March 3 Born –
Arthel "Doc" Watson (1923)
Dave Dudley (aka David Pedruska, 1928) – Country music singer/
songwriter.
Willie Chambers (1940) – The Chambers Brothers.
Mike Pender (1942) – The Searchers.
Jance Garfat (1944) – bassist for Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show.
Jennifer Warnes (1947) – singer/songwriter.
Dave Mount (1947) – drummer for Mud.
Snowy White (aka Terence White, 1948) – guitarist for Thin Lizzy.
Re Styles (aka Shirley MacLeod, 1950) – The Tubes.
Johnny Jackson (1951) – drummer for The Jackson 5 (no relation).
Robyn Hitchcock (1953) – singer/songwriter.
Merrick (aka Chris Hughes, 1954) – songwriter/drummer for Adam and The
Ants.
Tone Lōc (aka Anthony Smith, 1966) – rapper.
John Bigham (1969) – guitarist for Fishbone.
March 3 R.I.P. –
Danny Kaye (1987) – heart attack. Age 74. Actor/dancer/singer
("Tchaikovsky").
Carlos Montoya (1993) – heart failure. Age 89. Flamenco guitarist.
Harlan Howard (2002) – Age 74. Country music songwriter (“I Fall To
Pieces”).
Charlie Hodge (2006) – blood clot in his lung. Age 71. Songwriter/
guitarist.
Norman "Hurricane" Smith (2008) – Age 85. Abbey Road Studios engineer.
Big Tiny Little (2010) – Age 79. Pianist with The Lawrence Welk
Orchestra.
Ronnie Montrose (2012) – prostate cancer. Age 64.
March 3 album releases –
The Walker Brothers – Images (1967)
Laura Nyro – Eli And The Thirteenth Confession (1968)
Stevie Wonder – Music Of My Mind (1972)
Martha Reeves and The Vandellas – Black Magic (1972)
Gary Glitter – Glitter (1972)
Bad Company – Burnin' Sky (1977)
Patti Smith Group – Easter (1978)
Frank Zappa – Zappa In New York (1978)
Frank Zappa – Sheik Yerbouti (1979)
Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986)
De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising (1989)
David Byrne – Uh-Oh (1992)
U2 – Pop (1997)
Prince – Crystal Ball / The Truth (1998)
Madonna – Ray Of Light (1998)
The Black Crowes – Warpaint (2008)
March 3 events –
1931 – Cab Calloway and His Orchestra records “Minnie The Moocher” in
New York.
1931 – President Herbert Hoover signs legislation that adopts “The
Star Spangled Banner” as America’s national anthem.
1937 – Benny Goodman and his band begin a three-week engagement at the
Paramount Theater in New York.
1940 – Artie Shaw and His Orchestra records “Frenesi.”
1956 – Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" hits the Billboard pop chart
at #68, while Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" enters the Billboard
chart at #83.
1957 – In Chicago, Cardinal Stritch bans rock and roll from all area
Catholic schools.
1958 – Frank Sinatra and Keely Smith record "How Are Ya Fixed For
Love?" at the Capitol Tower studios in Hollywood.
1959 – Lefty Frizzell records "The Long Black Veil" at Owen Bradley's
Quonset Hut studio in Nashville.
1960 – Elvis Presley arrives back in the U.S. at Fort Dix, New Jersey,
where a press conference is held. A party is thrown later in the day,
and is attended by manager "Colonel" Tom Parker, and Nancy Sinatra,
whom Elvis met at a USO show.
1962 – Ben E. King records “Don’t Play That Song (You Lied),” “Gloria,
Gloria,” “I’m Standing By” and “Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear” at Atlantic
Studios in New York.
1963 – Patsy Cline performs her last concert, sharing the stage with
George Jones, Dottie West, Cowboy Copas, Billy Walker and Hawkshaw
Hawkins, at a benefit for the family of recently deceased DJ Cactus
Jack Call in Kansas City.
1963 – The Beatles play the last show of their UK tour supporting
Helen Shapiro at the Gaumont Cinema in Hanley, Stoke.
1965 – The Rolling Stones, Joe Tex, Darlene Love, Jay and The
Americans, Roy Clark, Bobby Sherman, Little Eva and The Chambers
Brothers all appear on Shindig!
1966 – Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, Dewey Martin and
Richie Furay form The Herd in L.A. They will change their name to
Buffalo Springfield in a month.
1967 – The Jeff Beck Group makes their stage debut at the Finsbury
Park Astoria in London, opening for The Small Faces and Roy Orbison.
1967 – Petula Clark performs at the London Palladium for Princess
Margaret.
1969 – Led Zeppelin makes their BBC radio debut recording four songs
for John Peel's BBC radio show, Top Gear. The program will air three
weeks later.
