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| October 8, 2008, 12:39 |
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Great thread, I for one hope you keep it going!
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| October 8, 2008, 13:02 |
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I'll try to keep it going!
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| October 8, 2008, 13:32 |
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| October 9, 2008, 08:23 |
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1713 - Composer Johann Ludwig Krebs was born.
1813 - Composer Giuseppee Verdi was born. He composed 26 operas.
1906 - Composer Paul Creston was born.
1935 - The "Porgy and Bess" opera opened on Broadway.
1940 - "Moonlight and Roses" by Lanny Ross was recorded.
1962 - The BBC banned the song "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.
1964 - Shangri-Las released "Leader Of The Pack."
1965 - The Supremes made their first appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
1970 - "Tears Of A Clown" was released by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
1978 - Steve Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith were injured when a cherry bomb was thrown on stage at a show in Philadelphia, PA.
1979 - "The Rose," starring Bette Midler, premiered in Los Angeles, CA.
1979 - The city of Los Angeles declared "Fleetwood Mac Day." The group was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1992 - Slash (Guns N' Roses) and Renee Suran were married.
1995 - Peter Frampton released "Frampton Comes Alive II."
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| October 10, 2008, 10:36 |
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1962 - The BBC banned the song "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.
I wonder why? I cant think of any of those lyrics that could be misconstrued as something else. 
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| October 10, 2008, 14:06 |
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Has anyone ever figured out the lyrics of "louie louie"?
I remember stuff about how that one too, was banned cuz of what some "thought" the lyrics were saying or meant!
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| October 11, 2008, 09:45 |
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1727 - Coronation Anthem No. 4, by Handel, was first performed in Westminster Abbey.
1939 - Coleman Hawkins recorded "Body and Soul."
1940 - Glenn Miller recorded "Make Believe Ballroom Time."
1948 - "Where's Charley?" debuted on Broadway.
1965 - "Roll Over Beethoven" was released by the Beatles.
1969 - Muddy Waters was seriously injured and three people were killed in a car accident near Chicago, IL.
1973 - Elvis and Priscilla Presley's divorce became final.
1989 - The album "Hot in the Shade" was released by KISS.
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1872 - Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was born.
1944 - Frank Sinatra returned to the Paramount Theatre to a huge crowd known as the "Columbus Day Riot".
1957 - Little Richard tossed four diamond rings into the Hunter River in Sydney, Australia, to prove that he was giving up rock-n-roll for his faith in God. He returned to music five years later.
1962 - Little Richard headlined a concert in Liverpool. One of the opening acts was the Beatles.
1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed in London.
1968 - John Sebastian left the band Lovin' Spoonful to start his solo career.
1969 - The "Paul is Dead" craze began when a radio DJ played "Revolution #9" backwards.
1970 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar" debuted on Broadway.
1970 - Bill Graham held a rock Memorabilia auction at New York's Fillmore East.
1975 - Rod Stewart and the Faces play their final show together. The group's breakup was due to Stewart wanting to further his success with his solo career.
1978 - Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols) was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Spungen had been found dead with several knife wounds to her abdominal area. Vicious died of a heroin overdose before his murder trial began.
1983 - Karen Carpenter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1985 - Ricky Wilson, of the B-52's, died of complication of AIDS at the age of 32.
1991 - Nirvana's album, "Nevermind" was certified gold by the RIAA.
1995 - Tupac Shakur was released from prison on $1.4 million bail. He was released pending an appeal of his conviction for sexual assault.
1996 - "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus", the film documentary, was released. The work had been filmed in December 1968.
1997 - John Denver was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed into Monterey Bay, CA. He was 53 years old.
1997 - A Backstreet Boys concert in a central Madrid square was cancelled by city officials. 300 girls had to be treated after fainting in the heat. More than 7,000 fans came to the event that expected no more than 5,000.
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| October 12, 2008, 09:47 |
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John Denver....ah....they say only the good die young....
