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Today in Music History
1955 - Carl Perkins recorded 'Blue Suede Shoes' at Sun Studios in Memphis. The rock 'n' roll classic became a US No.2 & UK No.10 hit for Perkins in 1956, and has been covered by many acts including Elvis Presley and John Lennon.
1964 - The Supremes became the first all girl group to have a UK No.1 single when 'Baby Love' went to the top of the charts.
2004 - Record producer Terry Melcher, who was behind hits by the Byrds, Ry Cooder and the Beach Boys, died aged 62 after a long battle with skin cancer. The son of actress Doris Day, he co-wrote ‘Kokomo’ for the Beach Boys, produced Mr Tambourine Man for the Byrds, as well as hits for The Mamas and the Papas.
2006 - A guitar played by George Harrison was set to fetch more than £100,000 at a London auction. The Maton MS500 guitar was used on The Beatles first album.
Births in Music
1905 - Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, musician and orch leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
1978 - Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
1709 - Pierre Leclair, composer
1753 - Stanislas Champein, composer
1761 - Joseph Supries, composer
1796 - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer
1859 - Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1870 - Vicente Lleo, composer
1874 - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer
1893 - René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
1906 - Henri Temianka, composer
1906 - Jacques Leguerney, composer
1908 - Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki, composer
1922 - Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker (d. 1995)
1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
1934 - Dave Guard, rocker
1936 - Michel Decoust, composer
1936 - Emin Aristakesian, composer
1937 - Ray Collins, rocker (Mothers of Invention)
1938 - Hank Medress, Brooklyn NY, rocker (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1939 - Pete Moore, Detroit MI, rocker (Miracles)
1939 - Warren "Pete" Moore, US singer (Miracles-Tears of a Clown)
1940 - Alberto Villalpando, composer
1943 - Fred Lipsius, NYC, rock pianist/sax (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1944 - Charlie Coe, rock bassist (Paul Revers and The Raiders)
1944 - Agnes Baltsa, Greek mezzo-soprano
1946 - Joe Correro, Greenwood Ms, rock drummer (Paul Revers and The Raiders)
1954 - Annette Guest, US singer (First Choice)
1954 - Tom Scheckel, Chicago IL, rock drummer (Buckinghams)
1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
1960 - Matt Sorum, US rock drummer (Guns n' Roses, Like a Suicide) [or Nov 2]
1968 - Karina, Venezuelan singer
1970 - Justin Chancellor, English bassist (Tool)
1971 - Alice Peacock, American folk singer
1973 - Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
1976 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
1979 - Keith Buckley - American singer (Every Time I Die)
Deaths in Music
1630 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44
1785 - Bernard de Bury, French composer, dies at 65
1795 - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 62
1804 - Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75
1825 - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek, composer, dies at 34
1828 - Franz P Schubert, Austria composer (That Schene M llerin), dies at 31
1854 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer, dies at 46
1908 - Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79
1928 - Achille Simonetti, composer, dies at 71
1929 - Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal)
1931 - Frederic Cliffe, composer, dies at 74
1942 - Edouard Combe, composer, dies at 76
1950 - Thomas Wood, composer, dies at 57
1974 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
1983 - Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
1992 - Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941)
1994 - Cabell "Cab" Calloway, musician, dies at 86
1995 - Bruce Trent, singer, dies at 83
1995 - Shirley Bergeron, singer/guitarist, dies at 62
2004 - Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer (b. 1942)
2007 - Kevin DuBrow, American singer (Quiet Riot) (b. 1955)
News from this Day in History
1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1969 - Football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1997 - In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2008.
1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
World Holidays and Observances
Mali - Liberation Day
Puerto Rico - Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493)
United States - Equal Opportunity Day
Brazil - Flag Day
Norway - The Liberation of the Sami People of the coast
United Arab Emirates - Pilgrimage
Trinidad and Tobago - International Men's Day
Feast of the Prophet Obadiah (Greek Orthodox Church)
World - World Toilet Day
India - International Men's Day
Raphael Kalinowski
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