Birthday correction - Elmore James was born on January 27, 1918. January 18 R.I.P. - Keith Diamond (1997) - heart attack. Age 46. Songwriter. Kate McGarrigle (2010) - cancer. Age 63.
January 18 album releases - Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy (1978) 2000 - Spencer Goodman was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Goodman was convicted of kidnapping and murdering the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham in 1991. Ham was present for the execution. 2005 - Motown producer Norman Whitfield pleaded guilty for failing to report royalty income he earned from 1995 to 1999 to the Internal Revenue Service. Facing charges of tax evasion on over $2 million worth of income, he was sentenced to six months of house arrest and a $25,000 fine. The producer was not imprisoned because of health problems.
