This Day in Music Advance for the week of March 19-25

THIS DAY IN MUSIC
From The Entertainment News Wire
Advance for the week of March 19-25

This Day in Music
For March 19, 2007
From Nielsen Entertainment News Wire

2002 - Jazz organist Big John Patton dies in Montclair, N.J., of complications from diabetes and kidney failure. He is 66.
2001 - Composer Monty Norman is awarded 30,000 pounds after a London High Court jury decides he had been libeled in a newspaper article that claimed he did not write the theme song to the James Bond films.
2000 - Clancy Can, a thoroughbred owned by Toby Keith, finishes first in the sixth race at the Oaklawn Jockey Club in Hot Springs, Ark. Considered a longshot, the three-year-old pays $32.70 to win in the six-furlong race featuring horses that had never won a race before.
1999 - Country singer George Jones walks out of the hospital 13 days after a near fatal traffic accident. Jones, 67, thanks Vanderbilt University Medical Center doctors and nurses before climbing aboard his tour bus for the ride home to a Nashville suburb.
1999 - Spanish rock act Dover plays its first U.S. concert.
1993 - Drummer Jeff Ward of the industrial rock band Low Pop Suicide is found dead at his home in Chicago. The 30-year-old drummer is believed to have committed suicide. Ward had also worked with the bands Lard, Revolting Cocks, Ministry and Nine Inch Nails.
1982 - Randy Rhoads, the lead guitarist for heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne, is killed when the plane in which he is flying buzzes Osbourne's tour bus and crashes into a house in Leesburg, Fla. He is 25.
1974 - Jefferson Airplane is re-named Jefferson Starship.
1971 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Me and Bobby McGee,'' Janis Joplin. The song is the second posthumous No. 1 song of the rock era, reaching the top of the charts almost six months after Joplin's death.
1968 - Donovan (``Mellow Yellow'') travels to India to study transcendental meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1957 - Elvis Presley buys his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tenn.
1894 - Comedienne Moms Mabley is born in Brevard, N.C. Thirteen of her comedy albums make Billboard's pop album chart.

This Day in Music
For March 20, 2007
From Nielsen Entertainment News Wire

2004 - OutKast is the big winner at the 18th annual Soul Train Music Awards, picking up two statuettes. Yet the evening belongs to career achievement honoree Janet Jackson. The singer, whose new Virgin album "Damita Jo" is released at the end of the month, receives a standing ovation after accepting the Quincy Jones Award for outstanding career achievement.
2002 - Newcomer Alicia Keys and veteran act the Isley Brothers each take home a pair of trophies from the 16th annual Soul Train Music Awards.
2001 - Complaining of pain in her lungs, Country Music Hall of Famer Loretta Lynn is admitted to a Hurrican Mills, Tenn., hospital. She is treated for pneumonia and released March 31st.
2001 - Three male members of pop band S Club 7 cautioned by police for possession of a small amount of cannabis apologize to fans for being "very stupid." In a joint statement, Bradley McIntosh, Jon Lee, and Paul Cattermole say "we know we've made a mistake and we're very sorry," in response to the incident in London's Covent Garden.
2000 - Madonna issues a statement to announce that she is three months pregnant with her second child. The father is U.K. film director Guy Ritchie ("Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels"), who is 10 years Madonna's junior.
2000 - During a visit to "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee," Lonestar drummer Keech Rainwater demonstrates some hidden talents when he does several impersonations, including Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin, and Regis Philbin.
1999 - Radiohead's behind the scenes film, "Meeting People Is Easy," premieres at the South By Southwest Music and Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
1999 - A set of postage stamps commemorating what would have been the 30th wedding anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono is issued in Gibraltar.
1991 - Michael Jackson announces a long-term agreement with Sony Music and Columbia Pictures that could be worth $1 billion. Jackson will have his own record label and an entertainment complex to produce records, music videos and theatrical films.
1991 - Conor Clapton, the 4-year-old son of rock guitarist Eric Clapton, dies when he falls out the window of a 53rd-floor apartment in New York. The tragedy was the second for Clapton in less than a year. His agent, tour manager and bodyguard died the previous summer in the same plane crash that killed blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
1990 - Gloria Estefan of Miami Sound Machine fractures a vertebra when a tractor slams into her tour bus near Scranton, Pa.
1984 - Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats marries actress Britt Ekland.
1977 - The final live T. Rex concert is held in Portsmouth, England.
1972 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``A Horse with No Name,'' America.
1969 - John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
1965 - The first Motown tour of the United Kingdom arrives with Martha & the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes and the Temptations.

