August 10 Born –
Jack Haley (1898) – actor/singer ("If I Only Had A Heart").
Claude Thornhill (1908) – pianist/composer ("Snowfall").
Clarence "Leo" Fender (1909) – guitar maker.
Al Alberts (aka Al Albertini, 1922) – The Four Aces (“Love Is A
Many-Splendored Thing”).
Jimmy Martin (1927) – bluegrass musician, "King of Bluegrass."
Eddie Fisher (1928) – American entertainer.
Jimmy Dean (1928) – Country music singer, sausage king.
Sal Cuomo (1939) – The Regents.
Bobby Hatfield (1940) – The Righteous Brothers.
Michael "Tunes" Antunes (1940) – saxophonist for John Cafferty and The
Beaver Brown Band.
George Bellamy (1941) – The Tornados.
James Griffin (1943) – Bread.
Ronnie Spector (1943) – The Ronettes.
Larry Larden (1945) – guitarist/vocalist for Every Mother's Son.
Mick Clarke (1946) – bassist/vocalist for The Rubettes.
Ian Anderson (1947) – Jethro Tull.
Andy Cresswell-Davis (1949) – guitarist/vocalist for The Korgis and
Stackridge.
Patti Austin (1950) – R&B/jazz singer.
Mark Price (1959 – drummer/percussionist for All About Eve and Del Amitri.
Jon Farris (1961) – drummer for INXS.
Julia Fordham (1962) – back-up singer for Mari Wilson and Kim Wilde.
Lorraine Pearson (1967) – Five Star.
Todd Nichols (1967) – guitarist for Toad The Wet Sprocket.
Leigh Marklew (1968) – bassist for Terrorvision.
Michael Bivins (1968) – New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.
Aaron Kamin (1977) – guitarist/songwriter for The Calling.
August 10 R.I.P. –
Dick Foran (1979) – Age 69. Actor/singer (Song Of The Saddle).
Kenny Baker (1985) – heart attack. Age 72. Actor, singer on The Jack Benny
Program.
David Rogers (1993) – Age 57. Country music singer (“Loving You Has Changed
My Life”).
Michael Houser (2002) – pancreatic cancer. Age 40. Guitarist for Widespread
Panic.
Barbara George (2006) – Age 65. R&B singer ("I Know (You Don't Love Me No
More)").
Isaac Hayes (2008) – stroke. Age 65. Singer/songwriter.
Billy Grammer (2011) – Age 85. Country music singer/guitarist (“Gotta
Travel On”).
August 10 album releases –
Elvis Presley – Elvis For Everyone (1965)
Ten Years After – Undead (1968) U.S.
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention – Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
Rod Stewart – Sing It Again Rod (1973)
Michael Jackson – Off The Wall (1979)
Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucia – Friday Night In San
Francisco (1981)
Bob Dylan – Shot Of Love (1981)
Rufus – Stompin’ At The Savoy – Live (1983)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984)
Loudness – Hurricane Eyes (1987)
Five Star – Between The Lines (1987)
Winger – Winger (1988)
White Lion – Big Game (1989)
Billy Joel – River Of Dreams (1993)
Jamiroquai – Emergency On Planet Earth (1993) U.S.
Robert Earl Keen – Gringo Honeymoon (1994)
Rory Gallagher – BBC Sessions (1999)
Brenda Lee – 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best Of
Brenda Lee (1999)
The Innocence Mission – Birds Of My Neighborhood (1999)
Machine Head – The Burning Red (1999)
Ace Troubleshooter – Ace Troubleshooter (2000)
David Crosby and Graham Nash – Crosby & Nash (2004)
August 10 events –
1951 – Hank Williams records “Half As Much” for MGM.
1959 – The four male members of The Platters are arrested in Cincinnati and
charged with “aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness, and assignation"
after local police find the singers in a Sheraton Gibson Hotel room
entertaining four scantily-clad 19-year old girls, three of them white.
1959 – Carl Dobkins, Jr. records “Lucky Devil,” “Lovelight,” “Exclusively
Yours” and “Sue” at Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville.
1963 – The Browns join the Grand Ole Opry.
