July 20 Born –
Cindy Walker (1918) – Country music songwriter (“Sugar Moon”).
Buddy Knox (1933) – American singer/songwriter ("Party Doll").
Dennis Yost (1943) – singer for The Classics IV (“Stormy”).
T. G. Sheppard (aka Billy Browder, 1944) – Country music singer ("Devil In
The Bottle").
John Lodge (1945) – bassist for The Moody Blues.
Kim Carnes (1945) – singer/songwriter.
John Almond (1946) – The Alan Price, Set, Mark-Almond.
Carlos Santana (1947) – guitarist/songwriter.
Tony Thorpe (1947) – guitarist for The Rubettes.
Jay Jay French (aka John Segall, 1952) – guitarist for Twisted Sister.
Jem Finer (1955) – The Pogues.
Paul Cook (1956) – drummer for The Sex Pistols.
Merlina DeFranco (1957) – The DeFranco Family.
Michael McNeil (1958) – keyboardist for Simple Minds.
Dig Wayne (aka Timothy Ball, 1958) – vocalist for JoBoxers.
James Irvin (1959) – vocalist for Furniture.
Chris Cornell (1964) – vocalist for Soundgarden and Audio Slave.
Stone Gossard (1966) – guitarist for Pearl Jam.
Andrew Levy (1966) – bassist/keyboardist for The Brand New Heavies.
Vitamin C (aka Colleen Fitzpatrick, 1972) – vocalist for Eve’s Plum.
July 20 R.I.P. –
Guglielmo Marconi (1937) – heart attack. Age 63. Inventor of the radio.
Roy Hamilton (1969) – stroke. Age 40. American singer (“Unchained Melody”).
Gary Kellgren (1977) – drowned. Age 38. Co-founder of The Record Plant
recording studios.
Morty Nevins (1990) – cancer. Age 73. Accordionist, The Three Suns.
Milt Gabler (2001) – Age 90. Producer for Decca Records (“Rock Around The
Clock”).
July 20 album releases –
The Beatles – Something New (1964) U.S.
Jefferson Airplane – Long John Silver (1972)
Mott The Hoople – Mott (1973)
Santana and John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (1973)
Parliament – The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein (1976)
REO Speedwagon – Nine Lives (1979)
The Ramones – Pleasant Dreams (1981)
Graham Parker – Burning Questions (1992)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – The Anthology (1993)
Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider (1998)
July 20 events –
1940 – Billboard magazine publishes their first Music Popularity Chart, *
combining* record *sales charts and *ranking the hits of all major labels.
1954 – Elvis Presley and The Blue Moon Boys (Scotty Moore and Bill Black)
perform on a flatbed truck at the opening of a new Memphis drugstore.
1959 – Sonny James appears on American Bandstand.
1961 – The Mersey Beat music trade paper announces that The Beat Brothers
(aka The Beatles) have signed their first recording contract with famed
German producer, Bert Kaempfert.
1961 – Gladys Knight and The Pips make their U.S. television debut singing
“Every Beat Of My Heart” on American Bandstand.
1961 – Rick Nelson records two songs for his next single, “Everlovin’” and
“A Wonder Like You,” at United in Hollywood. Back-up singers on
“Everlovin’” include the song’s writer, Dave Burgess, along with new comers
Jerry Fuller and Glen Campbell.
1962 – Johnny Tillotson performs “It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’” on American
Bandstand.
1963 – Lesley Gore releases her second single, "Judy's Turn To Cry" b/w
"Just Let Me Cry" on Mercury Records.
1963 – The Beatles play the second of two nights at the Ritz Ballroom in
Rhyl, North Wales.
1963 – The Rolling Stones perform their first ballroom gig at the Corn
Exchange in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
1964 – Capitol Records releases two singles by The Beatles - "And I Love
Her" b/w "If I Fell," and “I’ll Cry Instead” b/w “I’m Happy Just To Dance
With You.”
1965 – Frank Sinatra puts his hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese
Theatre in Hollywood.
1965 – The Lovin' Spoonful releases their first single, "Do You Believe In
Magic" b/w "On The Road Again" on the Kama Sutra label.
