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WEEK IN REVIEW ARCHIVES
As received from musiciansfriend
January 26, 2005
This is the week that was in matters musical...
1956, Buddy Holly records for the first time for Decca at a session in Nashville ... Elvis Presley makes his national television debut on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show singing "Heartbreak Hotel"...
1958, The Champs release "Tequila" which will become one of the more successful one-word songs ... two band members, Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, will later form their own duo Seals & Crofts and score big hits in the '70s with "Hummingbird" and "Summer Breeze"...
1967, Jimi Hendrix and The Who perform at London's Saville Theatre...
1969, The Beatles, with Billy Preston joining them on organ, perform in public as a group for the last time on the roof of the Apple Studios building ... the performance is filmed for all to see later, but the famous roof-top jam ends after four songs when police show up to enforce a noise complaint from the neighbors...
1972, in what is becoming historically a bad week for bluesmen, Willie Dixon dies of heart failure in Burbank, California ... he will be remembered for his many blues and early rock classics ... "Hoochie Coochie Man," "Little Red Rooster," "Back Door Man," and many more ... Lightnin' Hopkins, Slim Harpo, and S.P. Leary also depart this mortal plane this week ... more than 40,000 file past Mahalia Jackson's coffin to pay final respects to the renowned gospel singer who died four days earlier ... at her funeral the next day, Sammy Davis Jr. reads a letter from President Nixon and Aretha Franklin sings "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"...
1973, KISS performs their first show at the Coventry Club in Queens ... they have yet to develop their trademark look ... Paul Stanley will later characterize the band's appearance as a New York Dolls look...
1978, workers at the EMI record processing plant in Britain take offense at the title of a Buzzcocks' single and refuse to press it ... the offending title is "Oh S**t" ... the record eventually does get pressed and the flip side, "What Do I Get?" becomes a #1 smash hit in the U.K...
1982, after a long struggle with cancer, blues guitarist and singer Lightnin' Hopkins dies in a Texas hospital ... his playing strongly influenced generations of guitarists discovering the blues...
1984, Michael Jackson's hair is ignited by pyrotechnics while filming a commercial for Pepsi ... he suffers scalp and neck burns requiring hospitalization ... Jackson will recover and the commercial will eventually be aired but sans footage of Michael in flames ... the event is later parodied in Neil Young's video, "This Note's for You" and in Eminem's clip, "Just Lose It"...
1994, former Supreme Mary Wilson flips her jeep on a freeway outside of Los Angeles .. .her 14-year-old son dies in the accident and Wilson is injured...
1999, a benefit concert is held in East Rutherford, New Jersey, for Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop killer ... Jamal's insistence on his innocence, as well as questions of fairness at his trial, have garnered him the support of numerous actors and musicians since he was convicted in 1982 of the death of police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death ... Rage Against the Machine, the Beastie Boys, Chumbawamba, Public Enemy's Chuck D, and Bad Religion perform ... 16,000 attend...
and that was the week that was.
January 26: Stephane Grapelli (1908), Eartha Kitt (1928 - some sources cite her birthday as January 17, 1928), Huey "Piano" Smith (1934), Derek Holt of the Climax Blues Band (1949), David Briggs of Little River Band (1951), Andy Hummell of Big Star (1951), Lucinda Williams (1953), Edward Van Halen (1957), Norman Hassan of UB40 (1958), Wham's Andrew Ridgley (1963), Soul II Soul's Jazzie B. (1963), gospel star Kirk Franklin (1970)
January 27: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756), Jerome Kern (1885), blues legend Elmore James (1918), Nick Mason of Pink Floyd (1945), Seth Justman of The J. Geils Band (1951), Brian Downey of Thin Lizzy (1951), Cowboy Junkies' Margo Timmins (1961), New Order's Gillian Gilbert (1961), Faith No More's Mike Patton (1968)
January 28: Arthur Rubenstein (1887), Mr. Acker Bilk (1929), Brian Keenan of the Chambers Brothers (1944), Dick Taylor of The Pretty Things (1944), Nedra Talley of The Ronettes (1946), Rick Allen of The Box Tops (1946), Mountain's Corky Laing (1948), The Alarm's Dave Sharp (1959), Sarah McLachlan (1968), rapper Rakim (1968), Cypress Hill's Muggs (1968), Joey Fatone of *NSYNC (1977), Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys (1980)
January 29: Huddie Ledbetter AKA Leadbelly (1889), David Byron of Uriah Heep (1947), Tommy Ramone of the Ramones (1949), Louie Perez of Los Lobos (1953), Eddie Jackson of Queensryche (1961)
January 30: Marty Balin of The Jefferson Airplane (1942), Steve Marriott of Small Faces (1947), William King of the Commodores (1949), Mary Ross of Quarterflash (1951), Steve Bartek of Oingo Boingo (1952), Shalamar's Jody Watley (1959), Johnny Lang (1981)
January 31: Franz Schubert (1797), vaudeville favorite Eddie Cantor (1892), blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes (1906), ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (1915), Mario Lanza (1921), Carol Channing of "Hello Dolly" fame (1923), composer Phillip Glass (1937), harpmeister Charlie Musselwhite (1944), Chicago's Terry Kath (1946), Harry Wayne Casey of K.C. & the Sunshine Band (1951), Phil Collins (1951), Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music (1951), Johnny Lydon aka Johnny Rotten (1956), Slayer's Jeff Hanneman (1964), Al Jaworski of Jesus Jones (1966), Jason Cooper of The Cure (1967), Justin Timberlake of *NSYNC and Britney Spears fame (1981)
February 1: Bob Shane of The Kingston Trio (1934), Don Everly (1937), Dr. Hook's Ray Sawyer (1937), Jimmy Carl Black of The Mothers of Invention (1938), Rick James (1952), Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1954), Lisa Marie Presley (1968), Patrick Wilson of Weezer (1969), Outkast's Big Boi (1975)
January 26: blues drummer S. P. Leary (1998)
January 27: Tin Pan Alley composer Gerald Marks (1997), Mahalia Jackson (1972)
January 28: recording pioneer John Mosley (1996)
January 29: the legendary Willie Dixon (1992)
January 30: songwriter Julius Dixon (2004), jazz producer Bob Thiele (1996), bluesman Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (1982)
January 31: mother-of-the-band Barbara Cowsill (1985), Blood, Sweat & Tears saxophonist Greg Herbert (1978), R&B singer-songwriter Buster Brown (1976), swamp bluesman Slim Harpo (1970)
February 1: songwriter John Jarrad (2001)