] (1976)... An Indian art store in Scottsdale, AZ owned by Alice Cooper is severely damaged by a firebomb that destroys some $200,ooo worth of merchandise... AC/DC release Highway to Hell, their final album with Bon Scott as lead singer (1979)... Prince's film 'Purple Rain' goes into general release in the US (1984)... Queen become the first western act since Louis Armstrong in 1964 to play a concert in Budapest (1986)... Bob Seger serves jury duty in Detroit, MI, and as the foreman in a criminal trial, find the defendant guilty (1994)... On tour in France, The Rolling Stones are joined on stage by Bob Dylan in Montpellier for a rendition of 'Like a Rolling Stone' (1995)... The 'Rhyme & Reason Tour' featuring The Beastie Boys and Rage against the Machine is postponed when Beastie Boy Mike D. breaks his right arm in a cycling accident (2000)... Courtney Love receives 18 months probation and court-ordered rehab following her most recent drug charge (2004).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for classical pianist & conductor Ernő Dohnányi, born on this day in 1877... for sxophonist & Duke Ellington sideman Elmer 'Skippy' Williams, born in 1916... for Moonglows vocalist, producer & record company executive Harvey Fuqua, who would have been 85 today... for Soul Asylum bassist Karl Mueller, who would have been 52... for Bobby 'Rockin' Robin' Day, who died on this date in 1990... for trumpeter & Count Basie sideman Harry Edison, who passed away in 1999... for Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson, who left us in 2001.
Also on July 27th: Chuck Berry's debut single 'Maybellene' enters the Billboard charts for the first time; it will soon rise to № 1 on the R&B listings and remain there for 11 weeks, while on the Hot 100 it peaks at № 5... According to an editorial in today's Billboard, only two American singers currently have any kind of enduring popularity ~ Nat 'King' Cole and Webb Pierce. The latter is on his way to having a remarkable 37 consecutive top 10 hits on the country chart (1955)... A study commissioned by Esso Oil finds that drivers speed more and therefore consume more gas when listening to the new fad of rock and roll music (1958)... A riot breaks out in Chicago's Grant Park when Sly and the Family Stone fail to show for a scheduled concert (1968)... Led Zeppelin and the Doors are both on the bill today at the Seattle Pop Festival, but Robert Plant is considerably less than impressed with Jim Morrison. Plant later recalls "He hung on the side of the stage and nearly toppled into the audience and did all those things that I suppose were originally sexual, but as he got fatter and dirtier and more screwed up, they became more bizarre... So it was really sickening to watch" (1969)... Bruce Springsteen sues his former manager Mike Appel for fraud and breach of contract. Appel files a countersuit, and obtains an injunction barring the Boss from going into a recording studio, effectively halting work on the follow-up to Born to Run... John Lennon wins his four-year battle to stay in the US as a special INS hearing grants him a green card [#A-17-597-321] (1976)... An Indian art store in Scottsdale, AZ owned by Alice Cooper is severely damaged by a firebomb that destroys some $200,ooo worth of merchandise... AC/DC release Highway to Hell, their final album with Bon Scott as lead singer (1979)... Prince's film 'Purple Rain' goes into general release in the US (1984)... Queen become the first western act since Louis Armstrong in 1964 to play a concert in Budapest (1986)... Bob Seger serves jury duty in Detroit, MI, and as the foreman in a criminal trial, find the defendant guilty (1994)... On tour in France, The Rolling Stones are joined on stage by Bob Dylan in Montpellier for a rendition of 'Like a Rolling Stone' (1995)... The 'Rhyme & Reason Tour' featuring The Beastie Boys and Rage against the Machine is postponed when Beastie Boy Mike D. breaks his right arm in a cycling accident (2000)... Courtney Love receives 18 months probation and court-ordered rehab following her most recent drug charge (2004).
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