These are today's Birthday people....born July 20 in the years
mentioned :
BUDDY KNOX (1933 Happy Tx)
Shot to fame 57 with Party Doll on Roulette (originally on Triple D)
SLEEPY LA BEFF (1935 Smackover Ar)
C&W artist rcd Starday,Mercury etc some RAB All The Time etc
JO ANN CAMPBELL (1938 Jacksonville Fl)
Stalwart of Freed shows rcd for Gone,ABC etc A Kookie Little Paradise
......and here are some folks who said their last goodbyes to us on
this day......
ROY HAMILTON (1969 New Rochelle NY)
Big voiced singer on Epic best record Don't Let Go 1957
JUDD PHILLIPS (1992 Memphis Tn)
Bro of Sam & promotion mgr at Sun later ran Judd label (Ray Smith)
CHOKER CAMPBELL (1993 Detroit Mi)
In house tenor sax man at Motown.. in 50's rcd for Atlantic & others
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
JULY 20 1940
Billboard magazine publishes its first listing of best-selling
singles. Ten tunes were listed. At the top of the list is the splendid
"I'll Never Smile Again", recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Band with
vocals by the young Frank Sinatra backed by the Pied Pipers (featuring
an even younger Jo Stafford)
JULY 20 1954
The Blue Moon Boys make their live debut this day----playing off a
flatbed truck outside a new drug store in Memphis. The band line up is
Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black.
JULY 20 1958
Teresa Brewer guest hosts tonight's "Ed Sullivan Show"
JULY 20 1959
Sonny James guests on "American Bandstand"
Ed Wood's notorious "Plan 9 From Outer Space" premieres this day
JULY 20 1961
At United Recording Cor****ation in Hollywood Ricky Nelson records a
new Imperial single "Everlovin' " and "A Wonder Like You". "Today's
Teardrops" from this session appears on the LP "Album Seven By Rick"
in 1962 and finally makes it to 45RPM in 1963 (after Imperial joins
the Liberty camp)
In London the show "Stop the World I Want to Get Off" opens this day
starring (and written by) Anthony Newley.The show gives the world the
songs "What Kind Of Fool Am I" and "Gonna Build A Mountain" .The
following year (1962) the hit show will transfer successfully to
Broadway in New York
The Beatles sign a German recording contract with producer Bert
Kaempfert, under the name of The Beat Brothers
Gladys Knight & The Pips sing "Every Beat Of My Heart" on "American
Bandstand"
JULY 20 1962
Johnny Tillotson hosts "American Bandstand" for the day (for a
vacationing Clark) and performs "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'"
JULY 20 1963
On the Billboard pop charts Jan & Dean score #1 with "Surf City"
knocking "Easier Said Than Done" by The Es*** from pole position
However in the R&B chart the latter number now takes the #1
slot,replacing Barbara Lewis and "Hello Stranger"
Elsewhere this day Easy Listening King Ray Conniff receives two
gold-record awards -- for the albums "Concert in Rhythm"and "Memories
are Made of This" from Columbia Records. Conniff is responsible for
dozens of albums of easy listening music for the label.
Meanwhile The Tymes headline at the Apollo in New York
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Acknowledgement for recording session info used goes to Dik de Heer's
"In The Can" website. For more info see
http://members.home.nl/henk.gorter/Itcindex.html
ROGER FORD
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