++Who's Got A Birthday Today? (JAN 2)++
Roger Ford
mentioned
CLARENCE PALMER (1919 Pawtucket RI)
Lead singer The Jive Bombers of Bad Boy fame
RENATO CAROSONE (1920 Naples Italy)
Italian pop vocalist big hit in 1958 with Torero
ARTHUR PRYSOCK (1929 Spartanburg SC)
Bro to Red Prysock first rcd with Buddy Johnson rcd Decca,Old Town etc
JULIUS LA ROSA (1930 Brooklyn NY)
Pop crooner fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey several 50's hits on Cadence
EARL GRANT (1931 Idabelle Ok)
Organ/pno/voc rcd Decca biggest hit 1958 with The End
JUDD PROCTOR (1933 Doncaster Yorks UK)
Guitarist/vocalist several records for Parlophone Nola,Palomino etc
ROGER MILLER (1936 Fort Worth Tx)
Wrote You Don't Want My Love big 60's hits Dang Me etc on Smash
......and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us this
day..........
SPECKLED RED (1973 St Louis Mo)
Real name Rufus Perryman 30's blues vcl/pno rcd Brunswick,Bluebird
TEX RITTER (1974 Nashville Tn)
Singing cowboy many records on Capitol 1961 hit Hillbilly Heaven
ERROLL GARNER (1977 Los Angeles Ca)
Jazz pianist/composer most famous song he wrote was Misty
WAYNE WALKER (1979 Nashville Tn)
C&W singer did some RAB Love Me with Jimmie Lee on Chess
DAVID LYNCH (1981 Long Beach Ca)
Member of the Platters since their Federal days
EDDIE HEYWOOD (1989 Miami Beach Fla)
Pianist most famous for his part on the huge 1956 hit Canadian Sunset
NIK VENET (1998 Los Angeles Ca)
Producer/arranger worked with Bobby Darin,got Beach Boys on Capitol
NAT ADDERLEY (2000 Lakeland Fl)
Jazz trumpet/cornet player bro to Julian Cannonball Adderley
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EVENT OF THE DAY
JANUARY 2 1926
The UK music weekly "Melody Maker" publishes for the first time this
day. Throughout the 50's the r&r-hating magazine is heavily jazz
orientated and does its level best to airbrush the ascendancy of rock
'n' roll music completely from its narrow Mingus/Monk/Brubeckian
vision of the current music scene,man
JANUARY 2 1941
One of the best pop numbers of the 40's is recorded this day when The
Andrews Sisters wax the rollicking "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" for Decca
Records. Recorded in Los Angeles,the gals go on to perform the song in
the smash hit Abbott & Costello movie "Buck Privates"
JANUARY 2 1949
The Ravens sing "My Sugar Is So Refined" on Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of
The Town" show. Rudy Vallee also appears
JANUARY 2 1954
Eddie Fisher hits the #1 spot this day with his vocal version of "Oh
My Papa" ending the run of Tony Bennett and "Rags To Riches" at the
top
JANUARY 2 1955
Five thousand people attend Johnny Ace's funeral in Memphis at the
Clayborn Temple Church. The R&B star accidentally killed himself in a
game of Russian roulette. His pallbearers include Little Junior
Parker, and Rosco Gordon
Pearl Bailey & June Valli guest von Ed Sullivan's "Toast Of The Town"
show
JANUARY 2 1958
The Silva-Tones perform "That's All I Want From You" on "American
Bandstand"
JANUARY 2 1959
The Cadillacs record the following four songs for Josie in New York
City---"Jay Walker" (that will be their next single),"Please Mr.
Johnson"/ "Cool It Fool" (a future single) and "Your Heart Is So
Blind" which remains unissued for decades
JANUARY 2 1960
On Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut TV Show guests are Larry Hall
(with "Sandy" ),Little Anthony and the Imperials ("Shimmy, Shimmy
Ko-Ko Bop" ),Santo and Johnny play "Tear Drop" and Jack Scott (with
"What in the World's Come Over You")
JANUARY 2 1961
In Orlaqndo Florida,Ral Donner records "I Didn't Figure On Him (To
Come Back)", which is released on Gone in September. The other track,
"Standing Here" gets its first release in 1979 on the UK LP "You Don't
Know What You've Got"
JANUARY 2 1962
In New Orleans this day Ernie K-Doe records "Come On Home"/"Popeye
Joe" for a forthcoming Minit single plus "Be Sweet"and "Wait For Me"
Dick Lee guests on "American Bandstand"
JANUARY 2 1963
Dionne Warwick (with "Don't Make Me Over") guests on "American
Bandstand"
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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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