August 27 Born –
Lester Young (1909) – Jazz saxophonist with Count Basie and Nat “King” Cole.
Morris Levy (1927) – music industry executive, founder of Roulette Records.
Jimmy C. Newman (1927) – Country music singer.
Tommy Sands (1937) – actor/singer (“Teen-Age Crush”).
Phil Shulman (1937) – multi-instrumentalist for Gentle Giant.
Edward Patten (1939) – Gladys Knight and The Pips.
Daryl Dragon (1942) – The Beach Boys, The Captain and Tennille.
Cuba Gooding, Sr. (1944) – The Main Ingredient (“Everybody Plays The Fool”).
Tim Bogert (aka John Bogert III, 1944) – bassist for Vanilla Fudge, Cactus,
and Beck, Bogert & Appice.
Malcolm "Duke" Allured (1945) – drummer for Showaddywaddy.
Ronnie Splinter (1948) – guitarist for The Outsiders.
Jeff Cook (1949) – guitarist/keyboardist for Alabama.
Kevin Kavanaugh (1951) – keyboardist for Southside Johnny and The Asbury
Jukes.
Alex Lifeson (aka Aleksandar Živojinović, 1953) – guitarist for Rush.
Glen Matlock (1956) – original bassist for The Sex Pistols.
Yolanda Adams (1961) – Gospel singer, “The Queen of Modern Gospel.”
Tony Kanal (1970) – bassist for No Doubt.
Jimmy Pop (aka James Franks, 1972) – vocalist for Bloodhound Gang.
August 27 R.I.P. –
Brian Epstein (1967) – drug overdose. Age 32. Manager of The Beatles.
Bob Scholl (1975) – boating accident. Age 37. The Mello-Tones.
Joan Edwards (1981) – heart attack. Age 62. Singer on the Lucky Strike Hit
Parade.
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1990) – helicopter crash. Age 35.
“Big” Dee Irwin (1995) – heart failure. Age 63. Singer with Little Eva
("Swinging On A Star").
Richard Jaeger (2000) – Age 52. Session percussionist.
Doug Riley (2007) – heart attack. Age 62. Canadian keyboardist and director
of the Famous People Players, “Dr. Music.”
August 27 album releases –
Stevie Wonder – I Was Made To Love Her (1967)
Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby (1975)
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – The Roaring Silence (1976)
ZZ Top – Degüello (1979)
The Alan Parsons Project – Eve (1979)
The B-52s – Wild Planet (1980)
Mica Paris – So Good (1988)
Garth Brooks – No Fences (1990)
Pearl Jam – Ten (1991)
The Jerry Garcia Band – Jerry Garcia Band (1991)
Brenda Lee – Anthology 1956-1980 (1991)
Bad English – Backlash (1991)
Allison Moyet – Hoodoo (1991) U.S.
Pearl Jam – No Code (1996)
A+ – The Latch-Key Child (1996)
Boston – Corporate America (2002)
Dixie Chicks – Home (2002)
August 27 events –
1889 – Charles G. Conn of Elkhart, Indiana, patents his metal clarinet.
1939 – Allan Jones records “I’m Falling In Love With Someone” for Victor
Records.
1946 – Frankie Laine, along with The Manny Klein All Stars, records “That’s
My Desire” at Universal Recording Studios in Los Angeles.
1954 – Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson signs with Columbia Records.
1957 – Johnny Nash performs “A Very Special Love” on American Bandstand.
1958 – Paul Anka records "Lonely Boy," “Something Happened” and “Just
Young” at Bell Sound Studios in New York City.
1960 – After more than 12 years on the air, the Louisiana Hayride
broadcasts its final show.
1961 – Connie Francis appears as the mystery guest on the CBS-TV game show
What’s My Line.
1962 – Elvis Presley begins filming his movie, It Happened At The World’s
Fair, in Seattle.
1964 – The Beatles play one show at the Cincinnati Gardens in Ohio on their
first U.S. tour.
1964 – Johnny Cash and June Carter record “It Ain’t Me Babe” in Nashville.
