... and more December 10 birthdays – Harold Adamson (1906) – lyricist/songwriter (I Love Lucy). Dorothy Lamour (aka Mary Slaton, 1914) – actress, singer for NBC radio. Alexander Courage (1919) – film/television composer (Star Trek, Daniel Boone). Ken Albers (1924) – The Four Freshmen. Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones (1926) Ralph Tavares (1941) – Tavares. Christopher “Ace” Kefford (1946) – bassist for The Move. Walter “Clyde” Orange (1946) – The Commodores. Jessica Cleaves (1948) – vocalist for The Friends Of Distinction. Johnny Rodriguez (aka Juan Rodriguez, 1951) – Country music singer. Susan Dey (1952) – The Partridge Family. Geoff Deane (1954) – Modern Romance. Paul Hardcastle (1957) – synthesizer player, songwriter. J Mascis (aka Joseph Mascis, 1965) – Dinosaur Jr. Meg White (1974) – drummer for The White Stripes.
December 10 R.I.P. – Jascha Heifetz (1987) – Age 86. Violinist. Bill Harris (1988) – pancreatic cancer. Age 63. The Clovers. Darren Robinson (1995) – heart attack due to obesity. Age 28. Rapper for The Fat Boys. Faron Young (1996) – suicide. Age 64. Country music star. Jake Carey (1997) – Age 71. The Flamingos. Buddy Feyne (1998) – Age 86. Songwriter (“Tuxedo Junction”). Rick Danko (1999) – drug-related heart failure. Age 56. The Band. Bill Deal (2003) – Age 59. Bill Deal and The Rhondels (“What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am”). Kenny Dino (2009) – heart attack. Age 70. Singer (“Your Ma Said You Cried In Your Sleep Last Night”). December 10 album releases – The Rolling Stones – Got LIVE If You Want It! (1966) Deep Purple – Stormbringer (1974) Queen – A Day At The Races (1976) Wings – Wings Over America (1976) Journey – Dream, After Dream (1980) The Jam – Dig The New Breed (1982) Ozzy Osbourne – Bark At The Moon (1983) Fine Young Cannibals – Fine Young Cannibals (1985) Jethro Tull – Live At Hammersmith ’84 (1990) December 10 events – 1930 – Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra records “Mood Indigo.” 1949 – Fats Domino records “The Fat Man” in New Orleans. 1955 – Johnny Cash and His Tennessee Two appear on the Louisiana Hayride. Following his performance, Johnny meets June Carter backstage. 1959 – The four male members of The Platters are acquitted in a Cincinnati courtroom of the charges of “aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness, and assignation" stemming from their August 10 arrest at the Sheraton Gibson Hotel when police raided their hotel room and found the men entertaining four scantily-clad 19-year old girls, three of them white. 1959 – CBS-TV airs the Harry Belafonte special, The Revlon Revue Presents Tonight With Belafonte. 1960 – Floyd Cramer records “On The Rebound” at RCA Studios in Nashville. 1961 – James Brown and The Famous Flames, Sugar Pie DeSanto, and The Brownies all perform at the Evergreen Ballroom in Lacey, Washington. 1963 – 6-year old Donny Osmond makes his singing debut with his brothers on The Andy Williams Show. 1963 – The CBS Evening New with Walter Cronkite runs a piece about a new phenomenon in England called The Beatles. 1965 – The Grateful Dead plays San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium for the first time, at what is their second gig under their new name. 1967 – The previously unknown San Francisco group The Steve Miller Blues Band signs with Capitol Records for an unprecedented $750,000, and drops the "Blues" from their name in the process. 1967 – Otis Redding and four members of his band, The Bar-Kays, are killed when their tour plane crashes into frozen Lake Monona near Madison, Wisconsin. 1967 – The Byrds play the first night of an eight-night stay at the Whiskey A Go-Go in L.A. 1968 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Marquee Club for the first time under their new name. 1971 – During the first of two shows scheduled at the Rainbow Theatre in London, Frank Zappa is thrown into the orchestra pit by a fan’s jealous boyfriend, breaking his leg and ankle, fracturing his skull and crushing his larynx. Zappa will spend the better part of the next year recovering in a wheel chair. 1972 – Roberta Flack and two members of her backup band are injured when her bass player crashes the car they’re in near Manhattan. 1973 – Hilly Kristal opens the CBGB Club (Country, Bluegrass and Blues) at 315 Bowery Street in Manhattan. 1980 – The body of John Lennon is cremated at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, and the ashes are given to Yoko. 1985 – Chuck Negron is fired from Three Dog Night because of his drug use and missing too many shows. 1988 – Metallica plays the first of two nights at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, with opening act Queensrÿche. 1991 – Architect Ieoh Ming Pei receives $5 million for his design for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1998 – In London’s High Court, Bruce Springsteen wins a £2 million court battle to ban an album of his early songs, which revolves around copyright ownership disputes between Bruce and his former manager Mike Appel. 1998 – Christie’s auction house in London sells a 10-song concert recording of The Beatles, recorded by the chief technician at the Gaumont Theatre in Bournemouth, for £25,300. Also sold is a set of five autographs by The Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best, and Stuart Sutcliffe - obtained by a fan in Liverpool in 1961, for £5,195. 1998 – The 50th anniversary Amnesty International concert takes place at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, featuring Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Alanis Morissette, Shania Twain and Tracy Chapman. 1999 – In a radio interview, George Michael slams Cliff Richard’s new Christmas song “Millennium Prayer,” calling it “vile” and a “heinous piece of music,” because of a Christian-led campaign to make the song a #1 hit. 2002 – NBC airs the music special "An Evening With The Dixie Chicks." 2003 – Bobby Brown is arrested and charged with battery after beating his wife Whitney Houston and leaving her with facial injuries. 2004 – One of three RCA microphones used by radio station KWKH for the Louisiana Hayride is sold for $37,500. The microphone was one of three used during the 50 performances by Elvis Presley and many, many others on the radio show in Shreveport from 1954 to 1956. 2004 – James Brown reveals he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 2005 – Country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood marry in Oklahoma. 2007 – Led Zeppelin appears at the O2 Arena in London as part of the series of Ahmet Ertegun tribute concerts. More than a million people took part in a ballot for the 20,000 tickets available for the show, with all proceeds going to Ahmet's own charity. 2008 – Rapper DMX is arrested and jailed in Miami for missing a court appearance in Phoenix, Arizona, after a warrant is issued by an Arizona judge when the rapper fails to show for his court date on charges of drug possession, identity theft and animal cruelty. 2009 – In an interview with Q magazine, Paul McCartney is asked if his marriage to Heather Mills was the worst mistake of his life. He replies "OK, yeah. I suppose that has to be the prime contender." 2010 – The original hand-written lyrics to Bob Dylan's “The Times They Are A-Changin'” sell at a New York auction for $422,500, bought by hedge fund manager and art collector, Adam Sender. 2011 – A 1962 Demonstration Record copy of The Beatles’ “Love Me Do” sells for $17,339.31 during a 10-day eBay auction.
