Month: March 2012

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: MARCH 24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956: Elvis Presley visits friend and fellow Sun label mate Carl Perkins in a Dover, Delaware hospital, where he is recovering from his near-fatal crash.

1958: At 6:35 AM, Elvis Presley reports to the offices of Memphis’ local Draft Board 86, accompanied by his parents and longtime friend Lamar Fike, then is bused with twelve other new recruits to Kennedy Veterans Memorial Hospital.

There, Elvis is inducted into the U.S. Army, a Private with serial number 53 310  761. Dozens of photographers and reporters attend the event. He will serve two years, and his monthly payment for military service will be $78.00 per month.

1962: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first perform together in Ealing, England on stage for the first time, with their first band, as Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys.

1965: While playing in Odense, Denmark, Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman is instantly knocked unconscious by a poorly grounded microphone stand while on stage.

1966: The first major U.S. bootleg law is passed in New York State, a bill that makes the processing of unlicensed recordings a misdemeanor. Twelve-years later to the day, Great Britain grants all their record companies the right to confiscate unauthorized recording duplicates, officially by law as illegal property of copyrighted materials.

1973: An overly-zealous male fan climbs onstage during a Lou Reed concert in Buffalo, New York, and plants a bite on one of Reed’s buttocks. The attendee-culprit who performed this unusual behavior was, not surprisingly, tossed out of the event immediately by the band’s security unit. Reed later remarked that, “America seems to breed real animals.”

2001: Macon, Georgia’s Hwy 19 is renamed Duane Allman Boulevard. The renaming of the stretch of highway running through Macon is in remembrance of the famed band member guitarist who was killed in a motorcycle accident there some thirty-years earlier.

2002: After a record fifteen nominations, Randy Newman wins his first Oscar for The Monster, Inc. composition “If I Didn’t Have You.” The number was awarded for Best Song.

Deaths: Harold Melvin (of the Blue Notes) 1997; Rod Price (Foghat) 2005; Henson Cargill (Country singer, 1968 “Skip A Rope” fame) 2007; Uriel Jones (Drummer, Funk Brothers) 2009.

 

 

 

 

And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day . . . .  M  A  R  C  H   2  4

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: MARCH 23

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1955: The juvenile-delinquent flick The Blackboard Jungle premiers in U.S. theaters. While it is a solid and even daring drama, its remembered mainly for prominently featuring Bill Haley and his Comets’ “Rock Around The Clock.” The single, which had been released to little fanfare a year earlier, rockets back into the charts and straight to No. 1, officially kicking off the birth of the rock and roll era.

1955: Elvis Presley, along with band mates Scotty Moore and Bill Black, audition for Arthur Godfrey’s Talents Scouts in New York with a surprisingly tepid version of “Milkcow Blues Boogie.” They are subsequently rejected.

1956: At a Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers concert in Hartford, Connecticut, eleven young hooligans are arrested for allegedly inciting a riot.

1960: Songwriter Carole King and husband and writing partner Gerry Goffin are proud parents to their first child, a daughter Carole named Louis.

1963: Dion, formerly of the Belmonts, take wed to his own “Runaround Sue,” and her name is, in actuality, Sue Butterfield.

1969: In response to the Doors infamous recent concert there ( at which Jim Morrison allegedly exposed himself before the audience), a “Rally For Decency” is held in Miami featuring Jackie Gleason, The Letterman, Kate Smith, and Anita Bryant and they were assured by its promoters that the crowd of 30,000 will contain “no longhairs and weird dressers.”

1970: Although the Beatles had abandoned the tracks originally cut for the Let It Be album, their business manager, Allen Klein, invites Phil Spector to remix the recordings. Spector’s tampering with the original recordings further alienates Paul McCartney from the band, who instead is working on his first solo album in the studio next room over.

1977: Elvis Presley begins what will be his last tour with a concert at Arizona State University.

1985: John Fogerty engineers an amazing comeback when his LP Centerfield goes No. 1, fifteen-years after after the breakup of his band, Creedence Clearwater Revival.

1985: Billy Joel marries supermodel Christie Brinkley on a boat in New York Harbor, near the Statue of Liberty. The marriage will last 10 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day . . . .  M  A  R  C  H   2  3