Musical birthdays today include Bahamian calypso singer Ronnie Butler (76), Box Tops guitarist Gary Talley (66), Kevin Rowland (60), Belinda Carlisle (55), Maria McKee (49) and Cage the Elephant lead singer Matthew Shultz (30).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for jazz and popular singer Georgia Gibbs, born on this day in 1919... for Native American activist and country singer Floyd Red Crow Westerman, who would have been 77 today... for guitarist and longtime Howlin' Wolf sideman Luther Allison, who would have been 74... for lyricist Ira Gershwin, who died 30 years ago on this date... and for Pearl Bailey, who left us today in 1990.
Also on August 17: Elvis Presley releases his first no. 1 hit, I Forgot to Remember to Forget, with a version of Mystery Train on the B side (1955)... Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue (1959)... The Beatles begin their first Hamburg engagement, at the Indra Club, where they are booked for 48 nights (1960)... Glasgow council in Scotland announces that all men with Beatles moptops will be required to wear bathing caps in public swimming pools henceforth, as hair from 'Beatle-cuts' is clogging the filters (1964)... The Byrds are forced to cancel a concert on their UK tour when only 250 out of 4,000 tickets to their show at The Guildhall, Portsmouth are sold (1965)... The Doors have the no. 1 album in the US with Waiting for the Sun. The top spot on the singles chart is held by the Rascals with 'People Got to Be Free' (1968)... The final day of the Woodstock Festival is held on Max Yasgur's farm (1969)... Bob Dylan is interviewed by Neil Hickey of TV Guide for a cover story the magazine is doing to promote the singer's upcoming 'Hard Rain' television special. Dylan is generally forthcoming, though he bristles slightly when the journalist asks him how imagines God, replying "How come no one ever asks Kris Kristofferson questions like that?" (1976)... Nirvana shoot the video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in a Culver City, CA studio for under $50,000, and using Nirvana fans recruited through classified ads as audience members (1991)... Jackson Browne files a copyright infringement lawsuit against Republican Party US presidential candidate John McCain for using the song 'Running on Empty' in a campaign ad without the singer's permission. Browne is seeking $75,000 in damages (2008).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for jazz and popular singer Georgia Gibbs, born on this day in 1919... for Native American activist and country singer Floyd Red Crow Westerman, who would have been 77 today... for guitarist and longtime Howlin' Wolf sideman Luther Allison, who would have been 74... for lyricist Ira Gershwin, who died 30 years ago on this date... and for Pearl Bailey, who left us today in 1990.
Also on August 17: Elvis Presley releases his first no. 1 hit, I Forgot to Remember to Forget, with a version of Mystery Train on the B side (1955)... Miles Davis releases Kind of Blue (1959)... The Beatles begin their first Hamburg engagement, at the Indra Club, where they are booked for 48 nights (1960)... Glasgow council in Scotland announces that all men with Beatles moptops will be required to wear bathing caps in public swimming pools henceforth, as hair from 'Beatle-cuts' is clogging the filters (1964)... The Byrds are forced to cancel a concert on their UK tour when only 250 out of 4,000 tickets to their show at The Guildhall, Portsmouth are sold (1965)... The Doors have the no. 1 album in the US with Waiting for the Sun. The top spot on the singles chart is held by the Rascals with 'People Got to Be Free' (1968)... The final day of the Woodstock Festival is held on Max Yasgur's farm (1969)... Bob Dylan is interviewed by Neil Hickey of TV Guide for a cover story the magazine is doing to promote the singer's upcoming 'Hard Rain' television special. Dylan is generally forthcoming, though he bristles slightly when the journalist asks him how imagines God, replying "How come no one ever asks Kris Kristofferson questions like that?" (1976)... Nirvana shoot the video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in a Culver City, CA studio for under $50,000, and using Nirvana fans recruited through classified ads as audience members (1991)... Jackson Browne files a copyright infringement lawsuit against Republican Party US presidential candidate John McCain for using the song 'Running on Empty' in a campaign ad without the singer's permission. Browne is seeking $75,000 in damages (2008).
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