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==Who's Got A Birthday Today? (MAY 25)==
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Roger Ford
May 25, 2012, 1:34:31 AM5/25/12
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These are today's Birthday people....born May 25 in the years
mentioned :
HAL DAVID (1921 New York City NY)
Collaberator with Burt Bacharach on most of his songs
KITTY KALLEN (1922 Philadelphia Pa)
Pop songstress several hits #1 Little Things Mean A Lot 1954
MILES DAVIS (1926 Alton Il)
Highly innovative modern jazz tpt/bandleader Kind Of Blue etc
PAUL OLIVER (1927 Nottingham UK)
British blues author/archivist wrote Blues Fell This Morning others
NORMAN PETTY (1927 Clovis NM)
Musician/producer most famous for recording Buddy Holly & Crickets
DONNIE ELBERT (1936 New Orleans La)
50's songs What Can I Do,Have I Sinned etc later had big disco hits
MIRRIAM JOHNSON (1943 Mesa Az)
Recorded for Jamie married to Duane Eddy later rcd as Jessi Colter
LESLIE UGGAMS (1943 New York City NY)
Singer on Mitch Miller show minor hit One More Sunrise (Morgen) 1959
........and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us on
this day
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (1965 Helena Ar)
Sonny Boy II (Rice Miller) great blues records on Trumpet,Checker etc
SID PHILLIPS (1973 London UK)
British bandleader famous in 40's but still recording for HMV in 50's
ROY BROWN, ROY (1981 Pacoima Ca)
Prolific R&B singer original version Good Rockin' Tonight in 40's
*********************************************************************************
EVENTS OF THE DAY
MAY 25 1946
"The Gypsy" Ink Spots replaces "Prisoner Of Love" Perry Como at #1
on Billboard's best selling pop chart this day.New are "Laughing On
The Outside" Sammy Kaye and "Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" Tex Beneke &
Glenn Miller Orchestra.On the Folk (C&W) chart "I Wish I Had Never
Met Sunshine" Gene Autry is a new entry.
MAY 25 1951
Marty Robbins signs a long term recording deal with Columbia
MAY 25 1954
At Chess Studios in Chicago Howlin' Wolf records "Evil Is Going On"
with Otis Spann on piano, Jody Williams and Hubert Sumlin on guitars
and Willie Dixon on bass. .
Country singer Doug Poindexter & The Starlite Wranglers have a
historic recording session at Sun Records 706 Union Ave Memphis
Tennessee this day. The unspectacular "Now She Cares No More"
is flipped with "My Kind Of Carrying On" as Sun 202 released in June.
Why is this session historic you ask? Because it marks the debut on
record of two soon-to-be-very-famous members of the Starlite
Wranglers! Personnel : Doug Poindexter (vcl/gtr) Scotty Moore
(gtr);Clyde Rush (gtr);Bill Black (bs) ;Millard Yeow (steel gtr);Tommy
Seals (fiddle)
MAY 25 1955
In Nashville Faron Young records "Go Back, You Fool" and "All
Right". Both tracks will be used for his next single (Capitol 3169).
Personnel : Faron Young (vocal) ; Hank Garland (electric guitar) ;
Teddy and Doyle Wilburn (guitars) ; Joe Vincent (steel guitar) ;
Lightning Chance (bass) ; Gordon Terry (fiddle) ; Marvin Hughes
(piano).Produced by Ken Nelson.
MAY 25 1956
The first of only two 1956 sessions by Fats Domino yields three
tracks. "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" is chosen for the next
single (Imperial 5396, July). "Ida Jane" is first released on the LP
"Let's Play Fats Domino" (Imperial LP 9065, September 1959) and
will be issued as a single (Imperial 5816) in February 1962. "Don't
Know What's Wrong" stays on the shelf until 1970, when it is
included on the LP "Rare Dominoes, Vol. 2" (United Artists UAS
29152, UK).Personnel : Fats Domino (vocal, piano) ; Ernest McLean,
Justin Adams (guitars) ; Frank Fields (bass) ; Lee Allen, Herb
Hardesty (tenor saxes) ; Dave Bartholomew (trumpet, producer) ;
Charles 'Hungry' Williams (drums).Location probably Cosimo
Recording Studio, New Orleans.
