1964, "Oh Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison turns gold … it is his ninth and last Top Ten single …
1970, Jim Morrison gets six months in the slammer for exposing his privates in Miami …
Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas marries actor Dennis Hopper
1975, Queen releases "Bohemian Rhapsody" as a single … with three and-a-half minutes being the standard time limit for a single, the band and producer Roy Thomas Baker have to convince EMI executives to release the six-minute recording without any edits …
1977, during a London concert Elton John announces that he is retiring from live performance …
1983, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon becomes the longest-running album ever on the Billboard chart at 491 continuous weeks #1 …
1986, The Beastie Boys release their debut License To Ill… it will become the first rap album to reach #1.

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great stuff....thanx Mike

Is there a sight you found those on?

Cheers
Bill

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(80’s Hair Metal) = A snapshot in time before Grunge ruined Rock & Roll forever!!!!

In an email I got from Musicians Friend.

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ahhhh Ok..cool....being a History major and a music lover…I really dig that kind of stuff….thanx again

Bill

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Week of November 13th :



http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document ... _id=372462

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Thank you Mike and thanks for the link too!

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Carole King...I never would have guessed that!

"1966, proving that audiences are not necessarily any smarter than critics, a made-for-TV make-believe pop band hits #1 with their debut album, The Monkees … to be fair, the band includes a couple of actual musicians—Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork—and some serious talent is employed to write their tunes including Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Neil Diamond, Bobby Hart, and Tommy Boyce … Nesmith will get a few of his tunes on Monkees records and has a hard time swallowing the vocals-only rule imposed by Monkees producers … by their third album, the Monkees will start playing their own instruments and Leon Russell will begin producing some of their biggest hits."

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Mike I saw this and lit up a smoke and was a bit disappointed it was so short.lol Usually when you run one of these they are much longer. So just for the future dont skimp on your audience.lol Do really like when you do these Mike. Thanks

Go back a few posts to the link...that was just an excerpt.

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This is the week that was in matters musical…

1954, the first practical transistor radio made in any significant numbers, the pocket-sized Regency TR-1, is mass-marketed at $49.95 …

1955, Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" at Sun Studios in Memphis …

1957, Elvis drops in at the mansion of Tennessee governor Frank Clement and after a little coaxing starts vocalizing along with fellow guests the Prisonaires, a quartet of Tennessee State Prison inmates who recently enjoyed an R&B chart hit with their rendition of "Just Walking in the Rain" … lead Prisonaire singer Johnny Bragg and Elvis know each other from Sun Studios sessions … the party doesn’t break up until the wee hours …

1960, U.S. patent #2,960,900 is granted to Fender for the "off-set waist" design of its Jazzmaster and Jaguar guitars … Gibson’s introduction of the Firebird with it’s asymmetrical "reverse" body shape led to a dispute between the two guitar makers … avoiding a court battle, Gibson redesigned the Firebird in 1965 with a "non-reverse" body style …

1961, blues shouter Howlin’ Wolf arrives in London as part of a lineup of American blues musicians who take Britain, and later, the continent by storm … a series of annual American Folk Blues Festivals follow leading to a generation of Brits such as Clapton, Page, Watts, and Richards becoming blues devotees who during the mid-’60s introduce white America to its own roots-music heritage …

1965, Bob Dylan marries Sara Lowndes but holds off telling just about everybody until February 1966 … Mr. and Mrs. Dylan move to Woodstock, New York … the Blonde On Blonde song "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is one of many songs Mr. D would write about Sara—the title obliquely refers to her name … in 1977, Sara Dylan files for divorce and custody of their five children …

1966, The Monkees’ eponymous first album is the number one LP in the U.S … after 12 weeks at the top it is replaced by More of The Monkees …

1967, The Strawberry Alarm Clock’s single "Incense and Peppermints," from the album of the same name, reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 …

