August 1 Born –
Morris Stoloff (1898) – film composer (The Jolson Story).
Lionel Bart (1930) – British songwriter ("Living Doll").
Ramblin' Jack Elliott (aka Eliot Asnopoz, 1931) – Folk singer.
Jerry Garcia (1942) – The Grateful Dead, The Jerry Garcia Band.
Denny Cordell (aka Dennis Cordell-Lavarack, 1943) – record producer.
Raymond "Boz" Burrell (1946) – vocalist/bassist for King Crimson and Bad
Company.
Rick Coonce (1946) – drummer for The Grass Roots.
Rick Anderson (1947) – bassist for The Tubes.
Jim Carroll (1949) – punk musician, author/poet.
Tim Bachman (1951) – guitarist/vocalist for Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Tommy Bolin (1951) – singer/songwriter/guitarist for Moxy, The James Gang,
and Deep Purple.
Robert Cray (1953) – Blues singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Michael Penn (1958) – singer/songwriter.
Rob Buck (1958) – guitarist for 10,000 Maniacs.
Joe Elliott (1959) – singer for Def Leppard.
Suzi Gardner (1960) – guitarist/vocalist for L7.
Chuck D. (aka Carlton Ridenhour, 1960) – rapper with Public Enemy.
Coolio (aka Artis Ivey, Jr., 1963) – rapper.
Adam Duritz (1964) – vocalist for Counting Crows.
Nick Sayer (1964) – guitarist for Transvision Vamp.
Dan Donegan (1968) – guitarist for Disturbed.
Kenwyn House (1970) – guitarist for Reef.
Dhani Harrison (1978)
August 1 R.I.P. –
Bill Buchanan (1996) – cancer. Age 66. Brill songwriter ("The Flying
Saucer").
August 1 album releases –
Brenda Lee – Brenda Lee (1960)
Jethro Tull – Stand Up (1969) UK
The Bonzo Dog Band – Tadpoles (1969) UK
The Kinks – One For The Road (1980) UK
Aerosmith – Rock In A Hard Place (1982)
Bette Midler – No Frills (1983)
Neil Young – Everybody’s Rockin’ (1983)
AFI – Answer That And Stay Fashionable (1995)
Jimmy Buffett – Barometer Soup (1995)
Pinetop Perkins – Got My Mojo Working (1995)
Big L – The Big Picture (1974-1999) (2000)
DMX – Year Of The Dog… Again (2006) U.S.
Jimmy Buffett – Live At Wrigley Field (2006)
August 1 events –
1942 – The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra records "Charleston Alley" for Decca
Records.
1942 – The American Federation of Musicians goes on strike to protest
non-payment of royalties from recordings and phonograph records. The strike
does not include performing live.
1949 – Frankie Laine releases his single, "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls
Around Heaven All Day)" b/w "I Get Sentimental" on Mercury Records.
1954 – Alan Freed presents his first Moondog Jubilee Of Stars Under The
Stars revue at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, featuring Fats Domino, The
Clovers, The Orioles, Muddy Waters, and Little Walter.
1958 – Johnny Cash signs with Columbia Records.
1958 – Tony Bennett records "Firefly" at CBS Studios in New York City.
1960 – The East German magazine, Young World, declares Elvis Presley
"Public Enemy #1" for his embodiment of the decadent American culture.
1960 – 18-year old Aretha Franklin makes her first non-Gospel recordings,
recording “Today I Sing The Blues” and three other demos for Columbia
Records in New York City.
1960 – Chubby Checker's "The *Twist*" enters the Hot 100 at #49.
1960 – Billboard magazine reports on the findings of a survey by Seventeen
Magazine which states, "The average teenage girl listens to the radio two
hours and thirteen minutes a day and plays records two hours and twelve
minutes a day."
1963 – The first issue of the Beatles Monthly magazine is published.
1964 – Billboard magazine reports that the harmonica is hip again, thanks
to The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Little Stevie Wonder.
