This Day In Music - August 4

This Day In Music – 4 August

1901 - Louis Armstrong born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Singer, bandleader & trumpeter who had many hits including the 1964 US No.1 'Hello Dolly!',

No.5 , 1968 UK No.1 'What A Wonderful World' (No.42 in but went to No.1 on second release in 1988) plus 'When The Saints Go Marching In', 'Ain't Misbehavin', and 'We Have All the Time in the World.' He died 6th July 1971 - https://youtu.be/l7N2wssse14 .

1936 - Elsbeary Hobbs born in Manhattan, New York. With The Drifters, (1960

& US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Save The Last Dance For Me'). Died on May 31st 1996 at Veterans Hospital in Manhattan. He was 59 - https://youtu.be/n-XQ26KePUQ .

1939 - American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer Frankie Ford born in Gretna, Louisiana. Known for his 1959 No.57 single 'Sea Cruise'. Ford died in Gretna at the age of 76 on 28 September 2015. Some references suggest birth year as 1940 - https://youtu.be/Wm84M_wKjR8 .

1940 - Larry Knechtel born in Bell, California. An American keyboard player and bassist, best known as a member of The Wrecking Crew, a collection of Los Angeles-based session musicians who worked with such renowned artists as Simon And Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, The Mamas & the Papas, The Monkees, The Partridge Family, The Doors and Elvis Presley and as a member of the 1970s band Bread. Knechtel died on Aug 20th, 2009.

1941 - Singer-songwriter Timi Yuro is born Rosemary Timothy Yuro in Chicago, Illinois. Known for the 1961 No.29 hit "Hurt" - https://youtu.be/BPy-Memj0vE .

1943 - David Carr born in Leyton, London, England. Keyboardist from English harmony beat group The Fortunes, who had the 1965 UK No.2, US No.7 & No.32 single 'You've Got Your Troubles' and the hits 'Here It Comes Again ( No.29 ) and Freedom Come, Freedom Go’ ( No.25 ). Carr died on 12 July 2011 from a heart attack - https://youtu.be/iU4VHgTlaKc .

1947 - German electronic music composer and musician Klaus Schulze born in Berlin, Germany. A member Tangerine Dream before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.

1947 - Paul Layton born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. Singer from The New Seekers who had the 1972 UK No.1, US No.7 & No.11 single 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing' and hits with 'You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me' ( No.4 ) and 'Beg, Steal or Borrow' ( No.25 ) - https://youtu.be/z9Y1sY_IK14 .

1951 - Roy Flowers born in Kingston, Jamaica. From British soul group Sweet Sensation who scored the 1974 UK No.1, US No.14 & No.41 single 'Sad Sweet Dreamer' - https://youtu.be/_SJ0_Cg6ElU .

1952 - Moya Brennan born in Dublin, Ireland. From Irish family band Clannad who have recorded in six different languages and scored eight UK top-10 albums. They are widely regarded as a band that have brought Irish music and the Irish language to a worldwide audience - https://youtu.be/2KpNzalFKPo .

1953 - Vincent "Vini" Gerard Reilly born. English musician and leader of the post-punk group The Durutti Column. Reilly was Tony Wilson's first signing to Manchester's iconic label, Factory Records and played guitar on fellow Manchester artist Morrissey's first post-Smiths album Viva Hate in 1988.

1956 - The Platters "My Prayer" hits No.1 in the USA for five weeks. In , it peaks at No.5 - https://youtu.be/arAG17WG3ME .

1958 - Billboard combines its unwieldy system of five separate sales, jukebox, and DJ charts to make one master chart, the Billboard Hot 100. The first #1 is Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" - https://youtu.be/R12H8QWnwvE .

1958 - Bobby Darin has his first hit as "Splish Splash" which reaches No.3 in America and No.13 in . The song is later used on Sesame Street to encourage kids to get in the tub - https://youtu.be/XKCDc8Eg_-U .

1959 - Robbin Crosby (guitarist for Ratt) is born in La Jolla, California. He was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the US in the 1980s. Crosby died in 2002 from a heroin overdose.

1962 - The Rolling Stones played the first of 22 weekly shows at Ealing Jazz Club in Ealing, London. They were known as The Rollin' Stones during this period.

1962 - Paul Reynolds born in Liverpool, England. From A Flock Of Seagulls which had the 1982 No.5 single 'I Ran' – https://youtu.be/iIpfWORQWhU .

1963 - The Beatles appeared at the Queen's Theatre in Blackpool. So many fans crowded around the theatre, blocking every entrance, that The Beatles had to go through a construction area, up and across some scaffolding to the roof of the theatre, from where they were lowered through a trap door.

