... and more August 13 birthdays –
George Shearing (1919) – Jazz pianist/composer (“Lullaby Of
Birdland”).
Jimmy McCracklin (1921) – pianist/singer/songwriter (“The Walk”).
Don Ho (1930) – Hawaiian singer/entertainer.
Richard "Pistol" Allen (1932) – drummer with the Funk Brothers.
Dave “Baby” Cortez (1938) – R&B organist/pianist (“The Happy Organ”).
John Stokes (1940) – The Bachelors.
David St. Hubbins (1947) – fictional guitarist/vocalist for Spinal
Tap.
Cliff Fish (1949) – original bassist for Paper Lace.
Jonathan Arendt (1949) – bassist for Paper Lace.
Feargal Sharkey (1958) – singer for The Undertones.
Danny Bonaduce (1959) – The Partridge Family.
Michael Bradley 91959) – bassist for The Undertones.
August 13 R.I.P. –
Joe Hinton (1968) – skin cancer. Age 38. Soul singer (“Funny How Time
Slips Away”).
Joe Tex (1982) – heart attack. Age 49. Soul singer/songwriter ("Hold
What You've Got").
Ed Townsend (2003) – Age 74. Songwriter ("Let's Get It On").
Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (2005) – Age 58. Peaches and Herb.
Les Paul (2009) – pneumonia. Age 94. Guitar maker and inventor.
August 13 album releases –
Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps – Bluejean Bop! (1956)
The Beatles – Help! (1965) U.S.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – (Pronounced 'Lĕh-ʼnérd Skin-ʼnérd) (1973)
The Who – Quadrophenia (Soundtrack) (1979)
Don Henley – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
August 13 events –
1924 – Vernon Dalhart records “The Prisoner’s Song.” Released on the
Victor label, the song will go on to sell 7 million copies worldwide.
1938 – Blues man Robert Johnson plays his last gig at Three Forks, a
juke joint outside of Greenwood, Mississippi. After his show, he is
poisoned with strychnine by either the club owner or a jealous
girlfriend. He will be dead in three days.
1952 – Big Mama Thornton records “Hound Dog” at Radio Recorders in
L.A.
1953 – Dean Martin records “That’s Amore.”
1957 – Frank Sinatra records “Chicago” and “All The Way” in L.A.
1958 – Johnny Cash records “Don’t Take Your Guns To Town” for
Columbia.
1959 – Brenda Lee records “Sweet Nothin’s” at Owen Bradley’s Quonset
Hut studio in Nashville.
1959 – Bobby Darin signs a million dollar, six year, six picture deal
with Paramount Studios.
1963 – The Four Seasons sue their label, Vee Jay Records, for non
payment of royalties.
1964 – The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” enters the British singles
chart.
1964 – The Supremes record “Baby Love” at Hitsville, U.S.A. in
Detroit.
1965 – The Jefferson Airplane makes their stage debut at the opening
of the new club, The Matrix, in San Francisco.
1965 – The Beatles fly from England to New York for their second U.S.
tour, which begins on the 15th.
1966 – The Beatles play two shows at Olympia Stadium in Detroit.
1966 – KLUE-AM radio station in Longview, Texas, holds the first
public Beatles bonfires.
1966 – Reverend Thurman H. Babbs of the New Haven Baptist Church calls
for the excommunication of all Beatles fans because of the “bigger
than Jesus” fiasco.
1967 – Joan Baez cancels her concert at Washington D.C.'s Constitution
Hall after the Daughters of the American Revolution protest her recent
anti-war remarks concerning Vietnam.
1968 – The Beatles re-record “Sexy Sadie,” and begin work on “Yer
Blues.”
1969 – The Guess Who record “American Woman.”
1971 – John Lennon and Yoko One leave England for New York City in an
attempt to find Yoko’s daughter, Kyoko. Lennon will never set foot on
British soil again.
1975 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the first of five
nights at The Bottom Line in New York City.
1977 – Bachman-Turner Overdrive splits up.
1980 – Four masked men break into the Woodstock, New York home of Todd
Rundgren. Rundgren, his girlfriend, and three other guests are bound
and gagged as the thieves steal art, stereo and recording equipment.
1982 – CBS and its subsidiaries, Epic and Portrait Records, lay-off
more than half of their marketing staff due to lagging record sales.
The day becomes known to CBS staffers as “Black Friday.”
1990 – Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed from the neck down when a lighting
fixture falls on him at an outdoor concert at Wingate Field in
Brooklyn.
1992 – Neil Diamond plays the first of six sold-out nights at Madison
Square Garden.
1994 – Members of Oasis and The Verve are arrested in Sweden for
trashing a hotel bar and breaking into a church to steal the communion
wine.
1999 – Slash is arrested at his L.A. recording studio for assaulting
his girlfriend.
1999 – A British High Court rules the marriage between Mick Jagger and
Jerry Hall null and void.
2002 – Singer Adam Ant pleads guilty to threatening bar patrons with a
starters pistol during a pub brawl.
2007 – Scheduled to open for The Rolling Stones in Germany, Amy
Winehouse cancels, citing exhaustion.
2007 – The RIAA recognizes Fats Domino as an “American Music Legend.”
2008 – Mark David Chapman is denied parole for the fifth time for the
murder of John Lennon.
