July 27 Born –
Homer (aka Henry Haynes, 1920) – Homer and Jethro.
Bob Thiele (1922) – record executive/producer/songwriter ("What A Wonderful
World").
Bob Morse (1923) – The Hi-Los.
Harvey Fuqua (1929) – R&B singer/songwriter/producer.
Nick Reynolds (1933) – The Kingston Trio.
Allen Ramsay (1943) – bassist for Gary Lewis and The Playboys.
Bobbie Gentry (aka Roberta Streeter, 1944) – singer.
Andy McMasters (1947) – bassist/keyboardist for The Motors.
Henry "H-Bomb" Weck (1949) – drummer for Brownsville Station.
Maureen McGovern (1949) – American singer ("The Morning After").
Roderick “Rory” Macdonald (1949) – bassist for Runrig.
Michael Vaughn (1950) – guitarist for Paper Lace.
Suzi Carr (1953) – Will To Power.
Conway Savage (1960) – keyboardist for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
Karl Mueller (1963) – bassist for Soul Asylum.
Rex Brown (1964) – bassist for Pantera.
Juliana Hatfield (1967) – singer/songwriter.
Abe Cunningham (1973) – drummer for Deftones.
July 27 R.I.P. –
Alvin LeRoy Holmes (1986) – Age 72. Composer/conductor ("It's All In The
Game").
Bobby Day (1990) – cancer. Age 62. The Hollywood Flames.
Harry "Sweets" Edison (1999) – Age 83. Trumpeter with the Count Basie
Orchestra.
Leon Wilkeson (2001) – liver and ling disease. Age 49. Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Harold Land (2001) – stroke. Age 73. Hard bop saxophonist with The Timeless
All Stars.
George Russell (2009) – Alzheimer’s disease. Age 86. Jazz pianist,
composer, music theorist.
Al Goodman (2010) – heart failure during surgery. Age 67. The Moments.
Tony Martin (2012) – natural causes. Age 98. Actor/singer (“To Each His
Own”).
Mick Farren (2013) – Age 69. Singer/songwriter/rock journalist, The
Deviants.
July 27 album releases –
Pink Floyd – Soundtrack From The Film More (1969)
The Temptations – All Directions (1972)
Genesis – Genesis Live (1973)
The Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station (1977)
Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna (1981)
Debbie Harry – Koo Koo (1981)
Madonna – Madonna (1983)
Metallica – Ride The Lightning (1984)
10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe (1987)
The BoDeans – Home (1989)
Morrissey – Your Arsenal (1992)
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (1993)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – All The Greatest Hits Live (1993)
UB40 – Promises And Lies (1993)
Gov't Mule – Gov't Mule (1995)
Dying Fetus – Killing On Adrenaline (1998)
Pearl Jam – Live At Benaroya Hall (2004)
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (2004)
July 27 events –
1942 – Peggy Lee records "Why Don't You Do Right?" with Benny Goodman and
His Orchestra.
1954 – Nat "King" Cole records the Charlie Chaplin song "Smile," with the
Nelson Riddle Orchestra at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.
1955 – Billboard magazine reports that Nat "King" Cole and Webb Pierce are
"the only two guaranteed hit makers in music.”
1956 – Pat Boone records "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" at Capitol
Studios.
1958 – A study by Esso Oil finds that drivers speed more and therefore
waste more gas when listening to the new fad of rock and roll music.
1958 – Sheb Wooley performs "The Purple People Eater" on The Ed Sullivan
Show.
1959 – Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk" enters the Billboard Hot 100.
1959 – Kathy Linden appears on American Bandstand.
1961 – The Tokens record "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
1962 – Linda Scott performs “Never In A Million Years” as the guest host of
American Bandstand. Scott will go on to be a regular on the Dick
Clark-produced show Where The Action Is.
1966 – Joe Tex, The McCoys, Tina Mason and Chris Clark appear on ABC-TV’s
Where The Action Is.
1966 – The Who appear at the Flamingo Ballroom in Redruth.
1968 – A riot erupts at Chicago's *Grant Park* when *Sly* and The Family *Stone
*fail to appear for a free concert.
1968 – The Who release their single, "Magic Bus" b/w "Someone's Coming" in
the U.S.
1968 – Eternity's Children appear on American Bandstand.
1969 – In a ruse designed to hasten his exit from the group, Bee Gee Robin
Gibb collapses from "nervous exhaustion" just as the group is about to
embark on their first U.S. tour.
1973 – Dionne Warwick hosts The Midnight Special, with guests Kenny Rogers,
Johnny Mathis, Malo, and Leo Kottke.
1974 – After 23 years, NBC *cancels* Dinah Shore's morning program, Dinah's
Place, in order to concentrate on game shows.
1976 – John *Lennon* is granted a *green card* for permanent residence in
U.S.
1976 – Bruce Springsteen sues manager Mike Appel for fraud and breach of
contract, which keeps him from performing or recording for over a year.
1976 – Tina Turner files for divorce from Ike after 14 years of a hellish
marriage.
1979 – A firebomb destroys *Alice Cooper*'s Indian art store in Scottsdale,
Arizona, causing $200,000 in damages. Some of Cooper's gold records are
also damaged in the blast.
1979 – Blondie appears at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee.
1979 – Mac Davis hosts The Midnight Special, with guests Bonnie Pointer,
McFadden & Whitehead, and Lisa Hartman.
1980 – *Jon Abnor,* of the 60's group *Jon* & *Robin,* shoots his
girlfriend to death in his Dallas apartment. He will be sentenced to life
in prison.
1984 – Aretha Franklin's father, Gospel singer Reverend Clarence Franklin,
passes away after spending five years in a coma after being shot twice
during a home invasion robbery on June 10, 1979.
1984 – Prince's movie Purple Rain premieres in theaters.
1986 – Queen plays at Budapest's Nepstadion in Hungary: the first western
act to do so since Louis Armstrong in 1964.
1992 – Michael Jackson sues the London tabloid Daily Mirror over photos and
comments stating that too many plastic surgeries had left him permanently
disfigured.
1994 – *Bob Seger* serves *jury duty* in Michigan, and as the foreman in a
criminal trial, finds the defendant guilty.
1994 – Jeff Buckley performs at the Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre in San Diego,
with opening act Jewel.
2002 – *Mariah Carey* checks herself into an undisclosed *hospital *suffering
from “extreme exhaustion,” denying reports of attempted suicide.
2004 – Courtney Love is sentenced to 18 months in rehab after pleading
guilty to being under the influence and breaking into her boyfriend's home
in an incident the previous year.
2006 – The billionaire Internet entrepreneurs who created Skype pay the
recording industry $115 million for piracy involving their file sharing
website, Kazaa.
2006 – Prince's second wife, Manuela Testolini, files for divorce.
2007 – KISS performs as a trio when Paul Stanley is rushed to a hospital
before a show in California with a pulse twice the normal rate.
2012 – Former Bee Gee Barry Gibb makes his Grand Ole Opry debut, performing
with Ricky Skaggs.
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