Musical birthdays today include soul singer Bobby Freeman (77), former Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show frontman Dennis Locorriere (68), ex-Heart guitarist Howard Leese (66), operatic soprano Sarah Connolly (54), Smashmouth bassist Paul De Lisle (54), singer-songwriter Michael Anthony Franano (53), Five Star lead singer Denise Pearson (49), Aqua keyboardist Søren Rastrad (48), Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo (47), Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster (45), Sisters with Voices lead singer Coko [née Cheryl Gamble] (43), Awkward Stage lead guitarist Tygh Runyan (39), and rapper Raz-B [né DeMario Thornton] (32).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico founder Carlos Chávez, born on this day in 1899... for trumpeter & bandleader Doc Cheatham, born in 1905... for French horn player Alan Civil [best remembered for his solo on The Beatles' 'For No One'], who would have been 88 today... for Clyde McPhatter, who died on this date in 1972... for Benny Goodman, who passed away in 1986... and for jazz flautist David Most, who left us three years ago today.
Also on June 13: Handel finishes his oratorio Solomon which includes the sinfonia The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (1747)... Stravinsky's score for 'Petrouchka' is performed for the first time at the Ballet russe in Paris, with Nijinsky as lead dancer (1911)... The Yardbirds' US-market only album For Your Love is released (1965)... The Rolling Stones hold a photo call in London's Hyde Park to introduce new guitarist Mick Taylor. The 20-year-old former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers will make his public debut with the Stones at their free concert in the Park next month (1969)... 'The Long and Winding Road' becomes The Beatles' final US № 1 single. Let It Be takes over the top spot on the album chart today as well (1970)... John Lennon's last ever TV appearance is broadcast as part of a 'Salute To Sir Lew Grade'. His performance of 'Slippin And Slidin', and 'Imagine' was recorded at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on April 18... Peter Frampton's shows at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco are recorded, and will appear on the Frampton Comes Alive! album next year... RCA Records release Red Octopus, the biggest-selling album of any incarnation of Jefferson Airplane or Starship [in this case the latter] (1975)... Whitney Houston's second album Whitney becomes the first LP by a female solo artist to debut at № 1 on the US chart. She will also set a record when the first four singles from the album go to the top spot (1987)... Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill is released (1995)... 37-year-old Susan E Santodonato collapses and dies of a heart attack outside NYC radio station Star 105.7. as a Britney Spears impersonator leaves the building. A crowd gathered after a DJ claimed that the star was in the studio (2000)... Arctic Monkeys make their live debut at The Grapes pub in Sheffield. The band receive £27 from ticket sales (2003)... Michael Jackson is found not guilty of all charges of child abuse by a jury of eight women and four men at the end of a 16-week trial in Santa Maria, CA. Jackson is cleared of all 10 charges including abusing a 13-year-old boy, conspiracy to kidnap, and supplying alcohol to a minor to assist with a felony (2005).
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