Archive for December 7, 2009

1637 – Composer Bernardo Pasquini was born.

1840 – Composer Hermann Goetz was born.

1842 – The New York Philharmonic gave its first concert.

1863 – Composer Pietro Mascagni was born.

1963 – The Beatles appeared on the British TV show “Jukebox Jury.”

1964 – Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys, suffered a nervous breakdown on a flight from L.A. to Houston. The event led Wilson to stop touring with the group.

1966 – Nancy Sinatra appeared on “Frank Sinatra: A Man & His Music Part II” on CBS-TV.

1968 – Eric Burdon announced he would break-up the Animals after a December 22 concert at Newcastle City Hall. His intention was to go to California and start an acting career.

1984 – Michael Jackson testified in Chicago, IL, that he wrote the song “The Girl is Mine,” not an Illinois man. Jackson won the case.

1986 – Huey Lewis and the News sang the U.S. national anthem a capella before a San Francisco 49ers-New York Jets NFL football game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, CA.

1991 – “Achtung Baby” by U2 debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s pop albums chart.

1993 – Guns N’ Roses announced they would keep the tune written by Charles Manson “Look At Your Game, Girl” on their album, “The Spaghetti Incident?” The decision to keep the song came when the band learned that the royalties would go to the son of one of Manson’s victims.

1996 – Jerry Lewis’ white and red pinstriped devil suit was stolen from his dressing room at Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo. Lewis needed the costume, valued at $9,000, to play the role of Satan in the musical Damn Yankees.

1998 – Arturo Sandoval was granted U.S. citizenship after a six-year struggle with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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