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Today in Music History
1945 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe,'' Johnny Mercer.
1956 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Want You, I Need You, I Love You,'' Elvis Presley.
1965 - Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 - Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts
1967 - Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana
1967 - The Elvis Presley movie ``Double Trouble'' premieres.
1977 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Just Want to Be Your Everything,'' Andy Gibb. The song is written by Andy's brother, Barry.
1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Roll with It,'' Steve Winwood.
1993 - Reggae group UB40 scores its second No. 1 single, a cover of Elvis Presley's ``Can't Help Falling in Love'' from the film ``Sliver.'' It marks the first time that someone has covered one of Presley's top 10 hits and bettered the peak position of the original song. Presley took the song to No. 2, but couldn't get past Joey Dee & the Starliters' ``Peppermint Twist - Part 1.''
1995 - Public Enemy postpones its televised farewell concert in Great Britain after rap group member Flava Flav breaks his arms in a scooter accident.
1998 - Country singer Tanya Tucker files a $300,000 lawsuit against Capitol Records Nashville, contending that the label has willfully neglected her career.
1998 - It is announced that Aerosmith will postpone the first 13 dates of its 50-date U.S. tour following a freak gas station fire that leaves drummer Joey Krammer with second-degree burns. This marks the second setback to the Aerosmith tour; 18 earlier dates had to be postponed following Steven Tyler's knee injury and surgery the preceding April.
1998 - The "Gift To The Nation" concert, a combination of two separate events in Johannesburg, and Durban, South Africa, begins. The concerts are to celebrate President Nelson Mandela's 80th birthday. Artists who appear include Stevie Wonder, LL Cool J, Dru Hill, Skunk Anansie, Salif Keita, Ismael Lo, Najee, Chaka Khan, Kenny Lattimore, James Ingram, Shankar, Just Jinger, Springbok Nude Girls and Lucky Dube.
2000 - Motown legend Smokey Robinson joins the ranks of music stars-turned-radio stars when he dons his own on-air persona on Los Angeles station KCMG (Mega 92.3) with the show "Intimate With Smokey Robinson."
Births in Music
1917 - Robert Farnon, Canadian-born conductor, composer, and arranger (d. 2005)
1686 - Benedetto Marcello, composer [or Aug 9]
1803 - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic
1818 - Felix Godefroid, composer
1832 - Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist
1864 - Michel Gaston Carraud, composer
1880 - Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer (MacBeth)
1885 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer
1894 - Walter Schulthess, composer
1902 - Hans Chemin-Petit, composer
1903 - Robert Mills Delaney, composer
1904 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (d. 1991)
1908 - Cootie Williams, American trumpeter (d. 1985)
1913 - Johnny McAfee, Dallas Tx, singer (Sammy Kaye Show)
1914 - Riccardo Malipiero, composer
1916 - Bob Eberly, Mechanicsville NY, singer (Jimmy Dorsey Band)
1917 - Robert Farnon, composer/conductor/arranger
1918 - Ruggiero Ricci, SF Calif, composer/violinist (Paganini)
1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (d. 2008)
1922 - Leo Kraft, composer
1924 - Glenn Loren Glasow, composer
1927 - Wilfred Josephs, composer
1934 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (How Can I Forget)
1937 - Barry Lloyd Vercoe, composer
1938 - Mike Mainieri, rocker
1941 - Barbara Love, rocker
1942 - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist (Tornados)
1943 - Jim McCarty, rocker (Yardbirds)
1944 - Barbara Thompson, jazz musician/composer/bandleader
1944 - Jim Armstrong, rock guitarist (Them)
1946 - William "Junior" Campbell, singer/guitarist (Marmalade)
1947 - Peter Serkin, NYC, pianist (Tashi)
1949 - Yves Duteil, French singer and songwriter
1953 - Jon Faddis, jazz trumpeter
1957 - Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
1957 - Robbie Grey, rocker
1958 - Mick Karn, rocker
1963 - Paul Geary, Boston Mass, heavy metal drummer (Extreme-More Than Words)
1967 - Jasper Teule, Dutch rock singer/bassist (Pilgrims-Once to Everything)
1968 - Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress
1969 - Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
1971 - John Partridge, English singer
1979 - Stat Quo, American rapper
1984 - John Dhani Lennevald, Swedish singer (A-Teens)
1990 - Evan James Springsteen, LA Calif, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son
Deaths in Music
1652 - Johann Weichmann, composer, dies at 32
1739 - Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer, dies on 53rd birthday
1809 - Johann Gottfried Eckard, composer, dies at 74
1812 - Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63
1819 - Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
1826 - Jacob Kimball, composer, dies at 65
1831 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer, dies at 41
1846 - Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81
1865 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer, dies at 30
1876 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer, dies at 66
1933 - Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65
1936 - James Philip Dunn, composer, dies at 52
1947 - Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72
1960 - Carl Deis, composer, dies at 77
1971 - Alan Rawsthorne, composer, dies at 66
1972 - Bobby Ramirez, drummer (White Trash), killed at 23 in bar brawl
1992 - Arletty, French singer and actress (b. 1898)
1995 - Jerry Lordan, English composer and singer (b. 1934)
2001 - Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931)
What's happening Today in the News
- Athletes from Iraq are banned from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The International Olympic Committee cited political influence on Iraq's national Olympic federation as the reason for the ban.(BBC)
- Max Mosley, head of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, wins his privacy case against the News of the World, after the paper alleged he took part in a Nazi-themed BDSM orgy. (The Guardian) (BBC News)
- Voters in Glasgow East go to the polls for the Glasgow East by-election, 2008. (Press Association via Google News)
- A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hits off the coast of Honshu, Japan with reports of landslides, injuries and disruption to transport and power supplies. (BBC News)
- Iranian weightlifter Hossein Rezazadeh pulls out of 2008 Beijing Olympics upon recommendation of the national team's medical commission. (AFP)
News from this Day in History
1487 - Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer.
1534 - French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of the Francis I of France.
1567 - Mary Queen of Scots is deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI.
1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.
1823 - Slavery is abolished in Chile.
1832 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
1847 - After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City. Celebrations of this event include the Pioneer Day Utah state holiday and the Days of '47 Parade.
1911 - Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
1924 - The World Chess Federation FIDE is founded in Paris.
1935 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1948 - Looney Tunes character Marvin the Martian makes his first appearance in the cartoon Haredevil Hare.
1956 - At New York City's Copacabana Club, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform their last comedy show together. They began performing together on July 25, 1946.
1967 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
2005 - Lance Armstrong wins his seventh consecutive Tour de France.
Holidays and Observances
- Ecuador - Simón Bolívar Day.
- Utah - Pioneer Day (1847).
- Ancient Latvia - Jekaupa Diena held.
- In the United States, National Tequila Day is July 24.
Roman Catholicism
- Saint Declan, bishop of Ardmore
- Saint Francis Solanus
- Saint Christina the Astonishing
- Saint Kinga
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