March 12 Born –
Joseph Meyer (1894) – composer ("California, Here I Come").
Paul Weston (1912) – pianist/arranger/composer.
Leonard Chess (1917) – founder of Chess Records.
James Widener (1918) – guitarist for Hank Snow.
Gordon McRae (1921) – actor/singer (Carousel).
Wardell Quezergue (1930) – producer/arranger, the “Creole Beethoven.”
Don Drummond (1932) – Jamaican trombonist/composer.
Lew DeWitt (1938) – The Statler Brothers.
Jessy Dixon (1938) – Gospel singer.
Al Jarreau (1940) – singer/songwriter.
Brian O'Hara (1941) – guitarist for The Foremost.
Larry Kaye (aka Lawrence Kassman, 1942) – The Quotations.
Liza Minnelli (1946) – singer.
James Taylor (1948) – singer/songwriter.
Les Holroyd (1948 – bassist/vocalist for Barclay James Harvest.
Bill Payne (1949) – keyboardist for Little Feat.
Mike Gibbins (1949) – drummer for Badfinger.
Jack Green (1951) – guitarist for T. Rex and Pretty Things.
Steve Harris (1956) – bassist for Iron Maiden.
Marlon Jackson (1957) – The Jackson 5.
Coleen Nolan (1965) – The Nolan Sisters.
Graham Coxon (1969) – guitarist for Blur.
Ben Kenney (1977) – bassist for Incubus.
Pete Doherty (1979) – vocalist for The Libertines and Babyshambles.
Danny Jones (1986) – vocalist for McFly.March 12 R.I.P. – Charlie Parker (1955) – lobar pneumonia and bleeding ulcer. Age 34. Jazz saxophonist. Eugene Ormandy (1985) – Age 85. Orchestra conductor. June Valli (1993) – pancreatic cancer. Age 64. Singer on Stop The Music and Your Hit Parade. Joe Morello (2011) – Age 82. Jazz drummer for The Dave Brubeck Quartet. Michael Hossack (2012) – cancer. Age 65. Drummer for The Doobie Brothers. March 12 album releases – The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) Yoko Ono – Fly (1971) Parliament – Chocolate City (1975) Billy Joel – Glass Houses (1980) The Jam – The Gift (1982) Dire Straits – Alchemy: Dire Straits Live (1984) Prong – Beg To Differ (1990) Robyn Hitchcock – Eye (1990) R.E.M. – Out Of Time (1991) Rick Astley – Free (1991) KISS – MTV Unplugged (1996) March 12 events – 1939 – Artie Shaw and his Orchestra records “Deep Purple.” 1953 – Popular WDIA disc jockey Rufus Thomas signs with Sun Records in Memphis and records "Bear Cat," an answer record to Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog." 1955 – The Dave Brubeck Quartet plays Carnegie Hall for the first time. 1957 – Buddy Holly records “Last Night” and a cha-cha version of “Maybe Baby” at Nor Va Jak Studios in Clovis, New Mexico. 1958 – A Philadelphia court sentences Billie Holiday to a year's probation for heroin possession. 1959 – Fabian is named "Most Promising New Talent" in American Bandstand’s viewers’ poll. 1959 – Johnny Cash records "I Got Stripes," "You Dreamer You," "Five Feet High And Rising," "The Man On The Hill," "Hank And Joe And Me," "The Caretaker,” “Old Apache Squaw,” ”Don’t Step On Mother’s Roses,” “I Want To Go Home,” “The Great Speckled Bird” and “My Grandfather’s Clock” at Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut Studio in Nashville. 1961 – Elvis Presley records "I'm Coming Home," "Gently," "In Your Arms," "Give Me The Right," "I Feel So Bad," "It's A Sin," "I Want You With Me" and "There's Always Me" for his 13th album, Something For Everybody. 1965 – James Darren “appears” as singer James Darrock on the "Surfin' Fred" episode of The Flintstones. 1965 – The Beatles wrap up filming in the Bahamas on their upcoming second movie. 1966 – The Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'" debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. 1969 – Elvis Presley begins filming his 33rd and final fictional movie, Change Of Habit, as his 32nd movie, Charro, opens in pre- release in 300 theaters. 1969 – George Harrison's home is raided by notorious drug officer Sgt. Norman Pilcher. George’s wife Pattie is arrested at the house, as George returns home from the Apple offices to be arrested shortly afterward. While this is taking place, Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman at the Marylebone Register Office in London. No other Beatles attend. 1971 – The Allman Brothers Band and Johnny Winter And play the first of two nights at Fillmore East, and both bands record both of their shows for live album releases. 1971 – John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band release their single "Power To The People" b/w "Open Your Box" in the UK. 1971 – In Paul McCartney's lawsuit to dissolve The Beatles, a London court grants his request to appoint a non-biased receiver to handle the group's business affairs. 1973 – The Eagles appear at Oxford Polytechnic during their UK tour, with J.D. Souther as their opening act. 1974 – John Lennon and Harry Nilsson are thrown out of The Troubadour in L.A. for heckling The Smothers Brothers. 1974 – David Essex appears at the Kings Hall in Belle Vue, Manchester, with opening act Brinsley Schwarz. 1977 – The Sex Pistols are involved in a fight at London's Speakeasy Club with Old Grey Whistle Test host Bob Harris, who needs 14 stitches after the melee. 1981 – Bow Wow Wow are forced to cancel the first dates of their UK tour after the Greater London Council states that singer Annabella Lwin, aged 15, will be guilty of truancy. 1990 – Nirvana appears at the Town Pump in Vancouver, with opening act Tad. 1993 – Oasis plays at the Le Bateau in Liverpool in front of 20 people. 1996 – Nancy Sinatra donates her white go-go boots to The Hard Rock Café in Beverly Hills. 2003 – The Rolling Stones appear at the Yokohama Arena in Japan. 2004 – A warrant is issued for Muddy Waters' daughter, Rosalind Morganfield, for the murder of Timothy Harrington during a drug deal. 2007 – The Band's Levon Helm sues Cingular for the use of the group's song "The Weight" in a cell phone ad. 2008 – FOX’s reality talent show American Idol features all Beatles music. 2009 – Tickets for Michael Jackson's 50 concerts at the O2 Arena go on sale to the public. 2010 – A 16-year-old is arrested and charged with burglary in connection with a break-in at singer Susan Boyle's home in West Lothian, Scotland. Boyle disturbed the intruder as she returned home from London after recording a charity single for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. -- 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.