1968, Electric Ladyland by the Jimi Hendrix Experience reaches #1 on the U.S. album charts … the gatefold double album features "Crosstown Traffic," "Voodoo Child," and the JHE’s only U.S. hit single, their dramatic re-working of Bob Dylan’s "All Along The Watchtower" … The Monkees film Head opens in six cities … Frank Zappa makes a cameo appearance … the script was co-written by Jack Nicholson, who also compiled the movie soundtrack album … one song "As We Go Along" has guitar work supplied by Neil Young, Ry Cooder, Carole King (co-writer), and Danny Kortchmar, who avoid stepping on each others parts … The Beatles, better known as The White Album, is released in the UK … the 30 tracks on the double LP span styles and genres including country, blues, folkish strummery, whimsical singalong ditties, flat-out rockers, and just plain weirdness … producer George Martin recommended picking the best tunes for a single LP … what songs would you have thrown out and included? …

1971, following the death of The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, the surviving members tell Rolling Stone that the band will continue … it officially disbands two years later after releasing two lackluster albums with keyboardist Ray Manzarek supplying the vocals … Isaac Hayes’ "Theme From Shaft" tops the single charts …

1974, 70 minutes into The Who concert at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Keith Moon collapses behind the drums … Pete Townshend asks if there’s anyone in the audience who not only can play drums but, as he puts it "I meant somebody good" … 19-year Scot Halpin is recruited from the throng by promoter Bill Graham to fill in … despite not having played drums for a year, Halpin manages to keep up with The Who for three songs to close the concert …

1975, reviewers with advance copies of Patti Smith’s debut album Horses give it rave reviews …

1976, a Jerry Lee Lewis two-fer this week: … first, he’s busted for drunk driving after plunging his Rolls Royce into a ditch at 9 a.m… . the next day he’s arrested again for showing up at Graceland and demanding to see Elvis while brandishing a loaded derringer … The Band bids adieu to its fans at San Francisco’s Winterland with a star-studded show that includes their former boss Ronnie Hawkins, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, The Staple Singers, Dr. John, Eric Clapton, and many more … Martin Scorsese is on hand to film the proceedings resulting in the movie, The Last Waltz, widely regarded as one of the best rock movies ever … in 2002, the film is reissued on DVD with remixed 5.1 sound and lots of additional performances not seen in the theatrical release … one of the extras is an extended jam with Morrison, Clapton, Wood, et al, during which the motors in Scorsese’s cinema cameras melted down as they were not designed to handle the continuous shooting … hence the final part of the jam is an audio-only affair …

1977, The Sex Pistols are in British court coming to the defense of a shopkeeper who displayed their debut album Never Mind The Bollocks in his front window … prosecutors say the word "bollocks" is offensive and violates the Indecent Advertising Act … historians testify the word "bollocks" goes back 1,000 years and was used to describe a ball and is also included in present-day English place names … after 20 minutes of deliberation the charges are dropped …

1979, Chuck Berry is released from the slammer following a four-month stretch on tax evasion charges … new wave group Pearl Harbor & The Explosions from San Francisco release their debut 45 "Drivin’" … it sells well locally and picks up college radio airplay … enough to lead to a record deal with Warner Brothers …

1980, Don Henley of The Eagles is arrested after paramedics are called to treat a nude 16-year-old girl suffering from the effects of illicit drugs at his Los Angeles home … he is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possession of an array of drugs … the new single from The Police is "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" …

1981, Human League’s new single is "Don’t You Want Me Baby" …

1983, Michael Jackson’s 14-minute "Thriller" video premieres in Los Angeles …

1984, Bono, Boy George, Sting, George Michael, and other British pop artists record the single "Do They Know It’s Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia …

1985, pre-bad Bobby Brown announces he is leaving New Edition to begin a solo career …

1988, Bon Jovi’s "Bad Medicine" starts a two-week run at number one …

1994, after extensive alcohol and drug abuse as well as hepatitis C, David Crosby gets a healthy new liver via transplant …

1995, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Bruce Springsteen's 13th album, is released … the title refers to a character in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, about the 1930s Dust Bowl emigration …

1997, ex-Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten appears on Judge Judy when a drummer sues him for $5,000 in lost wages and claims Rotten hit him … Johnny maintains the guy quit days before the tour was to begin … Judy rules for Johnny … Garth Brooks’ much-delayed seventh album, Sevens, is finally released … a day after its release, the album sets a record by placing 12 of its 14 tracks in the Hot Country 100 Singles and Tracks chart, eclipsing the former record of eight tracks also set by Brooks with his album Fresh Horses … the Zombies’ original lineup including Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Chris White, Paul Atkinson, and Hugh Grundy reunite to play a gig at London’s Jazz Café …