MAY 25 1957
Staying with Fats Domino....this night our hero makes an appearance
on "The Perry Como Show" on NBC-TV
In the British charts Andy Williams clinches the #1 spot this day with
his version of "Butterfly" dethroning Guy Mitchell's "Rock-A-Billy"
MAY 25 1958
Buddy Holly & The Crickets pay another visit to Norman Petty's studio
in Clovis, New Mexico. "It's So Easy"/"Lonesome Tears" is released
on September 12 on Brunswick 55094. Probably also from this session
comes "Heartbeat", which will appear on Coral 62051 on November 5.
Personnel : Buddy Holly (vocals / acoustic guitar) ; Tommy Allsup
(lead guitar) ;Joe B. Mauldin (string bass) ; Jerry Allison (drums).
Produced by Norman Petty
Peggy Lee records "You Don't Know" which becomes the flipside of
her million selling version of Little Willie John's "Fever" (Capitol
3998, June),.Arranged and conducted by Jack Marshall. Location :
Capitol Tower, Hollywood.
During his third and last session for Challenge,Huelyn Duvall cuts
"Three Months To Kill"/"Little Boy Blue" (Challenge 59014, June) and
"Juliet"(Challenge 59025, September, c/w "Friday Night On A Dollar
Bill" from an earlier session). Location : Bradley Studio, Nashville.
Backing by : Hank Garland (lead guitar) ; Grady Martin (rhythm guitar)
possibly Danny Wolfe (piano) ; Unknown (bass) ; Buddy Harman (drums).
Frankie Lymon guests on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
On "The Steve Allen Show" Louis Armstrong performs "Mack the Knife",
"I'm Confessing (That I Love You)", and reads the poem "A Red Red
Rose.".The show also features Peter Ustinov,Van Cliburn and Barbara
McNair (singing "Too Late The Spring.").
MAY 25 1959
Two-day session for Jerry Lee Lewis at the Sun Studio in Memphis.
"Let's Talk About Us"/"The Ballad Of Billy Joe" becomes the new
single (Sun 324), released on June 15. "Home" (written by Roger
Miller) will find a place on Jerry's second LP in 1962. The other
tracks (Night Train To Memphis, I'm the Guilty One, Sail Away, Am I
To Be The One - the latter two duets with Charlie Rich) were not
released until Shelby Singleton had bought the Sun catalogue.
Personnel : Jerry Lee Lewis (vcl/pno);Charlie Rich (vcl as
indicated);Roland Janes (gtr);Billy Riley (gtr);Leo Lodner (bs);J.M
Van Eaton (dms)
Lloyd Price records his next single, "I'm Gonna Get Married"/"Three
Little Pigs" (ABC-Paramount 10032, July), another big hit for him (#
3). A third track, "That's Love", remains in the vaults until it is
included on the LP "Lloyd Price Greatest Hits" in 1982, on the Curb
label.Personnel includes : Bill Jones (guitar) ; Ted Curson (trumpet)
more details unknown.Produced by Don Costa at Bell Sound Studios
in New York City.
Marty Robbins has his last recording session with Mitch Miller at
Columbia Studios in NYC. Recorded are another take of "Cap And
Gown" (the released version was recorded May 7th) plus "She Was
Young And She Was Pretty" and "Love Can't Wait". These three
NYC recordings stayed in the can until the release of the Bear Family
CD "Ruby Ann" (BCD 15569) in 1991.
In London,Cliff Richard records "Apron Strings",which will be released
as the B-side of "Living Doll" on 10 July, 1959 (Columbia DB 4306).
Producer : Norrie Paramor. Allegedly, Cliff was offered the song by
Freddy Bienstock, after Elvis had turned it down in Germany.
