May 13 Born –
Maxine Sullivan (1911) – Jazz singer ("Loch Lomond").
Nervous Norvus (aka Jimmy Drake, 1912) – novelty songster
("Transfusion").
Gil Evans (aka Ian Green, 1912) – Jazz pianist/composer/arranger.
Ginny Simms (aka Virginia Eastvold, 1913) – actress/singer with Woody
Herman and Kay Kyser.
Johnnie Wright (1914) – Country music singer/songwriter ("Hello
Vietnam").
“Daddy-O” Dewey Phillips (1926) – rock and roll pioneer DJ.
Mike Stoller (1933) – songwriter ("Stand By Me").
Alessandro "Teddy" Randazzo (1935) – songwriter ("Goin' Out Of My
Head").
John Smith (1938) – The Monotones.
Joe Brown (1941) – British singer/guitarist, The Bruvvers.
Ritchie Valens (1941) – singer/songwriter (“La Bamba”).
Mary Wells (1943) – Motown singer.
Carolyn Franklin (1944) – singer/songwriter ("Ain't No Way").
"Blue" Lou Marini (1945) – saxophonist for The Blues Brothers.
Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz (1945) – harmonica player for The J.
Geils Band.
Peter Overend Watts (1947) – bassist for Mott The Hoople.
Danny Kirwan (1950) – guitarist for Fleetwood Mac.
Stevie Wonder (aka Stevland Morris, 1950) – singer/songwriter/
keyboardist.
Paul Thompson (1951) – drummer for Roxy Music.
Johnny Logan (aka Seán Sherrard, 1954) – Irish singer/songwriter, Mr.
Eurovision.
Kim McAuliffe (1959) – guitarist for Painted Lady and Girlschool.
Darius Rucker (1966) – vocalist for Hootie and The Blowfish.
Chuck Schuldiner (1967) – guitarist for Death, “The Father of Death
Metal.”
Michael Madden (1979) – bassist for Maroon 5.
May 13 R.I.P. –
James "Bob" Wills (1975) – pneumonia. Age 70. “The King of Western
Swing.”
Joan Weber (1981) – heart failure. Age 45. Singer ("Let Me Go,
Lover!").
Chet Baker (1988) – fell from a window. Age 58. Jazz trumpeter.
Jimmy McPartland (1991) – lung cancer. Age 83. Cornetist/bandleader.
Neville "The Growling Tiger" Marcano (1993) – Calypso musician.
Donald "Duck" Dunn (2012) – died in his sleep. Age 70. Booker T and
The MGs.
May 13 album releases –
Frank Zappa – Lumpy Gravy (1968) re-release
Donna Summer – I Remember Yesterday (1977)
Roger Daltrey – One Of The Boys (1977)
Elton John – 21 At 33 (1980)
Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (1985)
New Order – Low-Life (1985)
May 13 events –
1938 – Louis Armstrong records “When The Saints Go Marching In” for
Decca Records. He will make 40 different recordings of the song during
his career.
1954 – Tony Bennett records "Cinnamon Sinner" at CBS Studios in New
York City.
1955 – Girls riot after an Elvis Presley concert in Jacksonville,
Florida, when he tells them from the stage, "See you backstage."
1956 – After 16 years, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch airs its last
broadcast on CBS radio.
1957 – Elvis Presley begins filming his third movie, Jailhouse Rock.
1957 – The Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" hits the Billboard Hot 100.
1958 – Six months after marrying his third wife, 13-year old second
cousin Myra Gale Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis is finally granted a divorce
from his second wife, Jane Mitcham.
1959 – Johnny Horton records “The First Train Heading South,” “Joe’s
Been A-Gittin’ There,” “I Got The Bull By The Horns” and a special
version of “The Battle Of New Orleans” for the British market at Owen
Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville.
1960 – The juvenile delinquent movie, Platinum High School, starring
Conway Twitty, opens in New York City.
1960 – Freddy Fender is arrested for possession of marijuana in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
1965 – Elvis Presley's movie, Tickle Me, premieres in Hollywood.
During the day, Elvis records "Come Along," "Beginner's Luck," "Down
By The Riverside," "Please Don't Stop Loving Me" and "Shout It Out" at
Radio Recorders in Hollywood for his Frankie And Johnnie movie
soundtrack album.
1966 – The Kinks record “Sunny Afternoon” at Pye Studios in London.
1966 – The Rolling Stones release their single, "Paint It Black" b/w
"Long Long While" in the UK.
1967 – Merle Haggard debuts at the Grand Ole Opry.
1967 – The Young Rascals' "Groovin'" hits the Billboard Hot 100 at #3.
