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This Day in Music…July 10
Jul 10th
1778 – Composer Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm was born.
1835 – Composer Henryk Wieniawski was born.
1900 – ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
1936 – Billie Holiday recorded “Billie’s Blues.”
1965 – Wilson Pickett’s “In The Midnight Hour” was released.
1967 – Bobbie Gentry recorded “Ode to Billie Joe.”
1968 – Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break up following a farewell tour.
1971 – Three Dog Night’s “Liar” was released.
1975 – The “Gladys Knight & the Pips” summer series premiered on NBC-TV.
1975 – Cher filed for divorce from Greg Allman, just ten days after the couple had married.
1979 – Chuck Berry was sentenced to four months in prison for income tax evasion.
1985 – The song “Poplife,” by Prince, was released.
1986 – Jerry Garcia lapsed into a diabetic coma. He was released from the hospital a couple of weeks later.
1993 – Bob Segar and Juanita Dorricott were married.
1997 – Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) and Lucho Brieva were married.
1998 – Sheena Easton filed for divorce from her husband of 11 months, Timothy Delarm.
2000 – Diana Ross announced that the “Diana Ross and the Supremes ‘Return to Love’ Tour” had been cancelled by its producers.
2000 – The David Orgell jewelry store in Beverly Hills, CA, filed a $1.45 million lawsuit against Michael Jackson. The suit was over a diamond-encrusted wristwatch that was returned to the store damaged.
2000 – Stephen Hutton filed suit against Kid Rock for “breach of contract and unjust enrichment.” Hutton had been fired several weeks before after a dispute over compensation.
2002 – Dolly Parton launched a 13-city tour. It was her first tour in decades.
2002 – Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli announced that they had secretly separated 10 months before. There was no indication that the two planned to get formally divorced.
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