New on the Billboard Hot Hundred this day are "Bobby Sox To
Stockings" Frankie Avalon,"A Boy Without A Girl" Frankie Avalon,"I
Must Be Dreaming" Nat "King" Cole,"What A Diff'rence A Day Makes"
Dinah Washington,"Hushabye" Mystics,"The Battle Of New Orleans"
Vaughn Monroe,"There Is Something On Your Mind" Big Jay McNeely,
"Lonely Saturday Night" Don French,"Straight Flush" Frantics and
"Waterloo" Stonewall Jackson. New on the R&B chart is "You're So
Fine" Falcons
Lou Monte guests on "American Bandstand"
MAY 25 1960
Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones sing "Softly" on "American
Bandstand"
Ricky Nelson sings "Ain't Nothing But Love" on "The Adventures
Of Ozzie and Harriet".
MAY 25 1961
"Gidget Goes Hawaiian" premieres this day in---where else?
MAY 25 1962
In one of the best ever examples of an artist re-recording a much
better version of one of his own songs ABC-Paramount this day
release Tommy Roe's improved version of his own "Sheila"----the
original on Judd two years earlier did zilch but the new version will
zoom straight to #1
MAY 25 1963
On the Billboard Hot Hundred this day new entries are "String Along"
Rick Nelson,"Every Step Of The Way" Johnny Mathis,"Poor Little
Rich Girl" Steve Lawrence,"Your Old Stand By" Mary Wells,"Sad,Sad
Girl And Boy" Impressions,"Shake A Hand" Jackie Wilson & Linda
Hopkins, "Swinging On A Star" Big Dee Irwin,"These Arms Of Mine"
Otis Redding, "I Know I Know" Pookie Hudson,"Danger" Vic Dana,
"The Last Minute" Jimmy McGriff and "Soulville" Dinah Washington.
New on the R&B list are "Hello Stranger" Barbara Lewis,"El Watusi"
Ray Barretto and "You'll Need Another Favor" Little Johnny Taylor,
New entries on the C&W chart include "I'm Saving My Love" Skeeter
Davis.
*********************************************************************************
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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mentioned :
HAL DAVID (1921 New York City NY)
Collaberator with Burt Bacharach on most of his songs
KITTY KALLEN (1922 Philadelphia Pa)
Pop songstress several hits #1 Little Things Mean A Lot 1954
MILES DAVIS (1926 Alton Il)
Highly innovative modern jazz tpt/bandleader Kind Of Blue etc
PAUL OLIVER (1927 Nottingham UK)
British blues author/archivist wrote Blues Fell This Morning others
NORMAN PETTY (1927 Clovis NM)
Musician/producer most famous for recording Buddy Holly & Crickets
DONNIE ELBERT (1936 New Orleans La)
50's songs What Can I Do,Have I Sinned etc later had big disco hits
MIRRIAM JOHNSON (1943 Mesa Az)
Recorded for Jamie married to Duane Eddy later rcd as Jessi Colter
LESLIE UGGAMS (1943 New York City NY)
Singer on Mitch Miller show minor hit One More Sunrise (Morgen) 1959
........and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us on
this day
SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON (1965 Helena Ar)
Sonny Boy II (Rice Miller) great blues records on Trumpet,Checker etc
SID PHILLIPS (1973 London UK)
British bandleader famous in 40's but still recording for HMV in 50's
ROY BROWN, ROY (1981 Pacoima Ca)
Prolific R&B singer original version Good Rockin' Tonight in 40's
*********************************************************************************
EVENTS OF THE DAY
MAY 25 1946
"The Gypsy" Ink Spots replaces "Prisoner Of Love" Perry Como at #1
on Billboard's best selling pop chart this day.New are "Laughing On
The Outside" Sammy Kaye and "Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" Tex Beneke &
Glenn Miller Orchestra.On the Folk (C&W) chart "I Wish I Had Never
Met Sunshine" Gene Autry is a new entry.
MAY 25 1951
Marty Robbins signs a long term recording deal with Columbia
MAY 25 1954
At Chess Studios in Chicago Howlin' Wolf records "Evil Is Going On"
with Otis Spann on piano, Jody Williams and Hubert Sumlin on guitars
and Willie Dixon on bass. .
