9 AUGUST
In Music History
1978 Muddy Waters performs at the Carter White House.
1975 Composer/pianist Dmitry Shostakovich dies of lung cancer at age 68 in Moscow, Russia.
1974 Four members of the jazz-rock group Chase, including leader Bill Chase, are killed in a plane crash near Jackson, Minnesota. The group had a hit with "Get It On" in 1971.
1974 Gilbert O'Sullivan's "A Woman's Place/Too Bad" is released on the MAM label in the UK.
1972 Arion Salazar (bass guitarist for Third Eye Blind) is born in Oakland, California.
1969 Sly and the Family Stone release "Hot Fun In The Summertime."
1969 Three Dog Night releases "Easy To Be Hard."
1967 At England's National Jazz and Blues Festival in Sunberry, Jerry Lee Lewis is kicked off the stage after the overenthusiastic crowd responds to his set with a near-riot.
1963 The musical variety show Ready! Steady! Go! premieres in the UK with performances by The Searchers, Pat Boone and The Tremoloes. It becomes a showcase for top musical acts, running until 1966.
1959 Rapper Kurtis Blow is born Kurt Walker in The Bronx, New York.
1947 Singer-songwriter Amanda McBroom is born.
1947 R&B/Soul singer Barbara Mason is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1946 Marinus "Rinus" Gerritsen (bassist, keyboardist for Golden Earring) is born in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands.
1946 John Parry (trombonist for The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) is born.
1944 Vivian "Viv" Prince (drummer for The Pretty Things) is born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.
Jerry Garcia Dies
1995Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead dies from a heart attack at age 53. His voice fills the airwaves as millions of Deadheads mourn.
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1995 The original members of Kiss play together for the first time since 1980 when Peter Criss and Ace Frehley join the current band to record their MTV Unplugged special, which is later released as the album Kiss Unplugged. Not counting Ace Frehley's 1976 wedding, it also marks the only time the original members have performed without makeup. The appearance goes over so well that Criss and Frehley rejoin the band in 1996, replacing Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer. The subsequent outing becomes the top-grossing tour that year.
1986 At the Knebworth Park Festival in England, Queen play their last concert with Freddie Mercury, who dies five years later. An audience of 120,000 hears them close out with "We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions" and "God Save The Queen."
1975 "Jive Talkin'" by the Bee Gees goes to #1 in the US, becoming their first disco chart-topper. It holds the position for two weeks.
1963 Whitney Houston is born in Newark, New Jersey.
1961 The movie Come September, starring first-time actor Bobby Darin and his wife Sandra Dee, opens in theaters. The pair met on set and married after a whirlwind romance.
1949 In New York, Louis Jordan records "Saturday Night Fish Fry," a #1 R&B hit for 12 weeks.
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