June 30:
1936: Dave Van Ronk
1943: Florence Ballard (The Supremes)
1944: Glenn Shorrock
1951: Stanley Clarke (Return to Forever)
1960: Brendan O’Brien (Producer)
2001: Chet Atkins dies in Nashville aged 77.
July 1:
1915: Willie Dixon
1928: Bobby Day ( ‘Rockin Robin’, Bob And Earl’s ‘Harlem Shuffle’ in 1963). Died on July 27, 1990
1935: James Cotton
1939: Delaney Bramlett
1945: Debbie Harry (Blondie)
1949: John Farnham
1951: Fred Schneider (The B-52’s)
1952: Dan Akroyd
1960: Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King
1963: The Beatles record ‘She Loves You’/’I’ll Get You’ at Emi Studios, London.
1968: Music From Big Pink by The Band is released.
1979: Sony introduces The Walkman!
1995: Wolfman Jack dies of a heart attack.
1999: Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer, dies aged 42.
July 2:
1926: Lee Allen, saxophonist, who worked with Fats Domino, Little Richard and Shirley & Lee. Allen died on 18 October 1994.
1936: Tom Springfield (The Springfields)
1937: Dee Palmer (Jethro Tull)
1939: Paul Williams (The Temptations)
1949: Roy ‘The Professor’ Bittan (E Street Band)
1952: Gene Taylor (Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Canned Heat, The Blasters, The Fabulous Thunderbirds). Died on 20 February 2021 age 68.
July 3:
1929: David Lynch (The Platters)
1930: Tommy Tedesco (Guitarist)
1940: Fontella Bass
1943: Judith Durham (The Seekers)
1948: Paul Barrere (Little Feat)
1952: Andy Fraser (Free, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers)
1969: Brian Jones dies of drowning, aged 27.
1971: Jim Morrison dies in Paris, aged 27.
1972: Mississippi Fred McDowell dies, aged 68.
1973: Laurens Hammond the inventor of the Hammond organ died aged 73.
July 4:
1930: Tommy Tedesco, session guitarist.
1938: Bill Withers
1943: Alan Wilson (Canned Heat)
1944: Harvey Brooks. American session bassist Harvey Brooks. He played bass on Bob Dylan's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited as well as recording with The Doors, Miles Davis, Cass Elliot, John Martyn, Seals & Crofts, Fontella Bass, John Sebastian, Loudon Wainwright III, John Cale and many other acts.
1947: Top Topham, UK, first guitarist for The Yardbirds. Died on 23 January 2023, at the age of 75.
1948: Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac)
1958: Kirk Pengilly (INXS)
2004: Barry White dies, aged 58.
July 5:
1920: Smiley Lewis. Died on 20th October 1966.
1943: Robbie Robertson (The Band)
1950: Huey Lewis (Huey Lewis and the News)
1959: Marc Cohn
1966: The Animals’ Chas Chandler goes to see Jimi Hendrix play at Café Wha in New York. He suggests that Hendrix should go to London and he becomes his manager.
1969: The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London's Hyde Park before an audience of 250,000, as a tribute to Brian Jones who had died two days earlier. Mick Jagger read an extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Adonais' and released 3,500 butterflies; it was also guitarist's Mick Taylor's debut with the Stones, King Crimson, Family, The Third Ear Band, Screw and Alexis Korner's New Church also appeared on the day.
July 6:
1925: Bill Haley
1937: Gene Chandler
1939: Jet Harris, bass guitarist with The Shadows until 1962.
1944: Byron Berline
American fiddle player Byron Berline. He joined The Flying Burrito Brothers in 1971, worked with Stephen Stills's band Manassas and played on ‘Country Honk’ on the Rolling Stones' album Let It Bleed. He also worked with many other artists including: Bob Dylan, Elton John, The Byrds, Janis Ian, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Rod Stewart, The Eagles and The Band. He died on 10 July 2021 age of 77.
1949: Michael Shrieve
American drummer and, percussionist Michael Shrieve best known as the drummer of Santana. He played on all albums from 1969 to 1974. When he was 20, Shrieve was one of the youngest musicians to perform at Woodstock in 1969.
1954: Nanci Griffith
1957: John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete where The Quarry Men were appearing.
1964: The Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night premieres at The Pavilion in London.
1968: ‘Jumpin Jack Flash’ by The Rolling Stones hits No.1 in the USA.
1971: Louis Armstrong dies.
1979: Van McCoy, (‘The Hustkle’), singer/producer/songwriter dies.
1979: Nic Cester (Jet)
2003: Skip Battin bassist and songwriter with The Byrds died of complications from Alzheimer's disease. (1965 US & UK No.1 single 'Mr Tambourine Man'). Also played with New Riders Of The Purple Sage and The Flying Burrito Brothers.
GO SET TOP 20 ALBUM CHART – JULY 6, 1974
1.(1) TUBULAR BELLS Mike Oldfield
2.(3) THE STING Soundtrack
3.(2) BAND ON THE RUN Paul McCartney & Wings
4.(4) BUDDAH AND THE CHOCOLATE BOX Cat Stevens
5.(5) GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD Elton John
6.(6) CAN THE CAN Suzi Quatro
7.(9) MY NAME MEANS HORSE Ross Ryan
8.(8) BURN Deep Purple
9.(7) HOT AUGUST NIGHT Neil Diamond
10.(10)THE WAY WE WERE Barbara Streisand
11.(12) DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Pink Floyd
12.(11) AMERICAN GRAFITTI Soundtrack
13.(13) SABBATH, BLOODY SABBATH Black Sabbath
14.(-) THAT'LL BE THE DAY Soundtrack
15.(18) MORE ARSE THAN CLASS Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
16.(-) DIAMOND DOGS David Bowie
17.(16) STONE GONE Barry White
18.(-) HARD ROAD Stevie Wright
19.(15) KAMAHL AT THE OPERA HOUSE Kamahl
20.(14) OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND BLUE Slade