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

THIS DAY IN MUSIC
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Advance for the week of June 19-25


This Day in Music
For June 19, 2006
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2003 - It is announced by his family that Ricardo Cane, singer of Afro-Cuban rumba band Los Munequitos de Matanzas, died earlier in the month of a heart condition in his hometown of Matanzas, Cuba. He is 54. Cane came from a musical family: His grandfather Valentin Cane was director of the legendary Sonora Matancero, Celia Cruz's band in the late-'50s. After playing in several Afro-Cuban rumba bands in Matanzas, Ricardo Cane was invited in 1976 to join Los Munequitos de Matanzas, and was an active member until his death. The group has toured Europe several times and recorded albums for various labels.
2003 - Prince unveils a new studio album, "N.E.W.S.," to members of his NPG Music Club Web Site.
2001 - Animated versions of Nelly and his rap collective St. Lunatics make their online starring debut in "Rip Van Nelly," a Macromedia Flash Game. With a Rip Van Winkle-like premise, Nelly wakes up under the St. Louis arch after a 20-year nap, and users must navigate the rapper through a series of events in his hometown on his way to a concert.
1998 - Sunny skies and a mellow vibe accompany the launch in Portland, Ore., of the second annual Lilith Fair. Special guest Sinead O'Connor opens the day with a handful of songs, stirring up the crowd with her usual polemics and "Jesus Is Coming - Look Busy" T-shirt.
1998 - Loretta Lynn makes a special appearance on the Friday Night Opry, opening with her first No. 1 country hit, "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'," from 1966, and follows with "We've Come a Long Way Baby" from 1978. To round out her night, Lynn performs "How Great Thou Art" without accompaniment, for which she receives a standing ovation and finishes with her signature tune "The Coal Miner's Daughter."
1996 - Composer Vivian Ellis dies at the age of 92.
1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Foolish Beat,'' Debbie Gibson.
1980 - Donna Summer is the first act signed by David Geffen to his new Geffen Records label.
1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Paperback Writer,'' The Beatles.
1962 - Singer Paula Abdul is born. She is a choreographer and member of the Los Angeles Lakers cheerleaders before becoming a successful singer. Her first big hit is the 1988 song ``Straight Up,'' which sells more than 1 million copies and tops Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks.
1947 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Peg O' My Heart,'' The Harmonicats.
1902 - Bandleader Guy Lombardo is born in London, Ontario. Lombardo and His Royal Canadians are the only dance band to sell more than 100 million records. He is most familiar to later audiences for his annual New Year's Eve broadcasts during which he played his theme, ``Auld Lang Syne.''

This Day in Music
For June 20, 2006
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2000 - Industrial supergroup the Damage Manual is forced to scrap its North American tour, due to what an Invisible Records spokesperson describes as "continued processing delays of the band and crews' U.S. visas.
1997 - Lawrence Payton, a member of the Four Tops who gave the Motown group its distinctive harmonies on hits such as "Baby I Need Your Loving" and "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," dies from liver cancer at the age of 59.
1995 - Legendary country duo George Jones and Tammy Wynette release reunion album ``One.''
1977 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Got to Give It Up (Pt. 1),'' Marvin Gaye.
1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Mr. Tambourine Man,'' The Byrds.
1953 - Cyndi Lauper is born in New York City. Her first single, ``Girls Just Want to Have Fun,'' sells more than 2 million copies and reaches No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100. Two later releases, ``Time After Time'' and ``True Colors'' top the chart.
1949 - Lionel Richie is born in Tuskegee, Ala., the son of a retired U.S. Army captain and a teacher. The former lead singer of the Commodores has five No. 1 hits, including ``Endless Love.'' That duet with Diana Ross sells more than 2 million copies and in 1981 tops Billboard's Hot 100 for nine weeks, longer than any other duet.
1946 - Singer Anne Murray (Morna Anne Murray) is born in Springhill, Nova Scotia. Her biggest hit is the million-selling No. 1 single ``You Needed Me'' in 1978.
1942 - Brian Wilson is born in Ingleside, Calif. He is the leader, bassist, composer and producer of the surf-rock group the Beach Boys. He quits touring due to nervous exhaustion in 1965. His daughters, Carnie and Wendy, make up two-thirds of the trio Wilson Phillips.

