*January 2 –*
Born –
Julius La Rosa (1930) – American singer.
Roger Miller (1936) – singer/songwriter/guitarist.
Chick Churchill (aka Michael Churchill, 1946) – keyboardist for Ten Years
After.
Kerry Minnear (1948) – multi-instrumentalist for Gentle Giant.
Glen Goins (1954) – singer/guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic.
Douglas Robb (1975) – vocalist for Hoobastank.
R.I.P. –
Red Smiley (1972) – diabetes. Age 46. Bluegrass musician, Reno And Smiley.
Tex Ritter (1974) – heart attack. Age 68. Country music singer/actor.
Erroll Gardner (1977) – cardiac arrest. Age 53. Jazz pianist/songwriter
(“Misty”).
Wayne Walker (1979) – Age 53. Rockabilly singer/songwriter.
Larry Williams (1980) – suicide. Age 44. Singer/songwriter ("Dizzy Miss
Lizzy").
David Lynch (1981) – cancer. Age 51. The Platters.
Randy California (1997) – drowned. Age 45. Guitarist for Spirit.
Nik Venet (1998) – Burkitt’s lymphoma. Age 61. Record producer.
Nat Adderly (2000) – diabetes. Age 68. Jazz cornetist and trumpeter.
Ed Farran (2003) – kidney failure. Age 64. The Arbors.
Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt (2012) – sclerosis of the liver. Age 63. Guitarist
for Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond.
Jay Traynor (2014) – liver cancer. Age 70. Singer for Jay and The Americans.
Album releases –
Elvis Presley – Elvis’ Gold Records Volume 4 (1968)
Merle Haggard – Sing Me Back Home (1968)
Elvis Presley – Elvis Country (I’m 10,000 Years Old) (1971)
Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne (1972)
Elvis Presley – Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 (1974)
Events –
1921 – Pittsburgh radio station KDKA airs the first ever religious service,
broadcast from Calvary Episcopal Church with Dr. E.J. Van Etten preaching.
1926 – The British music weekly, Melody Maker, publishes their first issue.
1936 – Bing Crosby becomes the sole host of NBC radio’s Kraft Music Hall.
1941 – The Andrews Sisters record "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" at Decca
Studios in Hollywood.
1955 – The funeral for Johnny Ace is held at Memphis' Clayborn Temple.
1962 – An appearance by The Weavers on The Jack Paar Show is cancelled by
NBC when they refuse to sign a statement denying their involvement with the
Communist Party.
1966 – The Four Seasons appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Let’s
Hang On.” Also performing on the show are The King Family and Leslie Uggams.
1969 – The Beatles begin the month-long sessions that will ultimately
produce the Let It Be album and film.
1969 – 30,000 copies of John and Yoko's Two Virgins album are confiscated
in New Jersey as pornography.
1969 – Led Zeppelin plays the first of four nights at the Whisky A Go-Go in
Los Angeles, with opening act Alice Cooper.
1969 – Edwin Starr releases his single, “Twenty-Five Miles” b/w “Love Is My
Destination” on the Gordy label.
1970 – Marty Robbins records “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife” at Columbia
Studios in Nashville.
1972 – Elvis Presley buys a $10,000 robe, has it inscribed with "The
People's Champion," and presents it to boxer Muhammad Ali.
1975 – John Lennon and his attorneys are allowed access to his FBI files
for his deportation case.
1976 – Bad Company, Nazareth, Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance, The Pretty Things
and Be Bop Deluxe all appear on the third day of the Great British Music
Festival at London's Olympia.
1978 – Rhino Records releases their first album, Wildmania, by Wildman
Fischer.
1979 – Former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious goes on trial in New York for
the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
1981 – The RKO Radio network begins airing Night Time America: a live
five-hour daily call-in music show broadcast from New York City and hosted
by DJ Bob Dearborn. The show lasts four years.
1985 – Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood marries his second wife, Jo
Karslake. They stay married 14 years.
1995 – Shania Twain releases her debut single, “Whose Bed Have Your Boots
Been Under?” b/w “Any Man Of Mine.”
1999 – Isaac Hayes has his first UK hit in years as South Park's "Chef"
with "Chocolate Salty Balls."
2002 – Backstreet Boy Nick Carter is arrested in a Tampa, Florida,
night-club on a misdemeanor count of resisting a law enforcement officer
without violence after being involved in a fight with a woman and refusing
to leave when asked to by police.
2003 – Rapper 50 Cent is arrested in New York City when two loaded guns are
found in his vehicle after his SUV is searched when it’s left in a
no-parking zone.
2004 – Pop singer Daniel Bedingfield suffers two fractured vertebrae in his
neck while on holiday in New Zealand when the jeep he is driving rolls over
and crashes. Emergency workers have to cut the singer free before he can be
taken to the hospital.
2007 – 34-year-old Cristin Keleher, who made headlines in December 1999 for
breaking into George Harrison's Maui, Hawaii, estate and cooking herself a
frozen pizza and doing laundry, is found dead in California after an
apparent murder-suicide when her body is found with that of a 48-year-old
man in a car, both with gunshot wounds to their heads.
2008 – Paul McCartney undergoes coronary angioplasty.
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