July 17 Born –
Red Sovine (aka Woodrow Wilson Sovine, 1918) – Country music
singer/songwriter.
Danny Bank (1922) – Jazz saxophonist/clarinetist with Miles Davis and Gil
Evans.
Vince Guaraldi (1928) – Jazz pianist, composer for Charles Schulz's Peanuts.
Joe Morello (1928) – Jazz drummer for The Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Mimi Hines (1933) – Canadian singer, Broadway musicals actress (Funny Girl).
Stanley Bronstein (1938) – saxophonist for Elephant's Memory.
Spencer Davis (1939) – multi-instrumentalist, The Spencer Davis Group.
Gale Garnett (1942) – Canadian singer ("We'll Sing In The Sunshine").
Eric McCredie (1945) – bassist for Middle Of The Road.
Wolfgang Flür (1947) – electronic percussionist for Kraftwerk.
Mick Tucker (1947) – drummer for Sweet.
Ron Asheton (1948) – guitarist for The Stooges.
Mike Vale (1949) – bassist for Tommy James and The Shondells.
Terence "Geezer" Butler (1949) – bassist for Black Sabbath.
Phoebe Snow (aka Phoebe Laub, 1950) – singer.
Damon Harris (1950) – The Temptations.
Chet McCracken (1952) – session drummer, The Doobie Brothers.
Nicolette Larson (1952) – American singer ("Lotta Love").
Bruce Crump (1957) – drummer for Molly Hatchet.
Regina Belle (1963) – R&B/soul singer ("A Whole New World").
Lou Barlow (1966) – bassist for Dinosaur Jr.
Natasha Hamilton (1982) – Atomic Kitten.
Tom Fletcher (1985) – vocalist/guitarist for McFly.
July 17 R.I.P. –
Billie Holiday (1959) – pulmonary edema and heart failure. Age 44. Singer.
John Coltrane (1967) – liver cancer. Age 40. Jazz saxophonist.
Cliff Edwards (1971) – Age 76. Singer, voice of Jiminy Cricket (“Give A
Little Whistle”).
Don Rich (1974) – motorcycle crash. Age 32. Guitarist/fiddler for Buck
Owens and The Buckaroos.
Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes (1983) – heart attack. Age 77.
Wynn Stewart (1985) – heart attack. Age 51. Country music artist ("Sing A
Sad Song").
Chas Chandler (1996) – aortic aneurysm. Age 57. The Animals.
Kevin Wilkinson (1999) – suicide. Age 41. Drummer for Squeeze and Howard
Jones.
Laurel Aitken (2005) – heart attack. Age 78. "The Godfather of Ska."
Gordon Waller (2009) – heart attack. Age 64. Peter and Gordon.
Gil Bernal (2011) – congestive heart failure. Age 80. Jazz saxophonist.
July 17 album releases –
The Temptations – The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul (1967)
The Bonzo Dog Band – Beast Of The Bonzos (1970)
Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance (1982)
A-ha – Minor Earth / Major Sky (2000)
Colbie Caillat – Coco (2007)
July 17 events –
1939 – Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra record “Cherokee” in New York City.
1946 – Thirteen-year old *Petula Clark* makes her television debut on the
BBC's Cabaret Cartoons.
1951 – Tony Bennett records "Blue Velvet" and "Solitaire" at CBS Studios in
New York City.
1954 – The first Newport Jazz Festival takes place on the tennis courts of
the Newport Casino in Rhode Island: the first festival of its kind to be
held in North America. Artists over the three-day event include Louis
Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins, The
Modern Jazz Quartet, Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan, Ella Fitzgerald, The
Gene Krupa Trio, Erroll Garner, The George Shearing Quintet and others.
1958 – A week after deciding to leave Sun Records, Johnny Cash fulfills his
Sun contract and holds his final session, recording “I Forgot To Remember
To Forget,” “It’s Just About Time,” “I Just Thought You’d Like To Know” and
“Down The Street To 301.”
1961 – Jack Scott appears on American Bandstand, performing “A Little Thing
Called Love” and “My Dreams Come True.”
