August 5 Born –
Jeri Southern (aka Genevieve Hering, 1926) – Jazz pianist/singer ("Fire
Down Below").
Damita Jo DeBlanc (1930) – American singer/lounge performer ("I'll Be
There").
Vern Gosdin (1934) – Country music singer ("I'm Still Crazy").
Thomas "Tam" Paton (1938) – manager of The Bay City Rollers.
Rick Huxley (1940) – bassist for The Dave Clark 5.
Airto Moreira (1941) – drummer for Weather Report.
Rick Huxley (1942) – bassist for The Dave Clark 5.
Sammi Smith (aka Jewel Faye Smith, 1943) – Country singer ("Help Me Make It
Through The Night").
Greg Leskiw (1947) – guitarist for The Guess Who.
Rick Derringer (aka Richard Zehringer, 1947) – The McCoys, and Johnny and
Edgar Winter.
Samantha Sang (1951) – Australian singer ("Emotion").
Louis Walsh (1952) – Irish music act manager.
Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda (1955) – guitarist for Twisted Sister.
Pat Smear (aka Georg Ruthenberg, 1959) – guitarist for Foo Fighters,
Nirvana and The Germs.
Pete Burns (1959) – singer for Dead Or Alive.
Stuart Neale (1960) – keyboardist for Kajagoogoo.
Mike Nocito (1963) – Johnny Hates Jazz.
MCA (aka Adam Yauch, 1964) – The Beastie Boys.
Jeff Coffin (1965) – saxophonist for Dave Matthews Band and Béla Fleck and
The Flecktones.
Jennifer Finch (1966) – bassist for L7.
Dan Hipgrave (1975) – guitarist for Toploader.
August 5 R.I.P. –
Carmen Miranda (1955) – heart attack. Age 46. Samba singer/dancer.
Marilyn Monroe (1962) – overdose. Age 36. Model/actress/singer ("Diamonds
Are A Girl's Best Friend").
Luther Perkins (1968) – fire. Age 40. Country music guitarist with The
Tennessee Three.
Michael Rudetsky (1986) – heroin overdose. Age 27. Keyboardist for Culture
Club.
Jeff Porcaro (1992) – hardening of the arteries from cocaine use. Age 38.
Toto.
Randy Jo Hobbs (1993) – heart failure/drug overdose. Age 45. Bassist for
Johnny Winter.
Robert Hazard (2008) – pancreatic cancer. Age 59. Songwriter ("Girls Just
Wanna Have Fun").
August 5 album releases –
The Beatles – Revolver (1966) UK
Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
The Stooges – The Stooges (1969)
Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Punch The Clock (1983)
Young MC – Brainstorm (1991)
HiM – Interpretive Belief System (1997)
311 – Transistor (1997)
Jeff Beck – Jeff (2003)
August 5 events –
1943 – Frank *Sinatra* records two songs for his next single, "Oh, What A
*Beautiful
Morning*" and "People Will Say We're In Love," with The Bobby Tucker
Singers in New York City.
1953 – Doris Day records “Secret Love” for the film Calamity Jane.
1955 – Bob Neal's eighth annual Country Music Jamboree takes places at the
Overton Park Shell in Memphis, featuring Elvis *Presley*, Webb Pierce,
Sonny James, Johnny *Cash, Wanda Jackson and others.*
1957 – Philadelphia television show, Bandstand, begins airing nationwide on
ABC-TV and becomes American Bandstand. Guests include The Chordettes and
Billy Williams.
1957 – Specialty Records hires Sonny Bono as their new A&R man.
1957 – Patsy Cline releases her EP, Songs By Patsy Cline, featuring “Honky
Tonk Merry Go Round” and “A Church, A Courtroom, And Then Goodbye” b/w
“Turn The Cards Slowly” and “Hidin’ Out” on Coral Records.
1958 – The Coasters perform “Yakety Yak” on the first anniversary show of
American Bandstand.
1959 – Frankie Avalon releases his single, “Just Ask Your Heart” b/w “Two
Fools” on Chancellor Records.
1959 – The Isley Brothers record "Shout" at RCA Victor's Music Center of
the World in New York City.
1960 – Drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland joins Johnny Cash's band The Tennessee
Two for a show at the Three Rivers Club near Syracuse, New York. Holland
will stay on as drummer, and the group will become The Tennessee Three.
1961 – Themetta Suggs gives birth to Charles Edward Anderson Berry, *Jr.:
*Chuck's
second child.
1964 – The Beach Boys record the backing track for "When I Grow Up (To Be A
Man)" at Western.