This Day in Music
For March 21, 2007
From Nielsen Entertainment News Wire

2000 - Eclectic New York quartet Soul Coughing disbands after eight years and three genre-bending albums together.
1994 - Bruce Springsteen wins a Best Original Song Oscar for ``Streets of Philadelphia'' from the movie ``Philadelphia.'' The song is the first Springsteen has ever written directly for a film.
1984 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``Jump,'' by Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen writes the music for ``Jump'' two years before band member David Lee Roth agrees to write the lyrics and record it.
1982 - Donny Osmond stars in the title role on Broadway of ``Little Johnny Jones.''
1975 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``My Eyes Adored You,'' by Frankie Valli. The song helps revive the careers of both Valli and his former group, the Four Seasons. The group has its fifth No. 1 single - ``December 1963 (Oh What a Night)'' - exactly one year after ``My Eyes Adored You.''
1955 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``The Ballad of Davy Crockett,'' Bill Hayes.
1952 - The Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock `n' roll stage show, is held at the Cleveland Arena. Acts include the Dominoes, Tiny Grimes and Paul Williams.

This Day in Music
For March 22, 2007
From Nielsen Entertainment News Wire

2005 - Foghat guitarist Rod Price dies in Wilton, N.H., after falling in a stairway. He is 57. The London-born artist was known as "the magician of slide" for his work with Foghat, which is best known for its 1975 No. 20 Billboard pop singles chart hit "Slow Ride."
2005 - Due to a display of incorrect phone numbers at the end of an "American Idol" performance episode, the entire public vote is scrapped with plans to redo voting the following night.
1999 - Police claim to find three envelopes of rock cocaine in rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's Range Rover when they stop him in Brooklyn for driving without license plates.
1997 - Shock-rock band Marilyn Manson is forced to cut short a show at the Nimitz Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii, after lead singer Manson injures his hand during the performance. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, falls onstage and cuts an artery in his hand.
1986 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``These Dreams,'' by Heart. The song is the group's first chart-topping single.
1970 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``Bridge Over Troubled Water,'' Simon & Garfunkel. The album and single win six Grammys including Record, Album and Song of the Year. It is the duo's biggest hit, selling more than 1 million copies and topping the pop chart for six weeks.
1943 - Vocalist Keith Relf of the Yardbirds is born in Surrey, England.
1943 - Guitarist George Benson is born in Pittsburgh. He has top five hits with ``Give Me the Night'' and ``Turn Your Love Around.''

This Day in Music
For March 23, 2007
From Nielsen Entertainment News Wire

2006 - Singer Pio Leiva, a Cuban music legend of the 20th century who formed part of the Grammy-winning "Buena Vista Social Club," dies in Havana of a heart attack. The 88-year-old had suffered a brain hemorrhage the preceding week.
2004 - Roy "Pop" Lewis, patriarch of bluegrass gospel group the Lewis Family, dies at Wills Memorial Hospital in Washington, Ga. He is 98. Lewis and wife Pauline Holloway formed the Lewis Family in 1925. It went on to become one of gospel's most successful performing families.
2004 - An album Paul Simon recorded in 1965 that has never saw the light of day in America gets its first official release there. "The Paul Simon Songbook," previously only available as an import and long out-of-print even in that form, is released via Columbia/Legacy. The original 12-track album was recorded in the wake of the lukewarm response afforded Simon & Garfunkel's 1964 debut, "Wednesday Morning 3 A.M."
2003 - U2 makes their Oscar debut performing at the 75th Anniversary Academy Awards. The Irish quartet plays "The Hands That Built America" from "Gangs of New York."
2002 - ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill and his girlfriend for the past decade, actress Charleen "Chuck" McCrory, finally tie the knot. The pair exchanges vows at Tony's Ballroom in Houston before 200 guests.
2001 - Alejandro Sanz wins all three awards for which he is nominated at the fifth Premios de la Musica ceremony in Madrid, but the sentimental vote goes to Carlos Cano, who also wins three awards just months after dying of heart failure at the age of 54.
1999 - Pope John Paul II's "Abba Pater" compact disc is released. It rings up brisk sales in Italy, selling 50,000 copies on the first day of release. The CD features 11 tracks in which the pontiff chants and prays in Latin with a rich musical accompaniment.
1999 - Michael Jackson announces that he will donate the proceeds from two upcoming concerts to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and the Red Cross. The singer makes the announcement with Mandela in Cape Town, South Africa.
1985 - Billy Joel marries model Christie Brinkley. The couple splits nine years later.
1983 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``Billie Jean,'' Michael Jackson. The song is the first No. 1 single from ``Thriller,'' the best-selling album of all time.
1981 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``Rapture,'' Blondie. The song is the first rap song to reach No. 1.
1977 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``Rich Girl,'' Daryl Hall & John Oates. Hall and Oates met in 1969 in a service elevator while trying to escape a fight between rival gangs at a record hop in Philadelphia's Adelphi Ballroom.
1968 - Damon Albarn, singer for the group Blur, is born in London.
1953 - Chaka Khan (Yvette Marie Stevens) is born in Great Lakes, Ill. Her song ``I Feel for You'' reaches No. 3 in 1984.

