January 7 Born –
Jack Greene (1930) – Country musician ("There Goes My Everything").
Eldee Young (1936) – double bassist for The Ramsey Lewis Trio.
Paul Revere Dick (1938)
Lefty Baker (aka Eustace Britchforth, 1939) – guitarist for Spanky and
Our Gang.
Jim West (1941) – Kathy Young and The Innocents.
Danny Williams (1942) – South African pop singer ("White On White").
Leona Williams (1943) – bassist/singer with Loretta Lynn and Merle
Haggard.
Mike "McGear" McCartney (1944) – The Scaffold.
Dave Cousins (1945) – singer for The Strawbs.
Andy Brown (1946) – The Fortunes ("You've Got Your Troubles").
Jann Wenner (1946) – publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.
Kenny Loggins (1948)
Kathy Valentine (1959) – bassist for The Go-Gos.
January 7 R.I.P. –
Cyril Davies (1964) – inflammation of the heart. Age 31. Blues
Incorporated.
Carl White (1980) – acute tonsillitis. Age 47. The Rivingtons.
Larry Williams (1980) – suicide/shot to death. Age 44. Singer/
songwriter (“Dizzy Miss Lizzy”).
Owen Bradley (1998) – Age 83. Songwriter/arranger/producer, Nashville
studio owner.
James Carr (2001) – lung cancer. Age 58. R&B singer ("The Dark End Of
The Street").
Phil Kennemore (2011) – lung cancer. Age 57. Bassist for Y&T.
January 7 album releases –
Black Sabbath – Paranoid (1971) U.S.
Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts –
Jamming With Edward! (1972)
Jefferson Airplane – Flight Log (1966-1976) (1977)
Smokey Robinson – Touch The Sky (1983)
Rick Wakeman – Words & The Gospels (1994)
Incubus – Enjoy Incubus (1997) EP
Alex Lloyd – Black The Sun (1999)
January 7 events –
1924 – At 26 years of age, George Gershwin begins writing "Rhapsody In
Blue."
1940 – CBS radio begins broadcasting Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch. The
show will air for 16 years.
1946 – On the day before his 11th birthday, Elvis Presley and his
mother Gladys seek refuge in their home’s cellar when a tornado rips
through Tupelo, Mississippi, in the early morning hours.
1950 – Hank Snow makes his debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry.
1954 – Muddy Waters records "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" at Chess in
Chicago.
1955 – Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" debuts on the UK charts.
1955 – Opera singer Marian Anderson makes her debut appearance at the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: the first African-American
to do so.
1956 – Columbia Pictures begins production on "Rock Around The Clock,"
featuring the song of the same name by Bill Haley and His Comets.
1958 – Sarah Vaughan records the Hal David/Sherman Edwards tune,
“Broken-Hearted Melody.”
1958 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Don’t” b/w “I Beg Of You.”
1959 – Sam Cooke records “Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha” at Radio
Recorders in Hollywood.
1960 – Johnny Horton records "Sink The Bismarck" at Owen Bradley's
Quonset Hut studio in Nashville.
1960 – Johnny Burnette records “Dreamin’” at United in Hollywood.
1961 – Faron Young records Willie Nelson’s “Hello Walls” at the
Bradley Film & Recording Studio on Nashville's Music Row.
1963 – Gary U.S. Bonds sues Chubby Checker for $100,000 for copyright
infringement, charging that Checkers' "Dancing Party" is a re-write of
Bonds' "Quarter To Three."
1963 – Bobby Vee records “Charms.”
1964 – The Beatles record seven songs for the BBC radio program
Saturday Club at the Playhouse Theatre in London, performing “All My
Loving,” “Money,” “The Hippy Hippy Shake,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand,”
“Roll Over Beethoven,” “Johnny B. Goode,” and “I Wanna Be Your Man.”
The show will be broadcast on February 15, while the Beatles are in
the U.S. In the evening of this day, The Beatles perform their 12th
date of their Christmas Show at the Finsbury Park Astoria.
1967 – Charlie Pride debuts at the Grand Ole Opry, becoming the first
black solo artist to do so.
1968 – San Francisco FM radio station, KMPX, holds a "grass ballot"
vote for national office. Listeners elect Bob Dylan for President,
Paul Butterfield for Vice-President, and George Harrison as U.S.
Ambassador to the UN. Jefferson Airplane is elected Secretaries of
Transportation, and The Grateful Dead are elected Attorneys General.
1968 – Dionne Warwick performs “I Say A Little Prayer” on The Ed
Sullivan Show. Also on the show are The Young Americans, Julia Mead,
and Sandler and Young.
1970 – Led Zeppelin plays the first night of an eight-date UK tour at
Birmingham Town Hall. They are the only act on the bill.
1970 – Woodstock farmer, Max Yasgur, is sued for $35,000 by his
neighbors for damages from the Woodstock concert event.
1970 – The Friends Of Distinction begins recording “Love Or Let Me Be
Lonely.”
1974 – Singers James Taylor and Carly Simon welcome the birth of their
daughter, Sarah.
1974 – Aerosmith appears at the Michigan Palace in Detroit.
1976 – Record exec Ken Moss is sentenced to 120 days in jail for
providing the cocaine that killed Average White Band drummer Robbie
McIntosh.
1980 – Hugh Cornwall of The Stranglers is found guilty of possession
of heroin, cocaine and marijuana, and is fined £300 and sentenced to
three months in Pentonville prison.
1981 – The Police play the first night of the second leg of their
North American tour at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada,
during their Zenyatta Mondatta World Tour.
1992 – Capitol Records drops singer Anne Murray from their roster
after 23 years.
1997 – Fire breaks out in the apartment of vibraphonist Lionel
Hampton, destroying everything. Hampton escapes unhurt.
1999 – Rod Stewart and model Rachel Hunter split up.
2003 – The Beatles Book Monthly closes down publication after 40
years. Author Sean O'Mahony, who set up the magazine in 1963, said
there was nothing more to say as the number of things the former
Beatles were doing gets less and less as the years go by.
2005 – James Brown's former publicist, 48-year old Jacque Hollander,
files a lawsuit against the singer claiming he raped her at gunpoint
in 1988. A judge will later dismiss the case because the statute of
limitations had run out.
2006 – Gary Glitter is formally charged with committing obscene acts
with two girls aged 11 and 12 in the southern province of Ba Ria Vung
Tau in Vietnam, and faces a prison term of three to seven years.
2006 – Singer Pink marries her motocross racer boyfriend Carey Hart on
the beach at the Four Seasons resort in Costa Rica.
2008 – Thieves steal two rings, a necklace, a pair of earrings and a
Rolex watch worth more than $100,000 total from Dionne Warwick’s hotel
room at the luxurious Hotel De Russie in Rome, Italy. In 2001, actress
Cameron Diaz also encountered thieves while staying in the same hotel
room.
