This Day In Music - July 22

 This Day In Music – 22 July

1924 - Margaret Whiting is born in Detroit, Michigan, but is raised in Los Angeles, California, where her dad, Richard, composes popular tunes such as "Hooray For Hollywood" and "On The Good Ship Lollipop." Modern listeners know her for her holiday duet with Johnny Mercer, "Baby It's Cold Outside". Best know in 🇦🇺 for her 1953 No.7, "Outside Of Heaven" - https://youtu.be/7r2VGMGQx_g .

1940 - One-hit-wonder Thomas Wayne, known for 1959's "Tragedy" (🇦🇺 No.25), is born Thomas Wayne Perkins is Batesville, Mississippi. His brother is Johnny Cash's guitarist, Luther Perkins - https://youtu.be/SnYEckcMav4 .

1941 - Estelle Bennett of The Ronettes (1963 US No.4, UK No.4 & 🇦🇺 No.41 single 'Be My Baby') born in New York. Died at her home in Englewood, N.J. on 11th Feb 2009, aged 67. Her younger sister is Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector. Some references suggest her birth year is 1944 - https://youtu.be/-MKOLSLWAFk .

1943 - Bobby Sherman born in Santa Monica, California. US singer, (1969 US No.3 & 🇦🇺 No.25 hit 'Little Woman' and six other US Top 30 hits). Best known in 🇦🇺 for his 1970 No.8, ‘Julie, Do Ya Love Me’ - https://youtu.be/f7PLcHnMNKE .

1944 - Rick Davies born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Vocalist and keyboardist with Supertramp, who had the 1979 UK No.7, US No.6 & 🇦🇺 No.19 single with 'The Logical Song' and the 1979 🇦🇺 & US No.1 and UK No.3 album Breakfast In America. Davies is the only member of Supertramp to have been with the group for their entire history, and has composed many of their most well-known songs, including 'Goodbye Stranger', and 'Bloody Well Right' - https://youtu.be/6nG_sW_Zfp4 .

1947 - Don Henley born in Gilmer, Texas. Singer, songwriter, and drummer with the Eagles, who had the 1977 US No.1 & UK No.8 single 'Hotel California', plus 5 US No.1 albums. The Eagles 'Greatest Hits 1971-1975' is the second biggest selling album in the world with sales over 30m. Henley had the 1985 solo 🇦🇺 No.4, US No.5 & UK No.12 single 'The Boys of Summer' - https://youtu.be/DtxlvQqvDQs .

1953 - English rock singer Brian Howe born. Best known for replacing Paul Rodgers as the lead vocalist of Bad Company. Howe's career was jump-started in 1983 when Ted Nugent recruited him to handle lead vocals for his Penetrator album and front its subsequent world tour. He died on 6 May 2020 of cardiac arrest age 66.

1957 - 🇦🇺 - Greg Morris was born on the 22nd of July 1957 in Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia. A drummer for several bands, Greg has said that his key influence was the first concert he ever attended, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. In his own words, “The most important concert was the very first one I ever went to which was Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs at The Capitol Theatre - Haymarket, what a sensational night. That first concert blew me away and that was the night I knew I was going to be a drummer in a band, thanks Billy, R.I.P.”.

1960 - 🇦🇺 - John Prior of Matt Finish was born in Sydney, Australia. During his teens, he performed in the bands Mandrake, then Legend with brother Rob Prior (guitar/vocals) and neighbour Paul Williams (bass guitar). With the addition of keyboards player Chris Short and the name change to Conic Section, they composed original jazz-rock fusion, performed at the Limerick Castle Hotel, and won the Festival Of Pop band competition at Flemington Sydney in 1974 and a 2SM song competition in 1975. In 1979, Prior formed Matt Finish with singer/guitarist Matt Moffitt and through to the end of the seventies, they played regular residencies in clubs and pubs around Sydney every night of the week, often double gigging on weekends. During the eighties, Matt Finish was one of Australia's most popular live bands performing thousands of live shows to more than a million people including national tours with U2, XTC, Midnight Oil, INXS, The Ramones, Split Enz, Cold Chisel, Bryan Ferry and The B-52's - https://youtu.be/iX6k9ZEbiKY .

1961 - Keith Sweat born Keith Douglas Crier in Harlem, New York. American R&B, soul, singer-songwriter, record producer, radio personality and an innovator of New Jack Swing. His best AU result was the 1996 No.5, "Twisted" - https://youtu.be/cP4yAnbtDZE .

1963 - The Beatles first US album, Introducing The Beatles was pressed by Vee-Jay Records, who thought they had obtained the legal rights from EMI affiliate, Trans-Global Records. When it was finally released in January 1964, Capitol Records would hit Vee Jay with an injunction against manufacturing, distributing, advertising, or otherwise disposing of records by the Beatles. After a trial, Vee-Jay was allowed to release any Beatles records that they had masters of in any form until October 15th, 1964. After that time, they no longer had the right to issue any Beatles product.

