These are today's Birthday people....born July 22 in the years
mentioned :
MARGARET WHITING (1924 Detroit Mi)
Popular femme vcl regular duets with Jimmy Wakely Slipping Around etc
CHUCK JACKSON (1937 Latta SC)
Formerly with Dell-Vikings long solo career biggest hit Any Day Now
THOMAS WAYNE (1940 Battsville Ms)
Bro of Cash guitarist Luther Perkins biggest hit Tragedy in 1959
ESTELLE BENNETT (1944 New York City NY)
Sister of Ronnie Spector nee Bennett & with her in The Ronettes
......and here are some folks who said their last goodbyes to us on
this day......
JIMMY KEYES (1965 New York City NY)
First tenor with The Chords of Sh-Boom fame
LARRY FINNEGAN (1973 South Bend Ind)
Pop singer rcd Old Town hit "Dear One" 1962 later moved to Sweden
SONNY STITT (1982 Wa****ngton DC)
Jazz saxman played w.Tiny Bradshaw in 40's later Gillespie,Davis etc
HUGH BRYANT (1987 Helsinki Finland)
Member of the Delta Rhythm Boys since 1960
MARION MONTGOMERY (2002 Bray UK)
American jazz vocalist several 50's records moved to UK in 1965
SACHA DISTEL (2004 Rayol-Canadel France)
Noted French vocalist rcd in 50's wrote the hit The Good Life
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
JULY 22 1956
Backed by Sonny Curtis (gtr),Don Guess (bs) and Jerry Allison (dms)
Buddy Holly records "That'll Be The Day" for the first time at
Bradley's Barn,Nashville,Tennessee
At the same session they also record -
Rock Around With Ollie Vee
I'm Changin' All Those Changes
Girl On My Mind
Ting-A-Ling
Jack Paar guest hosts "The Ed Sullivan Show" which stars The Ames
Brothers
JULY 22 1958
The Dubs sing "Be Sure (My Love)" on "American Bandstand". Somethin'
Smith & The Redheads also appear
JULY 22 1959
In New York City,Bobby Darin in a session for Atlantic records four
tracks this day---- "Somebody To Love" and "I'll Be There" will be two
sides of the same single in Europe but in the US they become the
B-sides of "Artificial Flowers" and "Bill Bailey" respectively both in
1960. "You Know How" is first released on the "For Teenagers Only" LP
in September 1960. whilst "Moment Of Love" has to wait till 1991 for
release
JULY 22 1960
The Regal Theater in Chicago boasts a bill consisting of Ben E. King,
The Five Satins, Joe Turner, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Faye Adams, Nappy
Brown and Annie Laurie.
JULY 22 1961
In the British chart Eden Kane deposes The Everly Brothers and
"Temptation"----as his "Well I Ask You" reaches the #1 spot
JULY 22 1962
Ray Charles insists that his show at the 10000 seat Dallas Memorial
Auditorium plays to an integrated audience. The performance takes
place without incident
From the Stardust club in Las Vegas Patti Page sings "Doggie In The
Window","Old Cape Cod","With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" and
"Allegheny Moon" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" whilst Billy Eckstine sings
"What Kind of Fool Am I"
JULY 22 1963
Some sources show Vee Jay Records releasing some sample copies of the
LP "Introducing The Beatles" this day
Freddy Cannon hosts "American Bandstand" in Dick Clark's absence.He
also performs "Everybody Monkey"
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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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