April 7 Born –
Percy Faith (1908) – composer/conductor.
Jack Lawrence (1912) – songwriter (“Tenderly”).
Ralph Flanagan (1914) – bandleader/conductor/composer ("Hot Toddy").
Billie Holiday (aka Eleanora Fagan, 1915) – Jazz singer.
Ravi Shankar (1920) – sitar player/composer.
Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria (1922) – Cuban percussionist.
Bobby Bare (1935) – Country music singer/songwriter ("Detroit City").
Charlie Thomas (1937) – The Drifters.
Don Julian (1937) – The Larks (“The Jerk”).
Freddie Hubbard (1938) – Jazz trumpeter.
Spencer Dryden (1938) – Jefferson Airplane.
Gary Kellgren (1939) – audio engineer, co-founder of The Record Plant
recording studios.
Alan Buck (1943) – drummer for The Four Pennies.
Mick Abrahams (1943) – guitarist for Jethro Tull.
Bill Kreutzmann (1946) – drummer for The Grateful Dead.
Florian Schneider-Esleben (1947) – Kraftwerk.
Patricia Bennett (1947) – The Chiffons.
Carol Douglas (1948) – American singer.
Dallas Taylor (1948) – drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
Wells Kelly (1949) – drummer for Orleans.
John Oates (1949) – Hall and Oates.
Steve Ellis (1950) – British singer ("Everlasting Love").
Bruce Gary (1951) – drummer for The Knack.
Janis Ian (aka Janis Fink, 1951) – singer/songwriter (“At Seventeen”).
Simon Climie (1957) – vocalist for Climie Fisher.April 7 R.I.P. – Kit Lambert (1981) – cerebral hemorrhage from falling down the stairs. Age 45. Manager of The Who. Maxine Sullivan (1987) – Age 75. Jazz singer. Lee Brilleaux (1994) – lymphoma. Age 41. Dr. Feelgood. Heinz Burt (2000) – motor neurone disease. Age 57. The Tornadoes. José Melis (2005) – respiratory infection. Age 85. Pianist for Mel Torme, and Jack Paar’s Tonight Show. April 7 album releases – Nazz – Nazz Nazz (1969) Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – 4 Way Street (1971) Prince – For You (1978) Genesis – …And The There Were Three… (1978) The Band – The Last Waltz (1978) Rick James – Street Songs (1981) The Blow Monkeys – Animal Magic (1986) Whitesnake – Whitesnake (1987) The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole (1997) Bonnie Raitt – Fundamental (1998) Bachman-Turner Overdrive – King Biscuit Flower Hour Greatest Hits Live (1998) ProjeKct Two – Space Groove (1998) Neil Young – Fork In The Road (2009) April 7 events – 1950 – Slim Whitman makes his debut on KWKH’s Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport. 1956 – The first national rock and roll radio series, Alan Freed's Rock 'N' Roll Dance Party, debuts on the CBS Radio Network. 1956 – The Platters make their television debut on the Dorsey Bothers' Stage Show on CBS-TV. 1957 – Buddy Know performs “Party Doll,” and Ferlin Husky sings “Gone” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Other musical guests include Jimmy Bowen, Abbe Lane with The Xavier Cougat Orchestra, and Jacqueline François. 1958 – Capitol Records officially stops selling 78 RPM records. 1958 – Alan Freed's Big Beat Show plays two shows at the Memorial Hall in Canton, Ohio, featuring Danny and The Juniors, The Pastels, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, The Diamonds, and many others. 1958 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Wear My Ring Around Your Neck” b/w “Don’cha Think It’s Time.” 1958 – Wanda Jackson records “Making Believe,” “Just Call Me Lonesome,” “Happy, Happy Birthday,” “Let Me Go, Lover” and “Let’s Have A Party,” with Buck Owens on guitar, at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. 1959 – Marty Robbins records “El Paso,” “Big Iron” and 10 other songs at Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville. 1960 – Connie Francis records "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" at Olmstead Studios in New York City. 1962 – Elvis Presley arrives in Hawaii to shoot the beach scenes for his movie Girls! Girls! Girls! and is mobbed by more than 1,000 fans. 1962 – The Beatles play a two-hour show between two sets by The Saints Jazz Band at the Cavern club in Liverpool. 1962 – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards attend a show by Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated at the Ealing Jazz Club, and are introduced to Brian Jones. 1962 – Teen idol Bobby Rydell is ironically cast as Hugo Peabody in the film version of the hit Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie. 1963 – The Beatles make their only appearance at the Savoy Ballroom in Southsea, Portsmouth. 