August 20 Born –
Jim Reeves (1923) – Country music singer/songwriter ("He'll Have To Go").
Joya Sherrill (1924) – Jazz singer with Duke Ellington.
Frank Rosolino (1926) – Jazz trombonist for Gene Krupa and Stan Kenton.
Paul Robi (1931) – The Platters.
Frank Capp (1931) – drummer, session percussionist with the Wrecking Crew.
"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow (1934) – pedal steel player, The Flying Burrito
Brothers.
Justin Tubb (1935) – Country music singer/songwriter.
Sky Saxon (aka Richard Marsh, 1937) – vocalist/guitarist for The Seeds.
Ralph “Pee Wee” Middlebrooks (1939) – trumpeter/trombonist for The Ohio
Players.
John Lantree (1940) – bassist for The Honeycombs.
Dave Brock (1941) – guitarist for Hawkwind.
Gilbert Moorer (1941) – The Esquires (“Get On Up”).
Isaac Hayes (1942) – singer/songwriter.
John Povey (1942) – guitarist for The Pretty Things.
"Uncle" John Turner (1944) – drummer for Johnny Winter.
*Ralf Hütter (1946) – keyboardist/vocalist for Kraftwerk.*
*James Pankow (1947) – trombonist for Chicago.*
*Robert Plant (1948) – Led Zeppelin.*
Phil Lynott (1949) – Thin Lizzy.
Doug Fieger (1952) – The Knack.
Rudy Gatlin (1952) – The Gatlin Brothers.
John Hiatt (1952) – singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Barry Johnson (1954) – bassist for Sweet Sensation.
"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott (1966) – guitarist for Pantera and Damageplan.
Fred Durst (1970) – vocalist for Limp Bizkit.
August 20 R.I.P. –
Leon McAuliffe (1988) – Age 71. Western swing steel guitarist with Bob
Wills and The Texas Playboys.
Bobby Sheehan (1999) – drug overdose. Age 31. Bassist for Blues Traveler.
Carol Young (2006) – Age 76. The Kaye Sisters.
Larry Knechtel (2009) – heart attack. Age 69. Session keyboardist with the
Wrecking Crew, bassist for Bread.
Ross Barbour (2011) – cancer. Age 82. The Four Freshmen.
John Stockfish (2012) – natural causes. Age 69. Bassist for Gordon
Lightfoot.
August 20 album releases –
Thin Lizzy – New Day (1971)
Harmonia – Deluxe (1975)
Bob Dylan – Slow Train Coming (1979)
Heart – Passionworks (1983)
Prince – Graffiti Bridge (1990)
Duran Duran – Liberty (1990)
Queensrÿche – Empire (1990)
Black Sabbath – TYR (1990)
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts – Notorious (1991)
Jimi Hendrix – Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (1994)
Luis Miguel – Nada Es Igual (1996)
Boards Of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children (1998) U.S.
The Black Crowes – Live (2002)
August 20 events –
1920 – Detroit radio station 8MK (today known as WWJ 950) goes on the air,
becoming one of America’s first radio stations to broadcast regularly
scheduled news, religious programs, and play-by-play sports.
1939 – Bonnie Baker records “Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!” with the Orrin
Tucker Orchestra.
1947 – Eddy Arnold records “Anytime” for RCA.
1955 – Bo Diddley makes his live stage debut at the Apollo Theater in
Harlem.
1960 – Connie Francis begins filming her first movie, Where The Boys Are.
1964 – The Beatles play two shows at the Convention Center in Las Vegas on
their first tour of the U.S.
1964 – Shirley Bassey records “Goldfinger” at CTS Studios in London, with
John Barry producing and Jimmy Page among the session guitarists. James
Bond film producer Harry Saltzman hates the song upon completion, but it’s
too late to replace before the film’s opening. The record release lists
Shirley Bassey’s regular producer, George Martin, as producer of the song.
1964 – Capitol Records releases The Beatles single, “I’ll Cry Instead” b/w
“I’m Happy Just To Dance With You.”
1965 – Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and his partner Tony
Calder launch Immediate Records.
1965 – The Beatles play two shows at Comiskey Park in Chicago on their
second U.S. tour.