This Day in Music
For March 24, 2007
From Nielsen Entertainment News Wire

2003 - A massive crowd of Juanes fans overflows the Grand Foyer of Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center to take in a free performance by the Colombian artist. The audience of more than 6,000 spills into the adjoining Hall of Nations and out onto the plaza, and is though to be the largest for a single performance at the venue.
2002 - Dorothy Delay, a Julliard School violin teacher and musical powerhouse whose students over a half-century include such luminaries as Itzhak Perlman and Midori, dies of cancer at her home in Upper Nyack, N.Y. She is 84.
2001 - Sammy and Kari Hagar give birth to their second daughter in a Northern California hospital. Samantha Pastel Hagar weighs in at a healthy 6 lbs., 1 oz. and is the second child for the couple.
2001 - Hubert K. Covel, Jr., father of Toby Keith, dies from injuries sustained when his pickup truck crosses the center median and collides with a charter bus on Interstate 35 near Norman, Okla. Mr. Covel had attended a barbecue and spent the day with friends.
2001 - A Bon Jovi-headlined concert at the Colonial Stadium in Melbourne grosses Australian $1.7 million to benefit flood-stricken farmers.
2000 - Ol' Dirty Bastard is ordered to undergo a 90-day diagnostic evaluation at the California Institute For Men in Cino, Calif., after admitting that he had violated a prior probation agreement by getting drunk.
2000 - Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean cancels a show in Charleston in support of an NAACP boycott of South Carolina because it flies the Confederate flag. Jean was to have performed at the College of Charleston.
1998 - Type O Negative releases "After Dark," its first-ever home video.
1998 - Amway Corp. announces it has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit over the company's use of songs by top artists in videotaped sales pitches.
1997 - Piano player Kenny Moore dies in Australia while on tour with Tina Turner. Moore, 45, played with Aretha Franklin and Billy Preston, prior to joining Turner's band in 1976. Before his death, he performs as a solo artist in Europe and writes songs for Patti LaBelle.
1986 - Lionel Richie's ``Say You Say Me,'' the theme from the film ``White Nights,'' wins an Oscar for Best Original Song.
1985 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``One More Night,'' Phil Collins. The song is the artist's second No. 1 song.
1975 - No. 1 Billboard hit: ``Lady Marmalade,'' LaBelle. The group was originally called Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles.
1973 - Lou Reed (``Walk on the Wild Side'') is bitten by a fan who jumps on stage in Buffalo, N.Y.
1958 - Elvis Presley is sworn into the U.S. Army in Memphis, Tenn.
1949 - Nick Lowe is born in Woodchurch, England. His biggest hit is ``Cruel to Be Kind,'' which reaches No. 12 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1979. He produces albums for Elvis Costello and others.

This Day in Music
For March 25, 2007
From Nielsen Entertainment News Wire

1999 - Robbie Williams loses his two-year court battle with Nigel Martin-Smith, the manager of his former band Take That.
1999 - Sony Corp. unveils hardware designed for use with its new satellite music distribution service. The SAS-MS9SET digital broadcast receiver/antenna system enables subscribers to Digital Media Entertainment's MusicLink channel to download music onto the MDS-DL1 MiniDisc player/recorder.
1997 - Harold Melvin, leader of soul act Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, dies in his sleep. He is 57. Melvin forms the Blue Notes as a doo-wop group in 1954 with himself as lead singer. Almost two decades later, with new member Teddy Pendergrass taking over the drums and lead vocals, the group enjoys a string of No. 1 R&B hits such as "If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost (Part 1)," "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon," and "Wake Up Everybody (Part 1)."
1985 - Prince wins an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film ``Purple Rain.''
1980 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Another Brick in the Wall,'' Pink Floyd. The song is the group's biggest hit.
1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Killing Me Softly with His Song,'' Roberta Flack. The song wins Grammys for Flack as Best Female Pop Vocal and Record of the Year and earns Song of the Year Grammys for writers Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox.
1968 - The 58th and final episode of ``The Monkees'' TV show is aired. The group disbands in 1969 and re-forms in 1986 without Michael Nesmith.
1947 - Elton John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) is born in Pinner, Middlesex, England. He has six No. 1 songs, including ``Don't Go Breaking My Heart'' and ``Crocodile Rock.'' He is also one of the four singers on the AIDS benefit record ``That's What Friends Are For.''
1942 - Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tenn. In 1987 she becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Her hits include ``Respect,'' ``Chain of Fools'' and ``Think.''