1962: Joe Meek wrote the instrumental "Telstar".
1964: The Beatles performed live on the ABC television show "Lucky Stars" performing "A Hard Day's Night", "Long Tall Sally", "Things We Said Today" and "You Can't Do That".
1964: "Under the Boardwalk" was the fastest-rising song on this date, moving up from 62 to 31 for the Drifters.
1964: "People" by Barbra Streisand remained #1 for the third week on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1964: "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys held on to #1 for a second straight week. Johnny Rivers moved into position with "Memphis", but the 4 Seasons were closing fast (8-3) with "Rag Doll". Gerry & the Pacemakers held steady at #4 with "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" and the Dave Clark Five moved from 10 to 5 with "Can't You See That She's Mine". The rest of the Top 10: Millie Small fell with "My Boy Lollipop", Barbra Streisand dropped to #7 with "People", Peter & Gordon were at #8 with "A World Without Love", Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto moved into the Top 10 with the great song "The Girl From Ipanema" and Chuck Berry moved up to #10 with his 21st hit but first Top 10 in six years--"No Particular Place To Go".
1966: Monday, the traditional date for single releases, fell on July 11th and Lovin' Spoonful released "Summer in the City"
on this date.
.
1967: Following his departure from the New Christy Minstrels the day before, Kenny Rogers formed the First Edition with Rogers' mates in the Christy Minstrels Thelma Camacho, Mike Settle and Terry Williams.
1969: David Bowie released "Space Oddity" in the U.K., timing the release with the Apollo moon landing.
1970: Bread moved up from 44 to 20 with the first single of their career, "Make It with You".
1970: The Jackson 5 spent a sixth week at #1 on the R&B chart with "The Love You Save".
1970: "Close To You" by the Carpenters took over at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1970: Three Dog Night saw their fourth Top 10 in their last five releases go to #1, when "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" hit the top. The Jackson 5 fell with "The Love You Save" and the Temptations remained at 3 with "Ball of Confusion"> Blues Image were up to 4 with "Ride Captain Ride" and Freda Payne rolled up to position #5 with "Band of Gold". The rest of the Top 10: Melanie with "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), the Carpenters roared up from 14 with "Close To You", the Beatles had another double-sided hit, at #8 with their 63rd and 64th hits in seven years--"The Long and Winding Road" and "For You Blue" while Vanity Fare were on their way down with "Hitchin' a Ride".
1971: The Bruce Springsteen Band appeared with Humble Pie at the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
1974: "The Mac Davis" summertime television show premiered.
1976: Frank Sinatra married Barbara Marx.
1979: Neil Young released the album Rust Never Sleeps and the concert film also debuted at the Bruin Theater in Westwood, California.
1981: Cliff Richard's "Love Songs" was the top album in the U.K.
1981: Pablo Cruise had the fastest-rising song of the week, rising from 75 to 55 with "Cool Love".
1981: Kenny Rogers topped the Adult Contemporary chart with "I Don't Need You".
1981: "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, which was #1 for five weeks before slipping to #2, was #1 again for the third straight week. George Harrison remained at 2 with "All Those Years Ago" and Air Supply ("The One That You Love" and Rick Springfield ("Jessie's Girl" held suit as well. The rest of the Top 10: Hall & Oates with the fourth hit for their album Voices--"You Make My Dreams", the Oak Ridge Boys found themselves at 6 with "Elvira", the former #1 "Stars on 45" medley was #7, Joey Scarbury hit #8 with "Theme From 'Greatest American Hero' (Believe It or Not)" , Kenny Rogers moved up to 9 with 'I Don't Need You" and the Pointer Sisters made a move into the Top 10 with "Slow Hand".
1982: Phil Collen replaced Pete Wills at guitar for Def Leppard.