Backstreet Boys....I remember my gay friend having such a crush on them!
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| October 12, 2008, 10:20 |
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1903 - "Babes in Toyland" debuted in New York City, NY.
1939 - Harry James and his band recorded "On a Little Street in Singapore."
1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an hour long special.
1963 - The Beatles appeared on the BBC's "Sunday Night at the Palladium." It was their first appearance on a major TV show.
1967 - Pat Boone, the owner of the Oakland Oaks, sang the national anthem at the first game of the new American Basketball Association.
1970 - Janis Joplin's ashes were scattered off the coast of California.
1971 - Bing Crosby, part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw out the first ball in Game 4 of the World Series between the Pirates and the Orioles.
1975 - Neil Young underwent surgery on his vocal chords in Los Angeles CA.
1980 - AC/DC's "Back in Black" went platinum.
1982 - KISS released the album "Creatures of the Night."
1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court decides not to reinstate lawsuits against Ozzy Osbourne alleging that his music prompted the suicide of two teenagers.
1995 - Tupac Shakur was released from jail after 8 months. The charges were for groping and fondling a woman in a New York hotel room.
1998 - The Crossroads Centre of Antigua opened. The center was underwritten by Eric Clapton with the promise that no one will be turned away that needs treatment for drug and alcohol addiction.
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| October 13, 2008, 09:45 |
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1871 - Composer Alexander von Zemlinsky was born.
1938 - "Big Noise from Winnetka" was recorded by Bob Crosby and The Bob Cats.
1939 - Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was organized. BMI competed directly with ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers).
1955 - Buddy Holly, Larry Welborn, and Bob Montgomery open for Bill Haley & the Comets in Lubbock, TX. Eddie Crandell sees the show and arranges for Holly to record his first demo.
1957 - "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley was released.
1964 - The secret marriage of Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) to Shirley Ann Arnold took place.
1966 - Grace Slick made her first appearance with Jefferson Airplane.
1971 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on "The Dick Cavett Show" on ABC to promote Lennon's new LP and film ("Imagine"  , Yoko's book, two films and a fine arts show.
1972 - Joe Cocker was arrested with his band in Adelaide, Australia. The police claimed to have confiscated marijuana, heroin and hypodermic syringes.
1972 - "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" was released by the Temptations.
1975 - "Rock & Roll All Night" was released by KISS.
1977 - Linda Ronstadt sang the National Anthem at the third game of the World Series.
1977 - Bing Crosby died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
1981 - Prince released the album "Controversy".
1990 - Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein died at the age of 72.
1996 - Madonna and Carlos Leon's daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, was born in Los Angeles, CA.
1997 - Paul McCartney's symphonic poem "Standing Stone" debuted.
1997 - The soundtrack to the film "Casablanca" was released for the first time.
2000 - A lawsuit was filed against Don Henley in Little Rock, AR. The suit claimed that a fan was hit in the forehead with a maraca during on October 4, 2000 concert.
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| October 14, 2008, 07:39 |
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1775 - Composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell was born.
1905 - Composer Dag Ivan Wiren was born.
1955 - "Grand Ole Opry" premiered on ABC-TV.
1955 - Buddy Holly opened a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, TX.
1968 - Led Zeppelin made its performance debut in England.
1971 - Rick Nelson was booed when he performed new material at an oldies show.
1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a 1971 Federal Communications directive that broadcasters censor from the airwaves songs with drug-oriented lyrics.
1976 - Ike and Tina Turner split their musical act.
1977 - "Rumours," the second album from Fleetwood Mac, was released.
1977 - "Slip Slidin' Away," by Paul Simon, was released.
1987 - Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead, opened a series of solo shows on Broadway.
1996 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) was charged with attacking a cameraman that was trying to take pictures of him and his wife Pamela Anderson Lee.
1997 - Patricia Ann Richardson filed suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharita Knight, and Death Row Records for allegedly tricking her into transporting packages of marijuana to a venue where Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing.
