December 2 Born –
Moses Asch (1905) – founder of Folkways Records.
Peter Goldmark (1906) – developer of the 33 1/3 LP vinyl record.
Adolph Green (1914) – Broadway lyricist (“New York, New York”).
Eddie Sauter (1914) – Jazz arranger for Woody Herman and Benny Goodman.
Charlie Ventura (1916) – saxophonist, bandleader.
Sylvia Syms (1917) – Jazz singer ("I Could Have Danced All Night").
Martin DeLugg (1918) – composer/arranger (“The Happy Wanderer”).
Maria Callas (aka Sophia Kalos, 1923) – opera singer.
Dick St. John (1941) – Dick & Dee Dee.
Tom McGuinness (1941) – guitarist for Manfred Mann.
Ted Bluechel (1942) – drummer for The Association.
Dave Munden (1943) – drummer/vocalist for Brian Poole and The Tremeloes.
John Wesley Ryles (1950) – Country singer (“Kay”).
Razzle (aka Nicholas Dingley, 1960) – drummer for Hanoi Rocks.
Rick Savage (1960) – bassist for Def Leppard.
Sydney Youngblood (aka Sydney Ford, 1960) – singer (“I’d Rather Go Blind”).
Nate Mendel (1968) – bassist for Foo Fighters.
Jimi Haha (aka James Davies, 1968) – Jimmie’s Chicken Shack.
Treach (aka Anthony Criss, 1970) – rapper for Naughty By Nature.
Donna Matthews (1971) – guitarist for Elastica.
Chris Wolstenholme (1978) – bassist for Muse.
Nelly Furtado (1978) – Canadian singer/songwriter.
Britney Spears (1981) – singer/songwriter.
December 2 R.I.P. –
David Blue (1982) – heart attack. Age 41. Folk singer/songwriter (“Outlaw
Man”).
Desi Arnaz (1986) – lung cancer. Age 69. Cuban bandleader/actor.
Lee Dorsey (1986) – emphysema. Age 61. R&B singer (“Ya Ya”).
Aaron Copeland (1990) – Alzheimer's disease. Age 90. Composer ("Fanfare For
The Common Man").
Michael Hedges (1997) – car crash. Age 43. Acoustic guitarist.
Bobby Haggart (1998) – Age 84. Jazz bassist.
Charlie Byrd (1999) – lung cancer. Age 74. Jazz guitarist.
Valerie Jones (2001) – Age 45. The Jones Girls.
Kevin Coyne (2004) – lung fibrosis. Age 60. British blues
singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Mariska Veres (2006) – cancer. Age 59. Vocalist for Shocking Blue (“Venus”).
Dave Mount (2006) – suicide. Age 59. Drummer for Mud.
Odetta (2008) – heart disease. Age 77. Singer/songwriter, civil rights
activist.
Eric Woolfson (2009) – kidney cancer. Age 64. The Alan Parsons Project.
Aaron Schroeder (2009) – progressive aphasia. Age 83. Songwriter (“Good
Luck Charm”).
Howard Tate (2011) – myeloma, leukemia. Age 72. Soul singer/songwriter
(“Get It While You Can”).
December 2 album releases –
Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Cruising With Rueben & The Jets
(1968)
George Harrison – Wonderwall Music (1968) U.S.
Stephen Stills – Still Stills: The Best Of Stephen Stills (1976)
Dolly Parton – 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs (1980)
Bon Jovi – Hard & Hot (1991) Australia
Suzy Quatro – Live & Kickin’ (1991)
Alicia Keys – The Diary Of Alicia Keys (2003)
December 2 events –
1947 – Perry Como, along with Russ Case and His Orchestra, records
“Because” at RCA Studios in New York City.
1947 – Pee Wee King records “Tennessee Waltz” and seven others songs at RCA
Studios in Chicago.
1957 – Sam Cooke appears on American Bandstand.
1957 – Harvey and The Moonglows record “The Ten Commandments Of Love” for
Chess Records.
1959 – Bobby Darin is the subject on the television show This Is Your Life.
1960 – Elvis Presley invites Priscilla Beaulieu to come to Graceland for a
visit, and asks his dad, Vernon, to help convince her father. It works.
1962 – Andy Williams records “Can’t Get Used To Losing You.”
1963 – The Beatles film their appearance on The Morecambe And Wise Show at
ATV's Elstree Studio Centre in Borehamwood. The group performs “This Boy,”
“All My Loving” and “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” before singing a rendition
of “Moonlight Bay” with the show’s hosts. Later in the evening, The Beatles
perform at the Grosvenor House hotel before a black-tie-and-tails audience
in a benefit for cerebral palsy sufferers.
1964 – Aretha Franklin, Bobby Vinton, Freddy Cannon, The Chambers Brothers
and Bobby Sherman all appear on Shindig!
1965 – The Hollies, The Searchers, Leroy Van Dyke, Gloria Jones, We Five,
Melody Patterson, Tommy Turner and Bobby Sherman all appear on Shindig!
1966 – Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels play the first of three shows at
the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
1969 – George Harrison joins Delaney and Bonnie’s UK tour in Bristol as a
side guitarist, and will stay for the remaining six dates, playing two
shows at each stop.