1999, country star Patty Loveless rides a train across Appalachia distributing 15 tons of Christmas gifts to poor families in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia …

2004, U2 surprises New York City with a 45-minute concert at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge before a crowd of 3,000 who were alerted to the concert via fan websites …

2006, Eddie Van Halen fires original bass player Michael Anthony replacing him with Eddie’s 15-year-old son Wolfgang … talking up his progeny’s skills, Van Halen says, "This kid is f***ing dangerous. If I excel at the speed of sound, he excels at the speed of light." … the Eagles of Death Metal are summarily fired onstage by Axl Rose after playing the first of 15 planned opening sets on the Guns n’ Roses North American tour … following the Eagles set, Rose asks the crowd, "How’d you like the Pigeons of Sh*t Metal? Don’t worry, that’s the last show they’re playing with us." … responding to the firing, Eagles leader Jesse Hughes reflects, "When [Axl] goes off his meds, [he’s] not Paxil Rose anymore." … Guitar Center sells out its entire allotment of 185 reproductions of Eric Clapton’s mid-’60s Strat affectionately known as "Blackie" in seven hours … the original axe that Clapton pieced together from several Stratocasters was bought by Guitar Center at auction and was torn down by Fender luthiers in the process of creating the specially aged replicas … The Doors—minus Jim Morrison of course—reunite for a one-off show at Hollywood’s Whisky a Go Go … it’s been four decades since the band has played the legendary club … Slash and Perry Farrell are on hand to flesh out the lineup …

2007, The Red Hot Chili Peppers file suit against Showtime claiming that the cable network’s use of the name Californication—also the title of the RHCP’s 1999 album—was a misuse of the band’s intellectual property … Nirvana’s celebrated MTV Unplugged show from November, 1993 is released on DVD … Nirvana: Unplugged In New York includes rehearsal footage and two songs that weren’t broadcast … My Morning Jacket leader Jim James reveals that the songs he has written for the band’s forthcoming 2008 album release were mightily influenced by listening to Sam Cooke—both the singer’s pop songs as well as his earlier gospel work with the Soul Stirrers … "hearing the gospel he did before blew my f***ing mind. No guitars, no bullsh*t" … Bob Dylan, Jack White, Lucinda Willliams, and Alan Jackson are reported to be working on renditions of 35 songs written by country pioneer Hank Williams but never recorded before … the project began years earlier when Acuff-Rose, Williams’ music publisher approached Dylan with a briefcase containing the songs … Dylan then moved into the role of project coordinator engaging the artists and arranging the recording sessions … the music, originally said to be due out "in a year or two" on Egyptian Records, Dylan’s Columbia label, as of today is still not released … wildfires in Malibu torch Flea’s $4.8 million mansion … the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist had rented out the home to producer Butch Walker who lost everything including a collection of vintage studio gear in the blaze … Axl Rose’s home avoids a similar fate when the G N’ R frontman wields a hose to wet down his roof … apparently the Chinese Democracy tapes were not damaged, and if they were, what’s another delay? …

2008, still bearing a grudge against Jack Bruce, drummer Ginger Baker says in a Rhythm magazine interview that there will be no more Cream reunions … Baker says the bassist played too loudly at concerts at Madison Square Garden in 2005 … 13 years after they began writing and recording their follow-up to 1991’s Use Your Illusion I and II, Gun N’ Roses finally release the long-anticipated Chinese Democracy with 14 tracks, all written by Axl Rose with various co-composers … according to a New York Time article, the production costs exceed $13 million … China dismisses the album as a "venomous attack" on the nation and bans sale of the album … and after all the rumor, hype, and expense, the album sells well below expectations … meanwhile, Atlantic Records becomes the first major record label to report that its digital sales have finally outsold the sale of its physical CDs …

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I remember a lot of this stuff :

This is the week that was in matters musical…

1949, RCA introduces the 45-rpm record …

1952, Sun Records, future home of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins releases its first record, an instrumental by saxman Johnny London … it flops …

1957, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers receive the princely sum of $7,500 to play a carnival in Panama … the fee is considered huge for a one-nighter … meanwhile Chicago's Chess Records releases Muddy Waters' "I Got My Mojo Working," and Chuck Berry's "School Days" … the singles reflect the company's dual focus on urban blacks and white teens …

