April 28 Born –
Blossom Dearie (1924) – Jazz singer with Woody Herman and Alvino Rey.
Ann-Margaret Olsson (1941) – actress/dancer/singer (“Bye Bye Birdie”).
Pete Anders (aka Peter Andrioli, 1941) – The Trade Winds.
The Fantastic Johnny C (aka Johnny Corley, 1943) – R&B singer
("Boogalo Down Broadway").
John Wolters (1945) – drummer for Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show.
Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (1947) – Peaches and Herb.
Steve Khan (1947) – session guitarist.
Kim Gordon (1953) – bassist for Sonic Youth.
Eddie Jobson (1955) – violinist for Curved Air and Roxy Music.
Jimmy Barnes (aka James Swan, 1956) – Australian singer, Cold Chisel.
Phil King (1960) – bassist for Lush and Jesus And Mary Chain.
Daisy Berkowitz (aka Scott Putesky, 1968) – lead guitarist for Marilyn
Manson.
April 28 R.I.P. –
Charlie Patton (1934) – mitral valve disorder. “Father of the Delta
Blues.”
Tommy Caldwell (1980) – car crash. Age 30. Bassist for The Marshall
Tucker Band.
Steve Currie (1981) – car crash. Age 33. Bassist for T. Rex.
B. W. Stevenson (1988) – died during heart surgery. Age 38. Singer/
songwriter ("My Maria").
Percy Heath (2005) – bone cancer. Age 81. Jazz bassist with Thelonious
Monk.
Tommy Newsom (2007) – bladder and liver cancer. Age 78. Sax player for
the NBC Orchestra.
Vern Gosdin (2009) – stroke. Age 74. Country singer ("Set 'Em Up
Joe").
Corrado "Connie" Codarini (2010) – Age 80. The Four Lads.
April 28 album releases –
Chicago – The Chicago Transit Authority (1969)
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles – What Love Has…Joined Together
(1970)
Wishbone Ash – Argus (1972)
The Grateful Dead – Go To Heaven (1980)
Alice Cooper – Flush The Fashion (1980)
Marshall Crenshaw – Marshall Crenshaw (1982)
Stratovarius – Visions (1997)
Dave Matthews Band – Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
Jimmy Buffett – Don’t Stop The Carnival (1998)
Stevie Nicks – Enchanted (1998) (box set)
Jefferson Airplane – Live At The Fillmore East (1998)
Fleetwood Mac – Say You Will (2003) UK
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life (2009)
The Black Crowes – Warpaint Live (2009)
April 28 events –
1940 – Glenn Miller and His Orchestra records “Pennsylvania 6-5000”
for RCA Bluebird.
1958 – Alan Freed's Big Beat Show plays two shows at the Central High
School Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan, featuring Chuck Berry, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Danny and The Juniors, Buddy Holly, The Pastels, Frankie
Lymon and The Teenagers, The Diamonds, Dickie Doo and The Don’ts, Jo
Ann Campbell, Ed Townsend and others.
1958 – Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" debuts in the Billboard Hot 100
chart, while David Seville’s “Witch Doctor” hits #1.
1959 – The CBS television musical variety show Arthur Godfrey And His
Friends airs its last episode after a ten year run.
1960 – Elvis Presley continues sessions for the G.I. Blues album and
soundtrack, recording "Big Boots," "What's She Really Like?"
"Pocketful Of Rainbows" and "Wooden Heart." One more session will be
held on May 6.
1963 – London hustler Andrew Loog Oldham sees The Rolling Stones at
the Crawdaddy Club and is blown away by their act.
1964 – Elvis Presley releases his single, "Viva Las Vegas" b/w "What'd
I Say."
1964 – The Beatles film the BBC television special, Around The
Beatles, at Wembley studios in London.
1965 – Freddie and The Dreamers, The Four Tops, Sandie Shaw, Manfred
Mann, Dick and Dee Dee, Leroy Van Dyke, Bobby Sherman, Bettye Swan,
The Blossoms, Donna Loren and The Wellingtons all appear on Shindig!
1965 – Barbara Streisand's first television special, My Name Is
Barbara, airs on CBS.
1966 – A string octet - four violins, two violas and two cellos - is
assembled and conducted by George Martin at EMI Studios in London for
the backing track for Paul McCartney’s "Eleanor Rigby."
1967 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Long Legged Girl (With The
Short Dress On)” b/w “That’s Someone You Never Forget.”
1968 – The musical play Hair opens on Broadway at the Biltmore
Theatre, where it will run for 1,750 performances.
1968 – The Seeds appear as The Warts in the "How Not To Manage A Rock
Group" episode of The Mothers-In-Law.
1968 – Ella Fitzgerald, Richard Harris and The Doodletown Pipers
perform on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1975 – Ringo Starr appears on The Smothers Brothers Show, singing "The
No No Song," on CBS. On rival network NBC, John Lennon is the guest on
The Tonight Show. Later in the evening, Lennon gives his last
televised interview with Tom Snyder for The Tomorrow Show.
1978 – Cheap Trick plays the first of two nights at the Budokan Hall
in Tokyo, Japan, and record and film both shows.
1979 – Blondie scores their first #1 hit when "Heart Of Glass" hits
the top spot.
1982 – The California State Assembly consumer-protection-committee
hears testimony from "experts" who claim satanic messages can be heard
when "Stairway To Heaven" is played backwards.
1983 – U2 appears at the Rochester Institute of Technology Ice Rink in
New York on their War Tour.
1987 – After organizing The Robinson Foundation for Hearing Disorders
the previous year, Ray Charles addresses Congress, urging more funding
for hearing research, stating, “My eyes are my handicap, but my ears
are my opportunity.”
1988 – Pink Floyd appears at Texas Stadium in Irving.
1990 – Guns ‘N Roses’ Axl Rose marries Don Everly's daughter, Erin.
The marriage is annulled nine months later.
1991 – Bonnie Raitt marries her first husband, actor Michael O'Keefe.
They divorce in 1999.
1994 – Lisa Marie Presley separates from her first husband, Danny
Keough, after five years of marriage.
1996 – Memphis, Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist proclaims the day
Jerry Lee Lewis Day.
1999 – The tour bus for The Clint Boon Experience is involved in a
near fatal crash outside Glasgow.
1999 – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers get a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
2000 – The offices of James Brown Enterprises are destroyed by fire
when head of security Richard Glenn sets the building ablaze in an
attempt to cover up a forged $75,000 check.
2000 – Paul Atkinson is jailed for three years after being found
guilty of stealing more than £25,000 from Rolling Stone Charlie Watts'
Arabian horse stud farm.
2003 – Ozzy Osbourne’s 17-year old son, Jack, checks into rehab.
2006 – The Swedish government accuses ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus of
owing $12.8 million in back taxes. In 2008, a court will find in
Ulvaeus’ favor, ruling he never owed the money.
2009 – A TV commercial for insurance featuring Iggy Pop is ruled as
misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority because the
insurance company did not insure musicians at the time.
2012 – Heart’s Nancy Wilson marries music producer for Fox Television,
Geoff Bywater.
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