1965 – Bob Dylan releases his single, "Like A Rolling Stone" b/w "Gates Of
Eden" on Columbia.
1965 – The Crystals and The Newbeats appear with regulars Steve Alaimo and
Paul Revere and The Raiders on Where The Action Is.
1966 – Chad and Jeremy perform “Distant Shores” and “Funny How Love Can Be”
on ABC-TV’s Where The Action Is. Also on the show are The Robbs, and Yuya
Uchida and The Blue Jeans on film from Japan.
1968 – Jane Asher announces on the BBC TV show Dee Time that her engagement
to Paul McCartney is off and that they’ve split up.
1968 – Joe Tex and Steppenwolf appear on American Bandstand.
1970 – Richard and Karen Carpenter appear as guest bachelor and
bachelorette on ABC’s The Dating Game.
1971 – The Carpenters' summer variety series, Make Your Own Kind Of Music,
begins airing on NBC, and runs for seven weeks.
1973 – Joan Baez hosts The Midnight Special, with guests Wilson Pickett,
The Pointer Sisters, Black Oak Arkansas, Bloodstone, Steve Goodman, and
Baez's sister, Mimi Fariña.
1974 – David Bowie plays the second of two nights at Madison Square Garden
on his Diamond Dogs Tour.
1974 – Rufus with Chaka Khan performs “Tell Me Something Good,” and George
McRae sings “Rock Your Baby” on American Bandstand.
1974 – Billed as "Bucolic Frolic," Tim Buckley, The Sensational Alex Harvey
Band, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Van Morrison, The Doobie Brothers and The
Allman Brothers Band all appear at Knebworth.
1975 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, featuring new member,
guitarist Steve Van Zandt, begins their Born To Run Tour at the Palace
Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island.
1976 – The Buzzcocks make their live debut supporting The Sex Pistols and
Slaughter & The Dogs at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester.
1979 – The *Electric Light Orchestra* takes out ads dedicating the release
of their single "*Don't Bring Me Down*" to the Skylab space station, which
is about to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in bits and pieces.
1979 – Suzi Quatro hosts The Midnight Special, with guests David Naughton,
Carly Simon, Roger Voudouris, and Paul Warren and Explorer. Queen and David
Bowie also appear on the show via videos.
1986 – *Santana* celebrates his 39th birthday and the 20th anniversary of
his band with a concert in San Francisco, re-uniting all 17 past and
present members on stage.
1986 – *Sid And Nancy*, a film biography of Sid Vicious, his girlfriend
Nancy Spungen, and The Sex Pistols, premieres in London.
1987 – Paul McCartney begins the first of two days of sessions, recording
his seventh solo studio album, Сho*в*а *в* СССР, featuring all cover songs,
including "Kansas City," "Twenty Flight Rock," "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "I'm In
Love Again," "Bring It On Home To Me," "Lucille," "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel
Someday," "That's All Right Mama," "Summertime," "Just Because" and
"Midnight Special."
1990 – Madonna plays the first of three sold-out nights at Wembley Arena on
her Blonde Ambition World Tour.
1995 – Public Enemy's *Flavor Flav* *breaks* both of his *arms* in a
motorcycle accident in Milan.
1999 – Paul McCartney has his upcoming single “I Got Stung” bootlegged when
the song is recorded off of a BBC broadcast and posted on the Internet. The
song is from his forthcoming album, Run Devil Run.
2000 – The historic Evergreen Ballroom in Lacey, Washington - host to
innumerable concerts throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s - is burned to the
ground by an arsonist.
2008 – *Rapper DMX* is *arrested* at a Phoenix, Arizona, mall for giving a
false name and Social Security number at a Mayo Clinic in an attempt to
avoid paying the medical bills.
2009 – Jackson Browne settles his lawsuit against U.S. Senator John McCain
and the Republican Party for using his 1977 hit "Running On Empty" without
permission in a 2008 McCain presidential campaign ad that aired on TV and
the Internet.
2011 – Rare and unseen pictures of The Beatles' first U.S. concert in
Washington DC, taken by a then 18-year-old Mike Mitchell, sell at
Christie's auction house for $361,938.
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