This Day In Music - October 14

 This Day In Music – 14 October – The detail…

1926 - Bill Justis, known for his 1957 hit "Raunchy," is born in Birmingham, Alabama, raised in Memphis, Tennessee - https://youtu.be/fp5borFGZsY .

1930 - Ethel Merman becomes a star overnight with her rendition of "I Got Rhythm," featured in the new Broadway hit Girl Crazy - https://youtu.be/0pWug6_RoQA .

1939 - Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) was organized. BMI competed directly with ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers).

1940 - Pop singer Cliff Richard is born Harold Rodger Webb in Imperial India. Britain's most successful solo artist, his first AU hit was in 1959; the No.3 single 'Living Doll'. The 1958 song ‘Move It’ was a minor hit in AU, reaching the early 40’s. Sir Cliff has over 40 AU Top 40 hits). He once worked as a clerk at Fergusons TV factory - https://youtu.be/RPiJLDgf5SE .

1942 - Billy Harrison is born in Belfast, Ireland. Guitarist with the Northern Irish band Them who had the 1965 hits 'Baby, Please Don't Go' and 'Here Comes The Night' with Van Morrison on lead vocals. Morrison quit the band in 1966 and went on to a successful career as a solo artist - https://youtu.be/sCm-xNvltbo .

1945 - Colin Hodgkinson (bassist for Whitesnake) is born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Known in AU for the 1987 No. 10 hit ‘Is This Love” & the 1988 AU No.25 single 'Here I Go Again' - https://youtu.be/WyF8RHM1OCg .

1946 - Dan McCafferty is born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Lead singer from Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, who had the 1973 single 'Broken Down Angel', and the 1976 single, 'Love Hurts' - https://youtu.be/cOvBk1GuApk .

1946 - Justin Hayward is born Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist with English rock band The Moody Blues who had the 1965 single 'Go Now' and other hit singles including 'Nights in White Satin' and 'Question' - https://youtu.be/-wDHvmCVRxU .

1948 - R&B singer Marcia Barrett (of Boney M.) is born in St Catherine, Jamaica. They had the 1978 AU No.1 single 'Rivers Of Babylon' and with more than 150 million records sold, are one of the best-selling artists of all time - https://youtu.be/HTq7vE_5un4 .

1947 - Al Atkins - the first frontman for Judas Priest - is born at West Bromwich, England.

1953 - AU - Dave Warner, od Dave Warner’s From The Suburbs, was born on the 14th of October 1953. Best known for the 1978 modest #27 hit, Suburban Boy - https://youtu.be/qR8yEX3MwKc .

1955 - Buddy Holly, Larry Welborn, and Bob Montgomery open for Bill Haley & the Comets in Lubbock, TX. Eddie Crandell saw the show later arranges for Holly to record his first demo.

1957 - The Everly Brothers score their first #1 hit with "Wake Up Little Susie." - https://youtu.be/v1fImXAeS-s .

1958 - New wave/synthpop singer Thomas Dolby is born Thomas Morgan Robertson in London, England. Had the 1984 single 'Hyperactive'. Also member of Camera Club, Lene Lovich band, as a producer worked with Joni Mitchell and Prefab Sprout.

1959 - Bobby Darin was at No. 7 on the AU singles chart with 'Mack The Knife'. From Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, the song won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1960 - https://youtu.be/4jcCwmtVAIM .

1959 - Anthony Jude Pero (A.J. Pero, drummer for Twisted Sister) is born in Staten Island, New York. Had the 1983 single 'I Am, I'm Me', 1984 album 'Stay Hungry'). Pero died from an apparent heart attack on March 20th, 2015 - https://youtu.be/E_0aQOxkLZI .

1964 - The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts marries Shirley Ann Shepherd, and in a remarkable display of fidelity, remains married to her the rest of his life.

1965 - R&B singer Karyn White is born in Los Angeles, California.

1966 - Grace Slick makes her first stage appearance with the band Jefferson Airplane at their Fillmore West gig in San Francisco.

1967 - After 15 weeks at #1, The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is knocked out of the top spot by Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe - https://youtu.be/nv33eaygVDQ .

1969 - The Supremes release "Someday, We'll Be Together," their last single with Diana Ross, who launches a solo career and is replaced by Jean Terrell - https://youtu.be/HXGz8i0I2L0 .

1971 - Little Richard's publisher sues Creedence Clearwater Revival, claiming "Travelin' Band" is too similar to Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly." A settlement is eventually reached.

1972 - Michael Jackson's "Ben," a song about a boy and his love for a pet rat, hits #1 in AU & the US - https://youtu.be/RntxCmqQqSA .

1972 - AU - Joe Cocker and six members of his touring band are arrested after a concert in Adelaide, Australia, when police allegedly discover marijuana and heroin in their hotel rooms. The group are not charged but instead given four hours to leave the country.

1974 - Nashville veterans worry about the sanctity of country music when Olivia Newton-John wins Female Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards - https://youtu.be/GAKJVuEE6lQ .

