Musical birthdays today include New Orleans R&B singer Robert Parker (84), Cliff Richard (74), jazz-rock bassist Colin Hodgkinson (69), Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward (68), Nazareth lead singer Dan McCafferty (68), Boney M vocalist Marcia Barrett (66), bluesman Kenny Neal (57), Thomas Dolby (56), Twister Sister drummer A.J. Pero (55), Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines (40), and singer-songwriter Savannah Outen (22).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Bing Crosby, who died on this date in 1977... for Leonard Bernstein, who passed away in 1990... and for Freddy Fender, who left us today in 2006.
Also on October 14: Mendelssohn's overture for A Midsummer Night's Dream is performed for the first time at Potsdam for Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1843)... The 16-year-old Stravinsky finishes his first surviving composition, an unpublished Tarantella for piano (1898)... BMI [Broadcast Music, Inc.] is founded to compete with ASCAP [ The Everly Brothers have their first US no. 1 with 'Wake up, Little Susie', and Elvis releases 'Jailhouse Rock' (1957)... Pink Floyd play their first ever 'underground' set, at All Saints Hall in Notting Hill (1966)... Joan Baez is arrested at a sit-in at the US Army induction center in Oakland, California (1967)... The Jackson Five make their national TV debut on ABC's variety show 'Hollywood Palace' (1968)... The New Jersey State Police issue an arrest warrant for Frank Sinatra in relation to his alleged Mafia connections (1969)... The music publishing firm Arco Industries file a $500,0o0 lawsuit against John Fogerty, claiming that the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit 'Travelin' Band' 'contains substantial material copied from' Little Richard's 'Good Golly Miss Molly'. The suit is eventually thrown out (1971)... Michael Jackson has his first solo US no. 1 with 'Ben'... The Temptations release 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone' (1972)... As a personal request from several players on the L.A. Dodgers, Linda Ronstadt sings the National Anthem before game 3 of the World Series... David Bowie releases the Heroes album (1977)... Cyndi Lauper releases her debut album She's So Unusual (1983)... Def Leppard become the first act in chart history to sell seven million or more copies of two consecutive LPs, as Hysteria, the follow-up to the 1983 hit Pyromania, tops the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic (1987)... Madonna's daughter Lourdes is born in Los Angeles (1996)... Sir Paul McCartney's symphonic poem Standing Stone receives its world premiere by the London Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall. While the performance earns the composer six curtain calls, the critical reviews in the next day's newspapers are generally scathing (1997)... Barbra Streisand releases The Movie Album, her 60th LP for Columbia Records (2003)... Eric Clapton is suspended from driving in France after being pulled over for speeding ~ at 210 km/hr (135 MPH) ~ on the A6 Autoroute near Merceuil in Burgundy. He is given a €750 fine and his UK license is confiscated. After paying his fine, Clapton poses for photographs with the members of the local gendarmerie and leaves again in the Porsche ~with his personal assistant at the wheel (2004).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Bing Crosby, who died on this date in 1977... for Leonard Bernstein, who passed away in 1990... and for Freddy Fender, who left us today in 2006.
Also on October 14: Mendelssohn's overture for A Midsummer Night's Dream is performed for the first time at Potsdam for Frederick William IV, King of Prussia (1843)... The 16-year-old Stravinsky finishes his first surviving composition, an unpublished Tarantella for piano (1898)... BMI [Broadcast Music, Inc.] is founded to compete with ASCAP [ The Everly Brothers have their first US no. 1 with 'Wake up, Little Susie', and Elvis releases 'Jailhouse Rock' (1957)... Pink Floyd play their first ever 'underground' set, at All Saints Hall in Notting Hill (1966)... Joan Baez is arrested at a sit-in at the US Army induction center in Oakland, California (1967)... The Jackson Five make their national TV debut on ABC's variety show 'Hollywood Palace' (1968)... The New Jersey State Police issue an arrest warrant for Frank Sinatra in relation to his alleged Mafia connections (1969)... The music publishing firm Arco Industries file a $500,0o0 lawsuit against John Fogerty, claiming that the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit 'Travelin' Band' 'contains substantial material copied from' Little Richard's 'Good Golly Miss Molly'. The suit is eventually thrown out (1971)... Michael Jackson has his first solo US no. 1 with 'Ben'... The Temptations release 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone' (1972)... As a personal request from several players on the L.A. Dodgers, Linda Ronstadt sings the National Anthem before game 3 of the World Series... David Bowie releases the Heroes album (1977)... Cyndi Lauper releases her debut album She's So Unusual (1983)... Def Leppard become the first act in chart history to sell seven million or more copies of two consecutive LPs, as Hysteria, the follow-up to the 1983 hit Pyromania, tops the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic (1987)... Madonna's daughter Lourdes is born in Los Angeles (1996)... Sir Paul McCartney's symphonic poem Standing Stone receives its world premiere by the London Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall. While the performance earns the composer six curtain calls, the critical reviews in the next day's newspapers are generally scathing (1997)... Barbra Streisand releases The Movie Album, her 60th LP for Columbia Records (2003)... Eric Clapton is suspended from driving in France after being pulled over for speeding ~ at 210 km/hr (135 MPH) ~ on the A6 Autoroute near Merceuil in Burgundy. He is given a €750 fine and his UK license is confiscated. After paying his fine, Clapton poses for photographs with the members of the local gendarmerie and leaves again in the Porsche ~with his personal assistant at the wheel (2004).
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