+Who's Got A Birthday Today? (DEC 31)+
Roger Ford
mentioned
JULE STYNE (1905 London UK)
Show writer cowrote 3 Coins In Fountain scores for Gypsy,Do Re Mi etc
JONAH JONES (1908 Louisville Ky)
Trumpet player led own band rcd Capitol big selling LP I Dig Chicks
JERRY BLAINE (1910 New York City NY)
Owner Jubilee & Josie records rcd The Orioles,Cadillacs etc
CYRIL STAPLETON (1914 Nottingham UK)
British bandleader rcd Decca biggest hit Childrens Marching Song 1959
REX ALLEN (1922 Willcox Ar)
Western movie actor 50's records 1962 hit Don't Go Near The Indians
MIKE GORDON (1922 Santo Dominga)
AKA Mr Jelly Belly rcd for Savoy Down In New Orleans,Rain Or Shine etc
GOREE CARTER (1930 Houston Tx)
Blues vcl/gtr influenced by T-Bone Walker rcd for Freedom,Imperial etc
ODETTA (1930 Bormingham Al)
Folk singer/gtr several 50's records Hole In The Bucket Belafonte duet
JOHNNIE MAE MATTHEWS (1934 Bessemer Al)
1st rcd 1958 Five Dapps later instrumental in formation of Temptations
ALVIS WAYNE (1937 Puduka Tx)
2nd string rock & roller rcd Westport best song Don't Mean Maybe Baby
..........and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us
this day.........
DAVE CAVANAUGH (1981 Tarzana Ca)
Tenor sax playing A&R man for Capitol rcd mild r&r as "Big Dave"
RICK NELSON (1985 De Kalb Tx)
Many hits on Imperial.Decca etc died this day in plane crash
FLOYD CRAMER (1997 Nashville Tn)
Pianist for Elvis later big solo hits Last Date,On The Rebound etc
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
DECEMBER 31 1929
At The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City Guy Lombardo and his Royal
Canadians play "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year�s Eve song in the USA
for the first time starting a New Year's Eve tradition
DECEMBER 31 1940
As a result of a dispute between the radio networks and ASCAP (the
American Society of Composers and Publishers), the radio industry is
prevented from playing any ASCAP-licensed music. The ban will last for
for ten months. Because of this foolish action a small ASCAP
competitor, BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) will make giant
strides,expanding enormously to include tens of thousands more
copyrights
DECEMBER 31 1947
Singing screen heroes of our youth,Roy Rogers "The King of the
Cowboys" and Dale Evans are this day hitched in marriage
DECEMBER 31 1949
Gene Autry's perennial favorite "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer"
reaches the #1 spot this day----unseating Frankie Laine's "Mule Train"
DECEMBER 31 1952
At the Cosmopolitan Club in East St Louis,Illinois pianist Johnnie
Johnson hires a young singer/guitarist to fill a vacant place in his
"Sir John's Trio" due to play an important gig there this night---and
the blossoming career of one Chuck Berry takes a giant leap forward!!
DECEMBER 31 1956
Elvis Presley appears on Wink Martindale's local TV special in Memphis
DECEMBER 31 1957
Paul Anka sings "Diana" and "I Love You Baby" on "American Bandstand"
DECEMBER 31 1958
Jimmy Bowen guests on "American Bandstand"
In London Billy Fury records "Gonna Type A Letter" for Decca who
couple it with the already recorded "Maybe Tommorrow" for release as
Fury's debut single
DECEMBER 31 1960
The Connie Francis movie "Where The Boys Are" premieres in New York
City
DECEMBER 31 1961
The Beach Boys perform for the first time under that name, at a
Ritchie Valens memorial concert in Long Beach, California
Matt Monro,Sandy Stewart,The Barry Sisters and ex-New York City cop
turned singer Saverio Saridis all guest on tonight's "The Ed Sullivan
Show"
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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
Finally and most importantly I'd like to wish a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to
all members of this group!!
ROGER FORD
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