1969 – Cindy Birdsong of The Supremes is kidnapped by the caretaker of her
Hollywood apartment, Charles Collier, who, while holding a knife to her
throat, forces her to tie up her two visiting male friends, then forces her
into her car and drives toward Long Beach. While on the road, Birdsong
jumps from the car and escapes. Collier will turn himself in and be
arrested in Las Vegas four days later.
1969 – The Rolling Stones begin recording “Brown Sugar” at Muscle Shoals in
Alabama. At Mick Taylor’s insistence, the group debuts the song live four
days later at the Altamont Speedway.
1970 – Former Animals singer Eric Burdon launches his “Curb the Clap”
campaign to fight what he calls “the number one sickness in the record
business today - VD.” For every donation made to L.A.’s Free Clinic, Burdon
sends out a Curb the Clap bumper sticker.
1971 – Taj Mahal performs for the men on death row at Wilmington State
Penitentiary in Delaware.
1971 – Led Zeppelin releases their single, “Black Dog” b/w “Misty Mountain
Hop.”
1972 – Carly Simon’s single “You’re So Vain” enters the Billboard Hot 100
at # 99.
1972 – The Eagles play the last date of their first concert tour at Royce
Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1973 – The Who and their entourage are jailed overnight in Montreal,
Canada, after causing $6,000 worth of damages to their hotel after their
show at the Forum.
1973 – Bob Dylan begins taking ticket requests by mail for his upcoming
tour. Over 658,000 tickets are sold.
1974 – While on tour with George Harrison, Ravi Shankar is hospitalized in
Chicago after suffering chest pains. He will rejoin the tour in Boston in a
week.
1976 – The first day of Pink Floyd’s Animals album cover photo shoot takes
place at Battersea Power Station in London with a giant inflatable pig
lashed between two of the structures’ tall towers. A trained marksman is
hired ready to fire if the inflatable escapes, but is not needed.
1979 – After seven years of marriage, Kris Kristofferson’s divorce from
Rita Coolidge becomes final.
1983 – MTV airs the full 14-minute version of Michael Jackson's Thriller
video for the first time.
1984 – The Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton holiday special, A Christmas To
Remember, airs on CBS-TV.
1985 – Roger Daltrey begins his first North American solo tour at the
Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey.
1986 – Jerry Lee Lewis checks into the Betty Ford Clinic to battle his
addiction to painkiller medications.
1986 – Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox tears off her bra on stage in front of
10,000 fans while performing “Missionary Man” at a show in Birmingham,
England.
1988 – The Stone Roses appear at the London School of Economics, with
opening act The Charlatans.
1991 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that The Shirelles, Gene Pitney and
B.J. Thomas are owed $1.2 million in unpaid royalties and penalties by
Nashville’s Gusto Records.
1995 – The Guinness Book of World Records names “The Sign” by Ace Of Base
the biggest selling debut single of all time.
1997 – At a Rolling Stones concert at the Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit, a man
falls to his death from the second level mezzanine after dancing on a
handrail.
1998 – First Lady Hillary Clinton and country music singer Garth Brooks turn
on the lights on the Christmas tree at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
1998 – Jimmy Buffett performs in his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, at the
Mobile Civic Center on his Don’t Stop The Carnival Tour.
1999 – Stevie Wonder announces that he is pursuing an intraocular retinal
prosthesis to partially restore his sight.
1999 – David Bowie plays his first UK show in over two years at the Astoria
Theatre in London in front of 2,000 fans.
2000 – Thieves break into Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s London home through a
basement door, then load up Ritchie's car with some of the couple's
possessions and drive off, all while the couple sleeps upstairs.
2000 – Smashing Pumpkins play their final concert at the Metro Club in
Chicago.
2002 – At the Bayerischer Hotel in Munich, Germany, Oasis’ Liam Gallagher is
arrested and charged with assault after he Kung-Fu kicks a police officer
in the chest during a brawl. Gallagher loses his two front teeth in the
fight.
2003 – Darkness singer Justin Hawkins is held for two hours at JFK Airport
in New York after police mistake him for a wanted man with the same name
and looks. The police agree to let him go after Justin's fiancé and
manager, Sue Whitehouse, produces a tour schedule to prove that he was in
England on July 4th when the crime was committed.
2003 – Ray Charles returns to his Beverly Hills home to recover from hip
replacement surgery the week before.
2003 – Simon and Garfunkel play their first New York concert in ten years
at Madison Square Garden on their Old Friends Tour.
2003 – Alice Cooper receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2004 – Country music singer Lynn Anderson is arrested for drunk driving
after being found passed out in her car in Denton, Texas.
2007 – Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sell off some of their possessions for
charity, bringing in more than $800,000.
2010 – Aretha Franklin undergoes “mystery surgery” at a hospital in Detroit.
2012 – The remaining members of Led Zeppelin are honored in Washington DC
at the Kennedy Opera House for the Kennedy Center Honors gala awards.
Heart, Lenny Kravitz and Kid Rock each pay tribute to the group by
performing some of the band’s music.
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