++Who's Got A Birthday Today? (JAN 3)++
Roger Ford
mentioned
LEON McAULIFFE (1917 Houston Tx)
Vocalist /steel guitarist formerly in Bob Wills Band later solo
MAXINE ANDREWS (1918 MInneapolis Mn)
2nd of The Andrews Sisters biggest 50's hit I Can Dream Can't I 1950
GEORGE MARTIN (1926 London UK)
Head A&R for Parlophone in 50's prod Beatles for the label from 1962
DANNY OVERBEA (1926 Philadelphia Pa)
R&B guitarist rcd Checker etc Train,Train,Train,40 Cups Of Coffee etc
CARL McVOY (1931 Pine Bluff Ar)
Relative of Jerry Lee Lewis rcd Tootsie for Hi later on Phillips Int't
JOHN BERRY (1938 Orangeburg SC)
Lead singer The Rainbows of "Mary Lee" fame
GENE SUMMERS (1939 Dallas Tx)
Second string rocker best known song School Of Rock & Roll
......and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us this
day..........
WILBUR De PARIS (1973 New York City NY)
Jazz trombonist led own band rcd Atlantic etc covered Petite Fleur
AMOS MILBURN (1980 Houston Tx)
R&B vocalist/pianist led own combo many hits Bad Bad Whiskey etc
FELTON JARVIS (1981 Nashville Tn)
RCA producer assigned to work with Elvis in 60's
CARL McVOY (1992 Jackson Ms)
See above - rare example of a birth & death on same day!!!
ESQUIVEL (2000 Tampico Mexico)
Orchestra leader famous for his MOR lounge musak
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
JANUARY 3 1957
Fats Domino records "I'm Walkin'" this day
JANUARY 3 1959
David Seville & The Chipmunks perform a belated "The Chipmunk Song
(Christmas Don't Be Late)" on Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut TV
Show. Other guests are Tab Hunter ("Jealous Heart") and The Nu
Tornados ("Philadelphia, U.S.A.")
JANUARY 3 1960
Bobby Darin and Connie Francis guest on "The Ed Sullivan Show". Darin
sings "That's How It Goes" & "Beyond The Sea" while Connie sings "O
Sole Mio" & "Mama" . Together they duet on "You Make Me Feel So Young"
& "You're The Top". Toni Fisher also guests on this show singing "The
Big Hurt" and the show marked an early national TV appearance for
comedian Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham
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Acknowledgement for recording session info used in this series 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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