Musical birthdays today include Plácido
Domingo (75), Mac Davis (74), Troggs lead guitarist Chris Britton (72),
Caravan frontman Pye Hastings (69), Billy Ocean (66), Massive Attack
founding member Robert Del Naja (51), Charlene 'Tweet' Keys (45), Cat
Power (44), Emma 'Baby Spice' Bunton (40), and Dru Hill producer Tamir
'Nokio the N-Tity' Ruffin (37).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for singer & Flamenco dancer Lola Flores, born on this day in 1923... for DJ Robert 'Wolfman Jack' Smith, who would have been 78 today... for Ritchie Havens, who would have been 75... for Edwin Starr, who would have been 74... for Jason 'Jam Master Jay' Mizell, who would have been 51... for Québecois composer Calixa Lavallée [best remembered for 'O Canada'], who died on this date in 1891... for soul singer Jackie 'Mr. Excitement' Wilson, who passed away in 1984... for Colonel Tom Parker, who died in 1997... and for Peggy Lee, who left us on this day in 2002.
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for singer & Flamenco dancer Lola Flores, born on this day in 1923... for DJ Robert 'Wolfman Jack' Smith, who would have been 78 today... for Ritchie Havens, who would have been 75... for Edwin Starr, who would have been 74... for Jason 'Jam Master Jay' Mizell, who would have been 51... for Québecois composer Calixa Lavallée [best remembered for 'O Canada'], who died on this date in 1891... for soul singer Jackie 'Mr. Excitement' Wilson, who passed away in 1984... for Colonel Tom Parker, who died in 1997... and for Peggy Lee, who left us on this day in 2002.
Also on January 21st: A performance of Gounod's opera Faust at
the Auditorium Building in Chicago is transmitted over the Westinghouse
Network for the first nationwide broadcast of a musical event in
American history (1927)... Over
3,000 screaming fans meet The Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison at Sydney
Airport when they arrive for a 16-date tour of Australia and New Zealand
(1965)... George Harrison marries Patti Boyd at Leatherhead Register
Office in Surrey with Paul McCartney as best man. George first met Patti
on the set of 'A Hard Day's Night' when she had a small part as
schoolgirl on a train... Bob Dylan goes back into Columbia Studios in
NYC to begin work on his next album. The Hawks, who are currently
backing him on his world tour, are with him (1966)... Jimi
Hendrix records his version of the Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'
at Olympic Studios in London. Brian Jones and Dave Mason from Traffic
both play on the session... Simon & Garfunkel's soundtrack to The
Graduate is released (1968)... Pink Floyd appear at the Guildhall in
Portsmouth on the Dark Side of the Moon tour. This time they are able to
perform the entire album without a hitch (1972)... The soundtrack to
Saturday Night Fever goes to № 1
on the US album chart ~ it will occupy the top spot for the next 24
weeks (1978)... B.B. King donates his entire record collection of over
20,000 discs to the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the
University of Mississippi (1982)... Yes have the № 1 single in the USA with 'Owner of a Lonely Heart'... The Pretenders release the Learning to Crawl album (1984)... Keith
Richards inducts Aretha Franklin at the 2nd annual Rock & Roll Hall
of Fame Awards, held at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC. Keith later takes
part in a jam with Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Roy
Orbison, Sting and Daryl Hall (1987)... David Palmer, former keyboard
player for Jethro Tull changes his name to Dee Palmer after a successful
sex change operation. Palmer was the keyboardist for Tull between 1969
and 1980, played on all the group's classics including 'Thick As A
Brick' and 'Aqualung' (2003).
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