1998 - MCA Records Inc. filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against New Edition members Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricardo Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronald DeVoe for alleged failure to deliver albums.
1998 - Puff Daddy played his first U.K. show.
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2008 Frankie Venom musician for teenage head dies 
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| October 15, 2008, 19:08 |
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1679 - Composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was born.
1821 - Composer Albert Franz Doppler was born.
1951 - Little Richard held his first recording session in Atlanta, GA.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his first radio appearance on the "Louisiana Hayride."
1956 - The Elvis Presley film "Love Me Tender" premiered.
1957 - "You Send Me," by Sam Cooke, was released by Keen Records.
1966 - Joan Baez and 123 other anti-draft demonstrators were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, CA.
1968 - The New Yardbirds played their first concert. The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.
1971 - Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" was released.
1972 - A statement was released by Creedance Clearwater Revival that announced the group's break up.
1976 - Stevie Wonder's "Song in the Key of Life" was released.
1982 - RCA Records released "H2O" by Daryl Hall and John Oates.
1989 - The single "The Arms Of Orion" was released by Prince.
1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan.
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QUOTE (Chazzy @ October 11, 2008, 09:45)Has anyone ever figured out the lyrics of "louie louie"?
I remember stuff about how that one too, was banned cuz of what some "thought" the lyrics were saying or meant!
I found this on my favorite lyric web site..... Can't really say if they're completely accurate or not.. seein' as how I can't understand a damn word the guy's sayin'!
Louie, Louie, oh no, I say we really gotta go.
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I say we really gotta go.
A fine little girl, she wait for me.
Me catch the ship across the sea.
Me sail that ship all alone.
I never think I'll make it home.
Louie, Louie, oh no, I say really we gotta go.
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I say really we gotta go.
Three nights and days I sail the sea.
I think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she there.
I smell the rose in her hair.
Louie, Louie, oh no, I say really we gotta go.
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I say we really gotta go.
See Jamaican moon above.
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again.
Louie, Louie, oh no, I say we really gotta go.
Louie, Louie, oh baby, I say we really gotta go
LET'S GO!
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1892 - Composer Herbert Howells was born.
1940 - Will Bradley's Orchestra recorded "Five O'Clock Whistle" for Columbia Records.
1953 - Conductor Leopold Stokowski performed the first concert of contemporary Canadian music to be presented in the U.S.
1960 - Billboard reported that Dion and the Belmonts were breaking up.
1962 - The Beatles first appeared on Great Britain's Grenada TV Network.
1964 - "She's Not There," by the Zombies, was released.
1967 - The musical "Hair" premiered at New York's Public Theatre. The show ran for 1,758 performances.
1968 - Jose Feliciano released his controversial, bluesy rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner."
1969 - "Led Zeppelin II" was released along with the start of Led Zeppelin's third U.S. tour.
1970 - Eric Clapton released "After Midnight."
1977 - "Street Survivors" was released by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Three days later vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve's sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane crashed in Gillsburg, MS. The other four members of the band were seriously injured but survived the crash.
1979 - "Tusk," the two record set by Fleetwood Mac, was released by Warner Brothers Records.
1986 - The film biography "Sid And Nancy" opened nationally.
1995 - In London, Sting's former financial adviser was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of stealing $9.4 million from the musician.
1995 - Rhino Home Video released 58 episodes of "The Monkees" on 21 cassettes. It was the largest video boxed set to be released.
1997 - Warren G filed a lawsuit against Garth Brooks, his company Blue Rose Inc., and Home Box Office Inc. The suit alleged that Brooks had infringed on the trademarked circled "g" logo.
1998 - The Wilkinsons made their first official appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.
2001 - Jay-Z was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault charges for stabbing a record producer during a fight in a nightclub on December 1, 1999.
2001 - The heirs of Bing Crosby filed a $16 million lawsuit accusing Universal Music Group of underpaying royalties on recordings.
