March 9 Born -
Billy Ford (1925) - Billy & Lillie.
Keely Smith (1932) - American jazz singer.
Lloyd Price (1933) - Country music singer/songwriter.
Mickey Gilley (1936) - Country music singer/songwriter.
John Cale (1942) - singer/songwriter, The velvet Underground.
Mark Lindsay (1942) - Paul Revere & The Raiders.
Gary Walker (aka Gary Leeds, 1942) - drummer for The Standells, The
Walker Brothers.
Robert Calvert (1944) - Hawkwind.
Robin Trower (1945) - guitarist, Procol Harum.
Jim Cregan (1946) - guitarist for Family.
Chris Thompson (1947) - singer/guitarist for Manfred Mann's Earth
Band.
Jeffrey Osbourne (1948) - R&B singer/songwriter, L.T.D.
Jimmy Fadden (1948) - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Trevor Burton (1949) - guitarist for The Move.
Frank Rodriguez (1951) - ? and The Mysterians.
Martin Fry (1959) - vocalist for ABC.
Pete Wishart (1962) - Scottish keyboardist for Big Country and Runrig.
Robert Sledge (1968) - bassist for Ben Folds Five.
Adam Siegel (1969) - singer/songwriter/guitarist/bassist with Excel,
Infectious Grooves, and Eels.
Shannon Leto (1970) - drummer for 30 Seconds To Mars.
March 9 R.I.P. -
Robert "Bumps" Blackwell (1985) - pneumonia. Age 66. Producer/
arranger.
Bob Crosby (1993) - cancer. Age 79. Swing singer, Dixieland band
leader, The Bob-Cats.
The Notorious B.I.G. (1997) - murdered. Age 24. Rapper.
Mike Anthony (1999) - heart attack/stroke. Age 68. Country songwriter
("Poetry In Motion").
Ivo Robić (2000) - Age 77. Croatian singer/songwriter.
Chris LeDoux (2005) - cholangiocarcinoma. Age 56. Country music singer/
songwriter.
Brad Delp (2007) - suicide. Age 55. Singer for Boston.
Bob Marcucci (2011) - respiratory failure. Age 81. Owner of Chancellor
Records, manager of Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
March 9 album releases -
Canned Heat - The New Age (1973)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Angel Station (1979)
U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)
Gary Moore - Wild Frontier (1987)
Curve - Doppelgänger (1992)
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993)
Widespread Panic - Everyday (1993)
The Moody Blues - At Night At Red Rocks With The Colorado Symphony
Orchestra (1993)
Space - Tin Planet (1998)
Beth Orton - Central Reservation (1999)
Wilco - Summerteeth (1999)
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
March 9 events -
1942 - Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra record "Well, Git It!"
1958 - The Everly Brothers perform "Wake Up Little Susie" and "Be-Bop-
A-Lula" on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show are Jo Stafford, The
Sparkletones, and Lonnie Satin and Barbara McNair.
1961 - The Supremes release their debut single, "I Want A Guy" b/w
"Never Again" on the Tamla label.
1963 - The Beatles play the first night of their second UK theatre
tour, opening for Americans Tommy Roe and Chris Montez at the Granada
Cinema in London. This is the only night The Beatles open the show.
The following night through the end of the tour they will headline.
1964 - Capitol Records releases "Letter To The Beatles" by The Four
Preps, which debuts on the charts at #85. However, the song contains a
snippet of "I Want To Hold Your Hand," and Brian Epstein has Capitol
pull the single to avoid a lawsuit.
1964 - The Beatles spend their final day shooting train sequences for
their upcoming movie.
1964 - Elvis Presley begins filming his 16th movie, Roustabout.
1967 - Pink Floyd and The Thoughts appear at the Marquee Club in
London.
1967 - The Beatles begin recording "Getting Better."
1968 - The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album takes
home four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best
Contemporary Album, Best Engineered Record and Best Album Cover. The
5th Dimension wins Best Vocal Group Performance for "Up Up And Away,"
which also wins Record of the Year.
1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Association, Jeannie C.
Riley, and Carol Lawrence all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1969 - The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is cancelled by CBS after
they refuse to censor comments from Joan Baez regarding her husband
who is in prison for evading the draft.
1970 - Formerly known as Earth, Black Sabbath makes their stage debut
under their new name, playing the first day of the week-long Atomic
Sunrise Festival at the Roundhouse in London. Other acts performing
during the week include Graham Bond, Brian Auger, Third Ear Band, Fat
Mattress, Gypsy, David Bowie, Genesis, and Hawkwind.
1972 - Sid Bernstein organizes a benefit concert for Presidential
candidate George McGovern at Madison Square Garden, featuring Carole
King, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Barbra
Streisand, Quincy Jones and "Mama" Cass Elliot.
1971 - Led Zeppelin plays Leeds University on their "back to the
clubs" Thank You tour.
1974 - The Grand Ole Opry holds its final show at the Ryman Auditorium
in Nashville before moving to the new Opry House at Opryland.
1975 - Kojak actor Telly Savalas hits #1 on the UK singles chart with
his version of the David Gates/Bread song, "If."
1976 - The Who's Keith Moon collapses on stage after only two songs on
the first date of their tour in Boston. The show ends, but is re-
scheduled for April 1 for existing ticket holders.
1977 - The CBS variety show, The Jacksons, airs its last episode.
1978 - The Eagles record "I Can't Tell You Why," with new bassist
Timothy B. Schmit on vocals.
1979 - ABC-TV airs the Jeff Bridges-narrated documentary The Heroes Of
Rock And Roll, which features Fats Domino, and film clips of Elvis
Presley, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Mick Jagger.
1981 - Robert Plant plays a secret show with his new band The
Honeydrippers.
1985 - Mick Jagger releases his single, "Just Another Night" b/w "Turn
The Girl Loose." The single is also released with extended, dance, and
dub mixes of "Just Another Night" on the B-side.
1985 - The charity single "Tears Are Not Enough," recorded by a host
of Canadian stars dubbed Northern Lights, is released on CBS Records.
1987 - The first Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony is held in New York
City. Inductees include Lennon and McCartney, Goffin and King, Mann
and Weil, and Sam Cooke.
1996 - Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher walks off stage during their gig
at the Vernon Valley Gorge ski resort in New Jersey because his hands
are too cold to play.
2004 - Tom Jones' manager - his son, Mark - orders the 63-year old sex
symbol to stop wearing tight leather pants onstage.
2010 - On his 77th birthday, Country singer Lloyd Price is inducted
into the Louisiana Hall of Fame, and New Orleans dubs the day "Lloyd
Price Day."
2012 - Jerry Lee Lewis marries his seventh wife, his care-giver Ruth
Brown. Ruth was, at one time, married to Lewis' cousin Rusty, whose
older sister Myra was married to Jerry Lee in 1957 at age 13.
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