Country singer Doug Poindexter & The Starlite Wranglers have a
historic recording session at Sun Records 706 Union Ave Memphis
Tennessee this day. The unspectacular "Now She Cares No More"
is flipped with "My Kind Of Carrying On" as Sun 202 released in June.
Why is this session historic you ask? Because it marks the debut on
record of two soon-to-be-very-famous members of the Starlite
Wranglers! Personnel : Doug Poindexter (vcl/gtr) Scotty Moore
(gtr);Clyde Rush (gtr);Bill Black (bs) ;Millard Yeow (steel gtr);Tommy
Seals (fiddle)
MAY 25 1955
In Nashville Faron Young records "Go Back, You Fool" and "All
Right". Both tracks will be used for his next single (Capitol 3169).
Personnel : Faron Young (vocal) ; Hank Garland (electric guitar) ;
Teddy and Doyle Wilburn (guitars) ; Joe Vincent (steel guitar) ;
Lightning Chance (bass) ; Gordon Terry (fiddle) ; Marvin Hughes
(piano).Produced by Ken Nelson.
MAY 25 1956
The first of only two 1956 sessions by Fats Domino yields three
tracks. "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" is chosen for the next
single (Imperial 5396, July). "Ida Jane" is first released on the LP
"Let's Play Fats Domino" (Imperial LP 9065, September 1959) and
will be issued as a single (Imperial 5816) in February 1962. "Don't
Know What's Wrong" stays on the shelf until 1970, when it is
included on the LP "Rare Dominoes, Vol. 2" (United Artists UAS
29152, UK).Personnel : Fats Domino (vocal, piano) ; Ernest McLean,
Justin Adams (guitars) ; Frank Fields (bass) ; Lee Allen, Herb
Hardesty (tenor saxes) ; Dave Bartholomew (trumpet, producer) ;
Charles 'Hungry' Williams (drums).Location probably Cosimo
Recording Studio, New Orleans.
MAY 25 1957
Staying with Fats Domino....this night our hero makes an appearance
on "The Perry Como Show" on NBC-TV
In the British charts Andy Williams clinches the #1 spot this day with
his version of "Butterfly" dethroning Guy Mitchell's "Rock-A-Billy"
MAY 25 1958
Buddy Holly & The Crickets pay another visit to Norman Petty's studio
in Clovis, New Mexico. "It's So Easy"/"Lonesome Tears" is released
on September 12 on Brunswick 55094. Probably also from this session
comes "Heartbeat", which will appear on Coral 62051 on November 5.
Personnel : Buddy Holly (vocals / acoustic guitar) ; Tommy Allsup
(lead guitar) ;Joe B. Mauldin (string bass) ; Jerry Allison (drums).
Produced by Norman Petty
Peggy Lee records "You Don't Know" which becomes the flipside of
her million selling version of Little Willie John's "Fever" (Capitol
3998, June),.Arranged and conducted by Jack Marshall. Location :
Capitol Tower, Hollywood.
During his third and last session for Challenge,Huelyn Duvall cuts
"Three Months To Kill"/"Little Boy Blue" (Challenge 59014, June) and
"Juliet"(Challenge 59025, September, c/w "Friday Night On A Dollar
Bill" from an earlier session). Location : Bradley Studio, Nashville.
Backing by : Hank Garland (lead guitar) ; Grady Martin (rhythm guitar)
possibly Danny Wolfe (piano) ; Unknown (bass) ; Buddy Harman (drums).
Frankie Lymon guests on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
On "The Steve Allen Show" Louis Armstrong performs "Mack the Knife",
"I'm Confessing (That I Love You)", and reads the poem "A Red Red
Rose.".The show also features Peter Ustinov,Van Cliburn and Barbara
McNair (singing "Too Late The Spring.").
MAY 25 1959
Two-day session for Jerry Lee Lewis at the Sun Studio in Memphis.