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1919 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created
1942 - Gary Puckett, vocalist of Gary Puckett and Union Gap, was born.
1969 - Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, died at 72
1994 - Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena
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| October 17, 2008, 11:21 |
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1706 - Composer Baldassare Galuppi was born.
1935 - "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" was recorded by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra.
1957 - Paul McCartney made his debut appearance with the Quarry Men in Norris Green, Liverpool.
1964 - The Animals began their first U.S. tour.
1966 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience played its debut concert in Paris.
1967 - "How I Won the War," starring John Lennon, premiered in London.
1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were arrested and charged with possession of marijuana when Ringo Starr's apartment was raided by police.
1969 - The Jackson 5 made their U.S. television debut on ABC-TV's "Hollywood Place."
1974 - Mary Woodson shoots herself in Al Green's home. She shot herself after throwing a pot of boiling grits on Green when he was getting out of the bathtub.
1975 - Simon and Garfunkel reunited on "Saturday Night Live."
1986 - Christine McVie married composer Eduardo DeMendonca.
1990 - The musical "Once on This Island" opened.
1990 - The City of Los Angeles declared "Rocky Horror Picture Show Day."
1992 - Lynn Anderson was released from jail after serving two days in jail in Nashville, TN for a contempt of court sentence for swearing in front of her children.
1997 - Hanson sang the national anthem at the opening game of the World Series.
1998 - Metallica performed at the Playboy Mansion.
1998 - Frank Sinatra Jr. married Cynthia McMurrey in Houston, TX.
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Hmmm....that Lynn Anderson thing, kinda weird, don't remember that....swearing in front of her children?
(Thanks so much to those of you contributing to this thread!  )
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| October 18, 2008, 09:06 |
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1874 - Composer Charles Edward Ives was born.
1932 - "All the Things You Are" was recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Jack Leonard as the featured vocalist.
1954 - The musical "Peter Pan" opened.
1955 - "Day-O" was recorded by Harry Belafonte.
1960 - The Elvis Presley film "G.I. Blues" premiered.
1961 - Bob Dylan's self-titled debut album was recorded.
1962 - The Four Seasons released "Big Girls Don't Cry."
1962 - The Irvin Berlin musical "Mr. President" opened on Broadway.
1969 - John Lennon released "Cold Turkey," his second solo album.
1973 - The Sydney Opera house officially opened.
1973 - "The Joker" was released by the Steve Miller Band.
1976 - Led Zeppelin's film, "The Song Remains the Same," premiered in London.
1977 - Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve's sister) and road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane crashed in Gillsburg, MS. The other four members of the band were seriously injured but survived the crash.
1978 - The Police made their U.S. performance debut in New York.
1990 - Three members of 2 Live Crew were acquitted on obscenity charges in Hollywood, FL.
1991 - Clint Black and Lisa Hartman were married near Houston, TX.
1992 - The Madonna album "Erotica" was released.
1997 - Henry "The Sunflower" Vesting (Canned Heat) was found dead in a hotel room in France.
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1908 - Composer Howard Ferguson was born.
1908 - A "Saturday Evening Post" advertisement offered a chance to buy a two-sided record from Columbia.
1921 - Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold was born.
1938 - Jan Savitt's orchestra recorded "Quaker City Jazz."
1957 - "Jailhouse Rock", the Elvis Presley film, premiered.
1958 - Buddy Holly recorded his last studio session. Holly and the Crickets recorded "True Love Ways," "Moondreams," "It Doesn't Matter Anymore," and "Raining in my Heart."
1961 - Bob Dylan recorded "Bob Dylan," his first album. He was 20 years old when he did the recording for Columbia Records. The cost to produce the session was $400.
1962 - Cliff Richard appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
1964 - The movie musical "My Fair Lady" made its world premier in New York.
1965 - The Kingsmen and the Dave Clark Five appear on "Shindig!"