1965 – On the first day of filming the Jan and Dean movie Easy Come, Easy
Go, Jan Berry breaks his leg and 17 others are injured in a camera car
accident. Paramount Pictures cancels the film.
1966 – The Beatles release their single, "Eleanor Rigby" b/w "Yellow
Submarine," in the UK.
1967 – Bobby Gentry's "Ode To Billy Joe" debuts on Billboard's Hot 100
singles chart.
1972 – Clive Davis catches Aerosmith's show at Max's Kansas City in New
York, and immediately signs them to Columbia Records.
1972 – The London Rock and Roll Show takes place at Wembley Stadium,
featuring Chuck Berry, Bill Haley and His Comets, Little Richard, Bo
Diddley, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Other acts include The Houseshakers, Heinz,
Screaming Lord Sutch and The Savages, and the stage debut of Roy Wood's
Wizzard.
1972 – The Moody Blues re-release their 1967 single, "Nights In White
Satin" b/w "Cities."
1975 – Stevie Wonder signs a new contract with Motown for $13 million.
1975 – Kim *Fowley forms* the first all-female hard rock band, The *Runaways,
with guitarist Joan Jett, drummer Sandy West, and bassist/singer Micki
Steele*.
1976 – NBC airs The Beach Boys' primetime special, It's OK.
1977 – The first day of the two-day Mont de Marsan Punk Festival takes
place in France, featuring The Clash, The Police, The Damned, The Boys, The
Rich Kids, Eddie and The Hotrods, Shakin’ Street and others.
1979 – Def Leppard signs with Phonogram Records.
1980 – The Osmonds officially disband.
1980 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin recording their final album, Double
Fantasy, at the Hit Factory in New York City, with John’s song, “Woman.”
1981 – Olivia Newton-John receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1983 – David Crosby is sentenced in a Dallas courtroom to five years in
jail for cocaine possession in connection with his April 1982 arrest
backstage at a Dallas nightclub.
1984 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the first of 10
sold-out nights at the Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey, on their Born In
The U.S.A. Tour.
1985 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band begin the fourth and final
leg of their Born In The U.S.A. Tour at RFK Stadium in Washington DC.
1986 – Culture Club keyboardist, Michael Rudetsky, is found dead in Boy
George's apartment from a heroin overdose. Rudetsky’s parents will sue Boy
George in November for $44 million, accusing him of "wanton criminal
conduct, negligence, recklessness and carelessness."
1989 – Rod Stewart headlines a benefit concert for Canadian cancer victim
Terry Fox in Boston, Massachusetts, raising $175,000 for the American
Cancer Society. Fox organized the Marathon of Hope in 1980, and ran across
Canada to raise cancer awareness.
1990 – During her concert at the St. Louis Arena, *Janet Jackson collapses* on
stage after three songs from what is later determined to be an inner ear
infection.
1990 – Madonna plays the final date of her Blond Ambition Tour at the Stade
de l’Ouest in Nice, France. The show is recorded and filmed for an HBO
special.
1994 – Billy Idol is hospitalized in Los Angeles for a drug overdose after
passing out outside a nightclub.
1995 – British boy band Take That plays the first of 10 sold-out nights at
the Nynex Arena in Manchester, England, on their Nobody Else Tour.
1995 – The first day of the all-Canadian Big Sky Concert begins in High
River, Alberta, celebrating the 325th anniversary of the Hudson Bay
Company. 33 acts take the stage during the three-day event, including Bryan
Adams, Tom Cochrane, Anne Murray and Céline Dion.
1996 – Wilson Pickett checks into court-ordered rehab for cocaine addiction
in New York.
1997 – The Real Don Steele, one of the original Los Angeles "boss jock"
DJs, dies from lung cancer at age 61.
2007 – DNA tests confirm that two of the twelve people tested claiming to
be the "children" of the late singer James Brown are indeed his children,
and will be added to the six already listed in Brown's will.
2007 – Proctor & Gamble debuts its Luvs Diapers commercial, using The
Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love."
2009 – 53-year old Mark McLeod is arrested at his home in Appling, Georgia,
and charged with stalking 17-year old television star and singer Miley
Cyrus.
2009 – Aerosmith's Steven Tyler falls off the stage at the Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, and is airlifted to a hospital in Rapid
City with several broken bones, causing the cancellation of the group’s
current tour. Tyler will later claim that he was high from snorting the
sleep aid Lunesta before the show.
2009 – Woodstock promoter Michael Lang cancels plans for a 40th anniversary
Woodstock concert due to no money or sponsors.
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