April 22 Born –
Candido Camero (1921) – Cuban percussionist for Dizzy Gillespie and
Stan Kenton.
Charles Mingus (1922) – Jazz bassist.
Laurel Aitken (1927) – The Godfather of Ska.
Joe "Sonny" Cuba (1931) – The Father of Latin Boogaloo.
Glen Campbell (1936) – singer/songwriter, guitarist with the Wrecking
Crew.
Bernard "Jack" Nitzsche (1937) – songwriter/film score composer.
Simon Napier-Bell (1939) – manager/producer.
Mel Carter (1943) – singer ("Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me").
Howard Wyeth (1944) – session drummer.
Frankie “Cannibal” Garcia (aka Francisco Garcia, 1946) – Cannibal and
The Headhunters.
Larry Groce (1948) – radio host, singer/songwriter ("Junk Food
Junkie").
Peter Frampton (1950) – singer/songwriter/guitarist, Humble Pie and
Frampton’s Camel.
Paul Carrack (1951) – Ace, Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics.
Arthur Baker (1955) – DJ/hip-hop producer.
Ken Lyons (1956) – bassist for .38 Special and The Lemonheads.
Carl Hunter (1965) – bassist for The Farm.
Kimberley Dahme (1966) – current bassist for Boston.
Shavo Odadjian (1974) – bassist for System Of A Down.
Jason Stollsteimer (1978) – vocalist/guitarist for The Von Blondies.
Daniel Johns (1979) – guitarist/vocalist for Silverchair.
April 22 R.I.P. –
Steve Sholes (1968) – heart attack. Age 57. RCA Records executive.
Jane Froman (1980) – cardiac arrest. Age 72. Singer/actress (“I
Believe”).
Earl "Fatha" Hines (1983) – Age 80. Jazz pianist.
Felice Bryant (2003) – Age 77. Songwriter ("Bye Bye Love").
Paul Davis (2008) – heart attack. Age 60. Singer/songwriter ("65 Love
Affair").
April 22 album releases –
The Monkees – The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees (1968)
Iron Butterfly – Live (1970)
Merle Haggard – Hag (1971)
The Temptations – Sky’s The Limit (1971)
The J. Geils Band – Blow Your Face Out (1976)
Heart – Magazine (1978)
Prince – Around The World In A Day (1985)
Alison Moyet – Hoodoo (1991)
The Fall – Shift-Work (1991)
The Samples – No Room (1992)
Stratovarius – Episode (1996)
Chicago – The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997 (1997)
Mary J. Blige – Share My World (1997)
Son Volt – Straightaways (1997)
Madonna – American Life (2003)
April 22 events –
1954 – Dean Martin records “Sway (Quien Sera)” and “Peddler Man (Ten I
Loved).”
1955 – Elvis Presley plays a show at the New Boston High School
football field in Texas.
1957 – The "music gates" are installed at the entrance to Graceland in
Memphis.
1959 – The Alan Freed rock and roll movie, Go, Johnny, Go, featuring
Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, The
Cadillacs and The Flamingos, premieres in New York.
1962 – Jerry Lee Lewis' three-year old son, Steve Allen Lewis, drowns
in the family swimming pool.
1964 – The President of The National Federation of Hairdressers offers
a free haircut to the next #1 group in the UK pop charts.
1965 – Frank Sinatra records "It Was A Very Good Year" at United in
Hollywood.
1966 – The Castiles, featuring Bruce Springsteen, takes third place in
a battle of the bands competition at the Matawan-Keyport Roller Drome
in Matawan, New Jersey, behind second place Sonny and The Starfires,
and winners, The Rogues.
1967 – Elvis Presley's 23rd movie, Easy Come, Easy Go, opens in
theaters.
1967 – In a poll conducted by Disc & Music Echo, Davy Jones is voted
the most popular Monkee, receiving 63% of the votes.
1968 – On the CBS Tijuana Brass television special, Beat Of The Brass,
Herb Alpert sings "This Guy's In Love With You" to his wife, creating
an instant demand for the record.
1969 – The Carpenters sign with A&M Records.
1969 – In a brief ceremony on the Apple rooftop at 3 Savile Row in
London, John Lennon changes his middle from Winston to Ono.
1969 – The Who perform Tommy for the first time in its entirety on
stage in Dolton, England.
1969 – Fleetwood Mac kicks off a 10-date UK tour at the Royal Albert
Hall in London. Also on the bill are B.B. King, Sonny Terry and
Brownie McGhee and Duster Bennett.
1970 – Lynn Anderson and Burl Ives are the musical guests on The
Johnny Cash Show.
1974 – The Who begin filming the movie version of their rock opera
Tommy, with Tina Turner’s segment as The Acid Queen.
1975 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “T-R-O-U-B-L-E” b/w “Mr.
Songman.”
1976 – Johnnie Taylor releases his single, “Disco Lady” b/w “You’re
The Best Girl In The World.” The single is the first with the word
“disco” in the title, and goes on to be the first single to sell 2
million copies.
1978 – Bob Marley and The Wailers headline the One Love Peace Concert
in Jamaica.
1978 – The Blues Brothers make their debut as the musical act on
Saturday Night Live.
1979 – The Rolling Stones and the Keith Richards/Ron Wood band, The
New Barbarians, play the first of two benefit concerts for the blind
at the Oshawa Civic Auditorium in Toronto as a result of Richards'
drug bust in 1977.
1981 – Two days after being released from a hospital in St. Paul,
Minnesota for bleeding ulcers, Eric Clapton crashes his car in
Seattle, bruising ribs and cutting his chin.
1989 – Clint Black makes his debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry.
1991 – The Dave Matthews Band plays their first live show at an Earth
Day event in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1993 – The Broadway production of The Who's Tommy debuts at the St.
James Theatre for 899 performances.
2008 – Tommy Steele reveals to the Daily Mail that in 1958 Elvis
Presley stopped in London for a day while on leave from the Army in
Germany, and Steele showed him the landmarks around the city,
debunking the long-held belief that Presley had only been in the UK
once, to re-fuel a plane he was on in Scotland after being discharged
from the Army in 1960.
2010 – The L.A. coroner's office officially rules that Marie Osmond's
son, Michael Blosil, committed suicide in February.
2011 – Country singer LeAnn Rimes marries actor Eddie Cibrian.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Diamond Headz" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
