This Day In Music - July 14

This Day In Music – 14 July

Birthdays to celebrate: Bastille Day! If it so happens to be yours, you celebrate with:

1795 - - The French National Convention accepted "La Marseillaise" as the French national anthem. It was the first national anthem of France - https://youtu.be/215W-29Gt7s .

1912 - Woodrow Wilson 'Woody' Guthrie born in Okemah, Oklahoma. Folk singer and songwriter, famous for his 'Dust Bowl Ballads' and protest songs in the 1930's and 1940's. His work was a major influence on the young Bob Dylan, providing inspiration and mentorship. Guthrie was married three times and fathered eight children, including American folk musician Arlo Guthrie. He writes thousands of songs, many that remain unrecorded as lyric sheets in the Guthrie Archives. Guthrie died of complications resulting from Huntingdon's disease on October 3rd, 1967 - https://youtu.be/Zu4XzDyn73g .

1926 - Lowman Pauling born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Guitarist with The Five Royales, he co-wrote 1967 hit for Mamas and the Papas, 'Dedicated To The One I Love' which was originally a 1961 hit for the Shirelles. It got to No.3 on the Hot 100. The Five Royales recorded the song in 1957 but it never charted. It was included on their album, Dedicated To You. He died on 26th December 1973 - https://youtu.be/IdKihrhunok .

1942 - Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly sang their last duet together when they recorded the famous "Brazil" with the Jimmy Dorsey band - https://youtu.be/ppPM0mf8U60 .

1945 - Jim Gordon born. An American drummer, one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s. Gordon co-wrote Layla with Eric Clapton, worked with The Everly Brothers, The Monkees, The Beach Boys, George Harrison, (All Things Must Pass), John Lennon (Imagine), The Carpenters, Traffic, Glen Campbell, (Wichita Lineman), Steely Dan, Jackson Browne, Frank Zappa and many others. A diagnosed schizophrenic, Gordon murdered his mother on June 3, 1983, by pounding her head with a hammer. He was sentenced to sixteen years-to-life in prison in 1984 - https://youtu.be/t54NeRX03_o .

1952 - Bob Casale born Robert Edward Pizzute, Jr in Kent, Ohio, U.S.A.. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist of the new wave band Devo, which released a Top 20 hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It". The band has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. He was the younger brother of their co-founder and bass guitarist Gerald Casale. He engineered the first solo album for Police guitarist Andy Summers. Casale died on February 17, 2014 - https://youtu.be/j_QLzthSkfM .

1952 - Chris Cross born in Tottenham, London, England. Played bass & synth with British new wave band Ultravox who had the 1981 No.2 single 'Vienna', plus 15 other Top 40 singles. "Vienna" peaked at #12 in and was their only chart success here - https://youtu.be/4zRkIbUi01k .

1955 - English bass guitarist Matthew Seligman born. Best known as a member of The Soft Boys. Seligman was also a member of the Thompson Twins, and was a sideman for Thomas Dolby and backed David Bowie at his performance at Live Aid in 1985. He died on 17 April 2020 aged 64 due to complications of the coronavirus - https://youtu.be/H9694K85Xc8 .

1956 - American musician Bob Birch born. A session bassist, he worked with Doobie Brothers, Bryan Adams, Lionel Richie, George Michael, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Phil Collins, Keith Emerson, Barry Manilow and Elton John. Birch died on August 15, 2012, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Los Angeles home, aged 56 - https://youtu.be/ovdMdfcfBoM .

1962 - Bobby Vinton's "Roses Are Red (My Love)" hits #1 for the first of four weeks. It peaks at #3 in - https://youtu.be/fOGzLCbxamM .

1964 - The Rolling Stones hit No.1 on the singles chart with 'It's All Over Now', the group's first of 8 No.1's (it peaked at #10 in ). Written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack, it was first released by The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack in the same year - https://youtu.be/UVpFf2DmFSM .

1966 - Ellen Reid born born in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada. Played keyboards with Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies, best known internationally for their 1993 single 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' - https://youtu.be/eTeg1txDv8w .

1967 - The Who launch their first large-scale American tour at the Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, playing the first of 55 dates with Herman's Hermits.

1969 - The movie Easy Rider, which opens with the heavy metal thunder of "Born To Be Wild," opens in theatres. The film stars Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as motorcycle-riding free spirits. The soundtrack sells over 500,000 copies - https://youtu.be/rMbATaj7Il8

1971 - Nick McCabe born in Haydock, Lancashire, England. Guitarist from English rock band The Verve, who had the 1997 album Urban Hymns, one of the best-selling albums in Chart history. The album features the hit singles 'Bitter Sweet Symphony', 'The Drugs Don't Work' and 'Lucky Man' - https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74 .

