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Happy 4th of July, Friday!

July 4th: TODAY IN ROCK N' ROLL HISTORY!
1955, Gene Vincent's leg is crushed when a car hits his motorcycle in Franklin, VA. Vincent has to wear a steel brace on it afterward. Vincent breaks out as a hitmaker in Spring 1956 with "Be-Bop-A-Lula!" Danger follows him however as he's later injured again in the taxi crash that kills Eddie Cochran!
1958, The Everly Brothers hit the top of the UK charts when, "All I Have To Do Is Dream," goes #1 in England! It was already #1 in hitting the Top of the Billboard charts (in the final few months before the Hot 100 debuted.) on May 12th for the first of five weeks.
1959, Island Records is founded in Jamaica. Yeah, that island!
1959, "Greenfields" by The Brothers Four is released. It doesn't debut on the Billboard Hot 100 until 2/22/60, but races into the top five to peak at #2 on 4/24/60, where it sits for four weeks.
1964, The Beach Boys ride their little deuce coupe all the way to the top of the charts, when "I Get Around" hits #1 for the first of two weeks! Meanwhile, British Invasion pop artist Millie Small peaks at #2 for a week with "My Boy Lollipop!"
1964, The Rolling Stones appear as jurists on the BBC-TV show, Juke Box Jury!
1966, The Lovin' Spoonful release, "Summer In The City," which debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 on 7/16/66 at #53! It hits #1 five weeks later on 8/13/66, where it stays for three weeks!
1966, The Beatles, on a whirlwind world tour play two shows at Rizal Football Stadium in the Philippines before a 2-show total of 80-thousand fans! The next day they are greeted by an angry mob at the airport, after refusing to meet with President Marcos. They also lose their police security en route to the airport as they try to fly to India!
1969, Grand Funk Railroad plays the Atlanta Pop Festival! Of course Hot-lanta is is very hot, which leads singer Mark Farner to remove his shirt, which results in applause. It becomes a routine part of every show. Also on the bill at the two-day festival, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Winter, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Blood Sweat & Tears, Chuck Berry, Spirit, Chicago and Paul Butterfield.
1970, American Top 40 with Casey Kasem debuts! His first #1 song? "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" by Three Dog Night!
1971, The Fillmore West in San Francisco closes after just three years and a weeklong series of farewell performances from Santana, The Grateful Dead, Boz Scaggs and more.
1971, Don McPherson, lead singer for The Main Ingredient, dies at 29 from leukemia. The band soon re-groups behind a new lead singer, Cuba Gooding, Sr.
1974, Steely Dan break up the band to focus on studio recordings (just like The Beatles did). It's their last show until 1993, is in Santa Monica CA.
1974, Singer Barry White and Love Unlimited member, Glodean James marry.
1974, The Tony Orlando & Dawn Show premieres on CBS-TV!
1976, Paul Revere of Paul Revere & The Raiders gets married on the Bicentennial, on stage at Kings Island Amusement Park in Cincinnati, during a concert being put on by his band! So, happy anniversary?
1977, Bass player, Gary Valentine, of Blondie quits.
1980, The Beach Boys play a free show in Washington DC! 500-thousand fans attend! Interior Secretary James Watt is outraged!
1982, Singer, Ozzy Osborne and his manager, Sharon Arden marry in Hawaii. Sharon is the daughter of Black Sabbath's manager, They have three children and are still together!
1982, Neil Diamond writes the song, "Heartlight" after seeing movie, "E.T." with Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager.
1984, Ringo Starr sits in with the Beach Boys at their show in Miami FL.
1986, Farm Aid II is held in Manor TX at the Manor Downs Racetrack! On the bill are The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Emmylou Harris, Jason & The Scorchers, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Bon Jovi, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Vince Neil and Willie Nelson
1987, John Fogerty headlines a Vietnam Veterans benefit concert at The Capital Center in Washington DC (technically Landover MD). Also on the bill were Neil Diamond, Stevie Wonder and Kris Kristofferson. The show was broadcast on HBO.
1987, Genesis wrap a four-night, sellout stand at Wembley Stadium in London!
1990, Kiss lead singer, Paul Stanley suffered neck and back injuries in a car crash in NJ.
1992, John Phillips, of The Mama's & The Papa's, receives a new liver, getting a transplant in Los Angeles.
2002, George Harrisons attacker, Michael Abram, was released 19 months after getting the O.K. from a mental health review tribunal.
2003, Singer, band leader, Barry White dies at 58. White suffered a stroke while waiting for a kidney transplant and never recovered.
2005, Rockabilly's "Big Al" Downing dies at 65 from leukemia.
2007, The Drifters, Bill Pinkney suffers a heart attack and dies at 81.
2009, Manager of both The Beatles and The Stones, at the same time, Allen Klein, dies from complications due to diabetes and alzheimers. Klein also famously managed The Kinks and his record label ABKCO, included The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Bobby Womack, Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell and more.
2009, Drake Levin, guitar for Paul Revere & The Raiders, dies from cancer at 62.
2012, Late Queen singer, Freddie Mercury's famous half-white/ half-black harlequin stage costume is sold at auction for 22,500 pounds!
2014, The Beatles movie, "A Hard Days Night," celebrates it's 50th anniversary with a theatrical re-release in America!

