A Day in Music History
October 4th...
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| Janis Joplin
January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970 (aged 27)
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Births
1929: Leroy Van Dyke
1937: Perkle Lee Moses (The El Dorados)
1942: Helen Reddy
1944: Marlena Davis (The Orlons)
1947: Jim Fielder (Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of
Invention, Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1963: Lena Zavaroni
Deaths
1970: Janis Joplin
1991: J. Frank Wilson
1996: Jerry Rivers (Hank Williams Sr.)
1999: Art Farmer
2004: Michael Gibbins (Badfinger)
2004: Bruce Palmer (The Buffalo Springfield)
Events
1957: Elvis Presley comes in second as England's most
popular vocalist in the annual New Musical Express (NME) music poll, coming in
just behind... Pat Boone.
1961: Bob Dylan debuts at Carnegie Hall, playing for a grand
total of 53 fans.
1961: Popular "recording" group Alvin and the
Chipmunks get their own TV show when The Alvin Show debuts on CBS.
1963: A 17-year-old Eric Clapton, late of the Roosters and
Casey Jones and the Engineers, joins the Yardbirds for tonight's gig at the
Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England, replacing original guitarist Anthony
"Top" Topham.
1964: Dusty Springfield interviews the Beatles on this,
their first appearance on England's ITV television program Ready Steady Go!
1968: Cream begins their announced farewell tour with a
performance at Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, CA.
1974: Thin Lizzy debut their new twin-guitar attack with new
additions Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson at tonight's concert in Wales.
1978: Country singer Tammy Wynette is allegedly kidnapped at
a Nashville shopping center by an unknown man in a ski mask, beaten, and forced
at gunpoint to drive roughly 90 miles. Doubt still exists as to whether this
incident took place, due to a puzzling lack of physical evidence.
1980: For their work on the recent Fleetwood Mac single
"Tusk," the University of Southern California Country marching band
is presented with a platinum version of the album of the same name by three
members of the rock band.
1980: On stage during a concert in Pittburgh, PA, Carly
Simon collapses from "nervous exhaustion."
1988: Determined to finally clean his system of the alcohol
and drugs he's been abusing for years, Ringo Starr, along with wife Barbara
Bach, flies to Tucson, AZ to enter the Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Clinic. He
will stay six weeks.
1994: Singer Glenn Frey's stomach surgery causes the Eagles
to postpone their much-anticipated reunion tour, puckishly titled Hell Freezes
Over.
1996: The major motion picture That Thing You Do!, which
deals with a fictional 1964 band attempting to break big, and starring Tom
Hanks and Liv Tyler, opens in US theaters.
1999: Jimi Hendrix's half-sister Janie announces her plans
to exhume the body of her famous brother and move it to a mausoleum where
curious onlookers can view it for a price. The public outcry forces her to
shelve the idea.
Releases
1943: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, "Is You Is Or
Is You Ain’t My Baby?"
1974: John Lennon, Walls and Bridges
Recording
1939: Ted Weems, "That Old Gang Of Mine"
1968: The Beatles, "Martha My Dear," "Honey
Pie"
Charts
1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival's LP Green River hits #1
1975: Pink Floyd's LP Wish You Were Here hits #1
Certifications
1966: Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" is certified gold
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