March 24 Born –
Nervous Norvous (aka Jimmy Drake, 1912) – novelty song singer/
songwriter (“Transfusion”).
Dave Appell (1922) – Cameo-Parkway Records session guitarist, The
Applejacks.
Carol Kaye (1935) – bassist/guitarist for the Wrecking Crew.
Billy Stewart (1937) – pianist and Chess Records artist.
Mike Kellie (1947) – drummer for Spooky Tooth.
Lee Oskar (1948) – harmonica player for War.
Nick Lowe (1949) – Brinsley Schwarz and Rockpile.
Dougie Thomson (1951) – bassist for Supertramp.
Nena (aka Gabriele Kerner, 1960) – German singer.
P.A. Pasemaster Mase (aka Vincent Mason, 1970) – rapper with De La
Soul.
Sharon Corr (1970) – The Corrs.
March 24 R.I.P. –
Carson Robison (1957) – Age 66. Country music singer/songwriter.
Harold Melvin (1997) – complications from a stroke. Age 57.
Henson Cargill (2007) – died during surgery. Age 66. Country music
singer ("Skip A Rope").
Neil Aspinall (2008) – lung cancer. Age 66. Manager of Apple Corps.
Uriel Jones (2009) – heart attack. Age 74. Drummer with the Funk
Brothers.
Johnny Maestro (2010) – cancer. Age 70. The Brooklyn Bridge.
Nick Noble (2012) – Age 85. Singer ("Moonlight Swim").
Marion Marlowe (2012) – natural causes. Age 83. Singer (“The Man In
The Raincoat”).
March 24 album releases –
The Easybeats – It’s 2 Easy (1966)
Slade – Slade Alive! (1972)
Chicago – Chicago VIII (1975)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Nuthin' Fancy (1975)
Motörhead – Overkill (1979)
The Beach Boys – Keepin' The Summer Alive (1980)
The Beatles – Rarities (1980)
Talking Heads – The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads (1982)
The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work (1986)
Pet Shop Boys – Please (1986)
Van Halen – 5150 (1986)
They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18 (1992)
Running Wild – Black Hand Inn (1994)
Everclear – White Trash Hell (1997) (EP)
Journey – Greatest Hits Live (1998)
Ringo Starr – Ringo Rama (2003)
March 24 events –
1935 – The popular New York radio show, Major Bowes' Original Amateur
Hour, broadcasts its first show to a national audience on the NBC
radio network. The radio show will move on to television in 1948 with
Ted Mack as its host.
1941 – Glenn Miller begins filming his first movie, Sun Valley
Serenade.
1945 – Billboard begins publishing album charts, soon to be known as
the Billboard 200. Nat “King” Cole's A Collection Of Favorites is the
first album in the #1 position.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his sixth and final appearance on the
Dorsey Brothers’ Stage Show. After the show, Elvis visits Carl Perkins
in the hospital, who was seriously injured in a car accident two days
before.
1958 – Elvis Presley reports to the Memphis Draft Board, accompanied
by his parents, after which he and 12 others are taken to the Kennedy
Veteran’s Memorial Hospital for an exam and induction into the U.S.
Army.
1958 – Perry Como appears on the cover of Newsweek magazine.
1960 – The Everly Brothers record "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
at RCA Studios in Nashville.
1962 – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform in Ealing as Little Boy
Blue and The Blue Boys.
1962 – The Beatles perform at the Heswall Jazz Club, part of the
Barnston Women's Institute. This is the first time The Beatles wear
suits on stage.
1962 – The Crystals release their single, “Uptown” b/w "What A Nice
Way To Turn Seventeen” on Philles Records.
1965 – Dick and Dee Dee, The Standells, Shirley Ellis, Bobby
Goldsboro, The Trade Winds, The Wellingtons, Jackie Wilson, Jewell
Akin, Bobby Sherman, Donna Loren, and The Ray Pohlman Band all appear
on Shindig!
1965 – Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman is knocked unconscious by an
electrical shock from a microphone stand in Denmark.
1966 – Simon and Garfunkel make their UK singles chart debut with
“Homeward Bound.”
1966 – The New York State Assembly passes the first laws outlawing the
manufacture and sale of bootleg recordings.
1967 – Pink Floyd plays the first of two nights at the Ricky Tick Club
in Hounslow.
1968 – Diana Ross and The Supremes, Spanky and Our Gang, Nancy Sinatra
and Lee Hazlewood, and Jimmy Dean appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1973 – A male fan jumps on stage during a Lou Reed concert in Buffalo,
New York, and bites Reed on the butt. The fan is thrown out of the
venue.
1976 – Transvestite singer Wayne County appears in a New York
courtroom, charged with assaulting The Dictators’ singer “Handsome”
Dick Manitoba with a microphone stand at CBGB's, and breaking his
collarbone. Manitoba had been heckling County from the audience.
1980 – Aretha Franklin headlines a tribute concert in Detroit for her
father - who lies in a coma after being shot the previous year - to
raise money for his medical bills. Ronnie Spector and saxophonist
David Sanborn also perform.
1991 – The Black Crowes open for ZZ Top at the Omni Theatre in
Atlanta, Georgia. Following the show, the Crowes are dropped from the
tour after making disparaging remarks about tour sponsor, Miller Beer.
1992 – A Chicago judge settles the Milli Vanilli class-action suit by
approving cash rebates of up to $3 to anyone proving they bought the
group's music before November 27, 1990 - the date the lip-synching
scandal broke.
1998 – UK R&B singer Mark Morrison is jailed for a year after sending
his look-alike friend Gabriel Mafereka to perform his community
service from a previous assault conviction.
2000 – Yoko Ono's ex-husband Tony Cox sells more than nine hours of
film, taken in February 1970 of John Lennon smoking hash and
discussing his political views, to World Wide Video for $1,079,500.
Ono will later sue to re-gain the 24 reels of film.
2001 – Macon, Georgia, re-names the portion of Hwy.19 that runs
through town Duane Allman Blvd.
2002 – Randy Newman wins his first Academy Award for Best Original
Song for "If I Didn't Have You," from the animated film Monsters, Inc.
2008 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the Schottenstein
Center in Columbus, Ohio.
2009 – During closing arguments, the prosecutor in the Phil Spector
murder re-trial tells the jury he is a "demonic maniac" when he drinks
and "a very dangerous man" around women, demonstrating a "conscious
disregard for human life," and urges jurors to find the music producer
guilty of murder.
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