1962 – Brian Hyland sings "Sealed With A Kiss" on American Bandstand.
1962 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “She’s Not You” b/w “Just Tell
Her Jim Said Hello.”
1962 – Mary Wells releases her single, “You Beat Me To The Punch” b/w “Old
Love (Let’s Try It Again)” on Motown.
1963 – Freddy Cannon performs “Everybody Monkey” on American Bandstand.
1964 – Frank Sinatra begins recording “Softly, As I Leave You” in Los
Angeles.
1965 – April Stevens and Nino Tempo, and Duane Eddy perform on American
Bandstand.
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays their eighth and final show as
opening act for The Monkees at Forest Hills Stadium in New York.
1967 – The Beatles release their single, "All You Need Is Love" b/w "Baby
You're A Rich Man" in the U.S. on Capitol Records.
1968 – The Beatles' animated film, Yellow Submarine, premieres at the
London Pavilion in Piccadilly Circus.
1969 – Merle Haggard records "Okie From Muskogee," with James Burton and
Jerry Reed on guitars.
1970 – The *Guess Who* perform a four song set at the *White House for
*President
and Mrs. Nixon, and Prince Charles and Princess Ann. Mrs. Nixon requests
the band not play "American Woman."
1971 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on the BBC-1 late night talk show,
Parkinson, and Lennon criticizes the British media for calling Yoko "ugly"
and blaming her for the break-up of The Beatles.
1972 – An equipment truck belonging to The Rolling Stones is blown up
outside the Montreal Forum - allegedly by local Teamsters - destroying 30
speakers. Replacements are brought in, but a riot breaks out prior to the
show when 3,000 ticketholders find out their tickets are bogus.
1974 – The Moody Blues open their own 32-track, state-of-the-art recording
studio in London: the first in the country that can record in the new
"quadraphonic" format.
1974 – John *Lennon*'s appeal for U.S. citizenship is denied by the
government, and he is given 60 days to leave the country.
1975 – Maureen Cox's divorce from Ringo Starr is finalized.
1975 – Bob Marley and The Wailers play the first of two nights at the
Lyceum Ballroom in London.
1976 – Heart releases their second single, “Magic Man” b/w “How Deep It
Goes.”
1976 – Maxine Nightingale appears on American Bandstand, performing “Right
Back Where We Started From.”
1979 – Guitarist Gary Moore quits Thin Lizzy mid tour in the U.S.
1987 – Keith Richards signs a three-record solo deal with Virgin Records.
1987 – Ozzy Osbourne begins a six week tour of UK prisons.
1991 – Georgia Governor Zell Miller honors James Brown and his “comeback”
following his release from prison, calling Brown “a personal friend.”
1991 – A re-united Lynyrd Skynyrd, with Johnny Van Zant on vocals, picks up
where their ill-fated 1977 tour left off 14 years before, beginning their
new Smokestack Lightning Tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1992 – Guns ‘N Roses - who are in the middle of their Use Your Illusion
Tour - begin a 26-date co-headlining tour of North America with Metallica
at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, with opening act Faith No More.
1993 – Guns 'N Roses play the final night of their Use Your Illusion Tour at
River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and drummer Cozy Powell
sits in dressed as a Dominos Pizza delivery boy. The Illusion tour lasted
two and a half years and visited 31 countries, with the band performing 194
shows.
2003 – Several of Hong Kong's biggest music stars and industry figures are
arrested as part of an investigation into corruption in the music industry
after allegations that chart positions and music awards have been rigged.
2004 – Linda Ronstadt is booed and people walk out at the Aladdin Hotel in
Las Vegas when she dedicates her encore song, "Desperado," to film maker
Michael Moore, and encourages the audience to see his film Fahrenheit 9/11.
2006 – Guitarist Dave Navarro separates from wife Carmen Electra.
2009 – Paul McCartney plays the first of three nights at Citi Field in
Flushing Meadows, New York. McCartney is the first music act to play at the
venue, which replaced Shea Stadium.
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