These are today's Birthday people....born August 2 in the years
mentioned :
JOE HARNELL (1924 The Bronx NYC NY)
Conductor & orchestra leader 1963 hit Fly Me To The Moon Bossa Nova
HANK COCHRAN (1935 Isola Ms)
Early recs with Eddie Cochran (no relation) wrote I Fall To Pieces etc
DAVE GOVAN (1940 Los Angeles Ca)
Member The Jayhawks (Stranded In The Jungle) and later The Vibrations
DORIS KENNER (1941 Passaic NJ)
Member The ****relles of Will You Love Me Tommorrow fame
KATHY LENNON (1943 Venice Ca)
Member Lennon Sisters on Lawrence Welk TV show several 50's hits
.....and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes this
day........
BETTY JACK DAVIS (1953 in car smash nr Wheeling WV)
One half of the C&W Davis Sisters unrelated Skeeter Davis survived
CHAN DANIELS (1975 location not known)
Member of The Highwaymen folk group had #1 hit Michael in 1961
REDD STEWART (2003 Louisville Ky)
Worked with Pee Wee King co wrote Tennessee Waltz You Belong To Me
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
AUGUST 2 1948
Cab Calloway guests on Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town" show
AUGUST 2 1957
The official Elvis Presley Fan Club is launched in the UK.
AUGUST 2 1958
Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut TV Show stars Les Paul and Mary
Ford,Buddy Knox ("Somebody Touched Me" and "C'mon Baby"),Jimmy Bowen
("By the Light Of The Silvery Moon" ) and The Olympics ("Western
Movies")
AUGUST 2 1959
The Drifters finally end Lloyd Price's tenure at the top of the
Billboard R&B chart with "Personality" when their "There Goes My Baby"
this day becomes the nations new #1 R&B record
The Platters sing "Dance With Me Henry,"Remember When" and "Darktown
Strutter's Ball" on "The Ed Sullivan Show". Jill Corey also guests
AUGUST 2 1960
At the Bell Sound Studio in NYC, producers Sonny Lester & Bill Sanford
compile Jack Scott's LP "The Spirit Moves Me" for Top Rank. All twelve
songs of Jack's third Top Rank album have obviously been recorded
earlier (see the In The Can site : July 1960)
AUGUST 2 1962
This day Aretha Franklin makes her TV debut on "American Bandstand"
(she sings "Try A Little Tenderness" and "Don't Cry Baby")
AUGUST 2 1963
Jerry Lee Lewis opens at the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas for a
re****ted $9,500. It is re****ted that both RCA Victor and Liberty
Records are courting Lewis in anticipation of Lewis' contract with Sun
Records expiring in September. Supposedly Liberty is offering a five
year contract with a $10,000 yearly guarantee. Re****tedly Lewis is
holding out for $25,000.
Sam Cooke is at the Regal Theater in Chicago
Freddy Scott sings "Hey Girl" on "American Bandstand"
AUGUST 2 2001
New Orleans International Air****t is re-named Louis Armstrong Air****t.
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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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