1967, Paul McCartney reads a newspaper account of a missing teenage girl inspiring his "She's Leaving Home" …

1968, Johnny Cash and June Carter marry in Franklin, Kentucky … a motorcade of Cadillacs transports Johnny, June, and their families to a small, private ceremony … Cash's best man is Merle Kilgore who shares co-writing credits with June on "Ring of Fire," a tune often considered as the musical record of Johnny and June's illicit love affair …

1977, Mississippi bluesman Bukka White dies of cancer … born Booker T. Washington White, he was inspired to play music by blues legend Charley Patton … in the 1930s he played semi-pro baseball and boxed, and in 1937 was imprisoned on an assault charge … after escaping from prison, White cut some sides for the Vocalion label and was eventually recaptured … his name as it appears on records resulted from a Vocalion producer misunderstanding his name; White preferred to be called Booker … rediscovered by a blues researcher in 1963, he made appearances at festivals during the blues revival that marked the latter stages of his eventful life … remembered as a powerful performer on National steel guitars, White gave his cousin B.B. King a Stella—the future electric blues star's first guitar … meanwhile in Santa Monica, California, Bob Dylan's wife, Sara, files for divorce … the couple has been married for 11 years and has five children … in the property settlement she is given the family home and custody of the kids … Sara is said to be the inspiration behind Dylan songs such as "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," "Lay Lady Lay," and "Sara" …

1978, Van Halen plays the first date of its first national tour at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom … there's a rider in the contract providing that M&Ms with the brown candies removed be available backstage …

1983, Michael Jackson's Thriller soars to #1 on the pop chart and will stay there 37 weeks, selling over 40 million copies … it's the number-one seller in every Western nation where such records are kept …

1985, Jacko drops in on Madame Tussaud's London waxworks where his likeness is being unveiled …

1990, former Coasters lead tenor Cornell Gunter dies in Las Vegas when an unknown assailant shoots him while he's sitting in his car …

1994, Kurt Cobain washes down a handful of Valiums with champagne and winds up in a coma in a Rome hospital … he revives after about 20 hours … though officially labeled accidental, the overdose is thought to be a suicide attempt by those close to Cobain … a second attempt nearly two months later with a shotgun will prove fatal …

1995, Lyle Lovett breaks his collarbone while motorcycling in Mexico causing him to miss the Grammys where he wins Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for his duet on "Funny How Time Slips Away" with Al Green and Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for his version of "Blues For Dixie" with Asleep At The Wheel … meanwhile in Lausanne, Switzerland, Bill Berry of R.E.M. suffers a massive migraine about 90 minutes into the band's set … he collapses and is rushed offstage but does not see a doctor until the next day when it is discovered he has an aneurysm on the right side of his brain … Berry undergoes surgery and makes a full recovery …

1999, British singer Dusty Springfield falls victim to breast cancer … born Mary Elizabeth Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, the highly regarded singer enjoyed a series of pop hits including the blockbuster "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" … her death falls on the day she was scheduled to receive her OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth …she was 59 … after a 31-year hiatus, Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles appear at the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Pioneer Awards in L.A. where they perform a stunning rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone" …

2000, it's announced that pop princess Britney Spears is marketing her own brand of bubble gum creatively dubbed "Britney Spears CD Bubble Gum" … meanwhile in Newport Beach, California, Dennis Danell of Social Distortion dies of an apparent brain aneurysm suffered in his driveway … he was 38 …

2003, R&B singer Hank Ballard dies of throat cancer at home in L.A. … notable for having written "The Twist" and enjoying a hit with it before Chubby Checker's cover, he and his swinging band, The Midnighters, charted with 22 R&B hits in the 1950s and '60s, many of which crossed over onto the pop chart … these include the suggestive "Work With Me Annie" followed by "Annie Had a Baby" … their racy lyrics resulted in the songs being banned on many radio stations …

2004, shock jock Howard Stern is suspended indefinitely from Clear Channel radio following listeners' complaints sent to the network and the FCC … complaints center around Stern's potty mouth and the smutty subjects he addresses … Clear Channel president John Hogan publicly demands Stern drop the naughty content from his show … Stern demurs and is suspended only to be picked up as a broadcaster by XM satellite radio …

