December 30 Born –
George DeWitt (1922) – singer/entertainer, host of Name That Tune.
Bo Diddley (aka Ellas Bates, aka Ellas McDaniel, 1928) –
singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Skeeter Davis (aka Mary Penick, 1931) – singer/songwriter.
Del Shannon (1934) – singer/songwriter.
Paul Stookey (1937) – Peter, Paul & Mary.
John Hartford (1937) – folk/country/bluegrass multi-instrumentalist.
Felix Pappalardi (1939) – bassist for Mountain.
Kenny Pentifallo (1940) – drummer for Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes.
Perry Ford (aka Bryan Pugh, 1940) – The Ivy League.
Michael Nesmith (1942) – The Monkees.
Robert Quine (1942) – session guitarist for Lloyd Cole and Tom Waits.
Davy Jones (1945) – The Monkees.
Clive Bunker (1946) – drummer for Jethro Tull.
Patti Smith (1946) – singer/songwriter.
Jeff Lynne (1947) – Electric Light Orchestra and Traveling Wilburys.
Bruce Fairbairn (1949) – record producer.
Chris Jasper (1951) – keyboardist for The Isley Brothers.
Suzy Bogguss (1956) – Country music singer/songwriter.
Tracey Ullman (1959) – singer/actress.
Jason “Jay Kay” Cheetham (1969) – vocalist for Jamiroquai.
Sister Bliss (aka Ayalah Bentovim, 1970) – pianist/songwriter/DJ/producer,
Faithless.
December 30 R.I.P. –
Bert Berns (1967) – heart failure. Age 38. Songwriter (“Twist And Shout”).
Richard Rodgers (1979) – cancer. Age 77. Broadway and film composer.
Richard Blandon (1991) – Age 57. The Dubs.
Mack David (1993) – Age 81. Songwriter/lyricist (“Baby It’s You”).
Ralph Flanagan (1995) – Age 81. Bandleader/conductor/composer ("Rag Mop").
Johnny Moore (1998) – respiratory failure. Age 64. The Drifters.
Artie Shaw (2004) – diabetes. Age 94. Clarinetist/composer, big band leader
("Begin The Beguine").
Rowland Howard (2009) – hepatocellular carcinoma. Age 50. Guitarist for The
Birthday Party.
Bobby Farrell (2010) – heart failure. Age 61. Boney M.
Nick Santo (2010) – cancer. Age 69. The Capris.
December 30 album releases –
Three Dog Night – Harmony (1971)
Chris Squire – Fish Out Of Water (1975) U.S.
Rough Trade – For Those Who Think Young (1981) U.S.
Ric Ocasek – Beatitude (1982)
December 30 events –
1942 – Frank Sinatra performs his first solo concert at the Paramount
Theatre in New York City to a packed house of frenzied teenage girls.
1944 – Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys makes their Grand Ole Opry debut.
1948 – Cole Porter's original production of Kiss Me Kate, his musical
adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play The Taming Of The Shrew, opens on
Broadway at the New Century Theatre.
1950 – The Dominoes record “Sixty Minute Man” at National Studios in New
York City. Upon its release in 1957, the song will be banned by many radio
stations for being to sexually suggestive. Despite the ban, the song will
hit #1 on the R&B charts.
1952 – Nat “King” Cole records “Pretend” at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.
1956 – Charlie Gracie records “Butterfly” at Reco-Art Sound Recording
Studios in Philadelphia.
1957 – Country music artist Don Gibson records “I Can’t Stop Loving You”
for RCA.
1957 – Noble "Thin Man" Watts is the guest performer on American Bandstand.
1962 – Ike and Tina Turner and The Ike-etts, Jimmy Thomas and Mary Brown
all appear at the Cocoanut Grove in Sacramento, California.
1962 – Brenda Lee's house in Nashville catches fire and burns to the
ground. The singer receives light injuries after rushing back into the
house to save her poodle, who dies later from smoke inhalation.
1962 – The BBC begins filming its play Madhouse On Castle Street, which
features a cameo appearance by Bob Dylan playing his recently-recorded song
"Blowin' In The Wind."
1963 – British music newspaper New Musical Express recognizes The Beatles
with Group and Record of the Year honors (for "She Loves You") in their
annual year-end poll.
