Today In Oldies Music History: August 2
--Births
1900: Helen Morgan1935: Hank Cochran
1937: Garth Hudson (The Band)
1939: Edward Patten (Gladys Knight and the Pips)
1941: Doris Kenner-Jackson (The Shirelles)
1941: Andrew Malcolm (The Herd)
1943: Kathy Lennon (The Lennon Sisters)
1951: Andrew Gold
Deaths
1972: Brian Cole (The Association)1983: James Jamerson
1987: David Martin (Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs)
2001: Ron Townson (The 5th Dimension)
Events
1953: Skeeter Davis, still a member of the Davis Sisters, breaks both her arms and legs in a car crash near Cincinnati, OH, a crash which also kills fellow Davis "sister" Betty Jack Davis.1956: This month's issue of Look magazine reports that Elvis Presley is now receiving 3,000 fan letters a week.
1961: The Beatles begin what would be a two-year stint as headliners at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
1962: Aretha Franklin makes her television debut, singing "Don't Cry Baby" and "Try a Little Tenderness" on ABC's American Bandstand.
1963: Still rebuilding his career after the scandal of his marriage to 13-year-old second cousin Myra Gale Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis accepts $9,500 to open Las Vegas' new Thunderbird Hotel.
1962: Folk singer Robert Zimmerman has his name legally changed to Bob Dylan.
1969: Bob Dylan leaves his 10-year reunion at Hibbing High School in Hibbing, MN when a drunken former classmate picks a fight with him.
1971: Now down to a trio and riven by infighting, Creedence Clearwater Revival embark on their last US tour with a gig at Tulsa, Oklahoma's Assembly Center.
1973: "Papa" John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas files suit against his former label, Dunhill, alleging $60 million in unpaid royalties.
1982: Jose Feliciano marries Susan Omillian, in California.
1998: The Beatles win UK music magazine Mojo's "Favourite Recording Artist Of All Time," beating out Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Queen, and Elton John in that order.
1999: After a concert in San Diego, CA, Barry White is hospitalized for exhaustion.
2004: Eric Clapton bails out Cordings clothing store in London, a favorite of his since the age of sixteen, by purchasing a fifty percent share in the retailer.
2007: Elvis Presley Enterprises announces plans to revamp Graceland, the singer's home, with a visitor's center, convention hotel, and high-tech multimedia displays.
2007: Keith Richards signs a seven-million-dollar deal for the rights to his upcoming autobiography, scheduled for release in late 2010.
