These are today's Birthday people....born August 8 in the years
mentioned :
LUCKY MILLINDER (1900 Anniston Al)
Jump blues based bandleader introduced vocalist Wynonie Harris
VICTOR YOUNG (1900 Chicago Il)
Orchestra leader biggest hit The High & the Mighty 1954
BENNY CARTER (1907 Manhattan NYC NY)
Famed jazz sax & trumpet player
AXEL STORDAHL (1913 Staten Island NY)
Arranger & bandleader famous for his 40's work with the young Sinatra
WEBB PIERCE (1921 West Monroe La)
Very popular C&W artist several #1 hits In The Jailhouse Now etc
ESTHER WILLIAMS (1923 Los Angeles Ca)
MGM aquatic movie star sang orig Baby It's Cold Outside 1949
JIMMY WITHERSPOON (1923 Grydon Ar)
Blues singer big in 40's several 50's reds for Chess,Prestige etc
AL KING (1926 Monroe La)
Vocalist with The Savoys on Combo of "Chop Chop Boom" fame
PETE DRAKE (1932 Atlanta Ga)
Top Nashville session guitarist big hit Forever 1964
MEL TILLIS (1932 Pahokee Fl)
C&W vcl rcd for Columbia & others in 50's
JOE TEX (1933 Rogers Tx)
R&B vocalist rcd in 50's for King,Ace etc huge in 60's on Dial
CONNIE STEVENS (1938 Brooklyn NYC NY)
Actress TV's Hawaiian Eye several rcds biggest solo Hit 16 Reasons
......and here are some folks who said their last goodbyes to us on
this day......
RUSS MORGAN (1969 Las Vegas Nv)
Popular 40's bandleader So Tired etc had several 50's hits
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY (1975 Gary In)
Jazz sax player rcd for Riverside etc hit Mercy Mercy Mercy in 60's
SAM GOODY (1991 Queens NYC NY)
The man who started the famous record store chain
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
AUGUST 8 1911
The newsreel becomes a standard feature at American movie screenings
when French film company Pathe begins releasing weekly black-and-white
newspictures to theatres
AUGUST 8 1923
Benny Goodman is just 14 years old as he begins his professional
career as a clarinet player. He takes a job in a band on a Chicago-
based excursion boat on Lake Michigan this day
AUGUST 8 1934
Bing Crosby becomes the first singer to record for the newly created
Decca Records. His songs "Just A-Wearyin' For You"and "I Love You
Truly" are waxed and issued this day as Decca # D-100
AUGUST 8 1941
Les Brown and His Band of Renown pay tribute to baseball's 'Yankee
Clipper', Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees,with their recording of
"Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" on Okeh records. From here on in,DiMaggio
adopts the nickname Joltin' Joe
AUGUST 8 1948
Peggy Lee & The De Marco Sisters guest on Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The
Town" show
AUGUST 8 1954
The Four Lads guest on Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town" show
AUGUST 8 1957
Larry Williams sings "Short Fat Fannie" on "American Bandstand". Perry
Como ("Round And Round") also appears
AUGUST 8 1958
In New York this day The Coasters record their next single "The Shadow
Knows"/"Sorry But I'm Gonna Have To Pass" for Atco".As well as early
trys at "I'm A Hog For You the up-tempo "Crocodile" is recorded which
stays in vaults for decades until the "Charlie Brown" CD on Mr R&B in
2001
Johnny Cash records "All Over Again" & "Frankie's Man Johnny" for
Columbia this day
Betty Madigan guests on "American Bandstand"
AUGUST 8 1959
Freddy Cannon sings "Kookie Hat" on Dick Clark's Saturday Night
Beechnut TV Show. Other guests are The Tempos ("See You In September")
Sammy Turner ("Lavender Blue"),Thomas Wayne and Lu Ann Simms
AUGUST 8 1960
Roy Orbison records the follow-up to "Only the Lonely" in Nashville
this day----"Blue Angel"/"Today's Teardrops" aapears as his new
Monument single. Also recorded at this session : "I'll Say It's My
Fault" appears on Roy's first LP "Lonely and Blue"
At Radio Recorders in Hollywood Elvis Presley records several tracks
for the soundtrack of the movie "Flaming Star"
On the charts Brian Hyland ends Brenda Lee's tenure at #1 with "I'm
Sorry" when his memorable masterpiece "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow
Polkadot Bikini" becomes the nations new #1 best selling single this
day
Jimmy Charles sings "A Million To One" on "American Bandstand"
Meanwhile over in London,Decca Records this day destroy 250,000 copies
they have pressed of Ray Peterson's huge American hit "Tell Laura I
Love Her" after being advised by the BBC that it will not be played by
the station---the record is deemed to be tasteless and too vulgar for
the English sensibility.........
AUGUST 8 1961
....and talking of Ray Peterson he appears on "American Bandtstand"
this day to sing "Missing You"
AUGUST 8 1962
Joey Dee & The Starliters perform "What Kind Of Love Is This" on
"American Bandstand"
The Beach Boys record "Ten Little Indians" which becomes their hardest
to find regular Capitol single
AUGUST 8 1963
Wayne Newton sings "Danke Shoen" on "American Bandstand"
AUGUST 8 1970
On this day,thanks to singer Janis Joplin, blues queen Bessie Smith
finally gets a marker for her grave in Sharon Hill near Philadelphia,
Pa 33 years after her death.
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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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