These are today's Birthday people....born August 3 in the years
mentioned :
RAY BLOCH (1902 Alsaces-Lorraine France)
Ork leader worked with Ed Sullivan,Jackie Gleason etc rcd for Coral
JAKE ****TER (1916 Oakland Ca)
Veteran West Coast black tpt player owned Combo label (Gene & Eunice)
LES ELGART (1918 New Haven Ct)
MOR bandleader rcd all thru the 50's for Columbia
EDDIE JEFFERSON (1918 Pittsburgh Pa)
Jazzy based "scat" singer several 50's records on Checker,United etc
GORDON STOKER (1924 Glerason Tn)
Member The Jordanaires group backed Elvis on many of his hits
TONY BENNETT (1926 Queens NYC NY)
One of the better MOR 50's singers #1 Because Of You,Rags To Riches
BEVERLY LEE (1941 Passaic NJ)
Member The ****relles of Will You Love Me Tommorrow fame
............and here's some folk who said their last goodbyes to us
this day..........
LENNY BRUCE (1966 Hollywood Ca)
Hugely influential comedian often banned for using profanity etc
RICHARD NICKENS (1991 Chicago Il)
Member of the El Dorados on Vee Jay of At My Front Door fame
DON LANG (1992 London UK)
Fronted British r&r combo Don Lang & Frantic Five several 50's hits
MAURICE KINN (2000 London UK)
Launched New Musical Express biggest selling UK 50's pop weekly
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
AUGUST 3 1952
Tony Martin guests on Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town" show
AUGUST 3 1957
Fats Domino is back at Cosimo's Studios in New Orleans where he cuts
"Oh Whee" and "My Love For Her" neither of which will see issue until
1963 on the LP "Walking To New Orleans" . He also records "I Still
Love You" (supposedly an overdub of the Dave Bartolomew instrumental
track "Apple Honey") which will be used as the "B" side to his
forthcoming single "Wait And See"
AUGUST 3 1959
On the first day of a marathon four day session at the Capitol Tower
in Hollywood, Gene Vincent cuts a bunch of songs that will appear on
the forthcoming "Crazy Times" LP---recorded this day are "Pretty
Pearly", "She She Little Sheila" (that will also be a UK Capitol
single),"Accentuate the Positive" and "Darlene"
The Virtues play "Virtues Boogie Woogie" on "American Bandstand"
AUGUST 3 1960
Jan & Dean sing "We Go Together" on "American Bandstand"
AUGUST 3 1963
Still on the subject of Jan & Dean----as the The Tymes end the duo's
tenure at the top with "Surf City" when "So Much In Love" becomes
America's new #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this day.
One of the most memorable comedy singles ever to grace the charts
debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 this day when Allan Sherman enters the
best sellers with his revamp of "Dance Of The Hours" now retitled
"Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh"
Meanwhile 3,000 miles away The Beatles make their final appearance at
the Cavern in Liverpool
And staying in England,in the UK charts The Searchers (also from
Liverpool) score their first #1 hit this day when their remake of the
Drifters song "Sweets For My Sweet" topples Frank Ifield (and "I'm
Confessin'") from the top spot
AIGUST 3 1999
Patsy Cline gets a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 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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