1965 – P.J. Proby records the Lennon/McCartney song “That Means A Lot” at EMI studios. 1965 – Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, The Wellingtons, Glen Campbell, The Righteous Brothers, Martha and The Vandellas, Leslie Gore, Donna Loren, Delaney Bramlett, Jimmy Clanton and Willie Nelson all appear on Shindig! 1966 – The Beatles begin work on the McCartney tune "Got To Get You Into My Life." 1967 – San Francisco's KMPX- FM radio DJ Tom Donahue hits the airwaves for the first time, playing only album cuts instead of singles and hit songs, unknowingly paving the way for the future of FM radio. 1967 – Sonny and Cher's ill-fated comedy film, Good Times, premieres in Chicago. 1967 – The Stax/Volt Review package tour of Europe plays in Oslo, Norway, featuring Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T and The MGs, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd and The Mar-Keys. The show is filmed but remains unreleased until October 2007. 1967 – Pink Floyd plays at the Floral Hall in Belfast, Ireland. 1968 – The Who headline at the CNE Coliseum in Toronto, Canada, with The Troggs, MC5, and Raja. 1970 – Burt Bacharach’s and Hal David’s "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" wins the Best Original Song Oscar award at the 42nd Academy Awards. 1972 – Elvis Presley appears at the University of Dayton Arena in Ohio. 1975 – Ritchie Blackmore quits Deep Purple. Tommy Bolin will replace him for one album. 1979 – The first day of The California World Music Festival takes place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, featuring Cheap Trick, Toto, Ted Nugent, Journey, Head East, REO Speedwagon, April Wine, Mahogany Rush, The Outlaws and The Fabulous Poodles. 1979 – Siouxsie and The Banshees headline a benefit gig for MENCAP, a charity for the mentally handicapped, at the Rainbow Theatre in London, and are later faced with a £2,000 bill for seat damage by the wild crowd. The Human League and Rema Rema open the show. 1979 – Rickie Lee Jones performs “Chuck E’s In Love” on Saturday Night Live. 1981 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band begin their first European tour in Hamburg, Germany. 1985 – Wham! becomes the first western pop group to perform live in China, performing at the People's Stadium in Beijing. 1988 – Alice Cooper is nearly killed when he hangs himself for real after a safety rope breaks during tour rehearsals. He dangles for a moment until a quick-acting roadie steps in and gets him down. 1990 – Farm Aid IV takes place at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, featuring Guns ‘N Roses, Lou Reed, Don Henley, Elton John, Carl Perkins, Bonnie Raitt, Asleep At The Wheel, Taj Mahal, Neil Young, Willie Nelson and many others. 1990 – A concert in New Haven by Mötley Crüe is stopped when drummer Tommy Lee hits his head and suffers a concussion after falling 20 feet from his drum riser while attempting to jump down after his drum solo. 1994 – Courtney Love is arrested on drug and theft charges. At this time she is still unaware that husband Kurt Cobain is dead. (Cobain's body was found on April 8). 1994 – Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion on $260,000 of income and is sentenced to six months in prison, which he serves in a halfway house. 1995 – Burbank Airport police seize a loaded 9mm Beretta pistol from Eddie Van Halen's carry-on luggage. No charges are filed. 1997 – Oasis singer Liam Gallagher marries actress Patsy Kensit at Marylebone Registry office in London. The marriage lasts three years. 1998 – Wham! singer, George Michael, is arrested in a restroom at Will Rogers Memorial Park by an undercover Beverly Hills police officer for "lewd acts." 1998 – Sonny Bono’s widow Mary wins a special election to serve the remaining nine months of her late husband's Senate term. 2001 – Paul McCartney buys Courtney Love's 1930s Beverly Hills home for $3.95 million. 2008 – Bob Dylan receives an honorary Pulitzer Prize for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." 2008 – Olivia Newton-John begins her 21-day, 228km walk on the Great Wall of China as a benefit for The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Centre's Wellness Centre. 2010 – Singer Whitney Houston is released from a Paris hospital after suffering a respiratory infection, and calls media reports that she is using drugs again “ridiculous.” -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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