February 9 Born –
Carmen Miranda (aka Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, 1909) – Samba
singer/dancer.
Ernest Tubb (1914) – Country singer/songwriter (“Walking The Floor
Over You”).
Barry Mann (1939) – songwriter (“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”).
Brian Bennett (1940) – drummer for The Shadows.
Carole King (1942) – singer/songwriter (“I Feel The Earth Move”).
Mark Mathis (1942) – The Newbeats (“Bread And Butter”).
Barbara Lewis (1943) – singer/songwriter (“Baby I’m Yours”).
Earle “Joe” Ely (1947) – singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Major Harris (1947) – The Delfonics.
Dennis “Dee Tee” Thomas (1951) – saxophonist for Kool & The Gang.
Jimmy Pursey (1955) – British songwriter/producer, Sham 69.
Holly Johnson (1960) – Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Travis Tritt (1963) – Country music artist.
Dave Rotheray (1963) – guitarist for The Beautiful South.
Rachel Bolan (aka James Southworth, 1966) – bassist for Skid Row.
The Rev (aka James Sullivan, 1981) – drummer for Avenged Sevenfold.
February 9 R.I.P. –
Sophie Tucker (1966) – lung cancer. Age 80. “Last of the Red Hot
Mamas.”
Max Yasgur (1973) – heart attack. Age 53. Woodstock farmer.
Percy Faith (1976) – cancer. Age 76. Bandleader and conductor.
Buddy Johnson (1977) – brain tumor and sickle cell anemia. Age 62.
Jazz pianist/bandleader.
Bill Haley (1981) – natural causes. Age 55.
Rev. James Cleveland (1991) – heart failure. Age 59. “The King of
Gospel music.”
Bill Grundy (1993) – heart attack. Age 69. British television host.
Jack Owens (1997) – Age 92. Delta blues singer/guitarist.
Brian Connolly (1997) – renal and liver failure, repeated heart
attacks. Age 51. Singer for Sweet.
Tyrone Davis (2005) – stroke. Age 66. Soul singer ("Turn Back The
Hands Of Time").
February 9 album releases –
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)
Phil Collins – Face Value (1981)
Deacon Blue – Fellow Hoodlums (1991) UK
Dinosaur Jr. – Where You Been (1993)
Elvis Presley – Sunrise (1999)
Bad Co. – Hard Rock Live (2010)
February 9 events –
1958 – American Bandstand becomes the top-rated daytime television
program.
1959 – Frankie Avalon is forced to leave the ill-fated Winter Dance
Party tour five days after becoming the headliner when he contracts
pneumonia. He is replaced by Fabian and Paul Anka.
1960 – The Hollywood Walk of Fame has its official “groundbreaking,”
installing its first eight celebrities in one large ceremony.
1961 – The Beatles appear at the Cavern Club for the first time as
"The Beatles." They will go on to perform 292 shows at the venue.
1962 – Neil Sedaka records his first version of “Breaking Up Is Hard
To Do.”
1964 – The Beatles make their U.S. stage debut on The Ed Sullivan Show
and make television broadcast history. Future Monkee Davy Jones is
also on the show with the Broadway cast of Oliver!
1966 – Liza Minnelli brings her nightclub act to New York City and the
Persian Room inside the Plaza Hotel.
1967 – The videos for The Beatles’ new single, “Penny Lane” and
“Strawberry Fields Forever,” have their television debut on the UK
music show Top Of The Pops.
1968 – Hal Cone, former manager of The Monkees, and head of Jones
Records, is found guilty of theft, forgery, receiving stolen property
and conspiracy.
1969 – Barbara Eden, Leslie Uggams and Roslyn Kind perform on The Ed
Sullivan Show.
1972 – Bobby Darin appears as a gangster on Rod Serling’s NBC science
fiction/horror program Night Gallery.
1972 – Paul McCartney debuts Wings when they arrive and play
unannounced on the first night of a UK college tour in Nottingham.
1974 – Iggy Pop and The Stooges play a notorious gig at the Michigan
Palace in Detroit - one of their last concerts together - with Iggy
verbally abusing and taunting the audience. The show is recorded, some
of which will end up on Side 2 of their album Metallic KO.
1975 – Willie Nelson records “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain” at Autumn
Sound in Garland, Texas.
1975 – The variety show Cher debuts on CBS-TV, with guests Elton John
and Bette Midler.
1979 – UB40 makes their stage debut at the Hare & Hounds pub in Kings
Heath, Birmingham.
1982 – George Harrison presents UNICEF with a check for $9 million,
ten years after the fundraising concert for Bangladesh.
1983 – Prince releases his single, “Little Red Corvette” b/w “All The
Critics Love U In New York” in the U.S. In the UK, the B-side contains
“Horny Toad” and “Lady Cab Driver.”
1985 – Phil Collins releases his single, “Sussudio” b/w “The Man With
The Horn” and “I Like The Way” in the U.S.
1990 – Nirvana appears at the Pine Street Theater in Portland, Oregon,
opening for Dinosaur Jr.
1992 – Nirvana appears at the Logan Campbell Centre in Auckland, New
Zealand, on their Nevermind Pacific Rim Tour of Australia.
1998 – Garth Brooks appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show, and promises to
donate seven days’ worth of earnings from his Sevens album to Oprah’s
Angel Network.
2001 – Former Eagle Don Felder files two lawsuits against Eagles Ltd.,
three days after being fired from the group.
2004 – Diana Ross begins serving her two-day jail sentence in
Greenwich, Connecticut, stemming from her December 30, 2002 drunk
driving arrest in Phoenix, Arizona.
2009 – Robert Plant takes home five Grammy Awards for his
collaboration with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss on their album,
Raising Sand.
2010 – Bob Dylan, Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson, John Mellencamp
and Joan Baez perform at the White House in “A Celebration Of Music
>From The Civil Rights Movement” for President and Mrs. Obama in honor
of Black History Month.
2010 – The White Stripes accuse the U.S. Air Force Reserve of re-
recording the group's song “Fell In Love With A Girl” and using it in
a television commercial without their permission. In a statement on
their website, the duo says they “take strong insult and objection,
with the implication that we licensed one of our songs to encourage
recruitment during a war that we do not support."
2011 – Singer Ashlee Simpson files for divorce from husband and
bassist for Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz.
2012 – Paul McCartney receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
nearly 20 years after first being nominated.
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