Archive for July 14, 2009

1901 – Composer Gerald Finzi was born.

1942 – Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly sang their last duet together when they recorded the famous “Brazil” with the Jimmy Dorsey band.

1956 – Fats Domino hit #1 on the R&B chart and #3 on the pop chart with his song “I’m In Love Again”.

1967 – The Who began their first full-scale U.S. tour as the opening act for Herman’s Hermits.

1969 – Bob Dylan made a surprise appearance with The Band at the Mississippi River Rock Festival. He performed three songs.

1973 – The Everly Brothers announced their break up during a show at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA.

1987 – Steve Miller got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1987 – “U Got The Look” by Prince was released.

1988 – Michael Jackson began his first British tour at Wembley Stadium in London.

1989 – Cyndi Lauper released the first closed-captioned video. The video was for the song “My First Night Without You.”

1992 – Olivia Newton-John announced that she had breast cancer. Her publicist said that doctors expected a full recovery.

1993 – The U.S. Postal Service released 29-cent stamps that honored four Broadway musicals. The featured scenes were from “My Fair Lady,” “Porgy and Bess,” “Show Boat” and “Oklahoma!”

1995 – George Michael announced the settlement of his long running dispute with Sony and that he had been released from his contract.

1998 – Clive Davis held a party in Central Park to celebrate Sarah McLachlan’s album “Surfacing,” which had gone triple platinum.

1998 – Mariah Carey volunteered to record a public service announcement about a girl who had disappeared a month earlier in Seaside, CA.

2000 – It was announced that the Go-Go’s had gotten back together again for a tour, new album, a book and a movie.

2000 – Dr. Dre filed suit against the city of Detroit alleging censorship. The lawsuit stemmed from a concert stop in Detroit on July 6, 2000, when Dre was told he and the tour organizers would be arrested if he showed a video during the concert. The video contained nudity and graphic violence.

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