... and more August 3 birthdays –
Ray Bloch (1902) – pianist/songwriter, band leader for The Jackie
Gleason Show.
Les Elgart (1917) – trumpeter, bandleader ("Bandstand Boogie").
Charlie Shavers (1920) – jazz trumpeter with Dizzy Gillespie and
Billie Holiday.
Richard Adler (1921) – composer/lyricist ("Whatever Lola Wants").
Eddie Jefferson (1918) – Jazz vocalist/lyricist ("Moody's Mood For
Love").
Gordon Stoker (1924) – The Jordanaires.
Tony Bennett (aka Anthony Benedetto, 1926)
Arthur Wood (1929) – original keyboardist for Climax Blues Band.
Kenny Hodges (1936) – bassist for Spanky and Our Gang.
Michael "Terry" Wogan (1938) – British radio personality.
Jimmie Nicol (1939) – Ringo Starr stand-in in The Beatles for eight
shows.
John Foley York (1946) – bassist with The Byrds.
Syreeta Wright (1946) – singer/songwriter with Motown.
Morris "B. B." Dickerson (1949) – bassist for War and The Creators.
John Graham (1951) – guitarist for Earth, Wind & Fire.
Ian Bairnson (1953) – guitarist for Pilot and The Alan Parsons
Project.
Randy Scruggs (1953) – Country guitarist/singer/producer.
Kirk Brandon (1956) – Theatre Of Hate and Spear Of Destiny.
Martin Atkins (1959) – drummer for Public Image Ltd. and Ministry.
Ed Roland (1963) – vocalist for Collective Soul.
James Hetfield (1963) – guitarist/vocalist for Metallica.
Stephen Carpenter (1970) – guitarist for Deftones.
August 3 R.I.P. –
Emile Berliner (1929) – heart attack. Age 78. Inventor of the disc
gramophone.
Maurice Kinn (2000) – cancer. Age 76. Founder of The New Musical
Express publication.
Arthur Lee (2006) – acute myeloid leukemia. Age 61. Love.
Louis Teicher (2008) – heart failure. Age 83. Ferrante & Teicher.
Bobby Hebb (2010) – lung cancer. Age 72. Singer/songwriter ("Sunny").
August 3 album releases –
Brenda Lee – Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang! (1959)
Brenda Lee – Emotions (1961)
Canned Heat – Future Blues (1970)
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (1973)
AC/DC – Highway To Hell (1979)
Def Leppard – Hysteria (1987)
The Beach Boys – Summer In Paradise (1992)
Gov't Mule – Mulennium (2010)
August 3 events –
1959 – The Kingston Trio appears on the cover of Life magazine.
1961 – Chuck Berry records "Come On" in Chicago at Chess.
1963 – The Beatles play their final show at the Cavern Club.
1963 – The Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl" hits the Billboard Hot 100.
1963 – Allan Sherman releases “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah.”
1966 – The Rolling Stones begin recording "Have You Seen Your Mother,
Baby, Standing In The Shadow?" at RCA Studios in L.A.
1968 – An un-known Helen Reddy opens for The 5th Dimension at Steel
Pier in Atlantic City.
1969 – The first day of the two day Newport Pop Festival is held in
Costa Mesa, California, featuring Alice Cooper, Steppenwolf, The
Electric Flag, Sonny and Cher, Country Joe and The Fish and others.
1974 – Jeff "Skunk" Baxter leaves Steely Dan.
1974 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opens for Anne Murray
at the Schaefer Festival in Central Park, New York.
1986 – UK tabloid News Of The World runs an interview with 16-year old
model Mandy Smith, who reveals she's been having an affair with
Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman for two years.
1991 – Metallica holds a free listening party for their new self-
titled album at Madison Square Garden.
1993 – Boston Ventures, the group Berry Gordy sold Motown to in 1988
for $61 million, sells the label and its holdings to Dutch
conglomerate Polygram for $325 million.
1999 – Patsy Cline posthumously receives a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame.
2002 – Bob Dylan plays the Newport Folk Festival for the first time in
37 years.
2007 – 36 years after leaving school to play music, Queen's Brian May
turns in his Astronomy PhD thesis paper.
2009 – Katherine Jackson is named permanent guardian of Michael
Jackson's three children.