1966 – The Supremes, The Temptations and Stevie Wonder appear at the Forest
Hills Music Festival in Queens, New York.
1966 – Record producer Phil Spector takes out an ad in Billboard magazine
to honor his late friend, comedian Lenny Bruce.
1966 – The Beatles cancel their set at Crosley Field in Cincinnati due to
heavy rain, which begins after all the opening acts have performed. The
concert is re-scheduled for the following day at noon.
1967 – The New York Times reports on a new method of noise reduction
developed by Ray Dolby of Dolby Labs, a modified version of the original
"Dolby" process already at use in studios, called "Dolby B."
1968 – Dr. David Lipscomb of the University of Tennessee reports that
guinea pigs suffer damage to the cells in their inner ear when exposed to
120 decibels of rock music over an 88 hour span. Lipscomb later recants his
findings after noticing that very few rock musicians seem to suffer similar
damage.
1968 – Bobby Darin sells his music publishing and production company, TM
Music, for $1 million.
1969 – All four Beatles are in attendance at Abbey Road for the mixing and
editing of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy).” Following that task, the group
spends more than seven hours working on the running order of their new
album. This will be the last time all four are together in any studio.
1969 – After completing an eight day tour of Canada, Frank Zappa disbands The
Mothers of Invention.
1969 – Johnny Cash and June Carter record “If I Were A Carpenter” in
Nashville.
1971 – Led Zeppelin performs at the Seattle Center Coliseum in Washington.
1972 – Yes appears at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee, on
their Close To The Edge Tour, with open act The Eagles.
1973 – Bruce Springsteen plays the first of seven nights at Oliver’s in
Boston, performing two one-hour sets each night.
1973 – The Rolling Stones release their single, “Angie” b/w “Silver Train.”
1980 – Queen performs at the Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut on their
The Game Tour.
1981 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band perform at a Vietnam
Veterans benefit at the Los Angeles Sports Arena.
1983 – The Police appear at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia on their
Synchronicity Tour, with opening acts R.E.M., Joan Jett and The
Blackhearts, and Madness.
1987 – Lindsey Buckingham quits Fleetwood Mac.
1987 – Alabama dedicates a 50 mile section of Interstate 65 as the Hank
Williams Memorial Lost Highway, beginning near his hometown of Georgiana
and running north to Montgomery, where he is buried.
1988 – The Monsters of Rock concert is held at Castle Donnington Raceway in
Derbyshire, featuring Guns ‘N Roses, Megadeth, David Lee Roth, Iron Maiden,
KISS, Helloween, The Bailey Brothers and Neal Kaye.
1990 – Aerosmith plays the Marquee Club in London. Jimmy Page joins them on
stage for a blues jam.
1991 – Nirvana and Sonic Youth kick off a joint European tour at Sir
Henry's Pub in Cork, Ireland.
1992 – Sting marries his second wife, film producer Trudie Styler. They are
still married.
1993 – Bob Dylan and Carlos Santana begin their joint tour together in
Portland, Oregon.
1996 – Carlos Santana receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1997 – The documentary, Oasis: Right Here, Right Now, airs on BBC TV.
2000 – Bon Jovi plays Wembley Stadium: the last act to perform at the
original stadium.
2003 – Olivia Newton-John cancels her U.S. tour to tend to her ailing
mother.
2004 – Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams is named as “the other man”
in London resident Rob Tinsley’s divorce papers, after spending years
trying to cope with his wife's obsession with the singer, living with a
6ft. cut-out of Adams standing at the foot of his bed, and posters on the
bedroom walls.
2006 – The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights at Twickenham
Stadium in London on their Bigger Bang Tour, with opening acts Feeder and
The Charlatans.
2007 – The funeral for record label and nightclub owner, Tony Wilson, takes
place at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Manchester.
2007 – Country music artist T.G. Sheppard marries singer/songwriter Kelly
Lang.
2007 – The Eagles release their CD-single, “How Long,” on Lost Highway
Records.
2008 – Roseanne Cash addresses claims by Republican John Rich that the late
Johnny Cash would vote for John McCain, calling the statement “appalling”
and “presumptuous.”
2010 – The state of Tennessee renames a section of Highway 40 as the Isaac
Hayes Memorial Highway.
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