1963 – The 100th episode of Thank Your Lucky Stars airs, featuring Cliff
Richard, The Shadows, The Searchers, Brian Poole and The Tremeloes, Billy
J. Kramer with The Dakotas, and Alma Cogan.
1963 – The Rolling Stones appear at the Plaza Ballroom in Birmingham.
1963 – The 3rd annual National Jazz & Blues Festival begins at the Richmond
Athletic Grounds in Surrey. Acts appearing over the two-day event include
Chris Barber and His Jazz Band, The Velvettes, Long John Baldry, Bill Le
Sage, The Ronnie Ross Quartet, Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazz Band, The
Cyril Davies Rhythm and Blues All Stars, Ginger Johnson’s African Drums,
The Rolling Stones and others.
1964 – Mick Jagger is pulled over for speeding, and is also charged with
driving without insurance, supposedly on his way to visit some injured fans.
1964 – Vee-Jay Records issues four Beatles singles on their Oldies 45
subsidiary label: “Do You Want To Know A Secret” b/w “Thank You Girl,”
“Please Please Me” b/w “From Me To You,” “Love Me Do” b/w “P.S. I Love You”
and “Twist And Shout” b/w “There’s A Place.”
1965 – Roger Miller records "England Swings" at Columbia Studios in
Nashville.
1966 – Brenda Lee records “Coming On Strong,” “Countless” and “Born To Be
By Your Side” at Columbia Studios in Nashville.
1970 – Jim Morrison goes on trial in Miami for allegedly exposing himself
on stage there in March 1969.
1970 – The Elvis Summer Festival begins at the International Hotel in Las
Vegas, with Presley performing two shows most nights over the next four
weeks. MGM film crews film several shows for an Elvis documentary.
1972 – Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested backstage in Gothenburg,
Sweden, for possession of six ounces of marijuana.
1975 – The summer replacement series, The Manhattan Transfer Show, debuts
on CBS and runs for four weeks.
1976 – Elton John plays the first of 10 sold-out shows at Madison Square
Garden.
1980 – Tom Waits marries writer Kathleen Brennan. They are still married.
1982 – Queen appears at the New Haven Coliseum in Connecticut on their Hot
Space Tour.
1985 – Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon participates in the Fastnet yacht
race. Bad weather capsizes his yacht, trapping him and 24 other crew
members underwater in the hull of the boat for 20 minutes until the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution rescues them.
1985 – Michael Jackson buys ATV Music publishing company, which includes
251 Lennon/McCartney and Beatles songs, for $47 million.
1987 – In a New Jersey courtroom, Wilson Pickett is found guilty of
threatening patrons in a New Jersey bar with a loaded shotgun after a fight
inside the club. He is fined $1,000 and is put on two-years’ probation.
1989 – Three crew members for LL Cool J rape a 15-year old girl at their
hotel after a show at the Met Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.
1991 – Vince Gill joins the Grand Ole Opry.
1992 – Def Leppard appears at Madison Square Garden, with opening acts
Bryan Adams and Richard Marx.
1993 – The Dave Matthews Band performs at the Flood Zone in Richmond,
Virginia, and record the show.
1995 – Jimmy Buffett performs at the White House for President Bill
Clinton’s birthday.
1999 – Rhythm guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthur quits Oasis.
2001 – Dixie Chick Martie Seidel marries her second husband, teacher Gareth
Maguire, in Kailua, Hawaii. They are still married.
2001 – Olivia Newton-John begins her 30 Musical Years Tour at the Hilton
Hotel in Reno, Nevada.
2002 – Lisa Marie Presley marries actor Nicholas Cage. The marriage lasts
four months.
2004 – Rolling Stone Charlie Watts confirms that he is undergoing treatment
for throat cancer.
2004 – Country music singer Faith Hill makes her first concert appearance
in for years, playing the first of five nights at The Colosseum at Caesar’s
Palace in Las Vegas.
2007 – Tony Wilson, founder and manager of The
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nightclub, and one of the five co-founders of Factory
Records<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_Records>,
dies from a heart attack in London at 57 years old.
2012 – Neil Diamond receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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