July 16 Born –
Carmen Lombardo (1903) – songwriter (“Coquette”).
Ginger Rogers (aka Virginia McMath, 1911) – actress/dancer/singer ("The
Golddiggers' Song (We're In The Money)").
Cal Tjader (1925) – Latin percussionist ("Soul Sauce").
Nat Pierce (1925) – Jazz pianist/arranger with Woody Herman and Coleman
Hawkins.
Mindy Carson (1927) – singer ("My Foolish Heart").
Solly McElroy (1933) – The Flamingos.
Tony Jackson (1938) – bassist for The Searchers.
Denise LaSalle (1939) – singer ("Trapped By A Thing Called Love").
Desmond Dekker (1941) – Jamaican singer, The Aces ("The Israelites").
Thomas Boggs (1944) – drummer for The Box Tops.
Ray Major (1949) – guitarist for Mott The Hoople.
Stewart Copeland (1952) – drummer for The Police.
Mark McEntee (1961) – guitarist for The Divinyls.
Polly Hancock (1964) – guitarist/vocalist for Popinjays.
Ed Kowalczyk (1971) – vocalist for Live.
July 16 R.I.P. –
Harry Chapin (1981) – car accident. Age 38.
Billy Williams (1984) – heart attack. Age 74. The Billy Williams Quartet.
Wayne King (1985) – Age 83. "The Waltz King."
John Panozzo (1996) – gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Age 47. Styx.
Celia Cruz (2003) – brain cancer. Age 77. "The Queen of Salsa."
Jo Stafford (2008) – congestive heart failure. Age 90. The Pied Pipers.
Bob Babbitt (2012) – brain tumor. Age 74. Bassist with the Funk Brothers.
Jon Lord (2012) – pulmonary embolism. Age 71. Organist for Deep Purple and
Whitesnake.
Kitty Wells (2012) – complications from a stroke. Age 92. Country music
singer.
July 16 album releases –
Gentle Giant – Acquiring The Taste (1971)
Bob Dylan – Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973)
Neil Young – On The Beach (1974)
Rick James – Garden Of Love (1980)
The Beach Boys – Rare Early Recordings (1981)
Warren Zevon – The Envoy (1982)
Sade – Diamond Life (1984) UK
Tonic – Lemon Parade (1996)
The Samples – Outpost (1996)
Simon and Garfunkel – Live From New York City, 1967 (2002)
Dave Matthews Band – Busted Stuff (2002)
July 16 events –
1955 – Elvis Presley hits the national charts for the first time when his
song "Baby, Let's Play House" breaks on the Cash Box country chart at #15.
1959 – The Coasters record "Poison Ivy" at Atlantic Recording Studios in
New York City.
1960 – Hank Ballard and The Midnighters' "Finger Poppin' Time," "Let's Go,
Let's Go, Let's Go," and his original version of "The Twist" are all on
Billboard's Hot 100: the first time any act has had three charting records
simultaneously.
1962 – Freddy Cannon performs “Palisades Park” on American Bandstand.
1962 – The Beach Boys sign with Capitol Records.
1963 – The Beach Boys record "In My Room," “Surfers Rule,” “South Bay
Surfer” and “Boogie Woodie” at Western in Hollywood.
1965 – Bobby Rydell appears on film from the Pieces Of Eight, performing
“Forget Him” and “Wildwood Days,” on Where The Action Is. Show regular
Steve Alaimo performs “Baby The Rain Must Fall,” and Paul Revere and The
Raiders perform “Searchin’.”
1965 – The Rolling Stones appear at the Odeon in Exeter, with opening acts
The Walker Brothers and Steam Packet.
1966 – Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker form Cream.
1966 – Danny Hutton appears on American Bandstand, singing "Funny How Love
Can Be." Also on the show is Kelly Garrett, performing "An Answer To A
Young Girl's Prayers."
1967 – Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton, Leonard Cohen
and Arlo Guthrie appear on the second day of the Newport Folk Festival at
Fort Adams Park in Rhode Island.
1969 – Diana Ross and The Supremes appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson.
1970 – Pink Floyd records their show at the Paris Cinema in London for
broadcast on John Peel's Sunday Concert on BBC Radio 1.
1970 – Diana Ross releases her single, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" b/w
"Can't It Wait Until Tomorrow."
1972 – Smokey Robinson performs his final show with The Miracles at the
Carter Barron Amphitheater in Washington, DC. At the end of the show,
Smokey introduces his replacement, 20-year-old Billy Griffin.
1973 – Grand Funk Railroad releases their single, "We're An American Band"
b/w "The Railroad."
