Musical birthdays today include songwriter & producer Mike Curb (69), Motörhead frontman Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister (68), Focus guitarist Jan Akkerman (67), rock critic Nick Kent (62), singer-songwriter Diane Tell (55), former Thin Lizzy keyboardist Darren Wharton (51), 10,000 Maniacs lead singer Karen Ramsey (50), Counting Crows bassist Millard Powers (48), blues guitarist & producer Doyle Bramhall II (45), singer-songwriter Will 'Bonnie Prince Billy' Oldham, (43), and One Direction vocalist Louis Tomlinson (22).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Cosima Wagner, born on this day in 1837... for jazz drummer Warren 'Baby' Dodds, born in 1898... for pop and R&B singer Lee Dorsey, who would have been 89 today... for jazz pianist Ray Bryant, who would have been 82... for composer Alban Berg, who died on this date in 1935... for Hitchcock film score composer Bernard Herrmann, who died in 1975... for former Four Season bassist Nick Massi, who passed away in 2000... and for singer and Frank Zappa sideman Ray Collins, who left us a year ago today.
Also on December 24: The first performance of the carol 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' [Silent Night] takes place at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria (1818)... Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden sends a signal of himself singing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' to a collaborator ~ the signal, with a range of approximately one mile, is the first recorded transmission of music over the radio (1900)... Gian Carlo Menotti's Amal and the Night Visitors, the first opera composed expressly for television, is broadcast from NBC's Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center (1951)... The Beatles have the number one album in the US for the third Christmas in a row. 'Rubber Soul' sits atop the LP chart this year, following 'Beatles For Sale' in 1964 and 'With The Beatles' in 1963. The Fab Four will repeat this feat in 1968 with 'The Beatles' (The White Album) and again in 1969, with 'Abbey Road' (1965)... The Bee Gees perform their Christmas special live from Liverpool Cathedral on BBC TV (1967)... David Bowie appears at the Rainbow Theatre, London giving a special Christmas Eve concert (1972)... The Sex Pistols play their last UK gig before splitting, a charity event at Ivanhoe's in Huddersfield for an audience made up primarily of children (1977)... Poison have the no. 1 single in America with 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'... Nirvana begin recording their debut album Bleach afetr booking the studio time with a $600 loan from an old school friend of Kurt Cobain's (1988)... Rapper Foxy Brown is handcuffed and threatened with jail after she sticks her tongue out at a New York judge who asked her to stop chewing gum. Judge Melissa Jackson tells the singer that she is disrespect to the court. Brown is being arraigned on charges of attacking two nail salon workers during a dispute over payment (2005).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Cosima Wagner, born on this day in 1837... for jazz drummer Warren 'Baby' Dodds, born in 1898... for pop and R&B singer Lee Dorsey, who would have been 89 today... for jazz pianist Ray Bryant, who would have been 82... for composer Alban Berg, who died on this date in 1935... for Hitchcock film score composer Bernard Herrmann, who died in 1975... for former Four Season bassist Nick Massi, who passed away in 2000... and for singer and Frank Zappa sideman Ray Collins, who left us a year ago today.
Also on December 24: The first performance of the carol 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' [Silent Night] takes place at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria (1818)... Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden sends a signal of himself singing 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas' to a collaborator ~ the signal, with a range of approximately one mile, is the first recorded transmission of music over the radio (1900)... Gian Carlo Menotti's Amal and the Night Visitors, the first opera composed expressly for television, is broadcast from NBC's Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center (1951)... The Beatles have the number one album in the US for the third Christmas in a row. 'Rubber Soul' sits atop the LP chart this year, following 'Beatles For Sale' in 1964 and 'With The Beatles' in 1963. The Fab Four will repeat this feat in 1968 with 'The Beatles' (The White Album) and again in 1969, with 'Abbey Road' (1965)... The Bee Gees perform their Christmas special live from Liverpool Cathedral on BBC TV (1967)... David Bowie appears at the Rainbow Theatre, London giving a special Christmas Eve concert (1972)... The Sex Pistols play their last UK gig before splitting, a charity event at Ivanhoe's in Huddersfield for an audience made up primarily of children (1977)... Poison have the no. 1 single in America with 'Every Rose Has Its Thorn'... Nirvana begin recording their debut album Bleach afetr booking the studio time with a $600 loan from an old school friend of Kurt Cobain's (1988)... Rapper Foxy Brown is handcuffed and threatened with jail after she sticks her tongue out at a New York judge who asked her to stop chewing gum. Judge Melissa Jackson tells the singer that she is disrespect to the court. Brown is being arraigned on charges of attacking two nail salon workers during a dispute over payment (2005).
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