Month: March 2012

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: MARCH 22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1955: New York’s Coral Records hires   deejay Alan Freed for A&R duties. The recording company also gives Freed his own contract to record under his name.

1956: Sammy Davis, Jr., becomes an instant celebrity when he stars in the Broadway play Mr. Wonderful.

1958: The eight-year old Hank Williams, Jr. makes his first stage appearance in Swainsboro, Georgia.

1962: 19-year-old Barbara Streisand becomes an instant celebrity when she stars in the Broadway play I Can Get It For You Wholesale.

1963: EMI releases the Beatles album Please Please Me in the United Kingdom.

1967: Elvis Presley begins filming his 25th movie, Clambake, in Los Angeles.

1967: The Who makes it first U.S. stage debut, performing at the Paramount in New York City.

1971: The Allman Brothers are arrested at a truck stop in Jackson, Alabama, and are charge with possession of marijuana and heroin.

1975: Barry Manilow makes his first U.S. television appearance today. Manilow performs “Mandy” and “It’s A Miracle” on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand on ABC-TV.

1976: While campaigning for the presidency, Jimmy Carter tells the National Association of Records Merchandisers that he listened to Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin while he was Governor of Georgia.

1977: ABC-TV airs the John Denver special Thank God I’m A Country Boy.

1978: The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a Beatles parody special that grew out of sketches on the ex-Monty Python member Eric Idol’s show Rutland Weekend Television, get it’s first U.S. airing on ABC-TV.

1979: Chaka Kahn gives birth to her second child, Damien Milton Patrick Holland.

1994: Ted Nugent makes a PSA warning kids of the dangers of abusing inhalants.

1997: Paul McCartney’s original birth certificate is sold to a private Beatles collector for $84, 146.00.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  2

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: MARCH 21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1952: At the Cleveland arena, influential (notably R&B) deejay Alan Freed holds what is considered today the first true “rock and roll concert,” as his Moondog Coronation Ball features Billy Ward and the Dominoes, Tiny Grimes, and Paul Williams and the Hucklebuckers. With ten-thousand attendees (and twice that many outside waiting to get in), the Cleveland police shut down the concert down prematurely for potential fire code violations, causing a near riot.

1956: After performing in Norfolk, Virginia, while en route to New York to appear on the Perry Como Show, Carl Perkins is badly injured in a Dover, Delaware car crash that also kills his manager and his brother Jay Perkins. The crash derails Perkin’s career, almost for good, as he is forced to spend nine months in a hospital nursing a fractured neck, broken collarbone, as he suffered a severe concussion as well. In the meantime, while Perkins was on his extended recovery mend, Elvis Presley takes on Perkin’s own hit, “Blue Suede Shoes” in 1956. The Presley version becomes more popular on the charts than the Carl Perkins Sun records release, who incidentally, wrote the song.

1961: The Beatles, still featuring Pete Best on the drums, play their first evening gig at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, opened for a band called the Bluegenes (later renamed the Swinging Blue Jeans of “Hippy Hippy Shake” fame).

1964: Judy Collins is catapulted into stardom after a momentous appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

1967: John Lennon takes his first major LSD trip and ‘freaks out’ while recording backing vocals on the track “It’s Getting Better.” Producer George Martin, not realizing the effects of the drug, takes Lennon for air on the roof of Abbey Road Studios. Paul and George, upon learning where John was, rush up to get him down. The group resumes more work on a piano track for “Lovely Rita” instead.

1973: After a large throng of teenage girls cause a riot as teen-heartthrob David Cassidy performs on the BBC show Top Of The Pops, the program bans all teen idols from performing on future shows.

1976: David Bowie and Iggy Pop are arrested in New York and are charged with marijuana possession, of which charges are later dropped.

1984: John Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, dedicates a section of New York City’s Central Park as a place of meditation called Strawberry Fields. Every December 9, thousands of fans converge on the spot to remember John Lennon, who was murdered by a deranged fan on that day in 1980.

1990: Tony Orlando is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 6385 Hollywood Boulevard.

1994: Bruce Springsteen wins an Oscar for penning the song “Streets Of Philadelphia” for the Tom Hanks movie as titled, Philadelphia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: MARCH 20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1959: Philadelphia’s Dick Clark introduces Philadelphia’s own Bobby Rydell on American Bandstand. By then a singing protege after having first been discovered by Clark, the sensational Phillie teen-idol makes his first appearance on the ABC-TV national teen-dance show.

1961: Elvis Presley begins filming Blue Hawaii while on location there. It is Presley’s ninth movie thus far.

1964: The Beatles make their first appearance on the British television variety show Ready Steady Go! After singing three numbers on the show, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” ” It Won’t Be Long,” and “You Can’t Do That.” The band’s debut appearance on the show retains the highest ratings ever for the UK television program.

1965: The No. 1 song in the Britain Isles on this day is “The Last Time” by the Rolling Stones.

1965:  Motown’s very first British tour begins at Finsbury Park Astoria, in London. The UK entourage features many of the top Motown recording acts, such as the Supremes, Little Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Miracles.

1968: Eric Clapton is arrested in Los Angeles along with three members of the Buffalo Springfield, namely Neil Young, Jim Messina, and  Richie Furray. All four were charged with “being in a place where it is suspected marijuana was being used.” Clapton is later found innocent, while the Buffalo Springfield band members, their names disclosed, are all penalized with a small fine.

1969: John Lennon marries Yoko Ono at the Rock of Gibraltor, Spain, a parcel of land still owned by the English. Later, in the Beatles song, “The Ballad Of John And Yoko,” Lennon describes the location as “Gibraltor, near Spain,” setting off an international furor at the time, as England and Spain were currently at odds over ownership of the area.

1976: Alice Cooper marries his first and only wife, Sheryl Goddard, a-19-year-old dancer who was on his Welcome To My Nightmare Tour.

1977: T-Rex plays what is to be their last concert before the untimely death of lead singer Marc Bolan in an automobile accident, a gig at a club named The Locarno, situated in Portsmouth, England.

1989: After 37 years on the air, Dick Clark announces he will discontinue his creation for television, ABC-TV’s American Bandstand. The show continues with another host, but didn’t last too long after Clark had exited.

1991:  Eric Clapton’s son Conor, four years of age, dies after falling from the 53rd story window from his mother’s apartment in New York City. Clapton was staying at a hotel at the time not far away, having taken his son to a circus the night before. Clapton later writes his hit song “Tears In Heaven” as a way to help overcome his personal grief over his son’s tragic death.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day….