Greg Eidem?
On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:18:52 AM UTC-7, Eidem wrote: > > December 24 Born – > > Harry Warren (aka Salvatore Guaragna, 1893) – composer/lyricist > (“Chattanooga Choo Choo”). > > Franz Waxman (1906) – film composer (The Bride Of Frankenstein). > > Ralph Marterie (1914) – big band leader (“Skokiaan”). > > Dave Bartholomew (1920) – arranger/songwriter (“Ain’t That A Shame”). > > Lee Dorsey (1924) – R&B singer (“Ya Ya”). > > Raphael "Ray" Bryant (1931) – Jazz pianist with Sonny Rollins and Coleman > Hawkins. > > Mike Curb (1944) – musician, record company executive. > > Lemmy (aka Ian Kilmister, 1945) – bassist/vocalist for Hawkwind and > Motörhead. > > Jan Akkerman (1946) – guitarist for Focus. > > Tom “T-Bone” Wolk (1951) – bassist for Hall & Oates. > > Ian Burden (1957) – keyboardist for The Human League. > > Munetaka Higuchi (1958) – drummer for Loudness. > > Greg Eidem (1959) – bassist for Flipp and Joey Molland’s Badfinger. > > Mary Ramsey (1963) – vocalist for John & Mary, and 10,000 Maniacs. > > Doyle Bramhall II (1968) – guitarist for Arc Angels and Smokestack. > > Ricky Martin (aka Enrique Morales, 1971) – Puerto Rican singer, Menudo. > > Joseph Washbourn (1975) – keyboardist/vocalist for Toploader. > > > December 24 R.I.P. – > > Bernard Herrmann (1975) – cardiovascular disease. Age 64. Composer > (Psycho). > > Bobby LaKind (1992) – cancer. Age 47. Percussionist for The Doobie > Brothers. > > Zeke Carey (1999) – heart attack. Age 66. The Flamingos. > > Nick Massi (2000) – cancer. Age 73. The Four Seasons. > > Tim Hart (2009) – lung cancer. Age 61. Steeleye Span. > > Myrna Smith (2010) – Age 69. Singer/songwriter with Carl Wilson, The Sweet > Inspirations. > > Ray Collins (2012) – complications from a heart attack. Age 76. Vocalist > for The Mothers of Invention. > > Richard Rodney Bennett (2012) – Age 76. British composer. > > > December 24 album releases – > > Freddie King – Boogie On Down (1997) > > The Stranglers – Live In London (1997) > > > December 24 events – > > 1906 – Reginald Fessenden, broadcasting from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, > becomes the first person to air a short music program on radio, first > playing a phonograph record of “Ombra Mai > Fu<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombra_mai_fu> > ” (“Largo”) by George Frideric > Handel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel>, > followed by Fessenden himself playing the song “O Holy > Night<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Holy_Night> > ” on the violin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin>, and finishing with > reading a passage from the Bible <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible>: > “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will.” > > 1920 – Opera star Enrico Caruso gives his final performance in Halevy's La > Juive at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. > > 1935 – Gene Autry records “Mexicali Rose” in Chicago. > > 1944 – The Andrews Sisters debut their radio show, The Andrews Sisters' > Eight-To-The-Bar Ranch, on the ABC radio network. > > 1953 – The Ames Brothers record “The Man With The Banjo.” > > 1955 – The Lennon Sisters make their debut as regulars on ABC-TV's The > Lawrence Welk Show. > > 1963 – The Beatles hold their first Beatles’ Christmas Show series at the > Astoria Cinema in London. The group will perform 30 shows through January > 11, 1964, at the venue, with supporting acts Tommy Quickly, The Fourmost, > Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas, Cilla Black, The Barron Knights and Rolf > Harris. > > 1966 – After months of pressure from both sets of parents, Elvis Presley > gets on one knee at Graceland and presents Priscilla with the three-carat > diamond ring he had made for her, and instead of asking for her hand in > marriage, he tells her, “We’re going to be married.” > > 1966 – Tommy James and The Shondells record “I Think We’re Alone Now.” > > 1967 – The Bee Gees perform their Christmas special live from Liverpool > Cathedral, > which is broadcast on UK TV. > > 1967 – Creedence Clearwater Revival forms in San Francisco. > > 1967 – The Cowsills, Bobbie Gentry, Arthur Godfrey and Gilbert Price all > perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. > > 1968 – Led Zeppelin flies to Denver, Colorado, to begin their first > American tour. > > 1969 – Willie Nelson's home in Ridgetop, Tennessee, burns to the ground > while he's at a Christmas party in Nashville. > > 1971 – Slade appears at the Marquee Club in London for a Christmas Eve > party. > > 1971 – Little Jimmy Dickens marries Mona Evans. They are still married. > > 1972 – Local police shut down a concert by Manfred Mann's Earth Band at > the University of Miami when neighbors complain about the noise, resulting > in a two-hour riot so fierce that band members are forced to retreat to > their dressing room. > > 1972 – Yoko Ono's first husband, film producer Tony Cox, kidnaps their > daughter Kyoko and disappears somewhere in New York. > > 1972 – David Bowie performs a Christmas Eve show at the Rainbow Theatre in > London on his Ziggy Stardust Tour. > > 1972 – The Eagles, The Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder and Mott The Hoople all > appear at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. > > 1973 – Doobie Brother Tom Johnston is arrested in Visalia, California, for > possession of marijuana. > > 1974 – James Taylor, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt and Joni Mitchell, along > with comedian Albert Brooks and session drummer John Guerin, all go > caroling door-to-door in the Hollywood Hills. The sextet then heads in to > town and continues their caroling at the Troubadour for the patrons > attending a Flo & Eddie show at the club. > > 1974 – Elton John performs a Christmas concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in > London. The show is recorded and bootlegged as Ol’ Pink Eyes Is Back. > > 1975 – AC/DC appears at the Hodern Pavillion in Sydney, Australia. > > 1977 – The Sex Pistols play their last gig together at Ivanhoes in > Huddersfield, at a charity performance before an audience of mainly > children. > > 1978 – ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog announce they are > getting divorced. > > 1983 – The Police appear at the Brighton Centre in England on their > Synchronicity Tour. > > 1988 – Nirvana begins recording their debut album, Bleach, at Reciprocal > Recording Studios in Seattle. > > 2003 – White Stripes front man Jack White turns himself in to Detroit > police to face aggravated assault charges stemming from a bar room > altercation in which he allegedly attacked Jason Stollsteimer of The Von > Bondies. > > 2005 – Rapper Foxy Brown, in court on charges of assaulting two nail salon > workers, is handcuffed and threatened with jail time after she sticks her > tongue out at a New York judge who asks her to stop chewing gum, with Judge > Melissa Jackson telling the singer she’s showing disrespect to the court. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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