May 26 Born –
Al Jolson (aka Asa Yoelson, 1886) – singer/songwriter.
George Formby (1904) – British singer/songwriter.
"Papa" Charlie McCoy (1909) – delta blues musician/songwriter ("Cow
Cow Blues").
Moondog (aka Louis Hardin, 1916) – street musician/composer ("Moondog
Symphony").
Peggy Lee (1920) – Jazz singer/songwriter.
Frank Guida (1922) – songwriter/producer ("Quarter To Three").
Miles Davis (1926) – trumpeter/composer.
Jaki Liebezeit (1938) – drummer for Can.
Mark "Levon" Helm (1940) – drummer for The Band.
Ray Ennis (1940) – vocalist/guitarist for The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Art Sharp (1941) – The Nashville Teens.
Terrence "Verden" Allen (1944) – keyboardist for Mott The Hoople.
Garry Peterson (1945) – drummer for The Guess Who.
Michael “Mick” Ronson (1946) – guitarist/singer/songwriter, The Spider
>From Mars.
Stephanie "Stevie" Nicks (1948) – singer/songwriter, Fleetwood Mac and
Buckingham Nicks.
Hank Williams, Jr. (1949) – Country music singer/songwriter.
Vicki Lawrence (ala Vicki Axelrad, 1949) – singer/actress.
Richard Sohl (1953) – keyboardist for The Patti Smith Group.
Wayne Hussey (1958) – lead vocalist for The Mission.
Colin Vearncombe (1962) – singer/songwriter, Black.
Lenny Kravitz (1964) – singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Kristen Pfaff (1967) – bassist for Hole.
Phillip Rhodes (1968) – drummer for Gin Blossoms.
Alan White (1972) – drummer for Oasis.
Isaac Slade (1981) – vocalist for The Fray.May 26 R.I.P. – Jimmie Rodgers (1933) – pulmonary hemorrhage. Age 35. Country music singer/songwriter, “The Singing Brakeman.” Little Willie John (1968) – heart attack in prison. Age 30. R&B singer. Billy Powell (1977) – cancer. Age 35. The O'Jays. Art Snider (1987) – cancer. Age 60. Canadian pianist/arranger/ producer, founder of Chateau Records. Waldo Semon (1999) – Age 100. Inventor of vinyl. Earle Hagen (2008) – natural causes. Age 88. Television show composer (The Andy Griffith Show). Judy Lynn (2010) – congestive heart failure. Age 74. Country music singer. May 26 album releases – Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Absolutely Free (1967) Diana Ross and The Supremes – Let The Sun Shine In (1969) George Harrison – Electronic Sound (1969) U.S. Peter Frampton – Wind Of Change (1972) UK Los Lobos – Kiko (1992) The Jam – Direction Reaction Creation (1997) (box set) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1998) U.S. The B-52’s – Time Capsule: Songs For A Future Generation (1998) May 26 events – 1942 – Lionel Hampton and his band record "Flying Home" at Decca in New York City. 1953 – Elvis Presley hitchhikes 240 miles, from Memphis to Meridian, Mississippi, to compete in the Jimmie Rodgers "Father of Country Music" Festival talent competition, and takes 2nd place. 1954 – Liberace earns a record-breaking $138,000 for one performance at Madison Square Garden in front of a sell-out crowd of 16,000; 13,000 of which are women. 1956 – Carl Perkins finally appears on The Perry Como Show, and plays "Blue Suede Shoes." Perkins and his band were on the way to New York on March 22 to appear on Como's show when they were involved in the car crash that would lay-up Carl and kill his brother, Jay. 1958 – On the third night of his British tour, Jerry Lee Lewis is booed off the stage: a direct result of his revelation two days before that he married his 13-year old cousin. 1961 – Joe Dowell records “Wooden Heart” at Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville. 1963 – Elvis Presley records "(You're The) Devil In Disguise" and “Ask Me” at RCA Studios in Nashville. 1964 – 17-year old Marianne Faithfull records "As Tears Go By" in London, with session musicians Jimmy Page on guitar and John Paul Jones on bass. 1965 – The Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny & Cher, Jackie DeShannon, Bobby Sherman, Adam Wade, Len and Glen, Brady and Grady, The Explosions, The Blossoms, The Wellingtons, Rick Lancelot, Joey Cooper and Delaney Bramlett, and Jimmie Rodgers all appear on Shindig! 1966 – The Beatles begin recording "Yellow Submarine" at EMI in London. 1966 – Elvis Presley records “Love Letters,” “Tomorrow Is A Long Time” and “Down In The Alley” at RCA Studios in Nashville. 