1968 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney are interviewed at the St. Regis
Hotel in New York City by newsman Larry Kane and several other
reporters. John and Paul are in the U.S. to promote their new Apple
Corps company.
1969 – Led Zeppelin appears at the Civic Auditorium in Honolulu,
Hawaii, becoming the first major British rock act to play there.
1969 – The Beatles take part in a photo shoot in the stairway of EMI
to replicate their Please Please Me album cover for their new planned
album, Get Back. The photo will eventually be used on the cover of
their blue greatest hits double album, The Beatles 1967-1970.
1970 – Badfinger begins recording “No Matter What” at Abbey Road
studios in London. They will finish the song the following week at
Trident Studios.
1970 – The Beatles' last movie, Let It Be, premieres in New York City.
1971 – Grace Slick is involved in a near-fatal car crash near the
Golden Gate Bridge, and is hospitalized with a concussion and other
injuries.
1971 – During his second U.S. tour, Elton John visits Disneyland for
the first time.
1971 – Stevie Wonder turns 21, receives $1 million from his $30
million trust fund, and is released from his Motown contract. Gaining
complete artistic control, Wonder re-signs with Tamla.
1971 – James Brown records "Hot Pants" at Starday-King Studios in
Nashville.
1971 – The Undisputed Truth releases their single, "Smiling Faces
Sometimes" b/w "You Got The Love I Need."
1974 – More than fifty people are hurt when concert goers start
throwing bottles outside a Jackson 5 concert at RFK Stadium in
Washington DC. 43 people are arrested.
1974 – Cher releases her single, “Dark Lady” b/w “Two People Clinging
To A Thread.”
1976 – John Denver records "Like A Sad Song" at RCA Studios in
Hollywood.
1977 – Linda Ronstadt denies that she was offered $1 million to appear
in Hustler magazine. In doing so, Ronstadt indirectly declines the $1
million standing offer put forward by the magazine's publisher, Larry
Flint, for any of the top 10 women celebrities (of which Ronstadt is
one) to pose nude.
1977 – Dolly Parton makes her New York debut at The Bottom Line.
1978 – Barry Gibb becomes the first songwriter in history to have four
consecutive #1 singles in the U.S. when Yvonne Elliman's version of
"If I Can't Have You" reaches the top spot on the Billboard pop chart.
1978 – Paul Anka opens Jubilation, a Las Vegas restaurant and disco.
1983 – Def Leppard appears at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in
Biloxi, Mississippi.
1985 – Bruce Springsteen marries actress Julianne Phillips in Lake
Oswego, Oregon, with Little Richard officiating and Percy Sledge
singing "When A Man Loves A Woman.”
1987 – U2 plays the third night of their five-night stay at the
Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on their Joshua
Tree Tour.
1993 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bette Midler and Barry White
"appear" in the "Krusty Gets Kancelled" episode of The Simpsons.
1996 – Oasis becomes the fastest selling group in UK history after all
330,000 tickets for their summer tour sell out in just nine hours.
2000 – Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder's Volkswagen Corrado is found
abandoned after being used as the getaway car in an armed robbery on
Harry Ramsden's fish and chip restaurant in Manchester. £7,000 cash
was taken in the robbery.
2000 – The gates to Strawberry Fields are recovered at a scrap metal
salvage yard in Liverpool.
2002 – Dionne Warwick is arrested at the Miami International Airport
for possession of marijuana when 11 joints are found in her lipstick
case.
2002 – Battery charges brought against Lou Rawls by a former
girlfriend are dismissed in court for insufficient evidence.
2003 – Michael Jackson sues Motown Records for alleged non-payment of
Jackson 5 royalties and the unauthorized use of the group's music in
commercials.
2004 – In an Australian radio interview, KISS's Gene Simmons calls
Islam "a vile culture…" which infuriates Muslim listeners who call the
station. Simmons is forced to clarify his comments, saying he was
referring only to extremists.
2007 – Queen's Brian May is put on round-the-clock surveillance when a
mentally ill man sends May a letter blaming him for his illness and
marking him for death.
2007 – Bo Diddley is admitted to intensive care at Creighton
University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after
a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
2008 – The Turtles' Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, also known as Flo
and Eddie, sue Capitol Records for allowing Ice Cube to sample the
group's 1972 song "Buzzsaw" for Cube's 1992 hit, "Jackin' For Beats."
2008 – The U.S. Postal Service issues a commemorative 42¢ Frank
Sinatra stamp.
2008 – Babyshambles appears at The Forum in London: the bands first
gig since singer Pete Doherty was released from Wormwood Scrubs jail.
2011 – For Bob Dylan's upcoming 70th birthday, Rolling Stone magazine
votes Dylan's song "Like A Rolling Stone" the singer/songwriter's
greatest song ever.
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