July 3 Born –
George M. Cohan (1878) – composer ("Give My Regards To Broadway").
"Mississippi" John Hurt (1893) – Blues singer/guitarist.
David Lynch (1929) – The Platters.
Pete Fountain (1930) – clarinetist.
Tommy Tedesco (1930) – session guitarist with The Wrecking Crew.
Roger Christian (1934) – DJ, songwriter ("Little Deuce Coupe").
Tupper Saussy (1936) – songwriter/keyboardist, The Neon Philharmonic.
Fontella Bass (1940) – R&B singer ("Rescue Me").
Maureen Kennedy (1940) – The Vernon Girls ("We Love You Beatles").
Judith Durham (1943) – Australian singer with The Seekers.
Victor Unitt (1946) – guitarist for Pretty Things and The Edgar Broughton
Band.
Betty Buckley (1947) – actress, singer/songwriter.
Paul Barrere (1948) – guitarist for Little Feat.
John Verity (1949) – guitarist for Argent.
Johnnie Wilder, Jr. (1949) – Heatwave ("Boogie Nights").
Mike Corby (1951) – guitarist/keyboardist for The Babys.
Poly Styrene (aka Marianne Elliott-Said, 1957) – singer for X-Ray Spex.
Laura Branigan (1957) – American singer/songwriter.
Neil Clark (1958) – guitarist for Lloyd Cole and The Commotions.
Stephen Pearcy (1959) – vocalist for Ratt.
Vince Clarke (1960) – keyboardist for Depeche Mode.
Martyn Walsh (1968) – bassist for Inspiral Carpets.
Kevin Hearn (1969) – keyboardist for Barenaked Ladies.
Javier Weyler (1975) – drummer for Stereophonics.
July 3 R.I.P. –
Brian Jones (1969) – drowned, ruled "death by misadventure." Age 27. The
Rolling Stones.
Donald McPherson (1971) – leukemia. Age 29. The Main Ingredient.
Jim Morrison (1971) – heart failure. Age 27. The Doors.
Mississippi Fred McDowell (1972) – cancer. Age 68. Blues singer/guitarist.
Laurens Hammond (1973) – Age 78. Inventor of the Hammond organ.
Rudy Vallée (1986) – cancer. Age 84. Bandleader, singer ("As Time Goes By").
Mark Sandman (1999) – heart attack on stage. Age 46. Bassist for Morphine.
Johnny Russell (2001) – diabetes. Age 61. Country singer/songwriter ("Act
Naturally").
Audrey Brickley (2005) – acute respiratory distress syndrome. Age 58. The
Orlons.
Boots Randolph (2007) – brain hemorrhage. Age 80. Saxophonist for Monument
Records.
Colin Cooper (2008) – cancer. Age 68. Saxophonist for Climax Blues Band.
Andy Griffith (2012) – heart attack. Age 86. Actor, Country/bluegrass
singer/guitarist..
July 3 album releases –
Ron Wood – Now Look (1975)
Lindsey Buckingham – Go Insane (1984)
Various Artists – Am I Cool Or What? (1991)
Cryptopsy – None So Vile (1996)
Various Artists – G-A-Y (2000) UK
The Alkaholiks – X.O. Experience (2001)
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (2001)
July 3 events –
1941 – Cab Calloway and His Orchestra records "St. James Infirmary" for
Okeh Records.
1945 – Perry Como records "Till The End Of Time" at Lottos Club in New York
City for RCA.
1953 – Harry Belafonte appears on the cover of Ebony magazine with Tony
Curtis and Janet Leigh: the first time black and white Americans appeared
on a magazine cover together.
1954 – Johnny Cash is honorably discharged from the U.S. Air Force.
1956 – Returning to Memphis after the disastrous Steve Allen Show, Elvis
Presley meets Gene Vincent at Pennsylvania Station in New York.
1957 – Kay Starr, along with Pete King and His Orchestra, records “My Heart
Reminds Me” and “Flim Flam Floo” in Hollywood.
1958 – The Andy Williams Show debuts on ABC-TV as a three month summer
replacement series. The show will return the following year on CBS.
1959 – The Shirelles release their single, “Dedicated To The One I Love”
b/w “Look A Here Baby” on the Scepter label.
1959 – Ray Peterson performs “The Wonder Of You” on American Bandstand.
1960 – Widower Vernon Presley marries Dee Stanley in Huntsville, Alabama.
Elvis disapproves and refuses to attend the wedding.
