... and more July 24 birthdays –
Bob Eberly (1916) – big band vocalist with Jimmy Dorsey and Helen
O'Connell.
Billy Taylor (1921) – Jazz pianist, composer.
Rudy Collins (1934) – Jazz drummer with Dizzy Gillespie and Herbie
Mann.
Barbara Love (1941) – The Friends Of Distinction.
Heinz Burt (1942) – bassist for The Tornadoes.
Jim Armstrong (1944) – guitarist for Them.
Alan Whitehead (1945) – drummer for Marmalade.
Chris Townson (1947) – drummer for John's Children.
Kim Berly (1948) – drummer for The Stampeders.
Lynval Golding (1951) – guitarist/vocalist for The Specials.
Paul Geary (1961) – drummer for Extreme.
Jennifer Lopez (1969)
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Birthday corrections --
Michael Mainieri was born July 4, 1938.
Steve Goodman was born July 25, 1948.
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July 24 R.I.P. –
Nervous Norvus (aka Jimmy Drake, 1968) – cirrhosis of the liver. Age
56. Novelty songster ("Transfusion").
Bobby Ramirez (1972) – beaten to death. Age 23. Drummer for Edgar
Winter's White Trash.
Dan Peek (2011) – died in his sleep. Age 60. America.
July 24 album releases –
The Yardbirds – Little Games (1967)
The Temptations – Live At London's Talk Of The Town (1970)
Yes – Time And A Word (1970)
Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunhillow (1976)
Prince – Planet Earth (2007)
July 24 events –
1938 – Artie Shaw and his orchestra record "Begin The Beguine" in New
York.
1963 – Ray Charles records "Busted" at Capitol.
1964 – During a Rolling Stones concert at the Empress Ballroom in
Blackpool, audience members begin spitting at Brian Jones. Keith
Richards kicks one of the spitters in the face, and all hell breaks
loose. Two policemen and 30 fans are injured in the melee, and the
Stones are banned from Blackpool until 2008.
1967 – The Beatles pay for a full page ad in The Times newspaper
calling for the legalization of marijuana. Besides being "signed" by
The Beatles and Brian Epstein, 64 others of British society also lend
their names to the cause.
1969 – Paul McCartney records his demo of "Come And Get It," playing
all the instruments and covering all the vocals.
1971 – The Lincoln Folk Festival takes place in England, featuring The
Byrds, James Taylor, Steeleye Span, Sandy Denny, Tom Paxton and The
Incredible String Band.
1972 – Former drummer for Edgar Winter's White Trash, Bobby Ramirez is
beaten to death by four men in a Chicago bar because of the length of
his hair.
1972 – After 21 years with Columbia, Marty Robbins signs with MCA
Records.
1976 – Hall and Oates' "She's Gone" debuts on the charts at #7.
1985 – A stretch of Detroit's Washington Boulevard is renamed "Aretha
Franklin's Freeway Of Love," in honor of her recent comeback hit.
1987 – The Richie Valens film, La Bamba, opens in theaters.
1995 – Carnegie Hall hosts the first of a three night celebration
entitled, "That's Life," in celebration of Frank Sinatra and his 80th
year on Earth.
1998 – Tanya Tucker files a $300,000 lawsuit against Capitol Records
Nashville for not promoting her properly and willfully neglecting her
career.
1999 – Phil Collins marries his third wife, Orianne Cevey.
2000 – Smokey Robinson begins a two-year stint as an evening radio
host on KCMG in Los Angeles with his show "Intimate With Smokey
Robinson."
2002 – A garden centre is sued when they accidently kill a collection
of the late singer Freddie Mercury's prized koi fish when the
electricity powering a temporary pond was accidentally turned off by a
worker from Clifton Nurseries, of Maida Vale, West London.
2003 – Ozzy Osbourne's long-time tour manager, Bobby Thompson, is
found dead in his Detroit hotel room. Thompson had been battling
throat cancer.
2005 – Bad Beat Revue singer Patrick Sherry dies after a stage dive
goes wrong during a gig at the Warehouse in Leeds, England. Sherry
leaped towards the crowd at the end of the bands set and tried to grab
a lighting rig from the ceiling but missed and hit the floor.
2007 – Beyonce trips and falls face first down twelve stairs while
performing "Ring The Alarm" at a concert in Orlando, Florida.
2008 – Rapper 50 Cent sues Taco Bell, claiming the fast food chain
used his name and image without permission in an advertising campaign.
New York court papers say the advert features the star being
encouraged to change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent.
2008 – Babyshambles singer Pete Doherty pleads guilty in Yeovil
Magistrates Court to causing criminal damage after smashing a
photographer's camera.
