Dean Martin And The Stones...Bolan Gets Weird...Zappa Freed
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1935, a 17-year-old
Ella Fitzgerald records her first tunes, "Love and Kisses" and "I'll
Chase the Blues Away"...Elvis Presley matriculates this week in 1953
from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis...five years later to the
week, the inimitable Frank Zappa gets his walking paper from Antelope
Valley High School in Lancaster, CA, where he has been buds with
similarly warped rocker Don Van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart...
1970,
simp-rock crooners Bread make the scene on the US charts with "Make
It With You"...meanwhile, an ocean away (both musically and
geographically) Derek and the Dominoes play their first gig in London...
1982, singer-picker Donny van Zant of .38 Special is popped on
stage for drinking in the bone-dry town of Tulsa...
1989, New Kids on
the Block score a #1 hit with "I'll Be Loving You (Forever)"...it's
the first time an itty bitty boy band has hit #1 since the Osmonds
did it in 1971...
1964, after a trampolinist's act on his show
"Hollywood Palace," Dean Martin quips "That's the father of the
Rolling Stones; he's been trying to kill himself ever since," the
Stones themselves appeared on the show just minutes before...
1995,
over 20 of the good citizens of Columbus, Ohio, call to complain that
a Ted Nugent concert is too dang loud...since he's within legal noise
limits, Ted demurs when asked to turn down and leaves his amps at 11...
1977, proving that this world just can't get enough of the Fab
Four, Beatlemania, a multimedia presentation featuring Beatles
lookalikes doing Beatles tunes opens on Broadway...1006 shows later
it moves to another venue, and another after that...
1999, Disney
releases "Tarzan," an animated feature film that sports five tracks
by Phil Collins each sung in five different languages plus Latin
American-style Spanish...1967, Marc Bolan puts an ad in Melody Maker
reading, "Freaky lead guitarist, bass guitarist and drummer wanted
for Marc Bolan's new group. Also any other astral flyers like with
cars, amplification and that which never grows in window boxes,"
revealing his lack of experience with window boxes. Steve Took and
Ben Cartland respond and join the band which releases its first
album a year later titled "My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their
Hair But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows"...
1990,
"Paint It Black" - the original version by the Stones - hits the top
of the charts in the Netherlands for the second time. The first time
was in 1966...
and that was the week that was.
Birthdays
June 12: Rockabilly man Charlie Feathers (1932), Chick Corea (1941),
Reg Presley of the Troggs (1943), Brad Delp of Boston (1951), Bun E.
Carlos of Cheap Trick (1951), John Linnell of They Might Be Giants
(1959), Grandmaster Dee (1962), Bobby Sheehan of Blues Traveler
(1968), Kenny Wayne Shepherd (1977)
June 13: Bobby Freeman of "Do You Wanna Dance" fame (1940), Dennis
Locorriere of Dr. Hook (1949), Howard Leese of Heart (1951), Bo
Donaldson (1954), Robbie Merrill (1963)
June 14: Burl Ives (1909), Rod Argent of the Zombies (1945), Alan
White of Yes (1949), Boy George (1961), Chris DeGarmo of Queensryche
(1963)
June 15: Waylon Jennings (1937), Harry Nilsson (1941), Russell
Hitchcock of Air Supply (1949), Steve Walsh of Kansas (1951), Terri
Gibbs (1954)
June 16: Motown songwriter/producer Lamont Dozier (1941), Edward
Levert of the O'Jays (1942), Pete Rivera of Rare Earth (1945), James
Smith of the Stylistics (1950)
June 17: Igor Stravinski (1882), Norman Kuhlke of The Swinging Blue
Jeans (1942), Chris Spedding (1944), Barry Manilow born Barry Alan
Pinkus (1946)
June 18: Paul McCartney (1942), Jerome Smith of KC and The Sunshine Band
(1953), Tom Bailey of The Thompson Twins (1957), Alison Moyet (1961),
Dizzy Reed (1963), Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men (1971)
Departures
June 12: Jimmy Dorsey (1957)
June 13: Benny Goodman (1986), Clyde McPhatter (1972)
June 14: Wynonie Harris (1969)
June 15: Ella Fitzgerald (1996), Wes Montgomery (1968)
June 16: Jack McFadden, Nashville manager (1998), Kristen Pfaff of Hole
(1994), James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders (1982), Lonnie Johnson
(1970)
