1940 - Swing that jazz, boy, famed band leader Glen Gray and his orchestra recorded No Name Jive on this date. there were many versions of this classic jazz-jump tune - including one from the Gene Krupa Orchestra - but none so good as this version from Glen Gray and his. No overdubs here, ladies and gents.
1962 - Gary "U.S." Bonds performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, but we're not going to show that video because it just is not available anywhere, but this is Gary, live, with one of his biggest ever smash hits - and he had a string of them back in the sixties, loved him and his music.
1965 - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Bill Wyman were arrested for "insulting behavior" in London. The act was urinating on the wall of the Francis Garage. So...let's look at what the lads were doing musically up against the wall at this London magazine concert. Watch Mick rip James, watch Keith mucking about, watch Charlie keeping time, watch Brian concentrate, and watch Bill sing. They were kids having fun.
1977 - Twelve years later, faster, louder, angrier, with a cause, rock'n'roll got a wee bit angry as The Clash released their first single, White Riot. This is a bona fide bootleg, home vid. This is an amazing performance. And for the video post, thanx to memo31.
1978 - California Jam II was held in Ontario, CA. Around 250,000 people attended California Jam II in Ontario, California and four years later, Teddy Pendergrass was severely injured in a car accident in Philadelphia resulting in him being paralyzed from the waist down. A decade later on this date, and Donna Summer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It's now March 18, 1994 and four guns and 25 boxes of ammo were confiscated by police from Kurt Cobain after his wife, Courtney Love, called them. She said she feared he was going to commit suicide. And he did.
1994 - As Mr. Personality from the sixties, Lloyd Price, was being immortalised in the city of Kenner, LA, by having a street named after him, the Sex Pistols
announced they were reuniting for a 20th anniversary tour, ah yes, irony, eh? In
1997 on this day, Joni Mitchell announced she had reunited with a daughter she had given up for adoption many years earlier. Just a year later and Michael Jackson took his son on a shopping trip, in a toy store in Munich, Germany. his son went shopping at a toy store in Munich, Germany...Jackson dressed as an Arab woman. We go forward to 2002, and just what was George Michael telling us in this video, Freeek, released today.
