These are today's Birthday people....born August 6 in the years
mentioned :
ROBERT MITCHUM (1917 Bridege****t Ct)
Movie actor rcd for Capitol Mama Look-A Bubu Ballad of Thunder Rd etc
NORMAN GRANZ (1918 Los Angeles Ca)
Jazz impressario/promotor launched Clef label that later became Verve
WILLIE NIX (1922 Memphis Tn)
"The Memphis Blues Boy" rcd for Sun & other labels Baker Shop Boogie
ABBEY LINCOLN (1930 Chicago Il)
Jazz based thrush had a cameo in movie The Girl Can't Help It
MYRNA LORRIE (1940 Cloud Bay Ontario Canada)
Country songstress rcd in 50's for Fabor Robinson
MIKE SARNE (1940 London UK)
#1 UK hit Come Outside 1962 later in movies Myra Breckenridge etc
......and here are some folks who said their last goodbyes to us on
this day......
MEMPHIS MINNIE (1973 Memphis Tn)
Blues vcl/gtr rcd thru 40's best known song Me & My Chauffeur
GENE AMMONS (1974 Chicago Il)
Jazz tenor sax man rcd for Mercury,Chess etc in 50's
DOMINICO MODUGNO (1994 Lampedusa Island Sicily)
Italian singer/actor #1 1958 with Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu aka Volare
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
AUGUST 6 1940
Columbia Records cuts the prices of its 12-inch classical records. The
records are priced to sell at $1. Within two weeks Victor does the
same and ends a record-buying slump brought on by disinterested
consumers
AUGUST 6 1945
At 8.16AM local time on the orders of President Harry Truman the US
B-29 bomber "Enola Gay" drops the first ever operational atomic bomb
on the Japanese city of Hiro****ma
AUGUST 6 1950
Kay Starr guests on Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town" show
AUGUST 6 1957
Dale Hawkins sings "Susie-Q" on "American Bandstand" whilst Don Rondo
does "White Silver Sands"
AUGUST 6 1958
Chess release Chuck Berry's "Carol" and Dale Hawkins' "La Do Dada"
this day
Jackie Wilson (with "We Have Love") and The Royal Teens ("Harvey's Got
A Girlfriend") are the guests on "American Bandstand"
AUGUST 6 1959
Eugene Church & The Fellows sing "Miami" on "American Bandstand"
Gene Vincent wraps up a Hollywood session with the tracks "Blue Eyes
Crying in the Rain", "Everybody's Got A Date But Me" and "Michiko From
Tokyo".
One of Hitchcock's best ever movies "North By Northwest" has its
premiere in New York this day
AUGUST 6 1960
Chubby Checker introduces "The Twist" on Dick Clark's Saturday Night
Beechnut TV Show. Additional guests are Conway Twitty ("Is A Bluebird
Blue?" & "She's Mine"),Ray Peterson ("Tell Laura I Love Her"),Billy
Bland ("Let The Little Girl Dance" & "Pardon Me") and The Ivy Three
("Yogi")
Fats Domino pays another visit to Cosimo Recording Studio in New
Orleans. "Natural Born Lover" will become the B-side of "My Girl
Josephine" later in the year. It is also released on the LP "A Lot of
Dominoes" just like "Magic Isles", "It's the Talk of the Town" and
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" (later released as a single in
1963). The fifth track from this session, "Am I Blue", is first
released on the LP "Let the Four Winds Blow"
Elsewhere in Liverpool this day at the Casbah Club The Silver Beatles
meet Pete Best---the then drummer for the Blackjacks
AUGUST 6 1962
The Dreamlovers sing "If I Should Lose You" on "American Bandstand"
AUGUST 6 1963
Dee Dee Sharp guest hosts "American Bandstand" and sings "Rock Me In
The Cradle Of Love"
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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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