+Who's Got A Birthday Today? (DEC 30)+
Roger Ford
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HOUSTON BOINES (1918 Hazlehurst Ms)
Under released blues vocalist.guitarist rcd at Modern,Sun etc
LILLIAN McMURRY (1921 Purvis Ms)
Founder and owner Trumpet Records of Jackson Ms rcd Elmore James
FRANK MOTLEY (1923 Cheraw SC)
Blues/R&B trumper player band leader many records Honkin' At Midnight
BO DIDDLEY (1928 McComb Ms)
Hugely influential R&B/r&r vcl/gtr rcd Checker many classic sides
SKEETER DAVIS (1931 Dry Ridge Ky)
Originally half of Davis Sisters went solo on RCA hit End Of The World
ANDY STEWART (1933 Glasgow Scotland)
Severall hits in UK amazingly scored US hit with Scottish Soldier 1961
DEL SHANNON (1934 Coopersville Mi)
Rcd Big Top,Berlee etc #1 Runaway 1961 many other memorable numbers
RUSS TAMBLYN (1934 Los Angeles Ca)
Musical movie star West Side Story etc several 50's records
..........and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us
this day.........
BERT BERNS (1967 New York City NY)
Producer/writer Twist & Shout etc later owned Bang & Shout labels
ST LOUIS JIMMY (1977 Chicago Il)
Blues singer first recorded in 30's best known song Goin' Down Slow
RICHARD RODGERS (1979 New York City NY)
Composer half Rodgers & Hart team Blue Moon,Where Or When, etc
MACK DAVID (1993 Rancho Mirage Ca)
Songwriter (Bibidi Bobidi Boo,Walk On The Wild Side,Baby It's You etc)
JOHNNY MOORE (1998 London UK)
This is the Drifters guy sang lead on Adorable,Fools Fall In Love etc
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
DECEMBER 30 1942
Frank Sinatra opens at New York�s Paramount Theatre for what is
scheduled to be a 4-week engagement.His shows turn out to be so
popular, he is booked for an additional 4 weeks.An estimated 400
policemen are called out to help curb the excitement. It is said that
some of the teenage girls involved were hired to scream, but many more
screamed for free. Sinatra is dubbed 'The Sultan of Swoon', 'The Voice
that Thrills Millions', and just 'The Voice'. But whatever he was, it
is at this Paramount Theatre engagement that modern pop hysteria is
born.
DECEMBER 30 1948
"Kiss Me Kate" opens at the New Century Theatre in New York City
starring Alfred Drake with music and songs by Cole Porter and and
adapted from Shakespeare�s comedy,"The Taming of the Shrew"
DECEMBER 30 1953
As well as rock & roll being instrumental in forming a perception of
teenagers = hoodlums in the gullible public mind,the movies do their
fair share to foster the growing image and never more so than with
"The Wild One" starring Marlon Brando that opens in New York City this
day
Elsewhere the first colour television sets go on sale this day (for
more than $1,000 according to the source I have!!) .
DECEMBER 30 1955
Boyd Bennett records a new single "Right Around the Corner"/"Partners
For Life" for King
DECEMBER 30 1956
Perry Como and LuAnn Simms guest on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
DECEMBER 30 1957
Johnny Mathis sings "Chances Are","The 12th of Never" & "Wild is The
Wind." on "American Bandstand". Later Noble "Thin Man" Watts performs
"Hard Times (The Slop)"
DECEMBER 30 1958
Ricki Pal guests on "American Bandstand"
DECEMBER 30 1961
One of the best known movie themes of all time reaches #1 on the UK
chart this day when "Moon River" (from "Breakfast At Tiffanys") takes
the top spot in a cover version by local black artist Danny Williams
(the same guy that will go on to have a major US hit a few years later
with "White On White"). "Moon River" takes over from the previous
#1---yet another cover version this time Frankie Vaughan's rendering
of "Tower Of Strength"
DECEMBER 30 1962
Brenda Lee is injured in a fire that destoys her Nashville home
DECEMBER 30 1985
On this day Rick Nelson performs his last gig in Guntersville,Al
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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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