"Let's Talk About Us"/"The Ballad Of Billy Joe" becomes the new
single (Sun 324), released on June 15. "Home" (written by Roger
Miller) will find a place on Jerry's second LP in 1962. The other
tracks (Night Train To Memphis, I'm the Guilty One, Sail Away, Am I
To Be The One - the latter two duets with Charlie Rich) were not
released until Shelby Singleton had bought the Sun catalogue.
Personnel : Jerry Lee Lewis (vcl/pno);Charlie Rich (vcl as
indicated);Roland Janes (gtr);Billy Riley (gtr);Leo Lodner (bs);J.M
Van Eaton (dms)
Lloyd Price records his next single, "I'm Gonna Get Married"/"Three
Little Pigs" (ABC-Paramount 10032, July), another big hit for him (#
3). A third track, "That's Love", remains in the vaults until it is
included on the LP "Lloyd Price Greatest Hits" in 1982, on the Curb
label.Personnel includes : Bill Jones (guitar) ; Ted Curson (trumpet)
more details unknown.Produced by Don Costa at Bell Sound Studios
in New York City.
Marty Robbins has his last recording session with Mitch Miller at
Columbia Studios in NYC. Recorded are another take of "Cap And
Gown" (the released version was recorded May 7th) plus "She Was
Young And She Was Pretty" and "Love Can't Wait". These three
NYC recordings stayed in the can until the release of the Bear Family
CD "Ruby Ann" (BCD 15569) in 1991.
In London,Cliff Richard records "Apron Strings",which will be released
as the B-side of "Living Doll" on 10 July, 1959 (Columbia DB 4306).
Producer : Norrie Paramor. Allegedly, Cliff was offered the song by
Freddy Bienstock, after Elvis had turned it down in Germany.
New on the Billboard Hot Hundred this day are "Bobby Sox To
Stockings" Frankie Avalon,"A Boy Without A Girl" Frankie Avalon,"I
Must Be Dreaming" Nat "King" Cole,"What A Diff'rence A Day Makes"
Dinah Washington,"Hushabye" Mystics,"The Battle Of New Orleans"
Vaughn Monroe,"There Is Something On Your Mind" Big Jay McNeely,
"Lonely Saturday Night" Don French,"Straight Flush" Frantics and
"Waterloo" Stonewall Jackson. New on the R&B chart is "You're So
Fine" Falcons
Lou Monte guests on "American Bandstand"
MAY 25 1960
Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones sing "Softly" on "American
Bandstand"
Ricky Nelson sings "Ain't Nothing But Love" on "The Adventures
Of Ozzie and Harriet".
MAY 25 1961
"Gidget Goes Hawaiian" premieres this day in---where else?
MAY 25 1962
In one of the best ever examples of an artist re-recording a much
better version of one of his own songs ABC-Paramount this day
release Tommy Roe's improved version of his own "Sheila"----the
original on Judd two years earlier did zilch but the new version will
zoom straight to #1
MAY 25 1963
On the Billboard Hot Hundred this day new entries are "String Along"
Rick Nelson,"Every Step Of The Way" Johnny Mathis,"Poor Little
Rich Girl" Steve Lawrence,"Your Old Stand By" Mary Wells,"Sad,Sad
Girl And Boy" Impressions,"Shake A Hand" Jackie Wilson & Linda
Hopkins, "Swinging On A Star" Big Dee Irwin,"These Arms Of Mine"
Otis Redding, "I Know I Know" Pookie Hudson,"Danger" Vic Dana,
"The Last Minute" Jimmy McGriff and "Soulville" Dinah Washington.
New on the R&B list are "Hello Stranger" Barbara Lewis,"El Watusi"
Ray Barretto and "You'll Need Another Favor" Little Johnny Taylor,
New entries on the C&W chart include "I'm Saving My Love" Skeeter
Davis.
*********************************************************************************
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
-----------------------
"Spam Free Zone" - to combat unwanted automatic spamming I have added
an extra "b" in my e-mail address (mari...@bblueyonder.co.uk).
Please delete same before responding.Thank you!
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