1937 - Lionel Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, including Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich, Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones, Gene Krupa and Billie Holiday, and 74 years ago today, he recorded his own composition, Flying Home. In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and asked Hampton if he would play vibes on two songs, thus starting his career as a vibraphonist, popularizing the use of the instrument ever since. Hampton was also an excellent pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. He was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Here's a video of the great Lionel Hampton on American TV in 1957, 20 years after he recorded his self-penned hit.
1965 - How's this for show business - far from the blues band that the Stones liked to see themselves, this is they in full tilt, razzle, dazzle show business mode, 46 years ago to the day. On the American TV show, Shindig, The Stones appeared alongside Jackie De Shannon, Sonny and Cher and Jimmy Rodgers, slick, a montage of songs...the showbiz Stones. Amazing, really.
1973 - Almost everyone who plays guitar, at some stage, learns to play that familiar riff...dah dah dah, da da da dah, dah dah dah dah da da...yes, that's right, Smoke On The Water. Well, the original Deep Purple single, Smoke On The Water, was released today in 1973. And live from New York, the original band, with the original song, in the year of its releases. The band was Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, and this is a *BACKTRACK* super gem, rare as hen's teeth.
1974 - We see Justin Beiber fans go wild and out-of-control, but how about the 1,000 mostly teenage girls who needed medical treatment in London on this day, back in '74; 14-year old Bernadette Whelan was crushed by the crowd at the concert, and died four days later. Cassidy was so shaken, he didn't tour again for 11 years What a freak-out that would've been for one and all. Certainly changed David Cassidy forever, I'd say. Meantime, a video clip from the original TV show from which he became famous, The Partridge Family, and the song is the Neil Sedaka song, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.
1994 - This is the very day when Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. Sadly, they were divorced 18 months later, in January of 1996. Here are a couple of videos commemorating the event.
1995 - Public Enemy's Flavor Fav was sentenced to three months in jail for firing a gun at a neighbor in his New York apartment, today, in '95. I just wonder if people like Usher, 50 Cent, Poof Daddy Diddy Dah Dah and the rest even acknowledge, let alone wonder what Public Enemy was all about. PE was one of the most important music bands of the past few decades for the rap gen...they were original and had a conscience,, unlike most of today's super smooth, fashion-designing, prissy pretenders.
1999 - This is the day when so-called 'indie' band, The Manic Street Preachers, refused to play a concert because Queen Elizabeth II was present. The group had vowed to never perform for the monarchy because they considered it an outdated institution. They didn't mind taking millions of pounds out of the monarchy's kingdom, and didn't mind performing in other countries which had 'outdated' institutions, but they looked good at home by going so far up their own ass. I think they're pretentious and hypocritical, but I did like some of the Manic Street Preachers music, including this cruncher, If You Tolerate This.
1965 - How's this for show business - far from the blues band that the Stones liked to see themselves, this is they in full tilt, razzle, dazzle show business mode, 46 years ago to the day. On the American TV show, Shindig, The Stones appeared alongside Jackie De Shannon, Sonny and Cher and Jimmy Rodgers, slick, a montage of songs...the showbiz Stones. Amazing, really.
1973 - Almost everyone who plays guitar, at some stage, learns to play that familiar riff...dah dah dah, da da da dah, dah dah dah dah da da...yes, that's right, Smoke On The Water. Well, the original Deep Purple single, Smoke On The Water, was released today in 1973. And live from New York, the original band, with the original song, in the year of its releases. The band was Jon Lord, Ian Paice, Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, and this is a *BACKTRACK* super gem, rare as hen's teeth.
1974 - We see Justin Beiber fans go wild and out-of-control, but how about the 1,000 mostly teenage girls who needed medical treatment in London on this day, back in '74; 14-year old Bernadette Whelan was crushed by the crowd at the concert, and died four days later. Cassidy was so shaken, he didn't tour again for 11 years What a freak-out that would've been for one and all. Certainly changed David Cassidy forever, I'd say. Meantime, a video clip from the original TV show from which he became famous, The Partridge Family, and the song is the Neil Sedaka song, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.
1994 - This is the very day when Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. Sadly, they were divorced 18 months later, in January of 1996. Here are a couple of videos commemorating the event.
1995 - Public Enemy's Flavor Fav was sentenced to three months in jail for firing a gun at a neighbor in his New York apartment, today, in '95. I just wonder if people like Usher, 50 Cent, Poof Daddy Diddy Dah Dah and the rest even acknowledge, let alone wonder what Public Enemy was all about. PE was one of the most important music bands of the past few decades for the rap gen...they were original and had a conscience,, unlike most of today's super smooth, fashion-designing, prissy pretenders.
1999 - This is the day when so-called 'indie' band, The Manic Street Preachers, refused to play a concert because Queen Elizabeth II was present. The group had vowed to never perform for the monarchy because they considered it an outdated institution. They didn't mind taking millions of pounds out of the monarchy's kingdom, and didn't mind performing in other countries which had 'outdated' institutions, but they looked good at home by going so far up their own ass. I think they're pretentious and hypocritical, but I did like some of the Manic Street Preachers music, including this cruncher, If You Tolerate This.