1970 – Bob Dylan records "In Search Of Little Sadie," "Belle Isle (The
Star Of Belle Isle)," "Copper Kettle," "It Hurts Me Too," "The Boxer,"
"Spanish Is The Loving Tongue" and "Woogie Boogie" for his Self
Portrait album.
1971 – The South African Broadcasting Company lifts its 1966 ban on
Beatle records.
1971 – Elton John performs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at
Royal Festival Hall in London.
1973 – Slade’s single “Cum On Feel The Noize” hits #1 on the UK
charts, where it will stay for four weeks.
1973 – George Harrison’s album The Concert For Bangladesh wins Album
of the Year, while Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face” wins Record and Song of the Year at the Grammys.
1974 – Johnny Cash appears as Tommy Brown in the “Swan Song” episode
of NBC’s Columbo.
1976 – Alice Cooper marries Sheryl Goddard, a 19-year old dancer on
his Welcome To My Nightmare tour. They have three children and are
still married.
1977 – At Vernon Presley's insistence, Elvis signs his will, leaving
everything to his father.
1977 – Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers play the first night of
their UK tour at the Roxy in London with opening acts Cherry Vanilla
and The Police.
1978 – Van Halen begins their first nation-wide tour, opening for
Montrose and Journey.
1981 – The documentary film This Is Elvis premieres in Memphis.
1981 – Johnny Cash stars in the made-for-TV movie, The Pride Of Jesse
Hallam, on CBS.
1982 – John Phillips re-forms The Mamas and The Papas with original
member Denny Doherty, and daughter McKenzie Phillips and Spanky
McFarlane from Spanky and Our Gang, for a brief reunion tour.
1983 – At a U.S. Senate hearing, a Hell's Angels biker identified only
as "Butch" confirms that the motorcycle gang has indeed taken out a
contract to kill Rolling Stone Mick Jagger for blaming the gang for
the death of concertgoer Meredith Hunter at Altamont. "There’s always
been a contract on the band," he states, acknowledging "two attempts
to kill them that I know about. They will some day. They swear they
will do it."
1985 – Michael Jackson visits Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks in London to
unveil his wax look-alike.
1986 – Husband and wife songwriters, Boudleaux and Felice Bryant, are
inducted into the National Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.
1990 – Paul McCartney plays the first of six sold-out nights at the
Tokyo Dome in Japan.
1994 – The Smashing Pumpkins are banned from appearing on BBC TV's Top
Of The Pops due to the lyrical content of their song “Disarm.”
1995 – Foo Fighters play their second live gig - a benefit to aid the
finances in the investigation of the murder of The Gits' singer Mia
Zapata - at the Satyricon in Portland, Oregon.
1995 – A stalker is arrested trying to break into the home of Roberta
Flack.
1995 – R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry undergoes surgery in Switzerland for
a brain hemorrhage.
1999 – Oasis agrees to pay their former drummer Tony McCarroll a one-
off sum of £550,000 when he sues the band for millions in unpaid
royalties after being sacked from the group in 1995.
1999 – U.S. music professor Peter Jeffrey goes to court to sue The
Smashing Pumpkins, their promoters and a company who make ear plugs,
claiming his hearing was damaged at a concert in Connecticut.
1999 – Shania Twain’s television special, Winter Break, airs on CBS,
with musical guests Elton John and Nick Carter.
2000 – Former drummer for The Bay City Rollers Derek Longmuir is
released on bail for possession of child pornography. He is later
sentenced to 300 hours of community service.
2001 – The Stereophonics are forced to change the title of their new
album, Jeep, after car manufacturer Daimler Chrysler objects to their
use of the copyrighted word “Jeep.” The title becomes Just Enough
Education To Perform, or J.E.E.P.
2002 – George Strait performs the final concert at Houston's famed
Astrodome.
2003 – Lindisfarne member Ray Jackson sues Rod Stewart for unpaid
royalties for his mandolin work on "Maggie Mae."
2004 – Elton John announces he is planning to marry his long-time
partner David Furnish.
2006 – Gary Glitter is sentenced to three years in a Vietnamese jail
for sexually abusing two 11 and 12-year old girls.
2009 – A £1 million Ferrari owned by Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay is
damaged outside the Brudenell Hotel in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, after an
altercation with hotel chef Aaron Billington, who smashes the driver's
side window and windshield of the Ferrari Enzo. Billington is
arrested.
2009 – To celebrate the release of U2's twelfth studio album and their
appearance every night for a week on The Late Show with David
Letterman, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg temporarily renames
part of 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan “U2 Way.”
2010 – Camelia Green, a woman claiming to be the wife of Sean “P
Diddy” Combs, is freed on $5,000 bail after being arrested near the
rapper’s home on Long Island. It is the second time in a week that
Green is seen on the premises. Combs is not married.
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