Showing posts with label Ella Fitzgerald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ella Fitzgerald. Show all posts

This week in Music History: June 13-19

June 13
1975 - John Lennon made his last TV appearance to sing "Imagine."
1989 - Jerry Lee Lewis got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1995 - Alanis Morissette released the album "Jagged Little Pill"

June 14
1953 - Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, TN  (Right: senior class picture!)
1961 - "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist, born in Bexley, London
1965 - Paul McCartney recorded "Yesterday."
1965 - Bob Dylan recorded "Like a Rolling Stone"
1971 - In London, the 1st Hard Rock Cafe opened.
1994 - Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River) died at age 70.
1995 - Michael Jackson appeared on TV with his wife Lisa Marie Presley in a live interview with Diane Sawyer.

June 15
1843 - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, composer, conductor, pianist, born in Bergen, Norway
1956 - John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1996 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer, died at 78
1998 - The Spice Girls began their 1st North American tour in Miami.
2004 - The iTunes Music Store was launched in France, Germany and the UK.

This week in Music History: June 6-12

June 6
1915 - Vincent Persichetti, composer, born in Philadelphia
1955 - Bill Haley and Comets "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist, dies at 64

June 7
1972 - The musical "Grease" opened on Broadway. It had been playing off-Broadway for about 4 months
1990 - Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains

June 8
1810 - Robert A Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer
1949 - Emanuel Ax, pianist, born in Lvov Poland
1969 - Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
2000 - Sinead O'Connor revealed that she was a lesbian in an article that would later be published by "Curve" in their July-August 2000 issue.