Today In Oldies Music History: July 30

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Births

1929: Christine McGuire (The McGuire Sisters)
1936: Buddy Guy
1941: Paul Anka
1945: David Sanborn
1946: Jeffrey Hammond (Jethro Tull)
1947: Marc Bolan (T. Rex)
1949: Andy Scott (Sweet)
1949: Joyce Jones (First Choice)
1949: Hugh Nicholson (Marmalade)

Deaths

1955: Les Elgart
1978: Glen Goine (Parliament-Funkadelic)
2003: Sam Phillips

Events

1942: Frank Sinatra ends his association with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, recording the last two of over 90 songs before moving on to great acclaim as a solo star at Columbia.

1954: Elvis Presley makes his first official concert appearance as a solo act, opening for Slim Whitman at Memphis' Overton Park Shell outdoor auditorium, billed third as "Ellis Presley" and performing "That's All Right, Mama," "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," and "I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')." In the middle of the first song, a badly stage-frightened Elvis unconsciously begins to duplicate a move he usually made in the studio, shaking his leg in time with the music. The crowd of (mostly) girls goes absolutely wild, confusing Elvis and his band.
1969: The Beatles, producer George Martin, and the Abbey Road engineers assemble the first rough cut of the proposed Abbey Road medley. Paul McCartney, feeling that the song "Her Majesty" distracts from the flow of the medley, has it removed and orders it erased. Second engineer John Kurlander, not wanting to destroy a Beatles song, instead appends it to the end of the medley tape, adding 15 seconds of leader to make sure it's kept separate. When he finds out, Paul likes the effect so much that he leaves the ending of the album just that way.

1986:Variety reports that RCA has fired John Denver after learning of his new single, entitled "What Are We Making Weapons For?" General Electric, which had just bought out RCA, was one of the country's largest defense contractors.
2003: In order to prove that the city is still safe to visit after a recent SARS outbreak, Toronto, Canada puts on the largest concert in the country's history, a massive open-air extravagaza featuring The Rolling Stones, The Guess Who, Rush, The Isley Brothers, The Flaming Lips and Justin Timberlake, among others. Total attendance is somewhere around 450,000.
2004: While walking around London, the Isley Brothers' Ronald Isley suffers a minor stroke and is admitted to a local hospital. He recovers in a matter of just a few weeks.

Releases

None

Recording

1942: Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, "There Are Such Things"
1956: Brenda Lee: "Jambalaya," "Bigelow 6-500"
1963: The Beatles: "Please Mr. Postman," "It Won't Be Long," "Money (That's What I Want)," "Till There Was You," "Roll Over Beethoven," "All My Loving"
1968: The Beatles, "Hey Jude"
1969: The Beatles: "You Never Give Me Your Money," "Come Together," "Polythene Pam," "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window," "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight"

Charts

1966: The Troggs' "Wild Thing" hits #1
1966: The Beatles' Yesterday ...And Today LP hits #1
1977: Andy Gibb's "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything" enters the charts

Certifications

None