1964 – Roy Orbison records "Oh, Pretty Woman" at the Fred Foster Sound
Studio in Nashville.
1964 – The Rolling Stones play the London Palladium with opening acts The
Walker Brothers, The Fourmost, and Steampacket, featuring 19-year old
singer Rod Stewart.
1965 – Marianne *Faithfull collapses* during a performance in Lancashire,
and is taken to a hospital, canceling the remainder of her tour.
1966 – Birmingham, Alabama, radio station WACI calls for the first "Beatles
Burn-In:" a bonfire of Beatles records to protest John Lennon's recently
published comments that his group was "bigger than Jesus."
1968 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience performs at City Park Stadium in New
Orleans on their second U.S. tour.
1969 – Beach Boy Carl Wilson is indicted in Los Angeles for failing to
perform his required community service hours, which were imposed upon him
after he refused to be drafted as a conscientious objector.
1969 – The Beatles record "Because:" the last time all four would begin
recording a song together.
1969 – The first day of the three-day Atlantic City Pop Festival is held at
the Atlantic City racetrack. Festival acts include The Byrds, Canned Heat,
Jefferson Airplane, Procol Harum, Janis Joplin, Santana, Creedence
Clearwater Revival, Buddy Miles, Dr. John, Iron Butterfly, Chicago Transit
Authority, Joe Cocker, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Lighthouse, The Chambers
Brothers, Cass Elliott and others.
1970 – After being shelved for almost two years, the Mick Jagger movie,
Performance, premieres in London.
1971 – George Harrison's Concert For Bangla Desh is held at Madison Square
Garden, with two shows. Artists performing with Harrison include Ringo
Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Badfinger, Jim Keltner, Leon Russell, Jesse
Ed Davis, Klaus Voorman, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston and others. Both shows
are recorded and filmed.
1971 – The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour debuts on CBS.
1972 – Elvis Presley releases his single, "Burning Love" b/w "It's A Matter
Of Time."
1972 – The Eagles release their single, "Witchy Woman" b/w "Early Bird."
1977 – The Red and Sonny West tell-all book, Elvis: What Happened?, hits
bookstore shelves two weeks before the singer's death.
1978 – George Harrison and bride-to-be, Olivia Trinidad Arias, announce the
birth of their first and only child, Dhani.
1980 – *Def Leppard* makes their U.S. stage debut at The Palladium in New
York City as the opening act for AC/DC.
1980 – George Harrison forms his own movie production company, Handmade
Films.
1981 – MTV debuts on cable television in the U.S. with “Video Killed The
Radio Star” by The Buggles.
1984 – Whitney Houston and Jermaine Jackson appear and sing two duets on
the CBS soap opera As The World Turns.
1987 – Eurythmic's Dave Stewart marries Bananarama founding member, Siobhan
Fahey. They stay married for nine years.
1987 – MTV Europe is launched from
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performance by Elton John <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John> and the
Dire Straits video “Money For Nothing.”
1988 – Cincinnati AM radio station, WCVG, becomes the first U.S. station to
go "all Elvis." It doesn't last a year.
1990 – The band UB40 and two of their technicians are arrested for
possession of marijuana and are deported from the Republic of Seychelles.
1994 – The Rolling Stones begin their Voodoo Lounge Tour at RFK Stadium in
Washington DC. While in town, they are invited to play at the Clinton White
House, but politely refuse.
1994 – Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley officially confirm the rumors
that they are married.
2000 – AC/DC kicks off their 140-date Stiff Upper Lip Tour at the Van Andel
Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2007 – Rapper Eminem sues Apple Computers for $75,000 for copyright
infringement for allowing downloads of his music on iTunes without his
permission.
2007 – Prince kicks off his 21 Nights In London Tour at the O2 Arena.
2007 – John Lennon's sunglasses, worn on The Beatles' 1966 U.S. tour, are
sold at an auction for an undisclosed price.
2007 – The Police play the first of two sold-out nights at Madison Square
Garden in New York City on their Reunion tour.
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