1983: Bonnie Tyler released "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
1987: Heart's sixth hit in the last two years, "Alone", reached #1. Kim Wilde had to relinquish the spot with "You Keep Me Hangin' On". Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam held on to #3 with "Head To Toe", Genesis was at 4 with "In Too Deep" and Whitney Houston had song # 5 with "I Wanna' Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)". The rest of the Top 10: "The Lady in Red" from Chris DeBurgh, Bon Jovi had #7--"Wanted Dead or Alive", Herb Alpert had his 39th hit with "Diamonds", U2 was down to 9 with their former #1 "With or Without You" and Smokey Robinson moved into the Top 10 with "Just To See Her".
1991: Prolific songwriters Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager filed for divorce.
1991: Roger Christian, lyricist who wrote for the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, died at the age of 57.
1992: A line of eight ties designed by Jerry Garcia went on sale in the United States, selling millions.
1992: "Tennessee" by Arrested Development was the #1 R&B song.
The Peppers reached #3
1992: "Baby Got Back" spent a second week at #1 on the less-important "popular chart" by Sir Mix-A-Lot. Mariah Carey was at 2 with "I'll Be There", Red Hot Chili Peppers remained at 3 with their great song "Under the Bridge" and Celine Dion had #4--"If You Asked Me To".
1992: Mariah
1992: No Fences by Garth Brooks, which had already been a dominant #1 album and fell out of the Top 10 in June, re-entered the Top 10 on this date after 95 weeks on the album chart.
1992: Herbert Kenny of the Ink Spots died of cancer at the age of 77.
1993: Neil Young, Pearl Jam and Booker T & the MG's appeared at Finsbury Park in London.
1995: Mike Mills of R.E.M. had to have emergency intestinal surgery in Germany. The group canceled seven concert dates.
1999: Ricky Martin topped the chart in the U.K. with "Livin' La Vida Loca".
1999: Limp Bizkit had the top album in the United States with Significant Other.
2000: Lars Ulrich of Metallica was the first witness to testify at a United States Senate hearing concerning free sharing of music files on the Internet.
2001: The Eagles were in concert at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany.
2002: St. Edward in Stow-on-the-wold Church in the Cotswolds hosted the funeral for John Entwistle, bass player of the Who.
2004: Lionel Richie, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morisette, Lenny Kravitz, Nelly Furtado and the Corrs play the Prince's Trust concert in London's Hyde Park.
2004: The Black Eyed Peas, Pink, Franz Ferdinand, the Darkness and Muse appeared at the T in the Park Scottish Festival.
2004: Lloyd Banks owned the top album with Hunger for More.
2004: Bobby Brown turned himself in to Georgia police to face assault and battery charges. The idiot is accused of hitting wife Whitney Houston in December. And ruining her life, her career, etc.
2004: Usher topped all others on the U.K. album chart with Burn.
2006: Dennis Yost, great lead singer of Classics IV, suffered brain trauma when he fell down two flights of stairs at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2006: Bill Miller, pianist for Frank Sinatra for over 40 years, died at the age of 91 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2009: The Eagles performed at the MEN in Manchester, England.
2009: "I Gotta' Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas began a 14-week at #1 ending the 12-week stay by the group's "Boom Boom Pow". It was just the fourth time in the Rock Era that an artist had replaced themselves at #1. The others were the Beatles, Boyz II Men and Outkast.
Born This Day:
1911: Mitch Miller, leader of the Mitch Miller Gang and A&R head of Columbia records, was born in Rochester, New York
1931: Tab Hunter ("Young Love")
1931: Thurston Harris ("Little Bitty Pretty One") was born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1949: Jeff Hanna of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1951: Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sisters and a solo performer ("Heaven Must Have Sent You" from 1979), was born in Oakland, California
1953: Peter Brown ("Dance With Me" from 1978) was born in Blue Island, Illinois
1954: Bennie DeFranco of the DeFranco Family ("Heartbeat--It's a Lovebeat" from 1973) was born in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
1959: Suzanne Vega ("Luka") was born in Santa Monica, California
1959: Richie Sambora, great guitarist with Bon Jovi, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
1966: Melanie Appleby of Mel and Kim was born in Hackney, London; died at the age of 23 following treatment for metastatic paraganglioma on January 18, 1990
1975: Lil' Kim (Kimberley Jones) was born in New York City Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-day-in-rock-music-history-july-11.html
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1964: The Beatles performed live on the ABC television show "Lucky Stars" performing "A Hard Day's Night", "Long Tall Sally", "Things We Said Today" and "You Can't Do That".
