March 7 Born – Lee Young (1914) – Jazz drummer, The Nat “King” Cole Trio. Patrick “Paddy” Clancy (1922) – Irish folk singer, The Clancy Brothers. Mahlon Clark (1923) – clarinetist/saxophonist with The Lawrence Welk Orchestra. Hamilton Bohannon (1942) – Motown session drummer. Chris White (1943) – bassist for The Zombies. Townes Van Zandt (1944) – singer/songwriter. Arthur Lee (aka Arthur Taylor, 1945) – Love. Matthew Fisher (1946) – keyboardist for Procol Harum. Peter Wolf (aka Peter Blankfield, 1946) – The J. Geils Band. Ernie Isley (1952) – The Isley Brothers. Taylor Dayne (aka Leslie Wunderman, 1962) – singer. Paul Davis (1966) – keyboardist for Happy Mondays. Randy Guss (1967) – drummer for Toad The Wet Sprocket.
March 7 R.I.P. – Mike Milward (1966) – leukemia. Age 23, Guitarist for The Fourmost. Harold McNair (1971) – lung cancer. Age 39. Session saxophonist for Donovan. Gordon Huntley (1985) – Age 54. British pedal steel player. Divine (1988) – enlarged heart. Age 42. Actor/singer (“You Think You’re A Man”). Earl Wrightson (1993) – heart failure. Age 77. Broadway/musical theater singer. Marvin Ingram (1999) – heart attack. Age 60. The Four Preps. Lowell Fulson (1999) – kidney disease and diabetes. Age 77. Blues guitarist. Pee Wee King (2000) – heart attack. Age 86. Country music singer/ songwriter. Jimmy Boyd (2009) – cancer. Age 70. American singer. March 7 album releases – Genesis – From Genesis To Revelation (1969) Mountain – Climbing! (1970) The Byrds – Byrds (1973) David Bowie – Young Americans (1975) Tears For Fears – The Hurting (1983) The Beatles – Past Masters, Volumes One and Two (1988) Beatsteaks – Launched (2000) The Buzzcocks – Flat-Pack Philosophy (2006) March 7 events – 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band releases the first ever jazz record in the U.S., "Livery Stable Blues" b/w "The Dixie Jass Band One- Step," on the Victor label. 1939 – Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians record their signature tune, “Auld Lang Syne,” for Decca Records. 1952 – The first issue of the New Musical Express is published. 1953 – Virginia Patterson Hensley, known as Patsy, marries her first husband, Gerald Cline. They will stay married until her music career takes off. 1955 – Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" becomes the first country song to cross over to the Billboard R&B charts. 1956 – Singer Kay Starr is hospitalized with arm, leg and neck injuries after a two-car crash in Corona, California, when she runs a stop sign. 1957 – The Tune Weavers record “Happy Happy Birthday Baby” at a studio in Boston. 1962 – The Beatles make their debut BBC radio appearance on Teenager's Turn - Here We Go. 1964 – For the first time in the history of the UK record charts, there are no American acts in the Top 10. 1964 – The Dave Clark 5 appears on BBC radio's Saturday Club. 1964 – The Searchers' "Needles And Pins" hits the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 1965 – During a Rolling Stones show at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, a female fan falls from the balcony. The crowd below breaks her fall, and the girl escapes serious injury. 1966 – Brian Wilson releases his first solo single, "Caroline, No" b/w “Summer Means New Love.” 1966 – Tina Turner records her vocals for "River Deep, Mountain High" at Gold Star. 1967 – Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin are divorced. 1968 – Elvis Presley records "Wonderful World," "Edge Of Reality" and "A Little Less Conversation" at Western in Hollywood. 1969 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Bluesville 69 Club inside the Hornsey Wood Tavern - a function room at the back of the pub, so small that the stage is only big enough for John Bonham's drums - in Finsbury Park, London. 1970 – Melanie releases her single, “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” b/ w “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” (spoken word version). 1970 – Actor Lee Marvin hits #1 on the UK singles chart with “Wandrin’ Star,” from the Paint Your Wagon soundtrack, and will stay there for three weeks. 1971 – Country music singer Mickey Gilley opens his Pasadena, Texas nightclub, Gilley’s. 1971 – Poco and Linda Ronstadt appear at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago. 1973 – John Hammond suffers a non-fatal heart attack at a Bruce Springsteen show at Max's Kansas City in New York. 1976 – Elton John becomes only the second rock act - after The Beatles - to be honored with a statue in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. 1983 – Neil Sedaka and Stevie Wonder are inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame during their annual ceremony in New York. 1983 – The Nashville Network, TNN, begins broadcasting on cable television. 1985 – Randy Travis makes his Grand Ole Opry debut. 1991 – The readers of Rolling Stone magazine vote George Michael best male singer and sexiest male artist. 1994 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that raunchy rap group 2 Live Crew's "Pretty Woman" parody of Roy Orbison's 1964 hit does not violate federal copyright laws. 1997 – Singer Darlene Love wins her lawsuit against Phil Spector and is awarded in excess of $263,000 for back royalties, ending four years of litigation against the producer. 2001 – Singer for The Trammps, Jerry Collins, is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife. Collins, who beat his wife within inches of her life, will be sentenced to 25 years in prison. 2001 – Ed Townshend, singer/songwriter of the 1957 hit "For Your Love," sues the R&B group K-Ci and JoJo, claiming they used his song in their recent hit "Just For Your Love." 2001 – The man who discovered Blur, David Balfe, and his wife Helen, win their high court battle to receive £250,000 in back royalties, after a two-year legal battle for the royalties after selling their Food Records label to EMI in 1994. 2001 – The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) choose “Over The Rainbow” as Song of the 20th Century. 2003 – The Associated Musicians of Greater New York and American Federation of Musicians Local 802 go on strike and shut down Broadway. 2004 – Former Visage singer, Steve Strange, is attacked, beaten over the head and robbed on the way to a party in West London, requiring 18 stitches in his head. 2005 – Bob Dylan and Merle Haggard play the first date of a tour together at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington. 2006 – A judge orders Rod Stewart to pay back $3 million to Harrah's Entertainment in Las Vegas for defaulting on a show in 2000. 2007 – Brother of INXS singer Michael Hutchence, Rhett Hutchence defends his decision to the BBC to sell some of his late brother’s belongings online, saying they were relatively unimportant items, and that he needed money to set up home with his new girlfriend. Items in the auction included lyrics, T-shirts and a fax his brother had sent to his then-girlfriend Kylie Minogue. 2011 – Phil Collins announces his retirement from the music business, citing hearing loss and a desire to be with his family. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
