Archive for January 20, 2009
OK, American Idol Season 8, Audition Show #3 (hey God, I’ll give you a hundred bucks if you get out of the tub and smite these audition episodes…).
Jan 20th
So in preparation for tonight’s show, I have been watching a marathon of Arrested Development episodes. How will this help me? More >
This Day in Music…January 20
Jan 20th
1586 – Composer Johann Hermann Schein was born.
1703 – Composer Joseph-Hector Fiocco was born.
1855 – Composer Amedee-Ernest Chausson was born.
1870 – Composer Guillaume Lekeu was born.
1894 – Composer Walter Hamor Piston was born.
1899 – Composer Alexander Tcherepnin was born.
1942 – Harry Babbitt sang as Kay Kyser and his Orchestra recorded, “Who Wouldn’t Love You”, on Columbia Records.
1958 – “Get a Job” by the Silhouettes was released.
1958 – Elvis Presley got his orders to report to duty from the U.S. Army. He was allowed a 60-day deferment so he could finish the film “King Creole”.
1964 – The album “Meet the Beatles” was released in the U.S. on Capitol Records. It was their U.S. debut LP.
1965 – The Rolling Stones and the Kinks made their first appearance on ABC-TV’s “Shindig!”
1967 – Arthur Conley recorded “Sweet Soul Music”.
1969 – Elvis Presley recorded “In the Ghetto” and “Suspicious Minds.” It was the first time he had recorded in Memphis since 1956.
1973 – Jerry Lee Lewis mades his debut at the Grand Ole Opry.
1974 – Stevie Wonder played his first show after an auto accident that almost took his life five months earlier.
1982 – Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of a bat in Des Moines, IA, and was hospitalized to undertake a series of rabies shots.
1999 – Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots), while on probation for a 1997 heroin case, was arrested for failing to provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center.
2002 – Sting won his first Golden Globe for his song “Until” from the “Kate & Leopold” soundtrack.
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/jan20.htm
