1937 - Bunny Berigan and his orchestra recorded what would become his signature song, I Can't Get Started, today. More than most, it is this song that evokes that era of the Cotton Club and other such clubs in Manhattan at that time. The song was used in the Academy Award winning films Save The Tiger and Chinatown, and written by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin. Bunny Berigan's trumpet playing was highly acclaimed, and he also sang on this song. He worked with the big bands of Hal Kemp and Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey between bouts of alcoholism and depression. He also headed his own band, and that's when this recording took place. His poor health as a result of the alcoholism cost him his life at the precious young age of 33, in 1942.
1963 - Tonight's the night, 48 years ago, the movie, Beach Party, made its debut, beginning a beach party movie craze that resulted in the production and release of several beach party films from American International Pictures (AIP), aimed at teen audiences around the world. Directed by William Asher and written by Lou Rusoff, Beach Party featured the acting talents of Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello. One of the unique aspects of the series of AIP beach films is the absence of parents or any other authority figures. This gang of independent, fun-loving teenagers are free to do whatever they want and live on their own terms. The movie also features the blistering music of surf guitar kin, Dick Dale, whose surf music later featured in the groundbreaking movie, Pulp Fiction.
1965 - Before they sang back-ups for Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, and the name of Flo & Eddie, vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman were and their band were known as The Turtles. The debut hit single from the band, that took them to world fame, was a cover version of Bob Dylan's It Aint Me Babe. The Turtles became notable for several Top 40 hits, including their follow-ups song, and by far their biggest and best-known hit in 1967, Happy Together. Originally a surf-rock group called the Crossfires from Planet Mars, The Turtles formed in 1965 in Westchester, California.
1965 - For a short moment in time, in America only, Britain's group The Dave Clarke Five challenged The Beatles for chart domination with a series of similar-sounding, mainly upbeat, foot-stomping songs with catchy, singalong choruses. But the formula soon ran out of steam. this was the day when the band's piano player, Mike Smith, had two ribs broken when he was pulled off the stage by a fan in Chicago. The group disbanded in late 1970, and on March 10, 2008, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Dave Clark Five had 17 records in Billboard's Top 40, with 12 Top 40 United Kingdom hits between 1964 and 1967, and amazing record, ranking them in the upper echelon of successive hit records.
1974 - One of the more surprising marriages of show-business, and let's face it there have been many, was when Peter Wolf from the J. Geils Band married academy award-winning actor, Faye Dunaway, 37 years ago today. The marriage lasted just five years. Ms. Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network in 1976. She also received Best Actress nominations for her stunning roles in the cornerstone, critically acclaimed films, Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown. Best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983, Peter Wolf followed a solo career following the disbanding of his band.
1976, Elton John and Kiki Dee were at #1 on the US singles chart, today, with Don't Go Breaking My Heart, giving Elton his sixth US #1 hit. The song was written by Elton John without Bernie Taupin, under the pseudonym Ann Orson and Carte Blanche. The duet catapulted Kiki Dee to world attention, for her beautiful voice and charisma.
1982 - It's now almost 30 years to the day since Dexy's Midnight Runners were at #1 on music popularity charts all over the world, with Come On Eileen, the group's second, and final #1 record. This is the song that became the best selling song of 1982.
1987 - A lawsuit which had been filed by parents of a teenager who had committed suicide while listening to Ozzy's song, Suicide Solution, was thrown out of a Los Angeles court, today, and two years later, funk star George Clinton released his album, The Cinderella Theory. And in 1991 on the same day charges of assault and property damage were filed against Axl Rose from Guns'n'Rose, in connection with a riot during a show in St. Louis, MO. Six years later, again on the same day, Garth Brooks performed at this free concert in New York's Central Park.
Garth Brooks Central Park-Friends In Low Places by bigjmac0815
1963 - Tonight's the night, 48 years ago, the movie, Beach Party, made its debut, beginning a beach party movie craze that resulted in the production and release of several beach party films from American International Pictures (AIP), aimed at teen audiences around the world. Directed by William Asher and written by Lou Rusoff, Beach Party featured the acting talents of Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello. One of the unique aspects of the series of AIP beach films is the absence of parents or any other authority figures. This gang of independent, fun-loving teenagers are free to do whatever they want and live on their own terms. The movie also features the blistering music of surf guitar kin, Dick Dale, whose surf music later featured in the groundbreaking movie, Pulp Fiction.
1965 - Before they sang back-ups for Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention, and the name of Flo & Eddie, vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman were and their band were known as The Turtles. The debut hit single from the band, that took them to world fame, was a cover version of Bob Dylan's It Aint Me Babe. The Turtles became notable for several Top 40 hits, including their follow-ups song, and by far their biggest and best-known hit in 1967, Happy Together. Originally a surf-rock group called the Crossfires from Planet Mars, The Turtles formed in 1965 in Westchester, California.
1965 - For a short moment in time, in America only, Britain's group The Dave Clarke Five challenged The Beatles for chart domination with a series of similar-sounding, mainly upbeat, foot-stomping songs with catchy, singalong choruses. But the formula soon ran out of steam. this was the day when the band's piano player, Mike Smith, had two ribs broken when he was pulled off the stage by a fan in Chicago. The group disbanded in late 1970, and on March 10, 2008, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Dave Clark Five had 17 records in Billboard's Top 40, with 12 Top 40 United Kingdom hits between 1964 and 1967, and amazing record, ranking them in the upper echelon of successive hit records.
1974 - One of the more surprising marriages of show-business, and let's face it there have been many, was when Peter Wolf from the J. Geils Band married academy award-winning actor, Faye Dunaway, 37 years ago today. The marriage lasted just five years. Ms. Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network in 1976. She also received Best Actress nominations for her stunning roles in the cornerstone, critically acclaimed films, Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown. Best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983, Peter Wolf followed a solo career following the disbanding of his band.
1976, Elton John and Kiki Dee were at #1 on the US singles chart, today, with Don't Go Breaking My Heart, giving Elton his sixth US #1 hit. The song was written by Elton John without Bernie Taupin, under the pseudonym Ann Orson and Carte Blanche. The duet catapulted Kiki Dee to world attention, for her beautiful voice and charisma.
1982 - It's now almost 30 years to the day since Dexy's Midnight Runners were at #1 on music popularity charts all over the world, with Come On Eileen, the group's second, and final #1 record. This is the song that became the best selling song of 1982.
1987 - A lawsuit which had been filed by parents of a teenager who had committed suicide while listening to Ozzy's song, Suicide Solution, was thrown out of a Los Angeles court, today, and two years later, funk star George Clinton released his album, The Cinderella Theory. And in 1991 on the same day charges of assault and property damage were filed against Axl Rose from Guns'n'Rose, in connection with a riot during a show in St. Louis, MO. Six years later, again on the same day, Garth Brooks performed at this free concert in New York's Central Park.
Garth Brooks Central Park-Friends In Low Places by bigjmac0815