1967 – Smokey Robinson and The Miracles release their single, "More Love" b/w "Swept For You, Baby." 1967 – The Hollies release their single, "Carrie Anne" b/w "Signs That Will Never Change." 1968 – Pink Floyd, Blonde On Blonde and The Pretty Things all appear at the OZ magazine benefit at the Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden, London. 1969 – Still on their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their second week-long bed-in for peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada. 1971 – Don McLean records "American Pie" in New York City. 1972 – Ready to disband, Mott The Hoople is given two new unrecorded songs by David Bowie. They pass on "Suffragette City" and choose "All The Young Dudes." 1972 – The first day of the four-day UK Great Western Express Festival begins in Bardney, Lincolnshire. Festival acts include The Beach Boys, Faces, Joe Cocker, Humble Pie, Slade, The Groundhogs, Ry Cooder, Don McLean, Brewer’s Droop, Wishbone Ash, Rory Gallagher, Nazareth, Average White Band, The Spencer Davis Group, Lindisfarne, Roxy Music, Monty Python and others. 1973 – Deep Purple releases their single, "Smoke On The Water" (studio) b/w "Smoke On The Water" (live). 1974 – At a David Cassidy concert at London's White City Stadium, 650 people are injured when the crowd of 35,000 surges towards the stage. One 14-year old girl later dies from her injuries, which causes Cassidy to take an 11-year hiatus from touring. 1976 – On a trans-Atlantic British Airways flight, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant get drunk and start insulting other first class passengers, including actors Dudley Moore and Telly Savalas. 1977 – Members of KISS provide a small vial of blood to be mixed with the printing ink for their up-coming Marvel Comic book. 1977 – The stage show, Beatlemania!, previews in Boston. 1978 – U2 makes their television debut as The Hype on the Irish TV show Youngline. 1979 – The first day of the two-day Loch Lomond Rock Festival takes place at Cameron Wildlife Park in Balloch, Dumbartonshire in Scotland. Festival acts include Sneaky Pete, The Stranglers, Dr. Feelgood, Third World, The Skids, UK Subs, The Dickies, Boomtown Rats, The Buzzcocks, Average White Band, Fairport Convention and Rockpile. 1982 – Bobby Darin is posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1990 – Angie Bowie sues her ex-husband, David, for $56 million. 1990 – For the first time ever, the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart are held by female artists, with Madonna at #1 with “Vogue,” Heart at #2, Sinead O'Connor at #3 with “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Wilson Phillips at #4 with “Hold On,” and Janet Jackson at #5. 1993 – Singapore lifts its decades-old ban on the music of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Chicago. 1994 – Michael Jackson marries Lisa Marie Presley in De La Vega, Santa Domingo. 1996 – Fire guts Eric Clapton's home, causing $3 million in damages. Firefighters arrive to find Clapton running in and out of the burning house saving his guitar collection. 2000 – Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee is jailed for five days for drinking alcohol, which is against his probation. 2000 – Richard Carpenter is given an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree by California State University in Long Beach. 2002 – MTV debuts The Osbournes television show in the UK. 2008 – Paul McCartney receives an honorary Doctorate of Music from Yale University. 2009 – U.S. Judge Jack Early ends a bitter two-year battle over James Brown's estate. Early rules half of Brown's assets will go to his charitable trust, a quarter to his wife and young son, and the rest to his six adult children. 2010 – Alice Cooper, Barry and Robin Gibb, Hall & Oates, Michael McDonald, Joe Cocker and Janet Jackson appear on the season finale of American Idol. 2011 – An appeals court in California refuses to reconsider music producer Phil Spector's appeal of his murder conviction, saying there was overwhelming evidence of his guilt. -- 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.