1966 - The Who appeared on Britain's "Ready Steady Go!"
1971 - Mick and Bianca Jagger's daughter Jade was born in Paris.
1975 - Elton John received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1992 - The erotic photograph book, "Sex," was released by Madonna. The first run of 500,000 copies sold out.
1992 - Elton John files a $35 Million lawsuit accusing a reporter from the TV show "Hard Copy" of falsely stating that he had moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment center.
1992 - Benjamin Storm Keough was born to Lisa Marie Presley and her husband Danny Keough.
1992 - Katherine Diana was born. She was the first child of Hank Williams Jr. and his fourth wife Mary Jane.
1995 - Shannon Hoon (Blind Melon) died of a cocaine overdose at the age of 28.
1996 - Jay Bargieri, a former executive with EMI Records, announced the launch of the first Internet record label. The record label, Jay-Bird Records, is the first of its kind.
1998 - Coolio (Artis Ivey) plead not guilty to concealed weapon and marijuana possession charges in Torrance, CA. He had been arrested the previous month.
1998 - Alice Cooper filed suit against KISS members Paul Stanley and Bruce Kulick alleging their song "Dreamin'" sounds too much like the song "Eighteen" by Cooper.
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1941 - "Clarinet a la King" was recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra.
1962 - Steveland Morris Judkins, later known as Little Stevie Wonder, at the age of 12 recorded his first single. The song was "Thank you for Loving Me All the Way."
1965 - "Turn! Turn! Turn!" was released by the Byrds.
1972 - The musical "Pippin" opened on Broadway.
1978 - Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempted to commit suicide while awaiting trial for killing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
1978 - CBS Records raised the price of vinyl records by one dollar to $8.98.
1995 - In Houston, TX, a jury convicted Yolanda Saldivar of the murder of Selena.
1995 - Tone-Loc was ordered to take an anger management class after fighting with a pizza delivery person.
1997 - The musical "Triumph of Love" opened at the Royale Theatre.
1998 - Eddie Nichols (Royal Crown Revue) was arrested in Toledo, OH, for allegedly hitting a sheriff in a diner. Nichols was charged with a felony and held without bail over the weekend.
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1811 - Composer Ferdinand Hiller was born.
1939 - "Let's Dance" was recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra.
1962 - James Brown recorded "Live at the Apollo, Volume I."
1963 - The Beatles left Great Britain for their first tour outside of their homeland.
1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon appealed to radio broadcasters to screen songs with lyrics that urge drug use.
1971 - In New York, Pablo Casals conducted the premiere of his "Hymn to the United Nations" with text by W.H. Auden.
1973 - Art Garfunkel received his first gold album of his solo career for "Angel Clare."
1974 - In London, "Stardust" premiered starring David Essex.
1975 - The First Planetary Celebration was held to promote awareness of mans global responsibility.
1978 - In Toronto, Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) plead guilty to heroin possession. He was given a one-year suspended sentence.
1980 - Guinness Book of World Records gave Paul McCartney a rhodium-plated disc for being history's all-time best-selling songwriter and recording artist.
1988 - The John Fogerty vs. Fantasy Records case began. Fantasy claimed that Fogerty had plagiarized his own song "Run Through The Jungle" when he wrote "The Old Man Down The Road."
1989 - Hank Ballard, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Bobby Darin, the Four Tops, the Four Seasons, Holland-Dozier-Holland, the Kinks, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, the Platters, the Who, Simon & Garfunkel were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
1992 - Madonna's album "Erotica" was released.
1993 - Duran Duran cancelled the remainder of their tour after Simon LeBon tore a vocal chord.
1995 - In Cleveland, OH, Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) sang the national anthem in Game 3 of the World Series.
1995 - New York City declared October 24th Tony Bennett Day.
1995 - "It's A Mystery" was released by Bob Segar & the Silver Bullet Band. It was their first studio release in four years.