1964 - William Calhoun born. Drummer for, Living Colour, (1991 🇦🇺 No.4 & UK No.12 single 'Love Rears Its Ugly Head') - https://youtu.be/MQcPB1WkISI .

1967 - The Vanilla Fudge rock cover of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" peaks at #67 in America as the band play their first concert, supporting The Byrds at the Village Theatre (later the Fillmore East) in New York City. It later peaks at #1 in 🇦🇺 - https://youtu.be/NCwzCQcjC0M .

1967 - Pat Badger born in Boston, Massachusetts. Bassist for Extreme, (1991 US No.1 & 🇦🇺 & UK No.2 single 'More Than Words') - https://youtu.be/UrIiLvg58SY .

1973 - Larry Finnegan dies of a brain tumour at age 34. Known for the 1962 🇦🇺 No.2 hit, "Dear One" - https://youtu.be/rZxuUFjLE0k .

1973 - 🇦🇺 - Australian musician, songwriter, Daniel Jones born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, but will be raised in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. With Savage Garden had the 1997 🇦🇺 No.1 and 1998 US No.1 & UK Top 5 single 'Truly Madly Deeply', following their 🇦🇺 No.2 hit 'To the Moon and Back' - https://youtu.be/jBVifG4_Ruk .

1973 - David Bowie released the single 'Life On Mars', which peaked at No.3 on the UK chart. The track which was first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory, features guest piano work by Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The line "Look at those cavemen go" is a reference to the song "Alley Oop," a one-off hit in 1960 for American doo-wop band The Hollywood Argyles - https://youtu.be/AZKcl4-tcuo .

1977 - Stiff Records released 'My Aim Is True' the debut album from Elvis Costello in the UK. The musicians who were featured on the album were uncredited on the original release (due to contractual difficulties), although the backing band was made up of members of the band Clover - https://youtu.be/FJTIIfhk2k4 .

1979 - Little Richard, who has been preaching of his salvation throughout the United States, makes his famous statement, "If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody". The flamboyant singer, who was thrown out of his home as a teenager when his sexual orientation clashed with his family's Pentecostal faith, first renounced the "Devil's music" in 1957 while touring in Sydney, 🇦🇺. A blazing fireball in the sky - which turned out to be the launching of the Sputnik 1 satellite - warned of his eternal damnation and he boogied his way to Alabama to save his soul (and study theology). Hits like "Tutti Frutti," "Long Tall Sally" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" were relics of a sinful past for the newly ordained singer, who switched to gospel music and founded the Little Richard Evangelistic Team. The lure of rock 'n roll was too strong, however, and he returned to secular music just a few years later with a European tour and the televised special The Little Richard Spectacular, a ratings bonanza - https://youtu.be/u0Ujb6lJ_mM .

1989 - Former actress Martika started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Toy Soldiers', a No.5 hit in the UK and No.6 in 🇦🇺 - https://youtu.be/LvdLovAaYzM .

1992 - American singer and actress Selena Gomez born. She released her solo debut album Stars Dance in 2013 which debuted atop the Billboard 200 in the US and included the top ten single 'Come & Get It' (🇦🇺 No.30). Her highest Australian chart success to 2018 was “Wolves”, peaking at 🇦🇺 No.3 - https://youtu.be/cH4E_t3m3xM .

1996 - Donovan was forced to postpone a comeback tour of the US because of a 30-year-old marijuana conviction in the UK. American authorities delayed granting him a waiver to enter the country.

2005 - Founder member and singer with The Chi-lites, Eugene Record died of cancer at 64. Had the 1972 US No.1 single 'Oh Girl' and 1972 UK No.3 single 'Have You Seen Her.' He also released three solo albums. Their best Australian result was the 1972 🇦🇺 #52, “Oh Girl” - https://youtu.be/iaBC5BUh3BM .

2006 - Johnny Cash was at No.1 on the US album chart with 'American V: A Hundred Highways.' Released posthumously on July 4, the vocal parts were recorded before Cash's death, but the instruments were not recorded until 2005 - https://youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFSc .

2019 - American singer, songwriter and keyboardist Art Neville died aged 81. Art shot to fame as part of the Neville Brothers when they started singing as children but went their separate ways in the 1950s and 1960s. It was not until 1977 that the brothers finally got together again and in 1978, they recorded their first Neville Brothers album. Art was a founding member of The Meters, whose musical style represents New Orleans funk. He also played on recordings by many notable artists including Labelle (on "Lady Marmalade"), Paul McCartney, Lee Dorsey, Robert Palmer, Dr. John and Professor Longhair - https://youtu.be/ZlVxx3HVW24 .

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