Hippie Birthday Mike!
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On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:58:36 PM UTC, Eidem wrote:
> ... and more December 12 birthdays –
> Joe Williams (aka Joseph Goreed, 1918) – Jazz singer.
> Dick James (1920) – music publisher.
> Joan Weber (1935) – singer ("Let Me Go, Lover!").
> Terry Kirkman (1939) – The Association.
> Tim Hauser (1941) – The Manhattan Transfer.
> Mike Heron (1942) – The Incredible String Band.
> Grover Washington, Jr. (1943) – Jazz saxophonist.
> Rob Tyner (1944) – vocalist for MC5.
> Booker T. Jones (1944) – Booker T. and The MGs.
> Alan Ward (1945) – guitarist for The Honeycombs.
> Ralph Scala (1947) – organist for The Blues Magoos.
> Ray Jackson (1948) – mandolin and harmonica player for Lindisfarne.
> Bruce Kulick (1953) – guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad and KISS.
> Cy Curnin (1957) – vocalist for The Fixx.
> Eric Schenkman (1963) – guitarist/vocalist for The Spin Doctors.
>
> December 12 R.I.P. –
> Ian Stewart (1985) – heart attack in a clinic waiting room. Age 47.
> Pianist for The Rolling Stones.
> Dotty Todd (2000) – Alzheimer's disease. Age 87. Art and Dotty Todd.
> Ike Turner (2007) – Age 76. The Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
>
> December 12 album releases –
> The Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace In Toronto 1969 (1969)
> Ringo Starr – Blast From Your Past (1975)
> Burning Spear – Marcus Garvey (1975)
> ABBA – ABBA: The Album (1977)
> The Clash – Sandinista! (1980)
> The Fall – Perverted By Language (1983)
> UB40 – Labour Of Love II (1989)
> Cypress Hill – Live At The Fillmore (2000)
>
> December 12 events –
> 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi amazes a London assemblage with the first
> wireless radio communication sent across a room at Toynbee Hall.
> 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first transatlantic wireless radio
> signal from Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to Newfoundland, Canada.
> 1955 – Bill Haley and His Comets record “See You Later, Alligator” at
> Decca in New York.
> 1955 – Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley all appear at the
> National Guard Armory in Armory, Mississippi.
> 1957 – DJ Al Priddy is fired from radio station KEX in Portland,
> Oregon for playing Elvis Presley's version of "White Christmas" on
> air.
> 1957 – Frankie Avalon appears on American Bandstand.
> 1962 – The Kingston Trio records “Greenback Dollar” at Capitol Studios
> in L.A.
> 1963 – The album John Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Memorial Album becomes
> the fastest-selling album in U.S. history, selling four million copies
> in six days.
> 1964 – The Righteous Brothers release their single, “You’ve Lost That
> Lovin’ Feelin’” b/w “There’s A Woman,” with “Lovin’ Feelin” hitting
> the Hot 100 at #77.
> 1965 – The Beatles play their final show of their last UK tour at the
> Capitol Theatre in Cardiff.
> 1965 – The Byrds, The Dave Clark 5, Al Hirt, Wayne Newton, Barbara
> McNair and The Swingle Singers all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
> 1966 – The Pink Floyd performs at London's Royal Albert Hall for the
> first time for the Oxfam Benefit.
> 1967 – A London Appeals Court commutes the nine-month prison sentence
> of Rolling Stone Brian Jones for marijuana possession, citing
> psychiatric testimony that he could not handle prison.
> 1969 – The Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers film The Magic Christian
> premieres in London.
> 1970 – Jim Morrison performs with The Doors for the last time at The
> Warehouse in New Orleans.
> 1970 – Stephen Stills releases his single, “Love The One You’re With”
> b/w “To A Flame.”
> 1970 – Little Richard is charged with "larceny by trick" in Miami
> Beach by Blacks, Inc., claiming Richard pocketed $250 he solicited for
> the organization. Little Richard asks for a receipt and he’ll return
> the money. The charges are later dropped.
