... and more August 2 birthdays –
Helen Morgan (1900) – stage actress, speakeasy singer (Show Boat).
Garland "Hank" Cochran (1935) – Country singer/songwriter ("She's Got
You").
Andrew Steele (1941) – drummer for The Herd and Steeler's Wheel.
Homer Banks (1941) – songwriter for Stax Records ("(Ain't That) A Lot
Of Love").
Doris Coley (aka Doris Kenner-Jackson, 1941) – The Shirelles.
Kathy Lennon (1943) – The Lennon Sisters.
Jim Capaldi (1944) – Traffic.
Andy Fairweather Low (1948) – Welsh session guitarist, Amen Corner.
"Fat" Larry James (1949) – drummer/vocalist for Fat Larry's Band.
David "Ted" Turner (1950) – guitarist/vocalist for Wishbone Ash.
Joe Lynn Turner (1951) – singer for Rainbow.
Butch Vig (aka Bryan Vig, 1955) – producer, drummer for Garbage.
Mojo Nixon (aka Neill McMillan, 1957) – psychobilly musician.
Apollonia (aka Patricia Kotero, 1959) – Apollonia 6.
Pete De Freitas (1961) – drummer for Echo and The Bunnymen.
Lee Mavers (1962) – guitarist for The La's.
____________________Birthday correction -- Andrew Gold was born in 1951. Probably a typo. ____________________ August 2 R.I.P. – Betty Jack Davis (1953) – car crash. The Davis Sisters. James Jamerson (1983) – cirrhosis, heart failure, pneumonia. Age 47. Bassist with the Funk Brothers. David Martin (1987) – heart attack. Age 50. Bassist for Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs. Ron Townson (2001) – renal failure. Age 68. The 5th Dimension. Mitch Jayne (2010) – Age 82. The Dillards. August 2 album releases – Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Fillmore East - June 1971 (1971) Grand Funk Railroad – Good Singin’, Good Playin’ (1976) Boston – Don’t Look Back (1978) Jackson Browne – Lawyers In Love (1983) Michael Penn – Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 (2005) August 2 events – 1953 – Skeeter Davis breaks both arms and both legs in a car accident in Cincinnati. The accident kills her singing partner, Betty Jack Davis. 1956 – Look magazine reports that Elvis Presley is receiving 3,000 fan letters a week. 1957 – The official Elvis Presley Fan Club is formed in the UK. 1961 – The Beatles begin what will become a two-year night residency at the Cavern Club. 1962 – Aretha Franklin makes her national television debut on American Bandstand, singing “Don’t Cry Baby” and “Try A Little Tenderness.” 1962 – Bob Zimmerman legally changes his last name to Dylan. 1963 – Still rebuilding his career after the scandal of his marriage to his second cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis accepts $9,500 to open Las Vegas' new Thunderbird Hotel. 1964 – The bodies of Jimmy Reeves and Dean Manuel are found in the airplane wreckage that took their lives. 1969 – Bob Dylan makes a surprise appearance at his 10 year high school class reunion, but leaves early when a drunk former classmate tries to pick a fight with him. 1969 – Paul McCartney gives his demo of “Come And Get It” to The Iveys. 1971 – Creedence Clearwater Revival, reduced to a trio with the exit of Tom Fogerty, begins their last tour at the Assembly Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1973 – Papa John Phillips sues his former label, Dunhill Records, for $9 million in unpaid royalties. 1976 – Pink Floyd’s road manager, Peter “Puddy” Watts, dies from a heroin overdose. 1977 – Sex Pistol Sid Vicious is fined £125 by a London court for carrying a knife at the 100 Club Punk Festival the previous September. 1991 – Rick James and his girlfriend, Tanya Hijazi, are arrested in Hollywood and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated mayhem, torture, false imprisonment and forcible oral copulation. James is released on $1 million bail. 1998 – The Beatles take the top spot in Mojo magazine’s “Favorite Recording Artist of All Time” nationwide poll. Elvis Presley came in second, followed by Frank Sinatra, Queen and Elton John. 1999 – Barry White is hospitalized for exhaustion after a concert in San Diego. 2000 – Liverpool music store, Rushworth and Dreaper, closes its doors after 150 years. 2004 – Eric Clapton bails out Cordings clothing store in London by buying fifty percent of the retailers shares. 2005 – Status Quo appears as themselves on the BBC television show, Coronation Street. 2007 – Elvis Presley Enterprises announces plans to expand Graceland with a visitor’s center and a convention hotel. 2007 – Keith Richards signs a $7 million book deal for the rights to his autobiography. ____________________ Events correction -- Johnny Cash signed with Columbia Records on August 1 (noted yesterday). http://www.innocentwords.com/tabId/807/itemId/2630/Music-History--August-1.aspx http://www.freag.net/en/t/otgk/whos_got_a_birt
