ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC

October 14th

1957 - The Everly Brothers

Although it was banned by some US radio stations for its suggestive lyrics[sic], The Everly Brothers had their first No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Wake Up Little Susie', (a No.2 hit in the UK).

1959 - Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mack The Knife'. From Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, the song won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960.

1965 - Spencer Davis

The Rolling Stones, The Spencer Davis Group, Unit 4 Plus 2, The Checkmates, The Habit, The End and Charlie Dickins all appeared at The Odeon, Birmingham during a UK tour.

1966 - Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd played their first ever "underground" set when they appeared at All Saints Hall, Notting Hill, London, UK.

1967 - The Monkees

The second series of The Monkees TV show started on BBC TV in the UK. Plans for the shows to be screened in colour were dropped, so it was aired in black & white.


1971 - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Music publishing firm, Arco Industries filed a $500,000 dollar lawsuit against Creedence Clearwater Revival singer John Fogerty, claiming that Fogerty's song Travelin' Band "contained substantial material copied from Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly". The suit was eventually dropped.

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1977 - David Bowie

David Bowie released his twelfth studio album Heroes, the second installment of his Berlin Trilogy with Brian Eno (the other releases being Low and Lodger). Heroes continued the ambient experiments of Bowie's previous album Low (released earlier that year) and featured the contributions of guitarist Robert Fripp. The album was later named NME Album of the Year.


1990 - Leonard Bernstein

Multi-Emmy and Grammy award-winning American composer, pianist and conductor, Leonard Bernstein died of pneumonia. Composed music for the 1957 musical 'West Side Story', and 'On The Waterfront'. Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic aged 25 and wrote three symphonies, two operas, five musicals, and numerous other pieces.


1996 - The Rolling Stones - Rock N Roll Circus

28 years after its creation, The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus was finally released. The 1968 event put together by The Stones comprised two concerts on a circus stage and included performaces by The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell and Keith Richards. It was originally planned to be aired on BBC TV.

2004 - Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton was suspended from driving in France after being caught speeding at 134mph in his Porsche 911 Turbo near Merceuil. He was given a 750 euro (£515) fine and his UK licence was confiscated. After paying his fine Clapton posed for photographs with French police and then left the scene in his Porsche - with his secretary behind the wheel.

clearly not in France but that Porsche still giving problems wherever you drive it

2006 - Freddy Fender

Freddy Fender, the Tex-Mex singer died of complications from lung cancer at the age of 69. Known for standards as ‘Before the Next Teardrop Falls’ (US No.1 in 1975) and ‘Wasted Days and Wasted Nights’.


2008 - Ray Lowry

Illustrator and rock cartoonist Ray Lowry died. He contributed illustrations for NME, Punch, Private Eye and The Guardian and designed the artwork for The Clash album London Calling.

Ray Lowry

2009 - Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney was named Songwriter of The Year at the 29th Annual ASCAP Awards in London, England. The awards presentation honored songwriters and publishers of the most performed works in the US during 2008.

BIRTHDAYS

1978 - Usher

Usher, singer, (1998 UK No.1 single 'You Make Me Wanna', 1998 US No.1 single, 'Nice & Slow'. His 2004 album Confessions sold over a million copies in the US in its first week of release, selling the greatest amount of records in one week for any R&B artist). To date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. again for some reason I get Usher's music and have enjoyed checking out his work

1975 - Shaznay Lewis

Shaznay Lewis, singer from British girl group All Saints, who had the 1998 UK No.1 and US No.4 single 'Never Ever'. The group's debut album, All Saints (1997), went on to become the third best-selling girl group album of all time in the UK. I liked the girls and thought they did some intelligent pop and always found myself intrigued by Shaznay and Mel Blatt's writing 

1946 - Justin Hayward

Justin Hayward, songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist with English rock band The Moody Blues who had the 1965 UK No.1 & 'Nights in White Satin' and 'Question'.

I have said before here I loved Justin Haywards voice and yet it never transferred to liking the Moody Blues for some reason. Nights and Question were favourites but I never bought an album and contented myself with these singles and I never thought the band was sufficient to match with Justin's quality or stardom, if that makes sense (I am aware Moody fans will not get this at all . . . . . )

1940 - Cliff Richard

Cliff Richard, (Harry Webb). Britain's most successful solo artist, his first hit was in 1958 the UK No.2 single 'Move It', then 1959 UK No.1 single 'Living Doll' and 1979 UK No.1 single 'We Don't talk Anymore', plus over 100 UK Top 40 hits). He once worked as a clerk at Fergusons TV factory. I enjoyed the film Summer Holiday and went see it with my older brother who was a massive Shadows fan. Some of my earliest musical memories were of him and his pals pretending to be them playing tennis rackets and cricket bats and eventually Was allowed to play the drums in back on the piano stool. I also of course fell in love with dancer Una Stubbs! I was ten!

"gloriously gay!"