December 1 Born –
Mary Martin (1913) – Broadway actress/singer. Matt Munro (1930) – nightclub singer. Lou Rawls (1933) – singer/songwriter. Billy Paul (1934) – R&B singer (“Me And Mrs. Jones”). Sandy Nelson (1938) – L.A. session drummer. Dianne Lennon (1939) – The Lennon Sisters. Charlie Grima (1944) – drummer for Wizzard. Eric Bloom (1944) – guitarist for Blue Öyster Cult. John Densmore (1944) – drummer for The Doors. Bette Midler (1945) – singer/actress. Raymond “Gilbert” O’Sullivan (1946) – singer/songwriter. John “Jaco” Pastorius (1951) – bassist for Weather Report. Mary Vesta Williams (1957) – R&B singer (“Congratulations”). Steve Jansen (1959) – drummer for Japan. Sam Reid (1963) – keyboardist for Glass Tiger. Greg Upchurch (1971) – drummer for 3 Doors Down. Brad Delson (1977) – guitarist for Linkin Park. Mike Fineo (1981) – drummer for Filter. December 1 R.I.P. – Fred Rose (1954) – Age 56. Songwriter, publisher, Acuff-Rose Music. Samuel "Magic Sam" Maghett (1969) – heart attack. Age 32. Chicago blues musician. Horace Heidt (1986) – Age 85. Big band leader, radio/television personality. Billy Lyall (1989) – AIDS. Age 36. Pilot and Bay City Rollers. Ray Gillen (1993) – AIDS. Age 34. Vocalist for Badlands and Black Sabbath. Irving Gordon (1996) – cancer. Age 81. Songwriter (“Unforgettable”). Stéphane Grappelli (1997) – complications from a hernia operation. Age 89. Jazz violinist with Django Reinhardt. December 1 album releases – The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love (1967) UK The Shadows – From Hank, Bruce, Brian And John (1967) The Monkees – Head (1968) Gentle Giant – Octopus (1972) Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) Koko Taylor – South Side Lady (1973) Styx – Equinox (1975) AC/DC – T.N.T. (1975) Australia Aerosmith – Draw The Line (1977) The Doobie Brothers – Minute By Minute (1978) Queen – Live Magic (1986) Sodom – Persecution Mania (1987) Journey – Time3 (1992) (box set) The Ramones – Acid Eaters (1993) R.E.M. – The Automatic Box (1993) (box set) Germany Dimmu Borgir – For All Tid (1994) Sarah Brightman – Eden (1998) U.S. December 1 events – 1931 – Gene Autry debuts his first radio show on station WLS in Chicago. 1944 – Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, along with singer Joya Sherrill, records “I’m Beginning To See The Light” for RCA Victor. 1945 – Singer Burl Ives makes his concert debut at the Town Hall in New York City. 1956 – The musical comedy, The Girl Can’t Help It, premieres in theaters. The film features musical performances by Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, Julie London, The Platters, Fats Domino and others. 1957 – The Crickets, Sam Cooke, and The Rays all make their national television debuts on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show is Bobby Helms. 1958 – Neil Sedaka signs with RCA Records. 1958 – Ricky Nelson appears on the cover of LIFE magazine. 1960 – Bobby Darin, 24, marries 16-year old Sandra Dee in music publisher Don Kirshner’s apartment in New York City. They stay married for seven years. 1961 – The Beatles play a lunchtime show at the Cavern Club, then, in the evening, the group headlines a five hour, six-act concert entitled The Big Beat Session at the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, Wallasey, in front of 2,000 fans. 1961 – Mike Douglas, former big band singer with Kay Kaiser, begins his 20-year career as a television talk show host on KYW-TV in Cleveland. The show will move to Philadelphia in 1965. 1964 – Buck Owens records “Cryin' Time” and “I've Got A Tiger By The Tail” in an afternoon recording session at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. Both songs will become hits for Owens. 1964 – The Who plays the first night of a 22-week Tuesday night residency at the Marquee Club in London. 1965 – The Rolling Stones appear at the PNE Agrodome in Vancouver, British Columbia, on their second North American Tour. 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Move, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Outer Limits and Amen Corner play two shows at Central Hall in Chatham. 1967 – Country music artist Jimmie Rodgers is found bleeding with a fractured skull in his car along the San Diego Freeway, the result of a "mysterious assault." In the months that follow, Rodgers will file an $11 million lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, claiming that three police officers had beaten him, though he has no memory of what happened. 1968 – Janis Joplin plays her last gig with Big Brother and The Holding Company at a Family Dog benefit at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. 1968 – Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Engelbert Humperdinck and Tiny Tim all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1969 – Bee Gee Barry Gibb announces that he’s "fed up, miserable and completely disillusioned" with The Bee Gees, and is quitting the group. 1971 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their single, “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” b/w “Listen, The Snow Is Falling.” 1972 – The Eagles perform at Claremont College in Claremont, California. 1975 – On her 30th birthday, Bette Midler undergoes emergency appendectomy surgery at the Beverly Hills Medical Center. 1976 – The Sex Pistols appear on ITV's Today show in place of Queen who pull out at the last minute. When program interviewer Bill Grundy asks the band to say something outrageous, guitarist Steve Jones says, “You dirty bastard...you dirty fucker...what a fucking rotter!” 1977 – Queen appears at Madison Square Garden on their News Of The World Tour. 1980 – The Talking Heads appear at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, with opening act U2. 1983 – Neil Young is sued by Geffen Records because his new music for the label is “not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums.” 1987 – A Kentucky school teacher loses her appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court over her sacking after showing Pink Floyd's film The Wall to her class. The court decides that the film is not suitable for minors with its bad language and sexual content. 1989 – Sly Stone is sentenced to 55 days in jail after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of cocaine. 1990 – Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille is arrested for public drunkenness in Louisville, Kentucky, and spends six hours in jail. 1995 – Frank Sinatra and his wife sell off some of the singer’s memorabilia through Christie’s auction house in New York, and take in more than $2 million. 1997 – Saxophonist Kenny G sets a new Guinness Book World Record when he holds a note on his saxophone for 45 minutes and 47 seconds, using a technique that allows him to blow and breathe at the same time. The record has since been broken by Geovanny Escalante, who held a note for 1 hour, 30 minutes and 45 seconds. 1998 – The Second II None Tour stops in Columbus, Ohio, featuring headliners ‘N Sync and opening acts Britney Spears, B*Witched, and Mandy Moore. 2006 – Oasis fan Ben Hayes enjoys "the best day of his life" when Noel Gallagher pops round to his house in Poynton, Cheshire, to play an intimate gig. Hayes won a BBC Radio 1 competition to have the star play in his front room as part of a week of gigs hosted by DJ Jo Whiley. 15 people pack into his living room for the gig, with his mother on hand making cups of tea for the crew. 2012 – Singer Shakira is sued for $100 million by former boyfriend and business manager of six years, Antonio de la Rua. In papers filed in New York, Rua claims he is the "principal architect" of the business plan that turned the singer into a global superstar, and is seeking to "recover his share of past and future partnership profits." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
