January 3 Born – Victor Borge (1909) – Danish composer and pianist. Maxene Andrews (1916) – The Andrews Sisters. Leon McAuliffe (1917) – Western swing steel guitarist. Jules “Buddy” Kaye (1918) – songwriter (I Dream Of Jeannie). George Martin (1926) – producer. Van Dyke Parks (1941) – singer/songwriter. Philip Goodhand-Tait (1945) – British songwriter. Stephen Stills (1945) John Paul Jones (aka John Baldwin, 1946) – Led Zeppelin. Raymond McGinley (1964) – singer/guitarist for Teenage Fan Club. Thomas Bangalter (1975) – Daft Punk.
January 3 R.I.P. – Amos Milburn (1980) – stroke. Age 52. R&B/blues singer. Eddie Heywood (1989) – Age 73. Jazz pianist (“Canadian Sunset”). Zac Foley (2002) – drug overdose. Age 32. Bassist for EMF. Bob Weston (2012) – gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Age 64. Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac. January 3 album releases – Paul Revere and The Raiders – Just Like Us! (1966) Syd Barrett – The Madcap Laughs (1970) Ian McDonald and Michael Giles – McDonald And Giles (1971) Hot Tuna – The Phosphorescent Rat (1974) January 3 events – 1940 – Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra records "Southland Shuffle" for Bluebird Records. 1950 – Sam Phillips opens the New Memphis Recording Service at 706 Union Avenue. 1955 – The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show debuts on NBC-TV, and will run for two and a half years. 1956 – Pat Boone records "I'll Be Home" at Universal Recording Corp. in Chicago. 1956 – Les Baxter and His Orchestra records “The Poor People Of Paris.” 1957 – Brenda Lee records “One Step At A Time” at Decca's Pythian Studios in New York. 1957 – Fats Domino records “I’m Walkin’” at Cosimo Studio in New Orleans. 1956 – Elvis Presley plays a show at the Von Theater in Booneville, Missouri, where he is advertised as "The Folk Music Fireball." 1960 – Bobby Darin and Connie Francis appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing "You're The Top." 1961 – Johnny Burnette releases his single, ”Little Boy Sad” b/w “(I Go) Down To The River” on Liberty Records. 1963 – The Beatles begin their first tour as headliners, appearing at the Two Red Shoes Ballroom in Elgin, Scotland. 1963 – Rick Nelson signs a $1 million, 20-year contract with Decca Records. 1964 – The Rolling Stones appear at the Glenlyn Ballroom in Forest Hill, with opening act The Detours (later to become The Who). 1964 – The Jack Paar Show airs footage of The Beatles performing at the Winter Gardens in Bournemouth on November 16, 1963. 1966 – The Beatles appear on Hullabaloo via promotional videos for "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out." 1966 – The first Acid Test is held at the Fillmore in San Francisco. 1967 – Carl Wilson receives his draft notice and refuses to go, declaring conscientious objector status. 1969 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appears on The Lulu Show. The group performs “Voodoo Child” and begins playing “Hey Joe” when Hendrix suddenly stops and breaks into Cream’s “Sunshine Of Your Love,” in tribute to the band that recently broke up. Hendrix continues playing through the end of the show and the credits, prohibiting Lulu from signing off her own show. 1970 – The Beatles record "I Me Mine" without John. It is their final session. 1970 – Davy Jones quits The Monkees, thus dissolving the band. 1970 – BBC-TV airs the first episode of It’s Cliff Richard, a 13-week series. 1971 – O.C. Smith sings a medley of his songs on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1972 – Pink Floyd begins two weeks of rehearsals for their Dark Side Of The Moon tour at the Bermondsey in London. 1973 – Two thousand international fashion editors and experts vote Mick and Bianca Jagger two of the top dozen best-dressed men and women of 1972. 1973 – Bruce Springsteen plays the first of four nights at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, as opening act for the comedy rock duo Travis Shook & The Club Wow. 1974 – Bob Dylan begins his first full-fledged tour since 1966, performing at Chicago Stadium with The Band. 1979 – U2 appears at McGonagils in Dublin. 1981 – David Bowie makes his final performance in Broadway's Booth Theatre production of The Elephant Man. 1987 – Aretha Franklin is the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1987 – Singers Vic Damone and Diahann Carroll are married. It lasts nine years. 1992 – Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr marries actress Patsy Kensit at the Chelsea register office. 1996 – Madonna testifies against Robert Dewey Hoskins in a Los Angeles court, who is on trial for stalking and threatening to kill the singer. 2008 – Stephen Stills undergoes successful prostate cancer surgery.
