These are today's Birthday people....born July 23 in the years
mentioned :
BERT CONVY (1933 St Louis Mo)
Member The Cheers later became actor/TV personality etc
CLEVE DUNCAN (1935 Los Angeles Ca)
Lead singer The Penguins of Earth Angel fame
GARY STITES (1940 Denver Co)
Pop singer rcd for Carlton biggest hit Lonely For You 1959
MADELINE BELL (1942 Newark NJ)
First rcd with Alex Bradford became famous in 60's after moving to UK
......and here is a guy who said his last goodbye to us on this
day.......
SMOKEY SMOTHERS (1993 Chicago Il)
Guitarist in Howlin Wolf band in 1956 rcd for Federal in 1960
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
JULY 23 1950
To the strains of the immortal "Back In the Saddle Again" CBS TV
viewers are treated this day to the first performance of "The Gene
Autry Show".The singing cowboy makes the move from Hollywood films to
the tube on this night in 1950
JULY 23 1955
Chess Records' brand new release "Maybellene" by their newest artist
Chuck Berry is reviewed in Billboard this day.
JULY 23 1958
Ersel Hickey sings "Lovers Land" and "Goin' Down That Road" on
"American Bandstand". The Four Tophatters also guest
JULY 23 1959
At Atlantic Studios in NYC, The Coasters record "Run Red Run" and the
unissued "Guitaritious", which probably is an instrumental
Gerry Granahan guests on "American Bandstand"
JULY 23 1960
In the UK chart Cliff Richard ends Jimmy Jones' tenure at the top with
"Good Timin'"----when his "Please Don't Tease" takes over at the top
Roy Orbison sing "Only The Lonely" and "Uptown" on Dick Clark's
Saturday Night Beechnut TV Show. Other guests are Donnie Brooks
("Mission Bell"),Anita Bryant ("In My Little Corner Of The World" and
"Paper Roses") and The Crests ("Trouble in Paradise")
JULY 23 1962
The Telstar communications satellite sends the first ever live TV
broadcast from the USA to Europe. An event that will shortly be
celebrated on record by the Tornados who will go on to top the charts
in both Britain and the USA with a catchy number based around the
device
At The Capitol Tower in Hollywood,Bobby Darin undertakes his first
session for his new label recording the new single "If A Man Answers"
/"A True True Love" plus "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" (earmarked
for future single release)
In New York The Marcels record "Friendly Loans" (chosen for the new
Colpix single),"Lollipop Baby" (future flipside) and "Blue Heartaches"
which remains in the can until the release of Rhino's "The Best Of the
Marcels" in 1990
James Darren hosts "American Bandstand" and sings "Mary's Little Lamb"
JULY 23 1963
Lesley Gore sings "It's My Party" on the Keefe Brasselle show on
CBS-TV whilst Jan and Dean perform "Surf City" on Steve Allen's late
night show.
JULY 23 2003
The Sun Records studio in Memphis is designated a national historic
landmark on this day
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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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