January 29 Born – John Raitt (1917) – actor/stage singer (Oklahoma!). Ivo Robić (1923) – Croatian singer/songwriter (“Morgen”). Alexandre “Sacha” Distel (1933) – French singer/guitarist. James Jamerson (1936) – bassist with the Funk Brothers. Claudine Longet (1942) – French singer/dancer/actress. Tony Blackburn (1943) – British "pirate" radio DJ for Radio Caroline and Radio London. Mark Wynter (aka Terence Lewis, 1943) – British singer/actor. Andrew Loog Oldham (1944) – manager for The Rolling Stones. David Byron (1947) – singer for Uriah Heep. Tommy Ramone (aka Thomas Erdelyi, 1952) – drummer for The Ramones. Louie Pérez (1953) – percussionist for Los Lobos. David Baynton-Power (1961) – drummer for James. Eddie Jackson (1961) – bassist for Queensrÿche. Roddy Frame (1964) – guitarist for Aztec Camera. Jonny Lang (aka Jon Gordon Langseth, Jr., 1981) – Blues singer/ songwriter. Adam Lambert (1982) – singer.
January 29 R.I.P. – Willie Dixon (1992) – heart failure. Age 76. Blues singer/songwriter/ bassist. Jimmy Durante (1980) – pneumonia. Age 86. Novelty songwriter (“Inka Dinka Doo”). Eric Griffiths (2005) – pancreatic cancer. Age 64. The Quarrymen. David Lerchey (2005) – cancer. Age 67. The Del-Vikings. John Martyn (2009) – double pneumonia. Age 60. British singer/ songwriter and guitarist. Hank Crawford (2009) – Age 74. Saxophonist/songwriter/arranger, musical director for Ray Charles. January 29 album releases – Miles Davis – Filles De Kilimanjaro (1969) Huey Lewis and The News – Picture This (1982) Shalamar – Friends (1982) Yello – Stella (1985) Fish – Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors (1990) Divinyls – Divinyls (1991) Australia Gloria Estefan – Into The Light (1991) U.S. and Canada Chicago – Twenty 1 (1991) Susannah Hoffs – When You’re A Boy (1991) Prince – Crystal Ball (1998) Prince – The Truth (1998) Prince – Kamasutra (1998) January 29 events – 1937 – Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra records “Song Of India” and “Marie” in New York. 1942 – BBC radio first airs "Desert Island Discs," presented by Roy Plomley, which goes on to become the longest running UK radio show. 1958 – Bo Diddley records “Say Man” at Chess in Chicago. 1959 – Fats Domino records "I'm Ready" at Cosimo recording studio in New Orleans. 1959 – Jesse Belvin records “Guess Who” in Santa Monica, California. 1961 – Bob Dylan meets his idol Woody Guthrie when Guthrie is on weekend release from the hospital where he is being treated for Huntington's Chorea. 1962 – Peter, Paul and Mary sign their first recording contract with Warner Brothers Records. 1964 – The Beatles record German versions of "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand" at Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris. They also record a rough version of their next single, "Can't Buy Me Love." 1964 – Brenda Lee records “Too Many Rivers” at Columbia Studios in Nashville. 1965 – P.J. Proby intentionally splits his pants during a performance at the Castle Hall in Croydon, outraging the nation and prompting the promoter to issue all audience members a refund. The ensuing controversy ensures that Proby will work the "accident" into every show. 1966 – “I Fought The Law” by The Bobby Fuller Four hits the Billboard Hot 100. 1967 – The Koobas and The Jimi Hendrix Experience - making their stage debut - open for The Who at Brian Epstein’s Savile Theatre in London. 1967 – Pink Floyd begins recording “Arnold Layne” and “Candy And A Currant Bun” at Sound Techniques Studios in London. 1968 – The Doors appear at The Pussy Cat A Go-Go in Las Vegas. After the show, Jim Morrison taunts a security guard in the parking lot by smoking a cigarette like a joint, resulting in a fight. The police arrive and arrest Morrison and charge him with vagrancy, public drunkenness and failure to possess sufficient identification. 1968 – The Who and Small Faces perform two shows at the Aukland Town Hall in New Zealand. 1969 – The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour premieres on CBS-TV. 1969 – Peggy Lee records “Is That All There Is?” at the Capitol studios in L.A. 1970 – Elvis Presley releases his single, "Kentucky Rain" b/w "My Little Friend." 1974 – Grand Funk records “The Loco-Motion,” with Todd Rundgren producing. 1975 – Elvis Presley is admitted to Memphis' Baptist Hospital after girlfriend Linda Thompson wakes up and finds him struggling to catch his breath. It is reported that he is being seen for a liver problem, but in reality it is an attempt by Presley's personal physician "Dr. Nick" to curtail his growing addiction to prescription medication. 1979 – 16-year-old Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds nine others when she shoots from her house across the street into the entrance of San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School with a .22- caliber rifle her father had given her for Christmas. When asked why she did it, she answers, "I don't like Mondays." The Boomtown Rats will go on to write and record a song based on the event. 1981 – Kenny Rogers records “I Don’t Need You” in Nashville, with Lionel Richie producing. 1982 – Gary Numan makes a forced landing while flying back from Cannes, France, after running low on fuel, landing at a Royal Air Force base outside Southampton. The press runs stories that he had in fact crash landed. 1983 – Stevie Nicks marries Warner Bros. promo man Kim Anderson. The marriage lasts a year. 1989 – Billy Joel sings the National Anthem at Super Bowl XXIII in Miami, Florida. 1994 – Former Supreme Mary Wilson suffers serious injuries when she falls asleep at the wheel of her Jeep, crashing and overturning the vehicle on an L.A. freeway. Her 14-year old son Raphael is killed instantly. 1996 – Country artist Garth Brooks refuses the “Entertainer of the Year” award at the American Music Awards, stating that Hootie and The Blowfish had done more for music in the past year than he had. 1998 – Paul Simon’s notorious musical flop The Capeman opens at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway for only 88 performances. 2001 – Peter Tork and Keith Allison appear in the “One Hundred” episode of the WB’s Seventh Heaven. 2001 – A Tallahassee, Florida court rules that P-Funk mastermind George Clinton is not eligible for royalties on songs sampled by rappers in his lawsuit against Universal Music Group, since Clinton sold the rights to the songs off years before. 2004 – James brown files for a marriage annulment from his third wife Tommie Rae Brown, charging her with bigamy. 2009 – Kelly Clarkson makes Billboard chart history when her single “My Life Would Suck Without You” moves up 96 spots - from #97 to #1 - in the first week of its release. 2010 – Roy Orbison posthumously receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2010 – Sly Stone files a $50 million lawsuit against his former manager Jerry Goldstein, alleging fraud and 20 years of stolen royalties. 2010 – Members of the Florida-based group Protect Our Children distribute flyers and “sex offender advisory” postcards around Miami, protesting The Who’s participation in the February 7 Super Bowl halftime show because of Pete Townshend’s 2003 arrest on viewing child porn on the Internet, despite the charges having been dropped. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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