MAY 14
1937 - Duke Ellington was the man, and his band was the band, and this is the day he and his band recorded Caravan. Check out the 74-year-old original , very rare, total vintage, and definite old school. What a song, what a band, what a classic.
1956 - Rock rumour has it that archetypal white rock'n'roller Buddy Holly went and got himself a prescription for contact lenses, today in '56, so he didn't have to wear glasses on stage, God forbid! Fortunately for his image, Holly couldn't get used to wearing them so he continued to use his glasses, and eventually they became his trademark glasses. (For videos, music and facts about Buddy Holly, go to our search engine.) On the same day as Holly's contacts, five-piece vocal group, The Platters, released their debut self-titled album. This is their first ever hit, and remained their biggest hit.
1959 - Britain's fifties rocker Cliff Richard starred in his debut movie, Serious Charges, which was released today in '59. You want old school, take a trip back into time, society standards, and movies and music. Here's a trailer of the movie followed by a Cliff song, Never Mind, and compilation of movie clips from Cliff. This is for the Brits who check into *MUSICBACKTRACK*...there are some might fine specimens of womanhood, right here in this vid!
1968 - It's May 14 and Paul McCartney, together with John Lennon, was guest on NBC's Tonight Show, with guest host Joe Gragiola. Regular host of the show, Johnny Carson, was on annual leave. The quality was terrible for this, so a this is their final filmed interview, a few days' later, in New York with Larry Kane.
1968 - They were once named the Young Rascals, but dropped the young, just prior to recording this huge hit, 43 years today.This the Rascals performing People Got to Be Free, on German television.
1998 - One of music's iconic exponents, Frank Sinatra, died today, after a heart attack at the age of 82. The American singer and actor. began his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the so-called bobby-soxers - young teenage girls who wore ankle length white socks. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the movie From Here To Eternity. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records; he toured internationally, was a founding member of the so-called Hollywood Rat Pack, and fraternized with celebrities and presidents, including President John F. Kennedy. When he turned 50 in 1965, Sinatra recorded the retrospective September of My Years, and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. He also scored international hits with Strangers in the Night and My Way. So one his death day, let's celebrate Frank Sinatra. Our visual tribute to Frank is firstly, with his song A Day In The Life coupled with clips from High Society. Then we have a trailer from the movie Man With A Golden Arm, for which he received a Best Actor nomination for playing a struggling heroin addict. The film's director said that it was for this role that he should have earned an Academy award, even more so than for Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity. Actors take note: director Otto Preminger planned to take a week to shoot the big scene here and Frank Sinatra walked in and did it in one day. And to top off Sinatra day, one of signature tunes, New York, New York.
1998 - Naughty George Michael pled no contest in the Beverly Hills Municipal Court, 13 years ago today, to committing a lewd act in a park restroom. He was fined $810, given 80 hours of community service, and ordered to undergo counseling. So here we have a live performance of the song, filmed at the new Wembley Stadium, and oh, the dirt.
1937 - Duke Ellington was the man, and his band was the band, and this is the day he and his band recorded Caravan. Check out the 74-year-old original , very rare, total vintage, and definite old school. What a song, what a band, what a classic.
1956 - Rock rumour has it that archetypal white rock'n'roller Buddy Holly went and got himself a prescription for contact lenses, today in '56, so he didn't have to wear glasses on stage, God forbid! Fortunately for his image, Holly couldn't get used to wearing them so he continued to use his glasses, and eventually they became his trademark glasses. (For videos, music and facts about Buddy Holly, go to our search engine.) On the same day as Holly's contacts, five-piece vocal group, The Platters, released their debut self-titled album. This is their first ever hit, and remained their biggest hit.
1959 - Britain's fifties rocker Cliff Richard starred in his debut movie, Serious Charges, which was released today in '59. You want old school, take a trip back into time, society standards, and movies and music. Here's a trailer of the movie followed by a Cliff song, Never Mind, and compilation of movie clips from Cliff. This is for the Brits who check into *MUSICBACKTRACK*...there are some might fine specimens of womanhood, right here in this vid!
1968 - It's May 14 and Paul McCartney, together with John Lennon, was guest on NBC's Tonight Show, with guest host Joe Gragiola. Regular host of the show, Johnny Carson, was on annual leave. The quality was terrible for this, so a this is their final filmed interview, a few days' later, in New York with Larry Kane.
1968 - They were once named the Young Rascals, but dropped the young, just prior to recording this huge hit, 43 years today.This the Rascals performing People Got to Be Free, on German television.
1998 - One of music's iconic exponents, Frank Sinatra, died today, after a heart attack at the age of 82. The American singer and actor. began his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He became a successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the so-called bobby-soxers - young teenage girls who wore ankle length white socks. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the movie From Here To Eternity. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records; he toured internationally, was a founding member of the so-called Hollywood Rat Pack, and fraternized with celebrities and presidents, including President John F. Kennedy. When he turned 50 in 1965, Sinatra recorded the retrospective September of My Years, and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. He also scored international hits with Strangers in the Night and My Way. So one his death day, let's celebrate Frank Sinatra. Our visual tribute to Frank is firstly, with his song A Day In The Life coupled with clips from High Society. Then we have a trailer from the movie Man With A Golden Arm, for which he received a Best Actor nomination for playing a struggling heroin addict. The film's director said that it was for this role that he should have earned an Academy award, even more so than for Angelo Maggio in From Here to Eternity. Actors take note: director Otto Preminger planned to take a week to shoot the big scene here and Frank Sinatra walked in and did it in one day. And to top off Sinatra day, one of signature tunes, New York, New York.
1998 - Naughty George Michael pled no contest in the Beverly Hills Municipal Court, 13 years ago today, to committing a lewd act in a park restroom. He was fined $810, given 80 hours of community service, and ordered to undergo counseling. So here we have a live performance of the song, filmed at the new Wembley Stadium, and oh, the dirt.
