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July 8

1954 - Elvis's That's All Right is played on the radio for the first time.
1965 - Catch Us If You Can premieres in London.
1971 - Mott the Hoople's over-enthusiastic fans cause mayhem at Royal Albert Hall concert.  (I saw the group and chatted with Ian Hunter within a few weeks of this.)

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July 10

Born...

1939 - Mavis Staples
1941 - Ian Whitcomb
1944 - Beaky
1947 - Arlo Guthrie
1950 - Greg Kihn
1958 - Bela Fleck
1980 - Jessica Simpson

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1950 - Your Hit Parade premieres on NBC-TV.
1968 - Eric Clapton announces that Cream will break up after their current tour.
1987 - John Hammond dies.
 

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July 16 (my late mother's birthday!)

Born...

1940 - Tony Jackson
1941 - Desmond Dekker
1952 - Stewart Copeland

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1962 - The Beach Boys sign with Capitol Records.
1966 - Clapton, Bruce and Baker form Cream.
1981 - Harry Chapin dies.
2012 - Jon Lord dies.
2012 - Kitty Wells dies.
2014 - Johnny Winter dies.

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July 17

 

* 1921 - Mary Osborne (✝ March 4, 1992)

* 1925 - Jimmy Scott (✝ June 12, 2014)

* 1926 - Ray Copeland (✝ May 18, 1984)

* 1928 – Vince Guaraldi (✝ February 6, 1976)

* 1928 - Joe Morello (✝ March 12, 2011)

* 1936 - Nick Brignola (✝ February 8, 2002)

 

* 1933 - Ben Riley (84)

* 1949 - Chico Freeman (68)


✝1959 - Billie Holiday (* April 7, 1915)

✝1967 - John Coltrane (* September 23, 1926)

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Thanks optatio!  It's great that you found jazz people!

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July 18

1953 - Elvis makes his first recording.
1966 - Bobby Fuller dies.
1988 - Nico dies.

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Born...

1929 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
1938 - Ian Stewart
1939 - Brian Auger
1939 - Dion
1941 - Martha Reeves
1941 - Lonnie Mack
1950 - Richard Branson
1954 - Ricky Scaggs
 

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July 23

1955 - Slim Whitman's Rose Marie begins it eleven-week run at #1 on the UK charts.
1989 - Ringo Starr begins his first tour since The Beatles' break-up.
2011 - Amy Winehouse dies.

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Born...

1935 - Cleve Duncan
1947 - Tony Joe White
1952 - Janis Siegel
1971 - Alison Krauss

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July 25 

1963 - Cilla Black makes her test recording for George Martin and EMI.
1965 - Bob Dylan plays folk rock at the Newport Folk Festival.
1969 - Neil Young performs with CS&N for the first time.
1984 - Big Mama Thornton dies.
1995 - Charlie Rich dies.

*****

Born...

1943 - Jim McCarty

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August 21

1961 - Patsy Cline records Crazy.
1961 - Tamla releases The Marvellettes' Please Mister Postman, Motown's first #1 hit.
2005 - Robert Moog dies.
2008 - Buddy Harman dies.

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Born...

1904 - Count Basie
1938 - Kenny Rogers
1939 - James Burton  (I saw him back Elvis in 1973 in Las Vegas.)
1941 - Jackie DeShannon
1947 -  Carl Giammarese
1952 - Joe Strummer

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