July 15 Born –
Dorothy Fields (1905) – songwriter/lyricist ("On The Sunny Side Of The
Street").
Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas (1913) – Country music artist ("Alabam").
H. B. Barnum (1936) – pianist/songwriter/arranger/producer.
Tommy Dee (aka Tom Donaldson, 1939) – The Teen-Aires.
Millie Jackson (1944) – R&B/soul singer.
Peter Lewis (1945) – guitarist for Moby Grape.
Linda Ronstadt (1946) – singer.
Peter Banks (1947) – original guitarist for Yes.
Ian McCredie (1947) – Middle Of The Road.
Thomas "Artimus" Pyle (1948) – drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Trevor Horn (1949) – The Buggles and Yes.
Gregory Isaacs (1951) – Reggae musician/singer.
Jeff Carlisi (1952) – guitarist for .38 Special.
Johnny Thunders (aka John Genzale, Jr., 1952) – New York Dolls.
David Pack (1952) – producer, guitarist/vocalist for Ambrosia.
Alicia Bridges (1953) – singer/songwriter ("I Love The Nightlife").
Ian Curtis (1956) – vocalist for Joy Division.
Joe Satriani (1956) – guitarist, Chickenfoot.
Marky Ramone (aka Marc Bell, 1956) – drummer for The Ramones.
Jason Bonham (1966) – drummer for Bonham and Led Zeppelin.
Chi Cheng (1970) – bassist for The Deftones.
John Dolmayan (1973) – drummer for System Of A Down.
Ray Toro (1977) – guitarist for My Chemical Romance.
July 15 R.I.P. –
Ben Selvin (1980) – bandleader/producer, "The Dean of Recorded Music."
Bill Justis (1982) – cancer. Age 55. Singer/songwriter ("Raunchy").
Neshui Ertegun (1989) – complications from cancer surgery. Age 71. Atlantic
Records executive.
Bert Convy (1991) – brain tumor. Age 57. Actor/singer, The Cheers ("Black
Denim Trousers And Motorcycle Boots").
Ary Groenhuijzen (1997) – Keyboardist for The Teddy Bears.
Paul Young – (2000) – heart attack. Age 53. Sad Café, Mike + The Mechanics.
Kelly Johnson (2007) – spinal cancer. Age 49. Guitarist for Girlschool.
Hank Cochran (2010) – cancer. Age 74. Country singer/songwriter ("I Fall To
Pieces").
July 15 album releases –
The Yardbirds – Roger The Engineer (1966) UK
The Yardbirds – Over Under Sideways Down (1966) U.S.
Neil Diamond – Moods (1972)
Grand Funk Railroad – We're An American Band (1973)
Donnie Iris – Back On The Streets (1980)
America – View From The Ground (1982)
Big Country – The Crossing (1983)
Lionel Richie – Dancing On The Ceiling (1986)
Spandau Ballet – Through The Barricades (1986)
The Dandy Warhols – …The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
Sarah McLachlan – Surfacing (1997)
Dwight Yoakam – Under The Covers (1997)
July 15 events –
1942 – The Glenn Miller Orchestra, along with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke,
and The Moderaires on vocals, records "Jukebox Saturday Night."
1951 – In Montgomery, Alabama, an estimated 9,000 people show up for Hank
Williams Homecoming Day.
1952 – Eight-year old Gladys Knight wins $2,000 on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
after performing a rendition of the Nat “King” Cole song “Too Young.”
1952 – Patti Page makes her television debut on CBS with her summer
replacement series, filling in for The Perry Como Show.
1957 – Elvis Presley's single "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" b/w "Loving
You" hits #1, and will stay there for seven weeks.
1958 – John Lennon's mother Julia is killed when she is hit by a car driven
by drunk, off-duty police officer, Eric Clague.
1959 – Duane Eddy and Johnny Johns appear on American Bandstand.
1960 – Johnny Horton appears on American Bandstand, performing "Johnny
Freedom."