1964: "Under the Boardwalk" was the fastest-rising song on this date, moving up from 62 to 31 for the Drifters.
1964: "People" by Barbra Streisand remained #1 for the third week on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1964: "I Get Around" by the Beach Boys held on to #1 for a second straight week. Johnny Rivers moved into position with "Memphis", but the 4 Seasons were closing fast (8-3) with "Rag Doll". Gerry & the Pacemakers held steady at #4 with "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" and the Dave Clark Five moved from 10 to 5 with "Can't You See That She's Mine". The rest of the Top 10: Millie Small fell with "My Boy Lollipop", Barbra Streisand dropped to #7 with "People", Peter & Gordon were at #8 with "A World Without Love", Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto moved into the Top 10 with the great song "The Girl From Ipanema" and Chuck Berry moved up to #10 with his 21st hit but first Top 10 in six years--"No Particular Place To Go".
1966: Monday, the traditional date for single releases, fell on July 11th and Lovin' Spoonful released "Summer in the City"
on this date.
.
1967: Following his departure from the New Christy Minstrels the day before, Kenny Rogers formed the First Edition with Rogers' mates in the Christy Minstrels Thelma Camacho, Mike Settle and Terry Williams.
1969: David Bowie released "Space Oddity" in the U.K., timing the release with the Apollo moon landing.
1970: Bread moved up from 44 to 20 with the first single of their career, "Make It with You".
1970: The Jackson 5 spent a sixth week at #1 on the R&B chart with "The Love You Save".
1970: "Close To You" by the Carpenters took over at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1970: Three Dog Night saw their fourth Top 10 in their last five releases go to #1, when "Mama Told Me (Not To Come)" hit the top. The Jackson 5 fell with "The Love You Save" and the Temptations remained at 3 with "Ball of Confusion"> Blues Image were up to 4 with "Ride Captain Ride" and Freda Payne rolled up to position #5 with "Band of Gold". The rest of the Top 10: Melanie with "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), the Carpenters roared up from 14 with "Close To You", the Beatles had another double-sided hit, at #8 with their 63rd and 64th hits in seven years--"The Long and Winding Road" and "For You Blue" while Vanity Fare were on their way down with "Hitchin' a Ride".
1971: The Bruce Springsteen Band appeared with Humble Pie at the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
1974: "The Mac Davis" summertime television show premiered.
1976: Frank Sinatra married Barbara Marx.
1979: Neil Young released the album Rust Never Sleeps and the concert film also debuted at the Bruin Theater in Westwood, California.
1981: Cliff Richard's "Love Songs" was the top album in the U.K.
1981: Pablo Cruise had the fastest-rising song of the week, rising from 75 to 55 with "Cool Love".
1981: Kenny Rogers topped the Adult Contemporary chart with "I Don't Need You".
1981: "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes, which was #1 for five weeks before slipping to #2, was #1 again for the third straight week. George Harrison remained at 2 with "All Those Years Ago" and Air Supply ("The One That You Love" and Rick Springfield ("Jessie's Girl" held suit as well. The rest of the Top 10: Hall & Oates with the fourth hit for their album Voices--"You Make My Dreams", the Oak Ridge Boys found themselves at 6 with "Elvira", the former #1 "Stars on 45" medley was #7, Joey Scarbury hit #8 with "Theme From 'Greatest American Hero' (Believe It or Not)" , Kenny Rogers moved up to 9 with 'I Don't Need You" and the Pointer Sisters made a move into the Top 10 with "Slow Hand".
1982: Phil Collen replaced Pete Wills at guitar for Def Leppard.
1983: Bonnie Tyler released "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
1987: Heart's sixth hit in the last two years, "Alone", reached #1. Kim Wilde had to relinquish the spot with "You Keep Me Hangin' On". Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam held on to #3 with "Head To Toe", Genesis was at 4 with "In Too Deep" and Whitney Houston had song # 5 with "I Wanna' Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)". The rest of the Top 10: "The Lady in Red" from Chris DeBurgh, Bon Jovi had #7--"Wanted Dead or Alive", Herb Alpert had his 39th hit with "Diamonds", U2 was down to 9 with their former #1 "With or Without You" and Smokey Robinson moved into the Top 10 with "Just To See Her".