2005, the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, closes … artists such as The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Bob Seger recorded some of their biggest hits at the facility … the studio, owned since 1985 by indie blues label Malaco Records, is a victim of the computer recording boom … Ozzy Osbourne, who's promoting the Australian MTV Awards in Sydney, inexplicably cups daughter Kelly's left breast during a press conference …

2006, new-age musician Yanni is arrested in Florida on charges of domestic battery against his girlfriend … after being found asleep at the steering wheel of his car in London, George Michael is taken in by the bobbies on charges of possessing pot and painkillers …

2007, more than two months after his death, James Brown remains unburied while family members squabble over burial details … meanwhile an undisclosed agreement is reached on how DNA samples should be collected from the corpse … they are needed to resolve several paternity claims including the parentage of a child that his companion Tomi Rae Hynie says Brown fathered … though Hynie says she married Brown, the Godfather's lawyers dispute that, saying she was still married to another man when the alleged marriage took place … meanwhile in Britain, the husband of deceased classical pianist Joyce Hatto confesses to passing off other artists' recordings as the work of his late wife on more than 100 CDs issued under her name since she quit public performances in 1976 … William Barrington-Coupe admits the deception in a letter sent to BIS, the label that issued the discs … the scandal is precipitated by an article in Britain's Gramophone magazine in which it's revealed that Hatto's recording of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes was actually lifted from a recording by Laszio Simon … meanwhile on this side of the Atlantic, in its ongoing campaign against piracy, the Recording Industry Association of America sends 400 letters to U.S. universities warning them that students may be sued for copyright infringement if they don't settle up … the RIAA directs students to a website where they can settle their cases online by coughing up some bucks … Big Champagne, a web tracking service, estimates that one billion songs are downloaded online every month at sites such as LimeWire … on this same day in 2007, in the ongoing saga of rapper Sean Combs' ever-changing nom-de-rap, a British court rules that he violated a deal made with London record producer Richard "Diddy" Dearlove to not use the alias "Diddy" in the U.K. … in response to the judgment, Combs agrees to remove the lyric "…mainline this Diddy heroin…" from his song, "The Future," when it is performed in Britain henceforth … and finally, in other legal proceedings back in the colonies, after spending three nights in the Norfolk County Jail in Massachusetts for late child-support payments, singer Bobby Brown is sprung when a Washington, DC, radio station posts $19,510 bail … in return, the singer will take part in a week's worth of broadcasts of Hot 99.5 FM's The Kane Show … the show's host, who goes by the single name Kane, tells the press, "In exchange for the money, he agreed to be an employee of our radio station for one week, where he will discuss what he did wrong and how he could turn his life around. We are going to have a very open and candid conversation" … Brown was arrested as he watched his daughter perform at a local cheerleading competition … coincidentally, a year earlier Brown was arrested for a 14-year string of motor-vehicle violations, also while watching his daughter in a cheerleading competition …

2008, Dee Snider of Twisted Sister and Troy Luccketa of Tesla put together a lineup of rock and country performers at the Providence, Rhode Island, Dunkin' Donuts Center to raise money for the families of the 100 fans who died and 200 who were injured in the Station nightclub fire five years earlier … the benefit that includes Winger, Stryder, and Gretchen Wilson among others raises $175,000 …

2009, President Obama awards Stevie Wonder The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize …

…and that was the week that was.
[Compiled by the Musician's Friend copywriting staff]

Arrivals:

February 25: blueswoman Ida Cox (1896), record store tycoon Sam Goody, born Samuel Gutowitz (1904), country singer Faron Young (1932), Barry Kramer, founder of Creem magazine (1943), guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro of Crazy Horse (1949), bassist and songwriter Stewart "Woody" Wood of The Bay City Rollers (1957), drummer Dennis Diken of The Smithereens (1957), singer Mike Peters of The Alarm (1959)

February 26: Fats Domino (1928), Norman P. Rich of Billy Stewart's band (1930), Johnny Cash (1932), Paul Cotton of Poco (1943), Bob "The Bear" Hite of Canned Heat (1943), Mitch Ryder (1945), Elvis impersonator Orion born Jimmy Hodges (1945), Jonathan Cain of Journey (1950), Michael Bolton (1954), Bronski Beat's John Jon (1961), Erykah Badu (1971)

