April 3 Born –
Stan Freeman (1920) – session keyboardist, band leader.
Doris Day (aka Doris Kappelhoff, 1924) – singer/actress.
Don Gibson (1928) – Country music singer/songwriter ("I Can't Stop
Loving You").
Jimmy Nolen (1934) – guitarist for James Brown.
Jimmy McGriff (1936) – Jazz organist.
Jeff Barry (1938) – songwriter and producer.
Phillippé Wynne (1941) – lead singer for The Spinners.
Jan Berry (1941) – Jan and Dean.
Billy Joe Royal (1942) – singer.
Wayne Newton (1942) – singer.
Joey Vann (1943) – The Duprees.
Richard Manuel (1943) – keyboardist for The Band.
Barry Pritchard (1944) – guitarist for The Fortunes.
Lois Wilkinson (1944) – The Caravelles.
Tony Orlando (1944) – singer.
Dee Murray (1946) – bassist for Elton John.
Richard Thompson (1949) – Fairport Convention.
Judie Tzuke (1956) – British singer/songwriter.
Eddie Murphy (1961) – actor/singer (“Party All The Time”).
Simon Raymonde (1962) – bassist for Cocteau Twins.
Christopher “Criss” Olivia (1963) – guitarist for Savatage.
Sebastian Bach (aka Sebastian Bierk, 1968) – singer for Skid Row.
Leona Lewis (1985) – singer.
April 3 R.I.P. –
Kurt Weil (1950) – heart attack. Age 50. Composer ("Mack The Knife").
Sarah Vaughan (1990) – lung cancer. Age 66.
Eugene Church (1993) – cancer. Age 55. The Cliques, Eugene Church &
The Fellows.
Lionel Bart (1999) – cancer. Age 68. British songwriter ("Living
Doll").
Big Daddy Kinsey (2001) – prostate cancer. Age 74. Blues guitarist/
singer/harmonica player.
Frank Tovey (2002) – heart attack. Age 45. Avant-garde electronic
musician.
Homer Banks (2003) – cancer. Age 61. Songwriter ("I Can't Stand Up For
Falling Down").
Martin Gilks (2006) – motorcycle accident. Age 41. Drummer for The
Wonder Stuff.
Calvin Russell (2011) – cancer. Age 62. Blues/roots singer/songwriter.
April 3 album releases –
Brenda Lee – Emotions (1961)
Simon and Garfunkel – Bookends (1968)
Moby Grape – Wow/Grape Jam (1968)
Billy Preston – Live European Tour (1974)
Poco – Live (1976)
En Vogue – Born To Sing (1990)
Ronnie Wood – Live And Eclectic (2000)
Poison – The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock (2006)
REO Speedwagon – Find Your Own Way Home (2007)
April 3 events –
1948 – The Louisiana Hayride radio program premieres on radio station
KWKH, broadcast from the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium. Opening
night acts include The Bailes Brothers, Johnny and Jack, The Four
Deacons, The Tennessee Mountain Boys, The Mercy Brothers, Curly Kinsey
and The Tennessee Ridge Runners, Harmie Smith, The Ozark Mountaineers,
and Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys.
1952 – Harry Belafonte records “A-Roving” and “Chimney Smoke.”
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first of two appearances on The Milton
Berle Show, which is broadcast live via remote from the deck of the
USS Hancock, docked in San Diego.
1957 – Elvis Presley performs two shows at the Ottawa Auditorium in
Canada.
1958 – Alan Freed's Big Beat Show plays two shows at the Coliseum in
Baltimore, Maryland, featuring Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee
Lewis and many others.
1959 – The BBC bans The Coasters' song "Charlie Brown" because of the
word "spitballs." They reverse their decision two weeks later.
1959 – Earl Taylor and His Stony Mountain Boys become the first
bluegrass group to perform at Carnegie Hall.
1960 – The Everly Brothers begin their first tour of the UK in London
at the New Victoria Theatre, with the remaining members of The
Crickets as their backing band.
1960 – Elvis Presley has a busy day at RCA Studios in Nashville,
recording 9 of 12 tracks for his Elvis Is Back! album, including
“Fever,” and two singles, “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” and "It's Now Or
Never."
1961 – Paul Anka appears as himself in the "Old Man Danny" episode of
Make Room For Daddy.
1961 – Brenda Lee releases her single, “You Can Depend On Me” b/w
“It’s Never Too Late.”
1963 – Elvis Presley’s 12th movie, It Happened At The World’s Fair,
opens in theaters.
1964 – Bob Dylan has his first chart hit when "The Times They Are A-
Changin'" enters the UK charts.
1965 – Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs’ "Wooly Bully" enters the
Billboard singles chart where it will stay for 18 weeks.
1966 – Pre-Monkees Peter Tork appears as a solo act at The Troubadour
in L.A.
1966 – Pink Floyd appears at the Marquee club in London at the fourth
Spontaneous Underground event.
1969 – Billy Preston signs with Apple Records.
1971 – Tom Waits performs at the Heritage Coffee House in San Diego.
1975 – Steve Miller is arrested for setting fire to party guest Benita
Diorio's clothes and belongings, and resisting arrest. Charges are
dropped the next day.
1976 – The Sex Pistols open for The 101ers at the Nashville Rooms in
London.
1978 – Cher's first television special as a solo artist, Cher…
Special, airs on ABC-TV to huge ratings. Guests include Dolly Parton,
Rod Stewart and The Tubes.
1979 – Kate Bush makes her stage debut at the Empire Theatre in
Liverpool and begins her 28-date Tour Of Life tour: her first and only
tour.
1984 – Producer Jack Douglas is awarded $3 million in royalties due
him from John Lennon's estate for his work on Double Fantasy.
1988 – After each had worked on each others’ most recent albums,
George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison gather at Bob
Dylan's Studio in Malibu, California, and begin recording an all-star
single called "Handle With Care."
1989 – The Grateful Dead play the second of two nights at the
Pittsburgh Civic Arena, and 23 people are arrested when several
thousand fans without tickets try to crash the gates.
1991 – Paul McCartney Unplugged airs on MTV.
1993 – With his version of Leon Russell's "A Song For You," Ray
Charles becomes the first artist in history to chart a record in six
different decades.
1994 – Courtney Love hires private investigator Tom Grant to find Kurt
Cobain who has “disappeared.”
1996 – MC Hammer files bankruptcy, claiming $13 million in debt.
1998 – Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe become parents for the second
time with the birth of their daughter, Paris Michael Katherine
Jackson.
1999 – Alanis Morissette and Garbage appear at the Cox Arena in San
Diego, California.
2000 – Mariah Carey is admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital
suffering from dehydration and food poisoning after eating raw
oysters.
2008 – Former Smiths frontman Morrissey accepts a public apology in
London's High Court from Word magazine after running an article
suggesting he was a racist and a hypocrite.
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