Today in Oldies Music History: May 29

Today In Oldies Music History: May 29

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Births

1903: Bob Hope
1936: Sylvia Vanderpool (Mickey and Sylvia)
1941: Roy Crewsdon (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1942: Sir Monti Rock III (Disco Tex and his Sex-O-Lettes)
1945: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)
1950: Joey Levine (Ohio Express, Reunion)
1955: Mike Porcaro (Toto)

Deaths

1977: Goddard Lieberson
1989: John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1996: Jimmy Rowles
2005: Oscar Brown Jr.

Events

1959: Herndon Stadium in Atlanta holds one of the first outdoor rock concerts, featuring Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, and B.B. King. Nine thousand people attend.
1971: Three dozen audiences members attending today's Grateful Dead show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom are treated for hallucinations after drinking apple juice purposefully spiked with LSD (some say by the band themselves).
1972: After seeing his protest song "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" banned by the BBC for its content, Paul McCartney puckishly rush releases a version of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" as the followup. In the US, where no one is in on the joke, it actually makes it to #28.
1973: The Byrds officially disband for good (or so it seems) when founder and leader Roger McGuinn performs his first solo concert at New York's Academy of Music.
1975: The Osmonds' appearance at Wembley Pool in London sets off a riot amongst fans.
1977: Elvis leaves his show in Baltimore, MD for a full half-hour, angering and bewildering fans.
1983: KISS play their last concert in their traditional makeup (although, reformed with all original members, they would return to the painted faces in 1996).
1987: Michael Jackson's reputed offer of $50,000 for the bones of John Merrick, the infamous "Elephant Man," is first made public.
1988: Bob Dylan duets with Band drummer Levon Helm on the group's "The Weight" at a Helm show in New York. The duo also perform Chuck Berry's "Nadine."
1989: Elvis Presley's first grandchild, Danielle Riley Keough, is born to Lisa Marie Presley.
1992: After the recent AIDS-related death of lead singer Freddie Mercury, the Queen song "We Are The Champions" is banned from the graduation ceremony at Sacred Heart private school in Clifton, NJ.
1999: Photographers taking shots of old cars wrecked at the bottom of Malibu's Decker Canyon discover the body of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Kramer, who had gone missing on February 12, 1995. His death is ruled a suicide.

Releases

1973: Mike Oldfield, {i]Tubular Bells

Recording

1942: Bing Crosby, "White Christmas"
1958: Little Anthony and the Imperials, "Tears On My Pillow"

Charts

1961: Ricky Nelson's "Travelin' Man" hits #1
1963: Del Shannon's "From Me To You" enters the charts
1965: The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" hits #1
1971: The Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs" enters the charts
1971: The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" hits #1
1976: Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" hits #1

Certifications

1972: The Osmonds' LP Phase III is certified gold