1963 – Filming begins on Elvis Presley's 15th movie, Viva Las Vegas.
1965 – Jan and Dean perform "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" and "Sidewalk
Surfing," and Lenny Welch sings "Since I Fell For You" and "Darling Take Me
Back" on Where The Action Is. Also on the show are Paul Revere and The
Raiders, performing “Louie Louie.”
1966 – Jimmie Rodgers and The Swingin' Medallions appear on Where The
Action Is.
1966 – David Bowie and The Buzz appear at the Loughton Youth Centre.
1967 – The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and The Merry Go-Round play two shows
at the Anaheim Convention Center in California.
1967 – Tommy Roe, and The Impressions appear on American Bandstand.
1968 – The Beatles move their Apple headquarters to 3 Savile Row in London.
1969 – Folk singer Judy Collins performs on stage in Peer Gynt at the New
York Shakespeare Festival in New York City's Central Park.
1973 – The Great Western Express Festival takes place at White City Stadium
in London, featuring The Edgar Winter Group, Sly and The Family Stone,
Canned Heat, Lindisfarne, and The Kinks, during whose set a visibly
distraught Ray Davies, newly separated from his wife, announces on stage
that he's quitting the band and retiring from show business. He leaves the
concert, overdoses on drugs in a half-hearted suicide attempt, and checks
into a local hospital early the next morning for "exhaustion."
1978 – The Blackbushe Aerodrome in Surrey hosts "The Picnic" concert,
featuring Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Graham Parker and The Rumour, Joan
Armatrading and Lake.
1978 – Former Three Dog Night member Cory Wells appears on American
Bandstand.
1980 – Brian Ferry is flown back to London on a chartered flight and
hospitalized with a kidney infection.
1980 – On her 34th birthday, Linda Ronstadt makes her Broadway debut in
Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates Of Penzance in New York's Central Park.
1986 – After 26 years, Columbia Records drops Johnny Cash from their roster.
1988 – MTV bans the video for Neil Young's “This Note's For You,” which
shows a Michael Jackson look-alike with his hair on fire. The ban is soon
lifted and the video will go on to win MTV’s Best Video Award for 1989.
1989 – *Pink Floyd* plays on a temporary *floating stage* in the Grand
Canal in Venice facing St. Mark's Square. Approximately 200,000 fans crowd
the square, causing damage to buildings and bridges, and overwhelming the
authorities.
1993 – Midnight Oil gives a free concert at Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver
Island in British Columbia to protest the devastation of its rain forest.
1998 – Aerosmith's drummer Joey Kramer receives second degree burns when
his Ferrari catches on fire while fueling up at a gas station. The car is
destroyed.
1999 – Grateful Dead and Ratdog member Bob Weir marries his first and only
wife, Natascha Münter, in Mill Valley, California. They are still married.
2000 – Oasis appears at Reebok Stadium in Bolton on their Standing On The
Shoulder Of Giants Tour.
2000 – Bob Seger's 62-foot boat, Lightning, wins its division in the 78th
Annual Sailboat Race from Port Huron to Mackinac Island, Michigan.
2004 – During a photo shoot in France, U2 call the police after someone
steals a lone demo copy of the band's latest album, Vertigo.
2005 – Village People "policeman" Victor Willis is arrested after police
find a gun and drugs in his convertible in Daly City, south of San
Francisco. Willis also had an outstanding $15,000 felony warrant for
possession of narcotics.
2007 – P. Diddy receives more than 10,000 responses when he posts an
"Assistant Needed" job advert on YouTube.
2007 – Since it had never been done before, the UK music industry reacts
angrily at a decision to give away Prince's as-yet unreleased new album,
Planet Earth, as a ‘covermount’ with The Mail Sunday newspaper. The idea
proves to be a success, however, and Prince and The Mail will do it again
in 2010 for Prince's album, 20Ten.
2009 – Paul McCartney performs outdoors in New York City on the marquee of
The Ed Sullivan Theatre as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman.
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