March 31 Born –
Red Norvo (aka Ken Norville, 1908) – Jazz vibraphonist.
Freddie Green (1911) – Jazz guitarist with Count Basie.
Lowell Fulson (1921) – Blues guitarist/songwriter ("Three O' Clock
Blues").
Hoyt Hawkins (1927) – The Jordanaires.
Lefty Frizzell (aka Bill Frizzell, 1928) – Country music artist.
Ina Carter (1933) – The Carter Sisters.
Shirley Jones (1934) – singer/actress, The Partridge Family.
John D. Loudermilk (1934) – Country music singer/songwriter
("Abilene").
Richard Chamberlin (1934) – actor/singer (“Blue Guitar”).
Herb Alpert (1935) – trumpter, The Tijuana Brass, founder of A&M
Records.
Rod Allen Bainbridge (1944) – The Fortunes.
Mick Ralphs (1944) – guitarist for Mott The Hoople and Bad Company.
Allan Nichol (1946) – guitarist for The Turtles.
Jon Poulos (1947) – drummer for The Buckinghams.
Thijs Van Leer (1948) – singer/flautist for Focus.
Richard Hughes (1950) – drummer for Johnny Winter.
Sean Hopper (1953) – keyboardist for Huey Lewis and The News.
Tony Brock (1954) – drummer for The Babys.
Angus Young (1955) – AC/DC.
Pat McGlynn (1958) – short-term guitarist for The Bay City Rollers.
Paul Ferguson (1958) – drummer for Killing Joke.
March 31 R.I.P. –
O'Kelly Isley (1986) – heart attack. Age 48. The Isley Brothers.
Mitchell Parrish (1993) – Age 92. Lyricist ("Sweet Lorraine," "Sleigh
Ride").
Selena (1995) – murdered. Age 23. Tejano singer.
Mel McDaniel (2011) – lung cancer. Age 68. Country music singer/
songwriter.
March 31 album releases –
Three Dog Night – It Ain't Easy (1970)
Led Zeppelin – Presence (1976)
Wings – London Town (1978)
Prince – Parade (1986)
Prince – Sign O' The Times (1987)
The Thompson Twins – Close To The Bone (1987)
Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch (1992)
Bruce Springsteen – Lucky Town (1992)
Def Leppard – Adrenalize (1992)
Body Count – Body Count (1992)
Duran Duran – Night Versions: The Essential Duran Duran (1998)
March 31 events –
1943 – Oklahoma! - the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein II - opens at the St. James Theatre on Broadway for 2212
performances.
1949 – RCA issues their first 45 single: Eddy Arnold's "Texarkana
Baby" b/w "Bouquet of Roses.”
1956 – Brenda Lee makes her television debut on Ozark Jubilee, singing
"Jambalaya."
1957 – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins begin their first
and only tour together in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1957 – Billed as "the nation's only atomic powered singer," Elvis
Presley plays two shows in front of 24,000 people at Olympia Stadium
in Detroit.
1958 – Chuck Berry releases his single "Johnny B. Goode" b/w "Around
And Around."
1959 – The Jimmie Rodgers Show debuts on NBC-TV, featuring Connie
Francis, The Kirby Stone Four, The Clay Warnick Singers and Buddy
Morrow and His Orchestra.
1960 – Hank Ballard and The Midnighters record "Finger Poppin' Time"
at King Recording Studio in Cincinnati.
1962 – The Beatles appear at the Subscription Rooms in Stroud,
Gloucestershire, with The Rebel Rousers.
1962 – The Shirelles release their single, “Soldier Boy” b/w “Love Is
A Swingin’ Thing.”
1963 – Jackie Wilson performs “Baby Work Out” and “Night” on The Ed
Sullivan Show. Also on the show is The McGuire Sisters.
1964 – The Beatles film a mock television performance at the Scala
Theatre in London for the finale of their movie, A Hard Day's Night.
1965 – Chuck Berry, Sylvie Vartan, Adam Faith, The Spats, The
Blossoms, Bobby Sherman, The Wellington, Delaney Bramlett, Jackie and
Gayle, and Joey Cooper all appear on Shindig!
1966 – Elvis Presley’s 20th movie, Frankie And Johnny, premieres in
theaters.
1967 – The final episode of Where The Action Is airs on ABC-TV.
1967 – On this first night of a tour that features The Walker
Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdink, Jimi Hendrix lights
his guitar on fire for the first time at the Astoria in London.
1967 – Gordon Lightfoot makes his debut appearance at Massey Hall in
Toronto, which becomes a yearly event.
1868 – Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Frankie Laine, and The Young
Americans appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1969 – George and Patti Harrison plead guilty to possession of
cannabis in a Surrey courtroom, stemming from their March 12 bust, and
are fined £250 each.
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono end their Amsterdam bed-in and fly to
Vienna for the premiere of Yoko’s film Rape, where they are
interviewed in a white bag.
1972 – The Official Beatles Fan Club closes down.
1977 – Elvis Presley cancels his concert in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
midway through the show, claiming to be too sick to go on.
1982 – The Doobie Brothers announce their break up.
1989 – The World's Largest Twist Party takes place at Disneyland when
2,248 twisters join singer Chubby Checker as part of Disney’s Blast To
The Past celebration.
1990 – Cher begins her 55-date Heart Of Stone World Tour at the
Starplex Amphitheater in Dallas, Texas.
1994 – Madonna appears on The Late Show With David Letterman and uses
the word “fuck” 13 times, which has to be deleted before the show airs
later in the evening. She also hands Letterman a pair of her panties
and tells him to sniff them, which he declines to do, and stuffs them
into his desk drawer.
1995 – During a concert by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant at the Palace
of Auburn Hills in Michigan, a crazed man rushes the stage with a
knife in an attempt to stab Page and "end his satanic music." Two
security guards apprehend the man and are stabbed in return for their
efforts.
1998 – Sonny and Cher’s only movie, Good Times, is released on VHS
tape, and features a previously unreleased version of “I Got You
Babe.”
2001 – Whitney Houston and husband Bobby Brown are banned for life
from Hollywood's Bel Air Hotel for destroying their hotel room. The
room is closed for five days for repairs.
2002 – Barry Gibb buys his childhood home in Manchester, England.
2005 – Marion "Suge" Knight is ordered to pay Lydia Harris $107
million for her role in helping to establish Knight's Death Row
Records.
2010 – Chastity Sun Bono files paperwork to have her gender changed to
male, and her name changed to Chaz Salvatore Bono.
2011 – Australia's Men At Work lose their court appeal against
plagiarism charges for the use of the song "Kookaburra Sits In The Old
Gum Tree" in their hit song "Down Under."
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