1964 – Mary Wells, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Rydell, The Gauchos, Donna Loren,
The Wellingtons, The Blossoms and Willy Nelson all appear on Shindig!
1965 – The Kinks, The Who, Manfred Mann, The Hollies, Marianne Faithfull,
Adam Faith, Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames, and Gerry and The Pacemakers
all appear on Shindig!
1966 – Pink Floyd and Soft Machine appear at the Blarney Club in London.
1966 – The Young Rascals record “I’ve Been Lonely Too Long” in New York
City.
1968 – Vanilla Fudge appears at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington,
with opening act Led Zeppelin, who has their show recorded by a fan in the
audience. The eventual bootleg, Gonzaga '68, proves to be one of the first
ever live recordings of the band.
1968 – Peter Tork quits The Monkees by spending his life’s savings -
$160,000 - to buy himself out of his contract.
1968 – Frank Sinatra records “My Way” in Hollywood.
1970 – Elvis Presley returns to Washington DC after his December 21 visit
with President Nixon to take a tour of FBI headquarters. While on the tour,
Elvis requests and is granted a permit to carry a gun in every state.
1972 – Brownsville Station and Sha Na Na appear at the Ohio Theatre in
Columbus, with opening act Bruce Springsteen.
1974 – Bob Dylan records "Tangled Up In Blue," "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack
Of Hearts," and "If You See Her, Say Hello" at Sound 80 Studios in
Minneapolis.
1976 – The Smothers Brothers play their final show at the Aladdin Hotel in
Las Vegas and retire as a team from show business.
1978 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer announce they are breaking up.
1980 – The Beach Boys receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1989 – Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic marries long-time girlfriend Shelli
Dilly in Tacoma, Washington. They stay married ten years.
1994 – Ringo Starr’s first wife, Maureen Cox, passes away from leukemia at
the age of 48.
1999 – 33-year-old Liverpudlian Michael Abram, believing he is on a
"mission from God," breaks into the home of George Harrison at Friar Park
and stabs the former Beatle several times in the chest with a six-inch
knife. Harrison's wife, Olivia, attacks Abram with a poker and a bedroom
lamp, then detains him until authorities arrive.
1999 – Slade singer Noddy Holder is awarded an MBE, and Mark Knopfler of
Dire Straits is awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II.
2002 – Diana Ross is arrested in Tucson, Arizona, for driving under the
influence, with a blood alcohol level at twice the legal limit. She fails
all sobriety tests at the scene, falling over when asked to walk a straight
line, and is charged with three misdemeanor DUIs.
2002 – The funeral for The Clash’s Joe Strummer takes place in west London.
2003 – With stories swirling that members of the Nation of Islam are taking
over Michael Jackson’s security and business affairs, the activist group
issues a statement denying any such association with Jackson.
2003 – Bassist for The Meat Puppets Cris Kirkwood gets into an argument
with a woman over a parking space at a post office in downtown Phoenix,
Arizona <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona>. When a security
guard gets involved in the scuffle, Kirkwood grabs the guard's baton and
begins striking him, at which time the guard draws his handgun and shoots
Kirkwood in the back. After recovering, Kirkwood will plead guilty to
assault with a deadly weapon and be sentenced to 21 months in prison.
2006 – R&B singer Brandy is involved in a four-car crash that leaves one
woman dead, after the singer fails to slow down and hits the back of
another car. Brandy is alone in her car and no alcohol or drugs are
involved.
2009 – Former Guess Who vocalist Burton Cummings and Neil Young are named
Officers of the Order of Canada by Governor General Michaëlle Jean.
2012 – Animal welfare charity, PETA, names former Queen guitarist Brian May
UK's Person of the Year for his efforts to help stop the culling of badgers
with his organization, Team Badger.
2012 – A rare copy of The Beatles’ Please Please Me album - signed by all
four Beatles - sells for £12,000: a sum rejected at an auction in Sussex a
few weeks earlier. Chris Collins and his sister, Liz Chambers, initially
turned down a £12,000 bid for the album, hoping to get £15,000, but the
siblings finally choose to accept £12,000 from a private buyer. The album
was signed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr
after they used it as a drinks coaster during a card game in 1963.
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