1996 - Berry Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown, received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
2001 - The cities of Detroit and Auburn Hills settled lawsuits with Dr. Dre. The lawsuits accused the cities of censorship by threatening to arrest him if he aired a sexually explicit video at a concert in July 2000.
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1825 - Composer Johann II Strauss was born.
1838 - Composer Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet was born. He is best remembered for his opera "Carmen."
1864 - Composer Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was born.
1960 - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards accidentally met on a train. They had known each other previously from school.
1964 - The Rolling Stones made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
1969 - "Ummagumma" was released by Pink Floyd.
1973 - John Lennon sued the U.S. government claiming that his fight against deportation was prejudiced by U.S. officials.
1988 - Chico and Bobby DeBarge were convicted of trafficking cocaine in Michigan.
1991 - Bill Graham, concert promoter, was killed in a helicopter crash.
1994 - The Madonna album "Bedtime Stories" was released.
1995 - The musical "Victor/Victoria" opened.
1995 - Cliff Richard received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
2002 - In Bloomfield, MI, an $800,000 house owned by Aretha Franklin burned down. Franklin had not lived in the house in two years.
2006 - On the Opra Winfrey show, an interview with Madonna aired. Madonnna discussed her adoption of an 18-month old boy from Malawi in the 30-minute interview.
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1685 - Composer Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was born.
1694 - Composer Johan Helmich Roman was born.
1935 - Judy Garland, at the age of 12, sang on Wallace Berry's radio show on NBC.
1959 - The Everly Brothers announced that they are considering leaving their record label.
1965 - The Beatles were awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) medals.
1971 - Al Green's "Tired of Being Alone," his first hit, went gold.
1975 - "A Chorus Line" premiered.
1978 - The Police played their first U.S. show in Boston at the Rat Club.
1980 - Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship suffers a brain hemorrhage during a recording session. After 15 days in the hospital he recovers fully.
1981 - Queen and David Bowie record "Under Pressure" in Montreaux, Switzerland.
1992 - Pearl Jam sets a new record for first week sales when the LP "Vs." sold 950,000 copies.
1993 - Catholic churches in San Juan, Puerto Rico urge residents to tie black ribbons on trees to protest Madonna's first concert there.
1994 - Roseanne Barr appeared on her TV show "Roseanne" dressed as Prince.
1998 - Eros Ramazzotti released his "Eros Live" album.
1998 - A U.S. federal judge refused to issue an injunction against the sale of MP3. The device is used to play music downloaded from the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America had brought the case to court.
1998 - Marilyn Manson began its Mechanical Animals tour in Kansas City, MO.
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1877 - Composer Roger Quilter was born.
1894 - "Billboard Advertising" was published for the first time. It later became known as "Billboard."
1934 - Composer William Mathias was born.
1964 - The Dave Clark Five performed "Glad All Over" on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
1968 - George Harrison released the soundtrack "Wonderwall." He was the first Beatle to release a solo album.
1969 - Faces was added to Warner Brothers records.
1993 - Fats Domino's album "Christmas Is a Special Day" was released on EMI/Right Stuff. It was his first major-label album in 25 years.
1993 - Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) was arrested for allegedly trying to shoot another man in a dispute over a woman. William Drayton (Flavor Flav's real name) was charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.
1994 - Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" performance was released as "MTV Unplugged in New York."
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Wasn't Nirvana the first "unplugged" that started the whole unplugged thing on MTV?
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1668 - Composer Francois Couperin was born.
1873 - Composer Henri Rabaud was born.
1958 - Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls were injured in an auto accident near Marion, AR. Sam Cooke's driver was killed in the accident.
1960 - Gregg Allman received a guitar for his 13th birthday.
1967 - The Moody Blues released "Nights in White Satin."
1969 - "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry received a gold record. The song had been released 20 years earlier.
1973 - David Essex's "Rock On" was released.
1978 - The Clash's second album "Give 'Em Enough Rope," was released in England. The album would be their first U.S. release.
