Jimi Davies used to work for me when I ran the Sam Goody Store in
Annapolis, Md. in the early 80's. He was a cool kid.
On Monday, December 2, 2013 8:41:49 AM UTC-7, Eidem wrote:
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> December 2 Born –
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> Moses Asch (1905) – founder of Folkways Records.
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> Peter Goldmark (1906) – developer of the 33 1/3 LP vinyl record.
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> Adolph Green (1914) – Broadway lyricist (“New York, New York”).
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> Eddie Sauter (1914) – Jazz arranger for Woody Herman and Benny Goodman.
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> Charlie Ventura (1916) – saxophonist, bandleader.
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> Sylvia Syms (1917) – Jazz singer ("I Could Have Danced All Night").
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> Martin DeLugg (1918) – composer/arranger (“The Happy Wanderer”).
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> Maria Callas (aka Sophia Kalos, 1923) – opera singer.
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> Dick St. John (1941) – Dick & Dee Dee.
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> Tom McGuinness (1941) – guitarist for Manfred Mann.
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> Ted Bluechel (1942) – drummer for The Association.
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> Dave Munden (1943) – drummer/vocalist for Brian Poole and The Tremeloes.
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> John Wesley Ryles (1950) – Country singer (“Kay”).
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> Razzle (aka Nicholas Dingley, 1960) – drummer for Hanoi Rocks.
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> Rick Savage (1960) – bassist for Def Leppard.
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> Sydney Youngblood (aka Sydney Ford, 1960) – singer (“I’d Rather Go Blind”).
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> Nate Mendel (1968) – bassist for Foo Fighters.
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> Jimi Haha (aka James Davies, 1968) – Jimmie’s Chicken Shack.
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> Treach (aka Anthony Criss, 1970) – rapper for Naughty By Nature.
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> Donna Matthews (1971) – guitarist for Elastica.
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> Chris Wolstenholme (1978) – bassist for Muse.
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> Nelly Furtado (1978) – Canadian singer/songwriter.
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> Britney Spears (1981) – singer/songwriter.
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>
> December 2 R.I.P. –
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> David Blue (1982) – heart attack. Age 41. Folk singer/songwriter (“Outlaw
> Man”).
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> Desi Arnaz (1986) – lung cancer. Age 69. Cuban bandleader/actor.
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> Lee Dorsey (1986) – emphysema. Age 61. R&B singer (“Ya Ya”).
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> Aaron Copeland (1990) – Alzheimer's disease. Age 90. Composer ("Fanfare
> For The Common Man").
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> Michael Hedges (1997) – car crash. Age 43. Acoustic guitarist.
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> Bobby Haggart (1998) – Age 84. Jazz bassist.
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> Charlie Byrd (1999) – lung cancer. Age 74. Jazz guitarist.
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> Valerie Jones (2001) – Age 45. The Jones Girls.
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> Kevin Coyne (2004) – lung fibrosis. Age 60. British blues
> singer/songwriter/guitarist.
>
> Mariska Veres (2006) – cancer. Age 59. Vocalist for Shocking Blue
> (“Venus”).
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> Dave Mount (2006) – suicide. Age 59. Drummer for Mud.
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> Odetta (2008) – heart disease. Age 77. Singer/songwriter, civil rights
> activist.
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> Eric Woolfson (2009) – kidney cancer. Age 64. The Alan Parsons Project.
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> Aaron Schroeder (2009) – progressive aphasia. Age 83. Songwriter (“Good
> Luck Charm”).
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> Howard Tate (2011) – myeloma, leukemia. Age 72. Soul singer/songwriter
> (“Get It While You Can”).
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> December 2 album releases –
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> Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Cruising With Rueben & The Jets
> (1968)
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> George Harrison – Wonderwall Music (1968) U.S.
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> Stephen Stills – Still Stills: The Best Of Stephen Stills (1976)
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> Dolly Parton – 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs (1980)
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> Bon Jovi – Hard & Hot (1991) Australia
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> Suzy Quatro – Live & Kickin’ (1991)
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> Alicia Keys – The Diary Of Alicia Keys (2003)
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> December 2 events –
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> 1947 – Perry Como, along with Russ Case and His Orchestra, records
> “Because” at RCA Studios in New York City.
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> 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.
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> 1959 – Bobby Darin is the subject on the television show This Is Your Life.
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> 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.”
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> 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.”
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> 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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