AUGUST 24th MUSICAL NOTES
1956 – Elvis Presley recorded ‘Love Me Tender’
1963 – Stevie Wonder became the first artist ever to score a US No.1 album and single in the same week. Wonder was at No.1 on the album chart with “Little Stevie Wonder / The 12 Year Old Genius” and had the No.1 single ‘Fingertips part 2′. This was also the first ever live recording to make No.1
1964 – Beatles manager Brian Epstein met Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker for the first time, at the Beverly Hills Hotel
1967 – The Beatles attended their first transcendental meditation lecture by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1967 – A 17 year old Bruce Springsteen joined a group called ‘Earth’
1968 – The Who’s Keith Moon drove his Lincoln Continental into the swimming pool of the Flint, Michigan Holiday Inn
1969 – The film version of Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” opened in New York and Los Angeles
1977 – Waylon Jennings was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine. He had recently been named an honorary police chief
1979 – B.B. King celebrated his 30th year in show business at a special event held at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles
2004 – Al Dvorin, the announcer who popularised the phrase “Elvis has left the building” died in a car crash, ironically on his way home from an Elvis convention in California. Dvorin aged 81, was in a car driven by Elvis photographer Ed Bonja.
In the early 1970s, Colonel Parker asked Dvorin to inform fans at a gig that Presley would not be appearing for an encore. He took to the stage and announced: “Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and goodnight”
Source:
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