... and more August 21 birthdays –
Hy Zaret (aka Hyman Zaritsky, 1907) – composer/lyricist ("Unchained
Melody").
Art Farmer (1928) – Jazz trumpeter with Lionel Hampton and Gerry
Mulligan.
James Burton (1939) – session guitarist.
Harold Reid (1939) – The Statler Brothers.
Tom Coster (1941) – keyboardist for The Loading Zone and Santana.
Carl Giammarese (1947) – guitarist for The Buckinghams.
Robert Hazard (1948) – songwriter ("Girls Just Wanna Have Fun").
Glenn Hughes (1951) – bassist for Trapeze and Deep Purple.
Nick Kane (1954) – guitarist for The Mavericks.
Steve Smith (1954) – drummer for Journey.
Budgie (aka Peter Clarke, 1957) – drummer for Siouxsie and The
Banshees.
Kim Sledge (1957) – Sister Sledge.
Serj Tankian (1967) – vocalist for System Of A Down.August 21 R.I.P. – Thad Jones (1986) – Age 63. Jazz trumpeter for the Count Basie Orchestra. Robert Moog (2005) – brain tumor. Age 71. Inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Buddy Harman (2008) – congestive heart failure. Age 79. Prolific Nashville session drummer. Johnny Carter (2009) – Age 75. The Flamingos and The Dells. August 21 album releases – Etta James – Tell Mama (1968) Oasis – Be Here Now (1997) August 21 events – 1938 – Fats Waller records “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” 1954 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance outside Tennessee at The Mint Club in Gladewater, Texas. 1958 – Ricky Nelson records “Lonesome Town” and “I Got A Feeling” at Master Recorders in Hollywood. 1960 – Lionel Hampton and The Four Preps appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1961 – Still recovering from her serious car accident, Patsy Cline records the Willie Nelson song, “Crazy.” 1961 – The Marvelettes release their debut single, “Please Mr. Postman” b/w “So Long Baby” on Tamla. 1964 – The Beatles play at the Seattle Center Coliseum. 1965 – Barry McGuire’s “Eve Of Destruction” hits #58 on the Hot 100. 1965 – The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Do You Believe In Magic” debuts on Billboard’s Hot 100. 1965 – The Beatles play at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. I was there. 1966 – The Beatles perform their postponed set at Cosley Stadium in Cincinnati at noon, then fly 350 miles to St. Louis, Missouri for a show at Busch Stadium in the pouring rain. A make-shift tarp keeps the group somewhat dry, but the accumulative effect of the “bigger than Jesus” controversy, the death threats, the demonstrations and the rain cement the group’s decision to stop touring. 1968 – Jerry Lee Lewis agrees to play Iago in a controversial (and ultimately disastrous) rock-opera version of Shakespeare's Othello entitled Catch My Soul. 1971 – Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Hawkwind, Duster Bennett, Brewers Droop, Indian Summer, Graphite, and Queen all appear at the Carnon Downs Festival at the Tregye Country Club in Truro, Cornwall. 1972 – At a Jefferson Airplane show in Akron, Ohio, a fight breaks out on stage between the band and local police when guitarist Paul Kantner refers to them as "pigs." Grace Slick is maced in the eyes, Kantner is injured after being thrown to the floor, and Jack Casady is arrested. Spectators throw rocks at the police, who respond with tear gas. 1976 – The Rolling Stones, 10CC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Todd Rundgren's Utopia and Hot Tuna all appear at Knebworth. 1976 – RCA Records announces that sales of Elvis Presley records has surpassed the 400 million mark. 1979 – Gary Numan releases his single, “Cars” b/w “Asylum.” 1982 – U2’s Bono marries Alison Stewart. 1983 – Guitarist Johnny Ramone undergoes four hours of surgery to remove blood clots from his brain after being found unconscious on a New York street after a fight. 1993 – Following up on molestation allegations made by a child who had recently spent time there, the L.A.P.D. raids Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch looking for incriminating evidence. 1994 – While on probation for drunk driving, John Denver crashes his Porsche into a tree and is arrested again for drunk driving. 1994 – During her concert at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California, Whitney Houston asks that the spotlight be turned on Justin and Sydney Simpson, whose father O.J. Simpson is currently on trial for murder. 1996 – After serving only two years of his original five-year sentence for kidnapping and torture, Rick James is released from Folsom Prison. 1997 – Former Stone Roses drummer Alan Wren, in court for driving with no car insurance, loses his temper with a top Manchester Magistrate and is jailed for seven days. 2000 – Survivor lead guitarist Frank Sullivan files a lawsuit in Chicago against TVT Records and CBS for their alleged "unauthorized use" of the Survivor trademark (registered back in 1977) on the reality TV show and their soundtrack CD. 2003 – Johnny Cash holds his final recording session, recording the song "Engine One-Forty-Three" at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville. 2008 – Convicted pedophile Gary Glitter is refused entry into Hong Kong after being deported from Thailand. Banned entry in 19 other countries, and with nowhere else to go, he returns to Thailand.