February 27: New Orleans guitarist Roy Montrell (1928), Ralph Garone of The Bob Knight Four (1940), Eddie Gray of Tommy James & The Shondells (1948), Neil Schon of Journey (1954), Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden (1957), Chili of TLC (1971), Jeremy Dean of Nine Days (1972), rapper Ja Rule (1976), singer-songwriter Josh Groban (1981)

February 28: guitarist John Fahey (1939), singer-songwriter Joe South (1940), Marty Sanders of Jay and the Americans (1941), R&B singer Barbara Acklin (1943), Brian Jones (1952), Ronald Rosman of Tommy James & The Shondells (1945), Cindy Wilson of The B-52's (1957), Ian Stanley of Tears For Fears (1957), Phillip Gould of Level 42 (1957), Pat Monahan of Train (1969)

February 29: producer David Briggs (1944)

March 1: bandleader Glenn Miller (1904), barrelhouse pianist Walter Davis (1912), Harry Belafonte (1927), Jim Ed Brown of The Browns (1934), Roger Daltrey (1942), Jerry Fisher of Blood, Sweat & Tears (1943), Mike D'Abo of Manfred Mann (1944), synth pop singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw (1958)

March 2: Desi Arnaz (1917), Doc Watson (1923), Lawrence Payton of The Four Tops (1938), Lou Reed born Louis Firbank (1942), George Benson (1943), blues/rock guitarist Rory Gallagher (1948), sax player Michael Brecker (1949), Eddie Money (1949), Karen Carpenter (1950), Jay Osmond of The Osmonds (1955), Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons (1955), Mark Evans of AC/DC (1956), Jon Bon Jovi born John Bongiovi (1962), rapper and DJ Scott LaRock (1962), Coldplay's Chris Martin (1977)

March 3: jazz bassist Pierre Michelot (1928), Willie Chambers of The Chambers Brothers (1938), Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane (1942), Mike Pender of The Searchers (1942), Jance Garfat of Dr. Hook (1944), Jennifer Warnes (1947), Robyn Hitchcock (1953), Tone-Loc (1966), John Bigham of Fishbone (1969), Ronan Keating of Boyzone (1977)

Departures:

February 25: Pylon guitarist Randy Bewley (2009), '60s folk singer Mark Spoelstra (2007), Thomas Koppel, co-founder of Danish prog-rock band Savage Rose (2006), blues saxophonist A.C. Reed (2004), William "Hoss" Allen, white DJ who promoted R&B in Nashville (1997), Toy Caldwell, guitarist and songwriter for the Marshall Tucker Band (1993)

February 26: ELO bassist Kelly Groucutt (2009), drummer Buddy Miles (2008), Cajun music pioneer Edwin Duhon (2006), lyricist Ben Raleigh (1997), Frank O'Keefe of The Outlaws (1995), Cornell Gunter of The Coasters (1990), bluesman Bukka White (1977), Sherman Garnes of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers (1977), blues pianist Big Maceo (1953)

February 27: drummer Bobby Rosengarden (2007), Mississippi fife player Othar Turner (2003), Marlena Easley of The Orlons (1993)

February 28: Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five (2008), saxophonist Walter Kimble (1988), DJ Eddie Madison (1987), David Byron of Uriah Heep (1985), Duprees lead vocalist Joey Vann (1984), songwriter Bobby Bloom (1974), Frankie Lymon (1968), Fats Domino's guitarist Walter "Papoose" Nelson (1962)

March 1: Jackson 5 drummer (and no relation) Johnny Jackson (2006), Dennis Danell of Social Distortion (2000), Air Supply's Frank Esler-Smith (1991)

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WOW! Thanks Mike, Thats a lot of info

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Very appreciated Mike!! I always enjoy these. Had enough time to eat a meal and relax while reading!!

A whole lot of typing on your part!!!

"1949, RCA introduces the 45-rpm record … "

I have a '45' of Tony Sheridan & The Beatles doing "My Bonnie" that's supposed to be worth something these days?

http://www.musicpriceguide.com/444570/T ... 5-RPM.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bonnie

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