> 1971 – Diana Ross begins filming the Billie Holliday biopic, Lady
> Sings The Blues.
> 1974 – The Rolling Stones begin recording their Black And Blue album
> in Munich, Germany, with an array of second guitarists, cementing Mick
> Taylor's departure from the group. One of the session guitarists, The
> Faces' Ron Wood will become Taylor's permanent replacement.
> 1976 – Backstage after a concert at the Las Vegas Hilton, Elvis
> Presley meets with televangelist Rex Humbard and breaks down in tears,
> bemoaning his life's lack of meaning.
> 1980 – Marie Osmond's solo variety series, Marie, premieres on NBC.
> 1980 – In New York, thousands march peacefully in memory of John
> Lennon, walking down Fifth Avenue and ending at the Dakota Building.
> 1985 – On her 45th birthday, Dionne Warwick is awarded a star on the
> Hollywood Walk of Fame.
> 1991 – The funeral for John Lennon’s aunt Mimi Smith is held, with
> Cynthia Lennon, and Sean and Yoko in attendance. McCartney, Harrison
> and Starr all send flowers.
> 1994 – Beach Boy Mike Love wins his songwriting credit lawsuit against
> cousin Brian Wilson, securing past and future royalties on 35 songs.
> Love was promised 30% of a $10 million settlement Wilson won in a
> lawsuit for the 1969 sale of Wilson’s publishing company Sea Of Tunes
> by his father Murray for the paltry sum of $70,000. Love sued when
> Wilson failed to pay up, thus winning $13 million in his suit against
> Wilson.
> 1995 – The Beatles release their first single in more than 25 years
> with the release of “Free As A Bird” as a CD maxi-single. Other tracks
> on the single include studio outtakes of “I Saw Her Standing There,”
> “This Boy” and the fan club Christmas record “Christmas Time (Is Here
> Again).”
> 1996 – Country artist Clint Black receives a star on the Hollywood
> Walk of Fame.
> 2000 – At the Friar’s Club in New York, Tony Bennett announces the
> formation of the Frank Sinatra School Of The Arts: a high school for
> gifted students in the arts.
> 2001 – Las Vegas declares the day “Frank Sinatra Day,” on what would
> have been the singer’s 86th birthday.
> 2001 – Love guitarist and singer Arthur Lee is released from prison
> after serving almost six years of a 12-year sentence for illegal
> possession and discharge of a firearm during a dispute with a
> neighbor.
> 2002 – Singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is released from the
> McMaster University Medical Centre in Canada after three months in
> intensive care and numerous surgeries to repair a ruptured intestinal
> artery in his lower abdomen.
> 2002 – Guitarist and inventor Les Paul announces his intention to
> donate 2,000 records, pieces of sheet music, and other memorabilia for
> an exhibit in his home town of Waukesha, Wisconsin.
> 2003 – Mick Jagger is knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace,
> becoming Sir Michael Jagger. Mick’s 92-year old father is in
> attendance.
> 2003 – Dave Matthews begins his first solo tour at the Bryce Jordan
> Center at Penn State University.
> 2007 – A copy of John Lennon's book A Spaniard In The Works,
> containing a lock of Lennon's hair, sells at Gorringes Auction House
> for £24,000 ($48,000). Lennon gave the book and the hair to Betty
> Glasgow, the Fab Four's hairdresser, during their heyday, with the
> inscription, “To Betty, Lots of Love and Hair, John Lennon xx."
> 2008 – A new housing development in Mick Jagger’s and Keith Richards’
> home town of Kent names 13 streets after Rolling Stones song titles,
> including Sympathy Street and Ruby Tuesday Drive.
> 2011 – Barry Manilow is hospitalized to remove fluid and repair torn
> muscles in his hips.
> 2011 – The producer of The Monkees television show, Bert Schneider
> passes away from natural causes at age 78.
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