Today in Oldies Music History: July 11

Today In Oldies Music History: July 11

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Births

1930: Thurston Harris
1931: Tab Hunter
1944: Bobby G. Rice
1947: Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1950: Bonnie Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)
1953: Peter Brown
1954: Benny DiFranco (The DiFranco Family)

Deaths

1981: Hubert Johnson (The Contours)
1989: Roger Christian
1996: Louis Gottlieb (The Limeliters)
1999: Helen Forrest
2000: James Hill (The Fairfield Four)
2002: Rosco Gordon
2005: Luther Vandross
2007: Rod Lauren

Events

1946: Dean Martin begins his recording career mere weeks before teaming up with nightclub comic Jerry Lewis.
1962: The Telstar satellite, the first active communications satellite, is launched by AT&T, inspiring the Tornadoes' instrumental hit of the same name later that year.
1966: Elvis Presley begins filming his 24th motion picture, Double Trouble.
1976: Andy Gibb marries girlfriend Kim Reeder in Australia.
1976: Frank Sinatra marries for the fourth time, this time to Barbara Marx, former wife of the Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx.
1981: Longtime songwriting team Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager are divorced.
1992: Jerry Garcia introduces a series of neckties he's designed, bearing his name. President Bill Clinton immediately buys the set of eight.
1994: Michael Jackson's spokesperson publicly denies rampant rumors that the singer has married Lisa Marie Presley.
2002: The funeral of longtime Who bassist John Entwistle is held in St. Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, and attended by over 200 mourners.
2004: In an attempt to recapture Elvis' record of most UK Number Ones, his first single, 1954's "That's All Right," is rereleased on its 50th anniversary.

Releases

1964: Stevie Wonder, "Hey Harmonica Man"
1964: The Supremes, "Where Did Our Love Go?"
1969: David Bowie, "Space Oddity"
1969: The Rolling Stones, "Honky Tonk Women"
1970: The Who, "Summertime Blues"

Recording

1955: Elvis Presley, "I Forgot To Remember To Forget," "Mystery Train," "Trying To Get To You"
1968: The Beatles: "Revolution," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
1969: The Beatles: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "Something"

Charts

1960: The Hollywood Argyles' "Alley-Oop" hits #1
1964: Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody" enters the charts
1970: The soundtrack to the film Woodstock hits #1
1970: Three Dog Night's "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" hits #1