January 10 Born –
Buddy Johnson (aka Woodrow Wilson Johnson, 1915) – Jazz pianist/
bandleader.
Jerry Wexler (1917) – music journalist/producer.
Max Roach (1924) – Jazz drummer/percussionist with Charlie Parker and
Miles Davis.
Gisèle MacKenzie (1927) – singer on Your Hit Parade ("Hard To Get"),
The Gisele MacKenzie Show.
Johnny Ray (1927) – singer.
Lyle Ritz (1930) – session bassist with the Wrecking Crew.
Ronnie Hawkins (1935) – Rockabilly singer/songwriter/musician.
Bobby Relf (1937) – R&B singer, Bob & Earl (“Harlem Shuffle”).
Scott McKenzie (1939) – singer (“San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear
Flowers In Your Hair)”).
Sal Mineo (1939) – actor/singer ("Start Movin' (In My Direction)").
Jim Croce (1943)
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944)
Rod Stewart (1945) – Faces.
Ronny Light (1945) – producer.
Aynsley Dunbar (1946) – drummer for Frank Zappa and Journey.
Bob Lang (1946) – bassist for The Mindbenders.
Fayette Pinkney (1948) – The Three Degrees ("When Will I See You
Again").
Cyril Neville (1948) – The Neville Brothers.
Donald Fagen (1948) – Steely Dan.
Pat Benatar (1953)
Michael Schenker (1955) – guitarist for UFO.
Luci Martin (1955) – Chic.
Shawn Colvin (1956)
Curt Kirkwood (1959) – guitarist/songwriter for The Meat Puppets.
Brad Roberts (1964) – singer/guitarist for Crash Test Dummies.
January 10 R.I.P. –
Howlin' Wolf (aka Chester Burnett, 1976) – kidney disease. Age 65.
Joe Farrell (1986) – bone cancer. Age 48. Jazz saxophonist for Chick
Corea’s Return To Forever.
Marion Hutton (1987) – cancer. Age 67. Singer with Glenn Miller and
his orchestra.
Kenny Pickett (1997) – heart attack. Age 54. Singer for The Creation.
Ken Forssi (1998) – brain tumor. Age 54. Bassist for Love.
Sonny Forriest (1999) – Age 64. Guitarist for The Coasters.
Bryan Gregory (2001) – multiple systems failure. Age 49. Guitarist for
The Cramps.
Rod Allen Bainbridge (2008) – liver cancer. Age 63. Singer/guitarist
for The Fortunes.
Margaret Whiting (2011) – natural causes. Age 86. Singer ("That Old
Black Magic").
January 10 album releases –
The Beatles – Introducing…The Beatles (1964) U.S.
Faces – Coast To Coast: Overture And Beginners (1974)
The Ramones – Leave Home (1977)
Muddy Waters – Hard Again (1977)
Dire Straits – ExtendedancEPlay (1983) (EP)
Lou Reed – New York (1989)
January 10 events –
1945 – The Erskine Hawkins Orchestra records “Tippin’ In” for Victor
Records.
1948 – Atlantic Records is launched by Herb Abramson & Ahmet Ertegun.
1948 – 15-year old Loretta Webb marries Oliver “Mooney” Lynn. Loretta
Lynn will have four of her six children by the age of 18, and will
become a grandmother at age 29. Loretta and Mooney will stay married
for 48 years, until his death in 1996.
1949 – RCA introduces the 7" 45 RPM record.
1950 – Hank Williams, recording under the name “Luke the Drifter,”
records the religious-themed “Everything’s OK.” Williams chose the
pseudonym to protect his Country image, and will go on to record 14
other religious-based “talking blues” songs as Luke the Drifter.
1952 – Nat “King” Cole and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra records
“Somewhere Along The Way” at Capitol in Hollywood.
1956 – Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers release their single, “Why Do
Fools Fall In Love” b/w “Please Be Mine” on Gee Records.
1956 – Elvis holds his first session under his new RCA contract,
recording "Heartbreak Hotel," "I Got A Woman" and "Money Honey."
1958 – The Quarrymen – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Rod Davis, Len
Garry, Eric Griffiths and Colin Hanton – appear at the New Clubmoor
Hall in Liverpool.
1960 – Frankie Avalon sings “Why” on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1963 – Cliff Richard’s musical film Summer Holiday premieres in London
and in South Africa.
1964 – The Rolling Stones record "Not Fade Away" at Olympic Studios.
1965 – Promoter Sid Bernstein contacts Beatles manager Brian Epstein
about doing a concert at Shea Stadium in New York.
1966 – Peter and Gordon release their single, “Woman” b/w “Wrong From
The Start” in the U.S.
1967 – The Beatles At Shea Stadium, a 50-minute documentary of the
group’s August 15, 1965 concert, airs for the first time in the U.S.
on ABC-TV.
1969 – George Harrison quits The Beatles after a blow out argument
with John Lennon (and two days after an argument with McCartney, which
was caught on film) during recording sessions at Twickenham Studios.
Harrison leaves Twickenham, telling the group, “See around the clubs,”
and drives straight to his parents’ house in Liverpool. He will return
in a week.
1971 – Court proceedings officially get under way in the lawsuit to
dissolve The Beatles as a group.
1971 – Bob Dylan appears on an NBC bluegrass documentary, performing
"East Virginia Blues" and "Nashville Skyline Rag" with Earl Scruggs.
1973 – Cliff Richard appears on The Cilla Black Show, singing the six
entries chosen to represent Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest. TV
viewers pick “Power To All Our Friends.”
1978 – The Sex Pistols make their U.S. television debut on the show,
Variety. In the evening, the group plays the Longhorn Ballroom in
Dallas, Texas.
1979 – Richard Carpenter enters rehab in Topeka, Kansas, for sleeping
pill addiction.
1984 – Ozzy Osbourne plays the first night of his Bark At The Moon
Tour in Portland, Maine with opening act Mötley Crüe.
1985 – Cyndi Lauper becomes the first female recording artist since
Bobbie Gentry in 1967 to be nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of
the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female), Record
of the Year, and Song of the Year.
1990 – Bon Jovi plays the first of seven sold-out nights at the
Hammersmith Odeon in London.
1991 – Clint Black joins the Grand Ole Opry, becoming its 66th member.
1995 – Country singer Johnny Rodriguez marries the second of his three
wives, Willie Nelson's oldest daughter, Lana. The marriage lasts seven
months.
1997 – James Brown gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000 – Melissa Etheridge announces that David Crosby is the sperm
donor of her two children with girlfriend Julie Cypher.
2003 – British and Dutch police working together recover 500 reel-to-
reel tapes of The Beatles' Get Back/Let It Be sessions, stolen 30
years earlier in London and Amsterdam.
2003 – Bee Gee Maurice Gibb is hospitalized in critical condition
after suffering a heart attack in his Miami home.
2005 – Georgeann Walsh Ward of New York sues KISS’s Gene Simmons for
slander, claiming a documentary made her out to be a "sex-addicted
nymphomaniac." Ms. Walsh Ward, who dated Simmons for three years when
he was a student, chose to sue when her photo was flashed on screen as
Simmons talked about his past sexual encounters.
2006 – An Australian woman appears in a Perth courtroom on charges of
stabbing her boyfriend with a pair of scissors because he played Elvis
Presley’s song “Burning Love” over and over and over. The man survived
his injuries.
2007 – Fire destroys the Clio, Michigan home of Rudy Martinez, singer
for ? and The Mysterians. Martinez, who has no insurance, loses all of
his memorabilia and possessions.
2009 – Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie marries actor Josh Duhamel at the
Church Estate Vineyards in Malibu, California.