1974 - Natalie Maines (lead singer for Dixie Chicks) is born in Lubbock, Texas. With sales of 27.2 million albums in the US alone, they have become the top selling all-female band and biggest selling country group in the US during the Nielsen SoundScan era - https://youtu.be/J4_wXPZ1Bnk .

1975 - R&B singer Shaznay Lewis (of All Saints) is born in Islington, London, England. All Saints had the 1998 AU No.1 single 'Never Ever'. The group's debut album, All Saints (1997), went on to become the third best-selling girl group album of all time in the UK - https://youtu.be/nPXqkjpXZ_k .

1977 - KISS release Alive II, recorded over three nights at the Forum in Los Angeles.

1977 - Bing Crosby dies of a heart attack after finishing a round of golf in Spain, at age 74.

1978 - The KISS solo LPs Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss enter Billboard Albums chart at these positions: Peter Criss: #85 Ace Frehley: #87 Gene Simmons: #88 Paul Stanley: #89 Simmons ends up selling the most copies - https://youtu.be/LKdHy18rZcI .

1978 - R&B performer Usher is born Usher Raymond IV in Dallas, Texas. He had the 1998 AU No.4 single 'You Make Me Wanna', 2004 AU No.1 singles, 'Yeah' & ‘Burn’. His 2004 album Confessions sold over a million copies in the US in its first week of release, selling the greatest number of records in one week for any R&B artist. To date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time - https://youtu.be/t5XNWFw5HVw .

1983 - Cyndi Lauper, formerly a member of the group Blue Angel, issues her first solo album, She's So Unusual. With the MTV hits "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" and "Time After Time," it becomes an '80s touchstone - https://youtu.be/PIb6AZdTr-A .

1988 - Def Leppard became first act in chart history to sell seven million copies of two consecutive LPs, with Pyromania (their third studio album released in 1983) and Hysteria, (which became the band's best-selling album to date, selling over 20 million copies worldwide, and spawning six hit singles).

1990 - Multi-Emmy and Grammy award-winning American composer, pianist and conductor, Leonard Bernstein died of pneumonia, aged 72. Composed music for the 1957 musical 'West Side Story', and 'On The Waterfront'. Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic aged 25 and wrote three symphonies, two operas, five musicals, and numerous other pieces.

1990 - In Baghdad, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), secures the release of four British prisoners (all Muslin) detained as Iraq prepares for the Gulf War.

1994 - Pulp Fiction opens in theatres, reviving classic '60s songs such as "Misirlou," "Son Of A Preacher Man" and "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon." - https://youtu.be/WSLMN6g_Od4 .

1997 - Max Steiner's acclaimed score to 1942's legendary film Casablanca is finally released, including selected dialogue and the vocal hit "As Time Goes By" - https://youtu.be/7vThuwa5RZU .

1997 - Paul McCartney's symphonic poem "Standing Stone" debuted.

1998 - B.B. King picks up a lifetime achievement award at the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London

2000 - Five Pearl Jam bootlegs released from their European tour make the Billboard 200 albums chart, setting a record for most entries on the chart in a single week.

2003 - Ozzy Osbourne seeks treatment for Parkinson's Disease-like tremors and postpones a fall European tour. The veteran rock artist says in a statement, "I have been in Boston for the last three weeks, having medical tests for a tremor which has become markedly worse over the last two years."

2004 - The iTunes Music Store reached 150 million songs sold.

2006 - Country/rock singer and guitarist Freddy Fender dies of lung cancer in Corpus Christi, Texas, at age 69. Known for standards as ‘Before the Next Teardrop Falls’ (AU No.4 in 1975) and ‘Wasted Days and Wasted Nights’ - https://youtu.be/TUVgkXVDkBA .

2006 - Opening for Rascal Flatts at Madison Square Garden, Eric Church goes off-kilter, playing a little "Crazy Train" and staying on stage past his allotted time. He is kicked off the tour and replaced by a talented newcomer named Taylor Swift.

2007 - The Tom Petty documentary film, Running Down A Dream, debuts at the New York Film Festival - https://youtu.be/1lWJXDG2i0A .

2011 - Chuck Ruff (drummer for Edgar Winter Group and Sammy Hagar) dies in San Francisco, California, after a lengthy illness at age 60.

2014 - David Bowie debuts his new single "Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)," a jazzy seven-and-a-half-minute song, on BBC Radio 6 to promote his upcoming compilation album Nothing Has Changed - https://youtu.be/nFX1y62l9C4 .

2014 - Pop singer Kesha files a civil lawsuit against her long-time producer, Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald), in a bid to be released from her contract. She cites years of physical, verbal, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of the producer, who denies all charges.

2018 - Fifty years after they first started touring, Steppenwolf play their last show, a concert in Baxter Springs, Kansas - https://youtu.be/eGkGNCUQtWY .

2020 - AU - Paul Matters (Bassist AC/DC 1975) died on the 14th of October 2020 - https://youtu.be/biaGJ_4rEzE .