Also Dahni Harrison's birthday...can't remember his band's name but his dad
was a Fab!
On Saturday, 3 August 2013 17:49:25 UTC+1, Eidem wrote:
> August 2 Born –
>
> Helen Morgan (1900) – stage actress, speakeasy singer (Show Boat).
>
> Joe Harnell (1924) – composer, accompanist and arranger for Peggy Lee.
>
> Winston “Buddy” Deane (1924) - influential DJ and television dance show
> host, The Buddy Deane Show.
>
> Garland "Hank" Cochran (1935) – Country singer/songwriter ("She's Got
> You").
>
> Eric Garth Hudson (1937) – keyboardist/saxophonist for The Band.
>
> Bill “Little Bo” Savich (1939) – drummer for Johnny and The Hurricanes.
>
> Andrew Steele (1941) – drummer for The Herd and Stealers Wheel.
>
> Homer Banks (1941) – songwriter for Stax Records ("(Ain't That) A Lot Of
> Love").
>
> Doris Coley (aka Doris Kenner-Jackson, 1941) – The Shirelles.
>
> Kathy Lennon (1943) – The Lennon Sisters.
>
> Jim Capaldi (1944) – Traffic.
>
> Andy Fairweather Low (1948) – Welsh session guitarist, Amen Corner.
>
> "Fat" Larry James (1949) – drummer/vocalist for Fat Larry's Band.
>
> David "Ted" Turner (1950) – guitarist/vocalist for Wishbone Ash.
>
> Andrew Gold (1951) – singer/songwriter.
>
> Joe Lynn Turner (1951) – singer for Rainbow.
>
> Donnie Munro (aka Donaidh Rothach, 1953) – vocalist for Runrig.
>
> Butch Vig (aka Bryan Vig, 1955) – producer, drummer for Garbage.
>
> Mojo Nixon (aka Neill McMillan, 1957) – psychobilly musician.
>
> Apollonia (aka Patricia Kotero, 1959) – Apollonia 6.
>
> Pete De Freitas (1961) – drummer for Echo and The Bunnymen.
>
> Lee Mavers (1962) – guitarist for The La's.
>
> Al Macauley (1965) – drummer for Tindersticks.
>
> Zelma Davis (1970) – C + C Music Factory.
>
>
>
> August 2 R.I.P. –
>
> Enrico Caruso (1921) – peritonitis. Age 48. Opera singer.
>
> Betty Jack Davis (1953) – car crash. The Davis Sisters.
>
> Brian Cole (1972) – heroin overdose. Age 29. The Association.
>
> James Jamerson (1983) – cirrhosis, heart failure, pneumonia. Age 47.
> Bassist with the Funk Brothers.
>
> David Martin (1987) – heart attack. Age 50. Bassist for Sam the Sham and
> The Pharaohs.
>
> Ron Townson (2001) – renal failure. Age 68. The 5th Dimension.
>
> Mitch Jayne (2010) – Age 82. The Dillards.
>
> Marguerite Piazza (2012) – congestive heart failure. Age 91. Opera singer.
>
> Jimmy Jones (2012) – Age 75. Singer/songwriter (“Handy Man”).
>
>
>
> August 2 album releases –
>
> Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Fillmore East - June 1971
> (1971)
> Grand Funk Railroad – Good Singin’, Good Playin’ (1976)
> Boston – Don’t Look Back (1978)
> Jackson Browne – Lawyers In Love (1983)
>
> Poison – Look What The Cat Dragged In (1986)
>
> Vinnie Vincent Invasion – Vinnie Vincent Invasion (1986)
>
> Dwight Yoakam – Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (1988)
>
> Immature – Playtyme Is Over (1994)
> Michael Penn – Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 (2005)
>
> The Tubes – Wild In London (2005)
>
>
>
> August 2 events –
>
> 1953 – Skeeter Davis breaks both arms and both legs in a car accident in
> Cincinnati. The accident kills her singing partner, Betty Jack Davis.
> 1956 – Look magazine reports that Elvis Presley is receiving 3,000 fan
> letters
> a week.
> 1957 – The official Elvis Presley Fan Club is formed in the UK.
>
> 1957 – Buddy Holly and The Crickets begin a one week tour as headliners
> at the Howard Theater in Washington DC. Others acts on the bill include
> Clyde McPhatter, The Cadillacs, Edna McGriff, Otis Rush, Lee Andrews and
> The Hearts, Oscar and Oscar, and The G-Clefs.
>
> 1961 – The Beatles begin what will become a two-year night residency at
> the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
> 1962 – Aretha Franklin makes her national television debut on American
> Bandstand,
> singing “Don’t Cry Baby” and “Try A Little Tenderness.”
> 1962 – Bob Zimmerman legally changes his last name to Dylan.
> 1963 – Still rebuilding his career after the scandal of his marriage to
> his second cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis accepts $9,500 to open Las Vegas' new
> Thunderbird Hotel.
> 1964 – The bodies of Jim Reeves and Dean Manuel are found north of
> Brentwood, Tennessee, in the airplane wreckage that took their lives.
>
> 1964 – The Beatles perform at the Gaumont Theatre in Bournemouth, with
> opening acts The Kinks, Mike Berry, and Adrienne Poster.
>
> 1965 – Bob Dylan records “Ballad Of A Thin Man” at Columbia Studios in New
> York City.
>
> 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays the first of five nights at the
> Salvation Club in New York City.
> 1969 – Bob Dylan makes a surprise appearance at his 10-year high school
> class reunion, but leaves early when a drunk former classmate tries to
> pick a fight with him.
> 1969 – Paul McCartney gives his demo of “Come And Get It” to The Iveys.
> 1971 – Creedence Clearwater Revival, reduced to a trio with the exit of
> Tom Fogerty, begins their last tour at the Assembly Center in Tulsa,
> Oklahoma.
>
> 1972 – The Eagles appear at the Denver Coliseum in Colorado.
> 1973 – Papa John Phillips sues his former label, Dunhill Records, for $9
> million in unpaid royalties.
> 1976 – Pink Floyd’s road manager, Peter “Puddy” Watts, dies from a heroin
> overdose.
> 1977 – Sex Pistol Sid Vicious is fined £125 by a London court for carrying
> a knife at the 100 Club Punk Festival the previous September.
>
> 1982 – José Feliciano marries his second wife, Susan Omillian. They are
> still married.
> 1991 – Rick James and his girlfriend, Tanya Hijazi, are arrested in Hollywood
> and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated mayhem,
> torture, false imprisonment and forcible oral copulation of a 24-year old
> woman.
> James is released on $1 million bail.
> 1998 – The Beatles take the top spot in Mojo magazine’s “Favorite Recording
> Artist of All Time” nationwide poll. Elvis Presley came in second,
> followed by Frank Sinatra, Queen and Elton John.
> 1999 – Barry White is hospitalized for exhaustion after a concert in San
> Diego.
> 2000 – Liverpool music store, Rushworth and Dreaper, closes its doors after
> 150 years.
>
> 2001 – Whitney Houston re-signs with Arista Records for $100 million.
> 2004 – Eric Clapton bails out Cordings clothing store in London by buying
> fifty percent of the retailer's shares.
> 2005 – Status Quo appears as themselves on the BBC television show,
> Coronation
> Street.
> 2007 – Elvis Presley Enterprises announces plans to expand Graceland with
> a visitor’s center and a convention hotel.
> 2007 – Keith Richards signs a $7 million book deal for the rights to his
> autobiography.
>
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