1976 – Loggins and Messina split up.
1976 – Due to the bi-coastal distance, and increasing differences between
Gregg Allman and the other band members, The *Allman Brothers* Band calls
it quits.
1976 – Helen Reddy hosts The Midnight Special, with guests Elvin Bishop,
B.B. King, and Gladys Knight and The Pips.
1977 – Joe Tex performs “Ain’t Gonna Bump No More” on American Bandstand.
Also on the show is Cat Stevens, via videotape, performing “The Old
Schoolyard.”
1980 – Donna Summer marries her second husband, songwriter and producer
Bruce Sudano.
1988 – Steve Cayter, a road crew technician for Def Leppard, dies of a
brain hemorrhage on stage while setting up before a show at the Alpine
Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin.
1991 – Radio announcer Dwight Weist, known as “the man of 1,000 voices,”
passes away at age 81 while vacationing in Rhode Island.
1993 – The first of the three-day Phoenix Festival takes place in England.
Festival artists include Sonic Youth, Faith No More, The Black Crowes,
Julian Cope, Pop Will Eat Itself, Radiohead, Living Colour, Manic Street
Preachers, Pulp and others.
1994 – At the 20th anniversary celebration of the Stone Pony bar in Asbury
Park, New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa, Jon Bon Jovi and E
Street drummer Max Weinberg all show up unannounced to play with Southside
Johnny and The Asbury Jukes.
1994 – *The Three Tenors - *José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano
Pavarotti - perform at Dodger Stadium in L.A. with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and the chorus of Los Angeles Opera.
1995 – *Wayne Osmond* undergoes surgery for a cancerous brain tumor at Duke
University Medical Center in North Carolina.
1995 – Rap singer Queen Latifah is the victim of a car-jacking attempt gone
wrong, leaving her bodyguard shot and wounded.
1996 – Michael Jackson performs at the private birthday party for the
Sultan of Brunei for $15 million.
1999 – The Beach Boys perform live on NBC's The Today Show.
1999 – The Lilith Fair concert tour plays the Coors Amphitheatre in San
Diego, featuring performances by Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, The Dixie
Chicks, Luscious Jackson, Cibo Matto, Mya, Beth Orton, Murmurs, Shelley
Doty X-Tet, Tekla and others.
2000 – The Corrs present a petition to the European Commission demanding
legislation to end piracy on the Internet. Members of Manic Street
Preachers and The Spice Girls also add their names to the petition.
2003 – Influential Baltimore DJ and television dance show host Winston
“Buddy” Deane, 78, suffers a massive stroke and passes away in Pine Bluff,
Arkansas. The Buddy Deane Show began airing in 1957 for two and a half
hours a day, six days a week, and was in direct competition with American
Bandstand, with Bandstand being “blacked out” in the Baltimore area in
preference of Deane’s show. Artists appearing on Deane’s show were
forbidden to appear on Bandstand, however, artists that appeared on
Bandstand were allowed to appear on Deane’s show. Movie director John
Waters used The Buddy Deane Show as the template for “The Corny Collins
Show” in his movie Hairspray.
2003 – Courtney Love joins forces with Japanese publisher Tokyopop for a
comic based on her life.
2005 – The Vocal Group Hall of Fame inducts its seventh annual group of
honorees in Wildwood, New Jersey, including The Angels, The Brooklyn
Bridge, The Chiffons, The Chi-Lites, The Del-Vikings, Fleetwood Mac, The
Hilltoppers, The Mel-Tones, The Neville Brothers, The Pointer Sisters, The
Rascals, The Righteous Brothers, The Sons of the Pioneers, and The Tymes.
2007 – The White Stripes play the shortest live “concert” in history at
George Street, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, when Jack White plays a
single C# note accompanied by a single bass drum/crash cymbal hit from Meg,
after which Jack announces, "We have now officially played in every
province and territory in Canada," before walking off stage. Later in the
evening, the Stripes play a full show in St John's.
2007 – In the early morning hours of the day, three masked men, carrying
sledgehammers and crowbars, break into the Cheshire home of former Atomic
Kitten singer Kerry Katona, hold a knife to her neck, and escape with the
singer's BMW M5 sports car, two laptops, two gaming machines and two
televisions.
2009 – Staging for a Madonna concert at Velodrome Stadium in Marseille
collapses, killing two workers and injuring six others. Technicians were
setting up the stage when the partially-built roof fell in, bringing down a
crane.
2009 – Amy Winehouse is granted a divorce from husband Blake Fielder-Civil
in London's High Court.
2012 – Singer Kay Perry’s divorce from actor Russell Brand becomes
finalized.
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