1964 - The Kinks release "You Really Got Me" in the UK. With a distorted guitar sound accomplished by taking a razor blade to an amplifier, it becomes their first hit, spending two weeks at #1 UK in September. It peaks at No.2 in , equalling their highest chart peak here - https://youtu.be/LVYVowC0lyw .

1966 - The Troggs were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'With A Girl Like You', the group's only UK No.1 single. It peaked at No.7 in . Another popular group that failed to achieve a No.1 in - https://youtu.be/mHcXvPPtd30 .

1967 - A female Monkees fan stowed away on the bands plane between shows in Minneapolis and St Louis. The girl's father threatened to bring charges for transporting a minor across state lines.

1967 - Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper At the Gates of Dawn on which most songs were penned by Syd Barrett. In subsequent years, the record has been recognised as one of the seminal psychedelic rock albums of the 1960s. When reviewed, by the two main UK music papers in the UK, Record Mirror and NME both gave the album four stars out of five. The album, which was recorded at Abbey Road studios London during the same time that The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper peaked at No.6 on the UK album chart and failed to chart in the US.

1968 - The second day of the two-day Newport Pop Festival took place in Costa Mesa, California with Blue Cheer, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Grateful Dead, Illinois Speed Press, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Byrds. Over 100,000 fans attended the festival.

1973 - Maureen McGovern's "The Morning After (The Song From The Poseidon Adventure)" hits #1 in the US for the first of two weeks. It had already peaked at No.1 in - https://youtu.be/FcTUM_lWG7M .

1975 - While vacationing on the Greek Island of Rhodes, Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant and his family are badly injured in a car accident, forcing the cancellation of an upcoming US tour. Doctors tell Plant he may never walk again, but he makes a full recovery.

1984 - Prince started a 24-week run at the top of the US album charts with Purple Rain. His sixth studio album which features the hits 'When Doves Cry' and 'Let's Go Crazy', as well as the title track has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming the seventh best-selling soundtrack album of all time - https://youtu.be/aXJhDltzYVQ .

1989 - - Jessica Mauboy was born in Darwin, N.T. An Australian R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Darwin, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol, where she was runner-up and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. After releasing a live album of her Idol performances and briefly being a member of the girl group Young Divas in 2007, Mauboy released her debut studio album, Been Waiting, the following year. It included her first number-one single, "Burn", and became the second highest-selling album of 2009. Her second studio album, Get 'Em Girls (2010), showcased a harder-edged R&B sound, and produced four platinum singles. Her third studio album, Beautiful (2013), a mixture of dance-oriented tracks, R&B and pop, included the top-ten hits "Pop a Bottle (Fill Me Up)", "Never Be the Same" and "Can I Get a Moment?". She has ventured into acting, with starring roles in the films Bran Nue Dae (2010), and The Sapphires (2012), which earned her the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role - https://youtu.be/dGOuiu0dA7o .

1990 - Mariah Carey lands her first US No.1 Hot 100 hit when her debut single, "Vision Of Love," goes to the top (it peaks at No.6 in ). She has 36 Top 40 hits to 2013 - https://youtu.be/tov22NtCMC4 .

2000 - Craig David scored his second Top 10 single with '7 Days'. He had 10 Top 40 songs between 2000 & 2007 - https://youtu.be/P5lmb5-tnM0 .

2005 - American blues singer and guitarist Little Milton died of complications following a stroke at age 70. Milton had suffered a brain aneurysm on 25th July 2005 and had lapsed into a coma. He signed to Sun records in 1953 and had the 1965 single 'We're Gonna Make It' - https://youtu.be/p6YAPUnKRzo .

2007 - US singer, songwriter Lee Hazlewood died of cancer, in his home near Las Vegas aged 78. Hazlewood wrote and produced many of Nancy Sinatra's most famous hits, including 'These Boots Were Made For Walkin', 'Jackson' and 'Did You Ever' He also produced Duane Eddy and Gram Parsons and 'Something Stupid' - the duet Nancy recorded with her father Frank in 1967 - https://youtu.be/0f48fpoSEPU .

2015 - Influential country producer Billy Sherrill, who worked with artists like George Jones, Charlie Rich, and Tammy Wynette and is known for pioneering the "countrypolitan" sound, died after a short illness at the age of 78. Sherrill also co-wrote many hit songs, including 'Stand by Your Man' (written with Tammy Wynette) - https://youtu.be/zc4e-HdlhPY .