1986 - Bruce Springsteen's "Live 1975-1985" box set was released.
1988 - Steve Miller began his first tour in six years.
1991 - A St. Louis judge found Axl Rose of Guns 'N' Roses guilty of assault and property damage in connection with a riot at a 1991 concert in St. Louis.
1992 - Axl Rose was found guilty of assault and property damage at a 1991 Guns N' Roses concert in Maryland Heights, MO. He was given two years probation and ordered to pay $50,000 to community groups.
1993 - The musical revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" opened.
2001 - The musical "Lady Diana - A Smile Charms the World" opened in Germany.
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| November 10, 2008, 06:17 |
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Some interesting music history today...
I didn't know there was a musical about Diana.
The Axl Rose thing, oh yeah, that was a big deal.
Essex's "Rock On"...a classic.
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| November 10, 2008, 06:19 |
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1854 - Composer George Whitefield Chadwick was born.
1937 - NBC formed the first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio broadcasting. The conductor for its first 17 years was Arturo Toscanini.
1961 - The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was released.
1965 - "Fever" by the McCoys' was released.
1968 - The Beatles' animated movie "Yellow Submarine" premiered in the U.S.
1971 - Three Dog Night's "Old Fashioned Love Song" was released.
1973 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr. was killed in a highway accident near Hernando, MS.
1974 - An imposter posing as Deep Purple guitar player Ritchie Blackmore smashed up a borrowed Porsche in Iowa City.
1985 - At New York's Whitney Museum, an exhibition opened celebrating Bob Dylan's 25 years in the music industry.
1990 - Madonna's "The Immaculate Collection" was released.
1992 - Elton John performed in Mexico for the first time for 90,000 people in Mexico City.
1995 - M.C. Hammer played a benefit in Moscow for Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's political party, Our Home Is Russia.
1997 - The musical "The Lion King" opened.
1997 - Celine Dion released her first single in Japanese. The song, "Be The Man," was released in Japan only and is the theme to the Japanese TV drama "Eve."
1997 - Ray Charles conducted his first-ever online chat at www.rhino.com.
2000 - Elton John released his live album "One Night Only." It was recorded at Madison Square Garden only 22 days before.
2001 - Madonna's "GHV2" was released.
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| November 13, 2008, 07:46 |
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Wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh, wemoweh
(Whadeva da hell dat means)
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| November 13, 2008, 07:50 |
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1663 - Composer Friederich Wilhelm Zachow was born.
1719 - Composer Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was born.
1778 - Composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel was born.
1805 - Composer Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel was born.
1900 - Composer Aaron Copland was born.
1921 - In Chicago, IL, on KYW Radio, the first opera by a professional company was broadcast.
1943 - Leonard Bernstein made his debut with the New York Philhamonic when he filled in for the ailing Bruno Walter prior to a nationally broadcast concert. Bernstein was 25 years old and was an assistant conductor at the time.
1944 - Tommy Dorsey and Orchestra recorded "Opus No. 1."
1961 - The Elvis Presley film "Blue Hawaii" premiered.
1970 - Santana's "Black Magic Woman" was released.
1987 - Sonny and Cher sang "I Got You Babe" on the David Letterman show.
1990 - The Who's Pete Townshend confessed his bisexuality to Newsweek.
1992 - John Cascella, keyboardist of John Mellencamp's band, was found dead in his car in Indiana. It is believed that he died of a heart attack.
1995 - The Rolling Stones released their acoustic "Stripped" album.
2000 - The trial of Michael Abram began. He had attacked George Harrison and his wife in their home in Britain on December 30, 1999.
2000 - Marilyn Manson's released "Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)." The cover of the album was banned by several retail chains due to the cover art. The banning chains released an alternate cover. The cover depicts Manson on a crucifix.
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| November 14, 2008, 08:48 |
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1967 - Davey Jones of the Monkees opened a boutique, Zilch I, in Greenwich Village, NY.
