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June 17, 1930 Electric guitarist Cliff Gallup (of Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps) is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
May 24, 1930 After taking off from Croydon, London, on May 5, the British aviator Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia, inspiring the songs "Amy" (by Horatio Nicholls) and "Flying Sorcery" (by Al Stewart).
December 23, 1929 Jazz singer/trumpeter Chet Baker is born Chesney Henry Baker Jr. in Yale, Oklahoma. He hits his stride in the '50s when he joins the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and releases his signature hit "My Funny Valentine."
November 15, 1929 Soul singer Joe Hinton is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Known for the 1964 hit "Funny How Time Slips Away," written by Willie Nelson.
September 17, 1929 Jazz saxophonist Sil Austin is born in Dunnellon, Florida. Known for his signature tune, "Danny Boy."
August 12, 1929 Country singer-songwriter Buck Owens is born Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. in Sherman, Texas.
August 3, 1929 Arthur Wood (keyboardist for The Climax Blues Band) is born.
June 15, 1929 Nigel Pickering (rhythm guitarist for Spanky and Our Gang) is born in Pontiac, Michigan.
May 12, 1929 Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri.More
May 2, 1929 Rock and roll guitarist Link Wray is born Fred Lincoln Wray Jr. in Dunn, North Carolina.
April 16, 1929 R&B singer Roy Hamilton ("Unchained Melody," "You'll Never Walk Alone") is born in Leesburg, Georgia.
April 5, 1929 English record producer Joe Meek, famous for writing and producing the Tornados' instrumental hit "Telstar," is born Robert George Meek in Newent, Gloucestershire, England.
December 13, 1928 An American in Paris, a musical by George Gershwin, premieres in New York City. In 1951, it's turned into a movie starring Gene Kelly.
December 4, 1928 Louis Armstrong records "Basin Street Blues," named for a street in New Orleans known as a hub for jazz music. The song has been around for two years, but Armstrong's version becomes the standard.
November 22, 1928 Maurice Ravel's one-movement rhythmic orchestral work Boléro premieres at the Paris Opera.
August 10, 1928 Country singer/musician Jimmy Dean is born in Plainview, Texas.
August 6, 1928 Andy Warhol, who makes his mark on the music world as manager for the The Velvet Underground and designer of the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers album cover, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
June 29, 1928 The Winterland Ballroom opens in San Francisco, California. It's an ice-skating rink that can be converted into a general entertainment venue for opera, boxing, and other events, costing a whopping (for 1928) $1 million to build. It will go on to become a concert location for many famous acts, including The Sex Pistols, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Peter Frampton, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, and Pink Floyd.
May 3, 1928 Country singer Dave Dudley is born David Darwin Pedruska in Spencer, Wisconsin.
April 3, 1928 Country singer-songwriter Don Gibson ("Sweet Dreams," "I Can't Stop Loving You") is born in Shelby, North Carolina.
March 1, 1928 Paul Whiteman and Paul Robeson record "Ol' Man River" for the stage production of Show Boat.
February 15, 1928 "Among My Souvenirs" is the top song in America according to Variety.
January 31, 1928 Chuck Willis, known for his rendition of "C.C. Rider," is born in Atlanta.
December 27, 1927 Show Boat opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway, changing the paradigm for modern musicals.More
December 3, 1927 Columbia Records talent scout Frank Buckley Walker records Blind Willie Johnson, Billiken Johnson, and Coley Jones in Dallas, Texas. The recordings turn Johnson into one of the most popular musical acts of his time and capture his immortal "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground."
November 11, 1927 Jazz-blues singer and pianist Mose Allison is born on his grandfather's farm near Tippo, Mississippi.
October 31, 1927 Hoagy Carmichael records his most famous composition, "Star Dust."
October 13, 1927 Country singer Anita Kerr, leader of The Anita Kerr Singers, is born Anita Jean Grilli in Memphis, Tennessee. Her group will perform backing vocals for Red Foley, Ernest Tubb, Roy Orbison, and Willie Nelson, among others.
October 12, 1927 Guitarist Joe Olivier (of Bill Haley And His Comets) is born in Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands.
October 6, 1927 The first talking picture is released: The Jazz Singer, a musical starring Al Jolson. Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" is one of the first songs heard by talkie audiences.
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