August 13 Born –
George Shearing (1919) – Jazz pianist/composer (“Lullaby Of Birdland”).
Jimmy McCracklin (1921) – pianist/singer/songwriter (“The Walk”).
Don Ho (1930) – Hawaiian singer/entertainer.
Richard "Pistol" Allen (1932) – drummer with the Funk Brothers.
Dave “Baby” Cortez (1938) – R&B organist/pianist (“The Happy Organ”).
Howard Tate (1939) – Soul singer/songwriter (“Get It While You Can”).
John Stokes (1940) – The Bachelors.
David St. Hubbins (1947) – guitarist/vocalist for Spinal Tap.
Tony Santini (1948) – Sha Na Na.
Cliff Fish (1949) – original bassist for Paper Lace.
Jonathan Arendt (1949) – bassist for Paper Lace.
Dan Fogelberg (1951) – singer/songwriter.
Hughie Thomasson (1952) – guitarist for The Outlaws and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Feargal Sharkey (1958) – singer for The Undertones.
Danny Bonaduce (1959) – The Partridge Family.
Mark Nevin (1959) – guitarist for Fairground Attraction.
Michael Bradley (1959) – bassist for The Undertones.
Jan Håkan "Ian" Haugland (1964) – drummer for Europe.
August 13 R.I.P. –
Joe Hinton (1968) – skin cancer. Age 38. Soul singer (“Funny How Time Slips
Away”).
King Curtis (1971) – stabbed to death. Age 37. Sax player.
Joe Tex (1982) – heart attack. Age 49. Soul singer/songwriter ("Hold What
You've Got").
David Tudor (1996) – Age 70. Pianist, composer of experimental music.
Ed Townsend (2003) – Age 74. Songwriter ("Let's Get It On").
Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (2005) – Age 58. Peaches and Herb.
Les Paul (2009) – pneumonia. Age 94. Guitarist, inventor.
August 13 album releases –
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps – Bluejean Bop! (1956)
The Beatles – Help! (1965) U.S.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – (Pronounced 'Lĕh-ʼnérd Skin-ʼnérd) (1973)
Chicago – Chicago 13 (1979)
Don Henley – I Can’t Stand Still (1982)
Twisted Sister – Love Is For Suckers (1987)
Pixies – Bossanova (1990)
Brooks & Dunn – Brand New Man (1991)
Kid Creole and The Coconuts – You Shoulda Told Me You Were… (1991)
Sheena Easton – No Strings (1993)
Akinyele – Put It In Your Mouth (1996)
The Everly Brothers – A Night At The Royal Albert Hall: The Complete
Reunion Show (2002)
August 13 events –
1912 – Following the Radio Act of 1912, St. Joseph’s College in
Philadelphia is issued the first experimental radio license, Serial #1, by
the Department of Commerce.
1924 – Vernon Dalhart records “The Wreck Of The Old ‘97” and “The
Prisoner’s Song.” Released as a single on the Victor label, the record will
go on to sell 7 million copies worldwide.
1930 – Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians record “Go Home And Tell Your
Mother” for Columbia.
1938 – Blues man Robert Johnson plays his last gig at Three Forks, a juke
joint outside of Greenwood, Mississippi. After his show, he is poisoned
with strychnine by either the club owner or a jealous girlfriend. He will
be dead in three days.
1952 – Big Mama Thornton records “Hound Dog” at Radio Recorders in
Hollywood.
1953 – Dean Martin records “That’s Amore” at the Capitol Studios in
Hollywood.
1957 – Frank Sinatra records “Chicago” and “All The Way” in Hollywood.
1957 – Sal Mineo and Jodi Sands appear on American Bandstand.
1958 – Johnny Cash records “Don’t Take Your Guns To Town” for Columbia at
Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville.
1959 – Brenda Lee records “Sweet Nothin’s” at Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut
studio in Nashville.
1959 – Bobby Darin signs a million dollar, six-year, six picture deal with
Paramount Studios.
1963 – The Four Seasons sue their label, Vee Jay Records, for non-payment
of royalties.
1964 – The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” enters the British singles chart.
1964 – The Supremes record “Baby Love” at Hitsville, U.S.A. in Detroit.
1965 – The Jefferson Airplane makes their stage debut at the opening of San
Francisco’s new club, The Matrix.
1965 – The Beatles fly from England to New York’s JFK Airport for their
second U.S. tour, which begins on the 15th. The group’s airplane parks far
from the terminal and the fans, and The Beatles are taken straight to the
Warwick Hotel, where they have the entire 33rd floor to themselves.
1966 – The Beatles play two shows at Olympia Stadium in Detroit on their
final U.S. tour.
1966 – KLUE-AM radio station in Longview, Texas, holds one of the first
public Beatles bonfires.
1966 – Reverend Thurman H. Babbs of the New Haven Baptist Church calls for
the excommunication of all Beatles fans because of the “bigger than Jesus”
fiasco.
1967 – Joan Baez cancels her concert at Washington DC's Constitution Hall
after the Daughters of the American Revolution protest her recent anti-war
remarks concerning Vietnam.
1968 – The Beatles re-record “Sexy Sadie,” and begin work on “Yer Blues” at
Abbey Road studios.
1969 – The Guess Who record “American Woman.”
1971 – John Lennon and Yoko One leave England for New York City in an
attempt to find Yoko’s daughter, Kyoko. Lennon will never set foot on
British soil again.
1971 – Pink Floyd makes their Australian stage debut with a show at
Festival Hall in Melbourne.
1975 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the first of five
nights at The Bottom Line in New York City.
1977 – Bachman-Turner Overdrive splits up.
1980 – Four masked men break into the Woodstock, New York, home of Todd
Rundgren. Rundgren, his girlfriend, and three other guests are bound and
gagged as the thieves steal art, and stereo and recording equipment.
1982 – Queen performs at the Poplar Creek Music Theater in Hoffman Estates,
Illinois.
1982 – CBS and its subsidiaries, Epic and Portrait Records, lay-off more
than half of their marketing staff due to lagging record sales. The day
becomes known to CBS staffers as “Black Friday.”
1985 – Sting begins his first solo tour of America at the San Diego State
University Open Air Theatre, on his Dream Of The Blue Turtles Tour.
1988 – Def Leppard plays the first of two nights at the Red Rocks
Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, on the third North American leg of
their Hysteria World Tour.
1988 – Sting performs at the brand new Palace of Auburn Hills sports
facility in Detroit, on his Nothing Like The Sun Tour.
1990 – Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed from the neck down when a lighting
fixture falls on him at an outdoor concert at Wingate Field in Brooklyn,
New York.
1992 – Neil Diamond plays the first of six sold-out shows at Madison Square
Garden.
1994 – Members of Oasis and The Verve are arrested in Sweden for trashing a
hotel bar and breaking into a church to steal the communion wine.
1995 – R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe undergoes a hernia operation at a
hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
1999 – A British High Court rules the marriage between Mick Jagger and
Jerry Hall null and void.
2002 – Singer Adam Ant pleads guilty to threatening bar patrons with a
starters pistol during a pub brawl.
2007 – Amy Winehouse cancels as the opening act for The Rolling Stones in
Hamburg, Germany, citing exhaustion. She is replaced by British group
Starsailor.
2007 – The RIAA recognizes Fats Domino as an “American Music Legend.”
2008 – Mark David Chapman is denied parole for the fifth time for the
murder of John Lennon.
2011 – Five people are killed and 40 are injured at the Indiana State
Fairgrounds in Indianapolis when the stage collapses due to high winds
prior to a concert by Country music act Sugarland.
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