1961 – Eddie Hodges appears on American Bandstand, lip-synching to "I'm
Gonna Knock On Your Door."
1965 – The Beatles play the final date of their last European tour at the
Plaza de Toros Monumental in Barcelona, Spain.
1965 – Brian Hyland, Terry Black and Ian Whitcomb appear on American
Bandstand.
1966 – The Beatles arrive in the Philippines at Manila International
Airport, where they are met by 5,000 fans. The group is immediately taken
to the Philippine Navy Headquarters for a press conference, then put on a
private yacht where they are kept until early the next morning.
1967 – Following the completion of The Monkees’ first UK tour at Wembley
Arena the previous day, Brian Epstein’s NEMS Enterprises - which handled
the tour - hosts a party at the Speakeasy Club in London for the group.
Guests include members of The Beatles, The Who, Manfred Mann, Procol Harum,
Lulu, Eric Clapton, Dusty Springfield and others.
1967 – The Doors appear at the Santa Monica Civic Center, with opening acts
Iron Butterfly and Rubber Maze.
1968 – The Beatles begin recording "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" at Abbey Road
studios.
1968 – At an impromptu gathering at Joni Mitchell's house at Lookout
Mountain in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and
Graham Nash play together for the first time.
1969 – The four-day Newport Jazz Festival begins at Festival Field in
Newport, Rhode Island. Artists appearing during the festival include The
George Benson Quartet, The Freddie Hubbard Quintet, Anita O’Day, Sun Ra,
Jeff Beck, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, The Miles
Davis Quintet, John Mayall, Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, The
Art Blakely Quintet, The Dave Brubeck Trio, O.C. Smith, Sly and The Family
Stone, The Herbie Hancock Sextet, B.B. King, The Buddy Rich Orchestra, Led
Zeppelin and others.
1970 – The three-day Atlanta International Pop Festival begins on this day
in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia
Raceway<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_County_Raceway>in Byron,
Georgia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron,_Georgia>. Artists performing
at the festival include The Allman Brothers Band, Jimi Hendrix, Poco, Grand
Funk Railroad, B.B. King, Mountain, Johnny Winter, Ten Years After,
Bloodrock, Spirit, John Sebastian, The Chambers Brothers, Ravi Shankar,
Terry Reid and others.
1971 – Jerry Reed, and The Raelettes appear on American Bandstand.
1973 – On the final night of his Spiders From Mars Tour, David Bowie
announces he is retiring. This is the first of many such announcements over
the years.
1975 – Three Dog Night's Chuck Negron is arrested for cocaine possession in
his hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky.
1976 – Brian Wilson appears for his first full concert in 12 years with The
Beach Boys in Anaheim, California.
1981 – The surviving members of The Doors lead a graveside tribute in Paris
to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Jim Morrison's death. A new
gravestone is also installed along with a bust of Morrison.
1985 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the first of three
nights at Wembley Stadium.
1986 – U2 crew member Greg Carroll is hit and killed on his motorcycle by a
drunk driver while running an errand for Bono.
1986 – Teddy Pendergrass, a paraplegic since his 1982 car crash, is
involved in another car accident when he hits a telephone pole in his
handicapped-equipped van.
1992 – Olivia *Newton*-*John* is diagnosed with breast *cancer* on the same
day her father, Brin *Newton*-*John,* dies from the disease.
1993 – Alison Krauss joins the Grand Ole Opry: the first bluegrass artist
to join in 29 years.
1996 – AC/DC plays the second of two nights at the Palau Sant Jordi in
Barcelona, Spain, on their Ballbreaker World Tour.
2000 – Harvard professor Ronald Ferguson accuses the culture of hip-hop and
rap music of stalling academic progress among young American blacks,
claiming time spent learning intricate rhyming lyrics detracted from
reading.
2002 – The Royal Academy of Music grants its first Honorary Doctorate
degree to Elton John.
2002 – Ozzy Osbourne's wife Sharon undergoes emergency colon cancer surgery
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and almost dies on the table.
She is given a blood transfusion and survives.
2004 – David Crosby is fined $5,000 in connection with his arrest for an
illegal gun, knife and marijuana in a New York hotel on March 6.
2007 – Babyshambles/Libertines singer Pete Doherty pleads guilty to
possession of cocaine and heroin and avoids jail time by agreeing to go
into rehab.
2009 – More than 50 years after his death, the Los Angeles City Council
declares the day "Ritchie Valens Day."
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