April 19 Born –
Don Barbour (1927) – The Four Freshmen.
Alexis Korner (1928) – British blues musician.
Dickie Goodman (1934) – record producer ("The Flying Saucer").
Ruby Johnson (1936) – soul singer with Volt Records ("I'll Run Your
Hurt Away").
Bobby Russell (1940) – songwriter ("The Night The Lights Went Out In
Georgia").
Larry Ramos (aka Hilario Ramos, 1942) – guitarist for The Association.
Alan Price (1942) – keyboardist for The Animals.
Eve Graham (aka Evelyn Beatson, 1943) – The New Seekers.
Bernie Worrell (1944) – keyboardist.
Michael Stewart (1945) – guitarist for We Five.
Tim Curry (1946) – The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Mark Volman (1947) – The Turtles and Flo & Eddie.
Rod Morgenstein (1953) – drummer for Winger, Dixie Dregs and The Steve
Morse Band.
Gary Langan (1956) – engineer/producer, The Art Of Noise.
Marion "Suge" Knight (1965) – founder of Death Row Records.
April 19 R.I.P. –
Willie Mabon (1985) – Age 59. R&B singer/songwriter ("I Don't Know").
Hugh Brannum (1987) – cancer. Age 77. Actor/singer with The Fred
Waring Orchestra as Uncle Lumpy, Mr. Green Jeans.
Steve Douglas (1993) – heart attack in the studio. Age 54. Saxophonist
with the Wrecking Crew.
Conrad Leonard (2003) – Age 104. Pianist/composer/arranger ("I Heard A
Robin Singing").
Stan Levey (2005) – Age 79. Jazz drummer with Miles Davis and Dizzy
Gillespie.
Rick Lewis (2005) – multiple organ failure. Age 71. The Silhouettes.
Ken Albers (2007) – Age 82. The Four Freshmen.
Levon Helm (2012) – cancer. Age 71. The Band.
Greg Ham (2012) – Age 58. Saxophonist for Men At Work
April 19 album releases –
Tony Bennett – If I Ruled The World: Songs For The Jet Set (1965)
The Zombies – Odessey And Oracle (1968)
Miles Davis – Big Fun (1974)
Jethro Tull – The Broadsword And The Beast (1982) U.S.
The Cranberries – Bury The Hatchet (1999)
AC/DC – Iron Man 2 (2010)
April 19 events –
1924 – Chicago radio station WLS airs National Barn Dance, the first
country-western radio program.
1945 – Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel debuts on Broadway
at the Majestic Theatre.
1956 – Clyde McPhatter is discharged from the Army and promptly quits
The Drifters for a solo career.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears at the Municipal Auditorium in Oklahoma
City.
1958 – Alan Freed's Big Beat Show plays the Kansas City Auditorium in
Missouri, featuring Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Danny
and The Juniors, The Pastels, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, The
Diamonds and others.
1959 – Harry Belafonte appears on the first of two nights at Carnegie
Hall in a benefit concert. Both shows are recorded for a live album
release.
1962 – Jackie Wilson makes his debut appearance at the Copacabana in
New York.
1965 – The T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London under the title Teenage
Command Performance.
1965 – The Beatles release their single "Ticket To Ride" b/w "Yes It
Is" in the U.S. on Capitol Records.
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Walker Brothers, Engelbert
Humperdinck, Cat Stevens, The Californians and The Quotations play two
shows at the Odeon Cinema in Blackpool.
1968 – Apple Music runs their famous "This man has talent…" ad in the
New Musical Express, looking for demo tapes, films, and anything else
artistic the company can produce and promote.
1968 – Pink Floyd releases their single, “It Would Be So Nice” b/w
“Julia Dream.”
1969 – Smile, featuring Brian May and Roger Taylor, appear at the
Revolution Club in London.
1970 – Paul McCartney appears on film, performing “Maybe I’m Amazed”
on The Ed Sullivan Show. Live musical guests include Bill Medley,
Peter Nero, Jan Peerce, The Kessler Twins, Geri Granger, and The
Osipov Balalaika Orchestra.
1972 – Elvis Presley plays the final night of his tour at the Tingley
Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Elvis flies home to Memphis
immediately after the concert.
1974 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band appear at the State
Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in an unadvertised gig - the
promoter gambling that word-of-mouth would be enough to fill the 550-
seat venue. Only 250 people attend.
1975 – Pink Floyd appears at the Tucson Community Center Arena in
Arizona on their Wish You Were Here tour.
1978 – The Patti Smith Group releases their single, "Because The
Night" b/w "God Speed."
1980 – Geordie vocalist Brian Johnson joins AC/DC as their new singer.
1980 – For the first time ever, the Country Music chart’s Top 5 are
all held by women: Crystal Gayle, Dottie West, Debbie Boone, Emmylou
Harris and Tammy Wynette.
1980 – R.E.M. plays their first gig at the 11:11 Club in Athens,
Georgia.
1988 – Sonny Bono is sworn in as Mayor of Palm Springs.
1990 – Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Gary Moore, Lemmy Kilmister,
Kirsty MacColl and Level 42's Mark King all appear as themselves in
the "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" episode of BBC's sketch comedy show,
French & Saunders.
1995 – The Stone Roses play their first gig in five years, appearing
at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway.
1997 – Michael Jackson attends an unveiling of a wax statue of himself
at the Grevin Museum of Wax in Paris, France. Jackson provided one of
his own outfits to dress the figure.
1998 – Andrea Bocelli performs at the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts in Washington D.C. for President and Mrs. Clinton.
2000 – Phil Collins wins his High Court lawsuit concerning the
overpayment of royalties to two former members of Earth, Wind & Fire.
Despite the court win, the judge reduces Collins’ award of £250,000 to
£192,000, then rules that the musicians had been overpaid in error and
would not have to pay it back.
2003 – Loretta Lynn opens for The White Stripes at the Hammerstein
Ballroom in New York City.
2003 – Britain's oldest working musician, Conrad Leonard, passes away
at 104 years old. At 99 years of age, Leonard cut his engagements to
75 a year, and in his 100s, he began playing piano every Thursday at
the Plantation Café at Squire's Garden Centre in Twickenham until
shortly before his death.
2004 – Jailhouse Rock: The Musical opens at the Piccadilly Theatre in
London.
2005 – Elvis Presley Enterprises announces they will begin airing
commercials to lure people to Graceland.
2006 – The UK television special, The McCartneys V. The Fur Trade,
airs on BBC1.
2009 – Country music star Ferlin Husky is hospitalized with congestive
heart failure and pneumonia.
2010 – Commenting on the Vatican's recent embrace and "forgiving" of
The Beatles, Ringo Starr blows it off, stating, "The Vatican has more
to talk about than The Beatles."
2011 – The Estate of Michael Jackson settles its 18-month lawsuit
against the Heal The World Foundation for using Jackson’s name to
solicit funds.
2012 – Leonard Cohen's former manager Kelley Lynch is found guilty in
a Los Angeles courtroom for harassing the singer/songwriter with a
torrent of expletive-strewn emails and letters to the star, and is
sentenced to 18 months in jail, five months probation, and ordered to
attend anger-management courses. Cohen thanked the court for the "even-
handed and elegant manner in which these proceedings have unfolded.”
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