1970 - Elton John recorded a show in New York City which was later released as his 11-17-70 album.
1974 - ABBA began their first tour of Europe. It was also their first tour outside of Sweden.
1980 - John Lennon's album "Double Fantasy" was released.
1987 - The Madonna compilation album "You Can Dance" was released.
1990 - David Crosby broke his left leg, ankle and shoulder in a motorcycle accident in Los Angles, CA.
1997 - Metallica released the album "ReLoad."
1998 - Tori Amos released a compilation of her videos, "Tori Amos: The Complete Collection: 1992-1998".
1998 - Garth Brooks released "Garth Brooks: Double Live."
1998 - Whitney Houston released "My Love is Your Love."
1998 - Mariah Carey released "#1's."
1998 - Jewel released "Spirit."
1998 - The three soundtracks were released for the animated film "The Prince of Egypt."
2003 - Britney Spears, at 21 years old, became the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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| November 17, 2008, 14:15 |
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1731 - Composer Frantisek Xaver Dusek was born.
1813 - Beethoven's "Opus 92: Symphony No. 7 in A major" was performed for the first time.
1865 - Composer Jean (Johan) Julius Christian Sibelius was born.
1882 - Composer Manuel Maria Ponce was born.
1890 - Composer Bohuslav Martinu was born.
1914 - "Watch Your Step" opened in New York. It was the first musical revue to feature a score completely by Irving Berlin.
1960 - Fabian visited Elvis Presley at Graceland and lent him his pants when Elvis ripped his demonstrating karate.
1961 - "Surfin'," the Beach Boys first recording, was released.
1963 - Frank Sinatra, Jr. was kidnapped.
1967 - Traffic's "Mr. Fantasy" LP was released.
1968 - Graham Nash announced the formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash three days after he quit the Hollies.
1969 - Testifying at his trial for possesion of hashish and heroin in the Toronto Supreme Court, Jimi Hendrix claimed that he had now "outgrown" drugs. The jury found him not guilty after eight hours of deliberations.
1972 - Frank Zappa Sr. placed an advertisement in Variety Magazine claiming he will give private instruction in craps, roulette, keno and blackjack.
1976 - John Denver appeared on the Carpenters' ABC-TV special.
1980 -In New York City, Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon to death. Earlier in the day, Lennon had autographed an album for Chapman.
1982 - Marty Robbins died of heart failure at the age of 57.
1991 - The musical "Nick and Nora" opened.
1991 - Jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton died of natural causes at the age of 80.
1995 - Courtney Love was interviewed by Barbara Walters for ABC's "10 Most Fascinating People of 1995." During the interview Love told Walters that she wished she had done "eight thousand million things" differently to prevent husband Kurt Cobain's death.
1995 - The surviving members of the Grateful Dead announced they were disbanding. Jerry Garcia's, the founder of the group, had died the previous August.
1998 - The FBI opened its files on Frank Sinatra to the public. The file contained over 1,300 pages.
1998 - It was announced that Bruce Springsteen would tour again with the E Street Band for the first time in nearly a decade.
1999 - Prince appeared on NBC's "Today."
1999 - James Brown made his new MP3-only holiday album "James Brown Christmas For The Millennium & Forever" available exclusively through EMusic.com.
2000 - Sting received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2002 - Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme" opened on Broadway.
2003 - In England, Ozzy Osbourne was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His injuries included a fractured left collarbone, eight fractured ribs and stable fracture to one of the vertebrae in his neck.
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| December 8, 2008, 08:24 |
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Allot of good entries for today, I had forgotten all about the Frank Jr. kidnappping, John Denver and The Carpenters were icons of their era, Jimi Hendrix claiming he had "outgrown" drugs...
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| December 8, 2008, 08:26 |
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You beat me to the John Lennon assassination anniversary, Chazzy. What a sad day that was.
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| December 8, 2008, 09:48 |
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