1973 - The Everly Brothers break up in very public fashion, fracturing in the middle of a concert at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. The brothers - Phil and Don Everly - are midway through the second of their three scheduled sets at the amusement park when the booking agent at the venue stops the show. In frustration, Phil smashes his guitar and announces their split, telling the crowd, "I'm tired of being an Everly brother... The Everly Brothers died ten years ago". Each brother launches a solo career, and for 10 years they keep their distance, with Don in Nashville and Phil in Los Angeles. In 1983, they patch things up, reuniting for a concert that is released as a live album called Reunion Concert - https://youtu.be/AZYpa7u28WU .

1973 - Bluegrass/country guitarist Clarence White (of The Byrds) dies at 29 after being hit by a drunk driver. He was loading equipment into his car after a gig in Palmdale, California, when he was struck. White joined The Byrds in 1968, after the group had recorded 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' 'Turn! Turn! Turn!' and 'Eight Miles High' - https://youtu.be/W4ga_M5Zdn4 .

1975 - Jaime Luis Gomez was born in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California. Better known as Taboo, he is a rapper and singer with Black Eyed Peas, (2003 , & No.1 single 'Where Is The Love') - https://youtu.be/WpYeekQkAdc .

1979 - Donna Summer's "Bad Girls," a song about prostitutes, hits #1 in (#9 in ). Summer writes this sympathetic ode to the working girls after sending her secretary on an errand that takes her down Sunset Boulevard, a hotbed of illicit activity. Police mistake the secretary for a hooker and give her a hard time. When she returns to the office, she tells Summer the story, and she writes a song about it, adding in the famous "toot-toot," "beep-beep" to simulate the johns trying to get the girls' attention. The song spends five weeks at #1, second only to "My Sharona," which stays for six - https://youtu.be/HzxW4eu9heY .

1980 - In France, Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry contracts a kidney infection and is flown to London after collapsing in his hotel room.

1982 - The movie premier for Pink Floyd's The Wall was held at The Empire, Leicester Square, London, England. The film which centres around a confined rocker named Floyd "Pink" Pinkerton earned $22 million in its first year and won two British Academy Awards - https://youtu.be/ttZKS2sfpTw .

1984 - Philippe Wynne, a former lead singer of the Spinners, died of a heart at age 43 while performing at a nightclub in Oakland, California. With The Spinners he had the 1980 No.1 & No.2 single 'Working My Way Back To You', peaking at #6 in - https://youtu.be/snWHvcWsybM .

1986 - Madonna was at No.1 on the and singles charts with her second No.1 'Papa Don't Preach'. Madonna also had the No.1 album with 'True Blue' - https://youtu.be/G333Is7VPOg .

1988 - Michael Jackson gave himself a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for setting a new attendance record, when he begins his first-ever tour at Wembley Stadium in London. The shows on his Bad World Tour were attended by a total of 504,000 fans beating the record previously held by Genesis, with four sold out nights.

1989 - Tom Jones lost a paternity suit and was ordered to pay $200 a week in child support to 27-year-old Katherine Berkery of New York. New York Family Court judge Judy Sheindlin, soon to become TV star "Judge Judy," orders Tom Jones to pay child support to model Katherine Berkery after making the singer take a paternity test. Judge Judy was still serving in her 15-year tenure as a New York Family Court judge.

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

2000 - It was announced that the Go-Go's had gotten back together again for a tour, new album, a book and a movie - https://youtu.be/QmuShRH39AQ .

2004 - - Ian "Willy" Winter (b. 6 Nov. 1949) died on the 14th of July 2004 in Melbourne, Vic aged 54. A member of Carson, Daddy Cool, John Paul Young and the All Stars, Blackfeather and Mondo Rock. In March 1972, Winter (ex-Carson) joined Daddy Cool on rhythm guitar to enable Ross Wilson to concentrate on singing. The band undertook a third tour from March-June 1972 and recorded several tracks including "Teenage Blues", "At The Rockhouse" and "Rock'n'Roll Lady" at Warner Bros. studios in L.A. Daddy Cool announced their break-up soon after their return from the US and performed their last gig at the Much More Ballroom on 13 August 1972 - https://youtu.be/xa51_MZxTK4 .

2013 - In Switzerland, 73-year-old Tina Turner marries her long-time boyfriend, the record producer Erwin Bach. A few years later, he gives her one of his kidneys when she needs a transplant - https://youtu.be/GC5E8ie2pdM .

2014 - Johnny Winter plays the Cahors Blues Festival in France. It's his last performance, as he dies two days later - https://youtu.be/af0rV6dli_o .

2015 - - Arthur Cave the 15-year-old son of musician Nick Cave died after a fall from a cliff in Brighton, Sussex, England - https://youtu.be/LnHoqHscTKE .

2015 - The Las Vegas coroner's office confirmed that B.B. King died of natural causes primarily stemming from Alzheimer's disease and was not murdered. Two of his daughters had alleged King was poisoned by long-time associates - https://youtu.be/29wMp2nnx_0