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Fw: Music History for May 12


 

From: Jackie Schmitt






Music History for
May 12


1955 - Gisele MacKenzie played a singer on the NBC-TV program, "Justice."?

1960 - Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley appeared on the same TV special and performed the other's hit. Elvis sang "Witchcraft" and Sinatra sang "Love Me Tender."?

1963 - Bob Dylan walked out of dress rehearsals for "The Ed Sullivan Show" when CBS censors told him he could not perform "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues."?

1965 - "Satisfaction" was recorded by the Rolling Stones.?

1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their debut album "Are You Experienced."?

1967 - Archie Bell (Drells) was drafted into the U.S. military for a tour of Vietnam.?

1969 - Fashion designer Jeannie "Genie the Tailor" Franklyn and drummer Martin Lamble (Fairport Convention) were killed in a car accident in London.??

1971 - Jerry Lee Lewis was granted a divorce from his cousin Myra.?

1971 - Mick Jagger and Bianca Perez Morena de Macias were married.?

1972 - The Rolling Stones released the album "Exile on Main St."?

1977 - "Hotel California" earned a gold record for the Eagles.?

1980 - The single "It's Still Rock & Roll" was released by Billy Joel.?

1985 - An honorary Doctor of Music degree was given to Lionel Richie from his alma mater Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.?

1999 - George Jones pled guilty to driving while impaired and violating the Tennessee's open-container law in Franklin. He was fined $550.?

2002 - At Miami International Airport, Dionne Warwick was arrested when baggage screeners found 11 marijuana cigarettes inside her lipstick container.?

2002 - Tom Hamilton's (Aerosmith) home in Cape Cod was destroyed by a fire. The house was under construction at the time.?


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