1965 – On a break from their second tour of the U.S., The Beatles meet
Elvis Presley at his Bel-Air home in Los Angeles.
1966 – The Association releases their single, “Cherish” b/w “Don’t Blame It
On Me.”
1967 – Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies from a drug overdose in London
while the group is away in Bangor, Wales, at a seminar being given by the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Upon learning of Epstein’s death, Paul McCartney
immediately heads back to London, leaving John, George and Ringo to give a
brief interview in Bangor before also returning to London.
1967 – The Evening Express newspaper runs a story on former Beatles drummer
Pete Best, reporting that he now works in a bakery earning £18 a week.
1969 – Led Zeppelin plays the first of two nights at the Casino Ballroom in
Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.
1977 – Jackson Browne appears at the Merriweather Post
Pavilion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriweather_Post_Pavilion>inColumbia,
Maryland, and records several songs - “Running On Empty,” The
Load-Out” and “Stay” - for a live album release.
1977 – Jimmy Buffett marries his second wife, Jane Slagsvol. They are still
married.
1982 – Queen appears at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City.
1988 – Country music act The Judds perform at the White House for President
and Mrs. Reagan.
1990 – In the early morning hours - following a successful concert at the
Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin - a helicopter carrying
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton’s agent Bobby Brooks, Clapton bodyguard
Nigel Browne, Clapton tour manager Colin Smythe, and pilot Jeff Brown,
crashes into a ski slope moments after takeoff, killing everyone on board.
1992 – John Lennon's original hand-written lyrics for "A Day In The Life"
fetches $87,000 at Sotheby's auction.
1993 – This year’s Reading Festival begins at Little John’s Farm in
England. The three-day event features music by Radiohead, Tool, Rage
Against The Machine, The Lemonheads, Stone Temple Pilots, Big Star, New
Order, Blur, Primus, The The, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Bad Brains, The
Boo Radleys, Fishbone, Dinosaur Jr., Butthole Surfers and others.
1999 – This year’s three-day Carling Weekend Festival begins in Reading,
England. Artists performing at the event include Red Hot Chili Peppers, The
Charlatans, Pavement, Reef, The Chemical Brothers, Echo & The Bunnymen, The
Dandy Warhols, Catatonia, The Offspring, Silverchair, Terrorvision, Space
and others.
2001 – The Dixie Chicks sue Sony Music for $4 million in unpaid royalties
and to terminate their contract with the company.
2003 – P. Diddy is sued for $5 million by Stephanie Grieso, claiming she
was assaulted by a bouncer outside his New York restaurant, Justin’s.
Grieso alleges she was arguing outside the restaurant when the bouncer
grabbed her by the neck and pushed her down on the pavement, causing her
leg injuries.
2003 – Singer/songwriter Janis Ian marries her girlfriend, Nashville
defense lawyer Patricia Snyder, in Toronto, Canada, where gay marriage is
legal.
2004 – The Carling Leeds Festival begins at Bramham Park, near Leeds inWest
Yorkshire. Artists appearing during the three-day event include Green
Day, The White Stripes, Morrissey, The Offspring, Lostprophets, The
Libertines, Super Furry Animals, The Darkness, Supergrass, Reel Big Fish,
Stereolab, Razorlight, Flogging Molly and many others. Rapper 50 Cent and
his G-Unit also appear and are pelted with bottles and booed off the stage
without playing a note.
2007 – Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and The Raiders opens Mark Lindsay's
Rock And Roll Cafe in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. It’s open less than
a year.
2007 – Lawyers for Kevin Federline ask Britney Spears to pay some of her
ex-husband's legal expenses in their divorce case, claiming that Federline
has "no net income" after various expenses, and that Ms. Spears is "clearly
the monied party" in the dispute.
2008 – MacKenzie Phillips is arrested at the Los Angeles International
Airport for possession of heroin and cocaine.
2010 – Marvin Hamlisch is named the conductor of the Pasadena Pops
Orchestra.
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