1991: Prolific songwriters Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager filed for divorce.
1991: Roger Christian, lyricist who wrote for the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, died at the age of 57.
1992: A line of eight ties designed by Jerry Garcia went on sale in the United States, selling millions.
1992: "Tennessee" by Arrested Development was the #1 R&B song.
The Peppers reached #3
1992: "Baby Got Back" spent a second week at #1 on the less-important "popular chart" by Sir Mix-A-Lot. Mariah Carey was at 2 with "I'll Be There", Red Hot Chili Peppers remained at 3 with their great song "Under the Bridge" and Celine Dion had #4--"If You Asked Me To".
1992: Mariah
1992: No Fences by Garth Brooks, which had already been a dominant #1 album and fell out of the Top 10 in June, re-entered the Top 10 on this date after 95 weeks on the album chart.
1992: Herbert Kenny of the Ink Spots died of cancer at the age of 77.
1993: Neil Young, Pearl Jam and Booker T & the MG's appeared at Finsbury Park in London.
1995: Mike Mills of R.E.M. had to have emergency intestinal surgery in Germany. The group canceled seven concert dates.
1999: Ricky Martin topped the chart in the U.K. with "Livin' La Vida Loca".
1999: Limp Bizkit had the top album in the United States with Significant Other.
2000: Lars Ulrich of Metallica was the first witness to testify at a United States Senate hearing concerning free sharing of music files on the Internet.
2001: The Eagles were in concert at the Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany.
2002: St. Edward in Stow-on-the-wold Church in the Cotswolds hosted the funeral for John Entwistle, bass player of the Who.
2004: Lionel Richie, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morisette, Lenny Kravitz, Nelly Furtado and the Corrs play the Prince's Trust concert in London's Hyde Park.
2004: The Black Eyed Peas, Pink, Franz Ferdinand, the Darkness and Muse appeared at the T in the Park Scottish Festival.
2004: Lloyd Banks owned the top album with Hunger for More.
2004: Bobby Brown turned himself in to Georgia police to face assault and battery charges. The idiot is accused of hitting wife Whitney Houston in December. And ruining her life, her career, etc.
2004: Usher topped all others on the U.K. album chart with Burn.
2006: Dennis Yost, great lead singer of Classics IV, suffered brain trauma when he fell down two flights of stairs at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2006: Bill Miller, pianist for Frank Sinatra for over 40 years, died at the age of 91 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2009: The Eagles performed at the MEN in Manchester, England.
2009: "I Gotta' Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas began a 14-week at #1 ending the 12-week stay by the group's "Boom Boom Pow". It was just the fourth time in the Rock Era that an artist had replaced themselves at #1. The others were the Beatles, Boyz II Men and Outkast.
Born This Day:
1911: Mitch Miller, leader of the Mitch Miller Gang and A&R head of Columbia records, was born in Rochester, New York
1931: Tab Hunter ("Young Love")
1931: Thurston Harris ("Little Bitty Pretty One") was born in Indianapolis, Indiana
1949: Jeff Hanna of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
1951: Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sisters and a solo performer ("Heaven Must Have Sent You" from 1979), was born in Oakland, California
1953: Peter Brown ("Dance With Me" from 1978) was born in Blue Island, Illinois
1954: Bennie DeFranco of the DeFranco Family ("Heartbeat--It's a Lovebeat" from 1973) was born in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
1959: Suzanne Vega ("Luka") was born in Santa Monica, California
1959: Richie Sambora, great guitarist with Bon Jovi, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
1966: Melanie Appleby of Mel and Kim was born in Hackney, London; died at the age of 23 following treatment for metastatic paraganglioma on January 18, 1990
1975: Lil' Kim (Kimberley Jones) was born in New York City Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/07/this-day-in-rock-music-history-july-11.html
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