ROCK N' ROLLERS BORN TODAY!
1938, Bill Withers, singer (would be 87 in 2025)!
1940, Dave Rowberry, keys for The Animals (would be 85 in 2025)!
1943, Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, guitar and harmonica for Canned Heat (82 in 2025)!
1948, Jeremy Spencer, guitar/ piano for Fleetwood Mac (77 in 2025)!
1951, Ralph Johnson, drums for Earth Wind & Fire (74 in 2025)!
1952, John Waite, singer for The Babys and Bad English (73 in 2025)!

Today's chart is from today, July 4th in both 1964 and 1971!

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Happy July 4th Weekend! (Yeah, I know it starts tomorrow, but we all hit the road today, including me. Sorry for the late post, but I got there ok. thanks for asking.)

July 3rd: TODAY IN ROCK N' ROLL HISTORY!
1960, Muddy Waters plays the Newport JAZZ Festival and expands his audience with a riveting performance of "Got My Mojo Workin'."
1965, The Kinks have a blow-out with their manager, Larry Page, who would soon be replaced by Allan Klein. After Page and the Kinks backstage warfare, Page books a flight back to the UK and leaves the next day. All of this drama was unfolding on the Hollywood Bowl stop of The Beach Boys Summer Spectacular tour which had an extensive bill, including The Byrds, Sonny & Cher and The Righteous Brothers!
1965, The Four Tops return to the #1 spot for their second week at the top with "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honeybunch)" after they were knocked out of their perch by The Byrds with their cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man." The Four Tops would only managed two weeks at #1, but more remarkable is that they spend five total weeks at either #1 or #2 on the charts!
1967, The Monkees take England! John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Dusty Springfield, Eric Clapton, Lulu, Manfred Mann, The Who and Procol Harum are all guests at a private party held for the mock TV-band at the Speakeasy Club in London!
1968, David Crosby of The Byrds, Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield and Graham Nash of The Hollies are just some of the guests at a 4th-of-July-Eve party at "Mama" Cass Elliot's house on Lookout Mountain in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles. Crosby and Stills knew each other, went to the party together, but when they were joined by Nash they all realized there was magic happening and they decided to record together.
1969, Brian Jones, multi-instrumentalist for The Rolling Stones is found dead in his swimming pool, after a late night swim, at 27. His death is declared accidental as high levels of alcohol (and drugs, too according to some) were found in his blood. Jones had just left the Stones weeks earlier and only recently moved into Winnie The Pooh author A.A. Milne's former residence.
1971, Lead singer for The Doors, Jim Morrison, is found dead in a bathtub at his place in Paris, France. He is 27. The coroners report lists a heart attack, aggravated by respiratory problems, but Morrisons body is never tested for drugs, so doubt has lingered.
1973, David Bowie closes the curtain on Ziggy Stardust, retiring the character after his show at The Hammersmith Odeon in London. D.A. Pennebaker films the show and it becomes the documentary, "Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars!"
1975, Labelle appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine! It's a big deal, since they're the first African-American vocal group to ever get the cover!
1975, Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night is arrested in his hotel room, in Louisville KY, on opening night of the bands tour! The charge is co***ne possession, but when Negron appears in court to answer for the charge in October, it is dismissed due to "unfounded" information.
1976, Brian Wilson performs with The Beach Boys for the first time in twelve years (some say seven) at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, CA.
1985, "Back To The Future" starring Michael J. Fox as time-hopping, duck-walking, Chuck Berry fan, open in theatres nationwide!
1986, Lead singer for U2, Bono losses his personal assistant, Greg Carroll in a motorcycle accident in Dublin, while running an errand for the singer. His death stuns Bono, who was already so inspired by Carroll that he had written the song, "One Tree Hill" on the inspiration of Carroll. The next U2 album is dedicated to him and it's the bands best, "The Joshua Tree."
1996, During a rain delay at Wimbledon, Cliff Richard leads a center-court sing-a-long with Martina Navratilova, Virginia Wade, Hana Mandlikova, Pam Shriver, Liz Smylie, Gigi Fernandez and Conchita Martinez as background singers!
2001, Songwriter, Johnny Russell, who wrote "Act Naturally," dies at 61. The song was most famously covered by The Beatles. Ringo sang lead vocals on their version.
2007, Sax player, Boots Randolph who played on the 1968 hit, "Yakety Sax" suffers a brain hemorrhage and dies at 80.
2008, Colin Cooper, leader of the Climax Blues Band dies from cancer at 69.
2011, Little Richard plays a 4th of July show at the National Mall in Washington DC, but has to be taken by wheel-chair to the piano, as he lacks the ability to walk unaided following a mistake made during surgery two-years prior.

ROCK N' ROLLERS BORN TODAY:
1929, David Lynch, vocalist for The Platters from 1953-1970 (would be 96 in 2025)!
1940, Fontella Bass, singer (would be 85 in 2025!) [Trivia: Bass biggest hit would the the 1965 song, "Rescue Me."]
1943, Judith Durham, lead singer for The Seekers (would be 82 in 2025)!
1948, Paul Barrerre, guitar for Little Feat (would be 77 in 2025!)
1949, Johnnie Wilder, singer for Heatwave (76 in 2025)!
1951, Mike Corby, keys for The Babys (74 in 2025)!
1952, Laura Branigan, singer (would be 73 in 2025)!
1957, Stephen Pearcy, singer for Ratt (66 in 2025)!

Today's chart is from today, July 3rd in 1971!

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