This Day in Music
For June 21, 2006
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2002 - New York radio station WPLJ-FM debuts the title track from Bruce Springsteen's forthcoming album "The Rising" only to be immediately served with a cease and desist order from the Boss' label, Columbia. The track was due to make its authorized debut a few days later via the AOL Music First Listen program.
2001 - Bluesman John Lee Hooker, believed to be 83, dies of natural causes at his home in Los Altos, Calif. The singer/guitarist began his career in 1949, when his Modern Records single "Boogie Chillen" became a No. 1 R&B hit.
2001 - Manu Chao becomes the first French artist ever to top Music & Media's European Top 100 Albums chart, as "Proxima Estacion: Esperanza" moves 3-1.
1998 - Charlie Daniels wins the Harry Hap Peebles Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the International Entertainment Buyers Association at the organization's annual conference in Nashville.
1997 - Arthur Prysock, a two-time Grammy-nominated rhythm and blues singer known for his deep, sultry voice on songs like "Teach Me Tonight," dies at the age of 74.
1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me),'' Whitney Houston.
1980 - Bert Kaempfert dies in Switzerland of a stroke at the age of 56. The multi-instrumentalist and bandleader has a No. 1 song in 1961 with ``Wonderland By Night.''
1975 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Love Will Keep Us Together,'' The Captain & Tennille. Neil Sedaka writes the song.
1955 - Johnny Cash's first single, ``Cry Cry Cry,'' is released.
1951 - Nils Lofgren is born in Chicago. He is the leader of the group Grin from 1969-74 and releases six solo albums from 1975-81. In 1985 he joins Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
1948 - Columbia Records announces mass production of 33-1/3 speed records.

This Day in Music
For June 22, 2006
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2005 - Mexican pop star Juan Gabriel is arrested in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua for alleged income tax evasion. The 55-year-old crooner of such popular songs as "Hasta que te Conoci" and "Querida" is nabbed by federal authorities upon arrival at the Ciudad Juarez airport.
2004 - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" tops the American Film Institute's (AFI) list of top movie songs. The honor for the song, famously sung by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz," is revealed at the conclusion of a three-hour "100 Years ... 100 Songs" special on CBS TV.
2004 - The 2004 edition of the Lollapalooza is abruptly cancelled due to poor ticket sales, according to the event's official Web site.
2001 - Lil' Mo is injured while leaving a concert in San Francisco. The singer/songwriter is exiting a backstage area lined with fans when an unidentified man strikes her in the head with a bottle. She is rushed to California Pacific Hospital where she receives more than 20 stitches for the head wound.
1999 - Seoul-based concert promoter Cheil Communications announces that it is reducing the number of seats from 60,000 to 50,000 for a benefit concert organized by Michael Jackson. Only a few days before the concert, about half the tickets available have been sold. Cheil claims that Korean concertgoers are not used to buying advance tickets.
1998 - Sir Paul McCartney personally chose and arranged the 45,000 flowers that decorate Manhattan's Riverside Church where the friends and family of Linda McCartney gather to say a candlelit good-bye to the wife of the former Beatle.
1948 - Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pa. He leads the groups Nazz and Utopia and produces albums for Meat Loaf, Badfinger, Grand Funk Railroad and XTC. His biggest solo hit is ``Hello It's Me,'' which reaches No. 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1973.
1947 - Howard Kaylan (Howard Kaplan) of the Turtles is born in New York City. After the Turtles disband in 1970, he and bandmate Mark Volman join Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and later form the duo Flo & Eddie.
1944 - Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon is born in London.
1936 - Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas, the son of a minister. He attends Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and receives a PhD from Pomona College in Texas. He writes several top 40 songs, including the No. 1 song ``Me and Bobby McGee.'' His biggest solo hit is ``Why Me,'' a million-selling record that reaches No. 16 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1973.

This Day in Music
For June 23, 2006
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2005 - Four people are stabbed, one fatally, at a Corrosion Of Conformity show at the Masquerade club in Ybor City, Fla. According to police, a fight between two women broke out in the mosh pit in front of the stage but spread to other members of the audience.
2000 - Michael Jackson is sued by his longtime Munich, Germany-based concert promoter Marcel Avram, who accuses the pop king of refusing to perform two scheduled "Millennium Concerts."
2000 - Rapper, Ol' Dirty Bastard (Russel Tyrone Jones) is ordered into a 180-day drug treatment program. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge decides that treatment is a better option for Jones than imprisonment for probation violations.
2000 - Neil Young is honored in Toronto with a star on the Canada Walk Of Fame. The Toronto native joins prior honorees Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Gordon Lightfoot, Rush, Christopher Plummer, Jim Carey, and director Norman Jewison.
1998 - MCA act Aqua releases an official home video. Titled "The Diary," the 120-minute package follows the group from the recording of its debut multiplatinum album, "Aquarium," through the end of its first year, when it hosted a record-breaking concert in New Zealand.
1994 - A son, Garrett Allan is born in Nashville to Mike and Phyllis Anderson. Mike Anderson is the bassist in John Anderson's band.
1994 - A daughter, Francesca is born in Tarzana, Calif., to Gilby and Daniella Clarke. Gilby Clarke is the guitarist for Guns 'N Roses.
1980 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Coming Up (Live at Glasgow),'' Paul McCartney & Wings.
1975 - Alice Cooper falls from stage at a Vancouver, British Columbia, concert, breaking six ribs.
1970 - Chubby Checker is arrested after police in Niagara Falls discover marijuana and other drugs in his car.
1965 - The Supremes make the studio recording of ``Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart.'' The song reaches No. 9 on Billboard's Hot 100.
1970 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Love You Save,'' The Jackson 5.
1951 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Too Young,'' Nat King Cole.
1940 - Adam Faith (Terence Nelhams) is born in London. He produces Roger Daltrey's first solo album, manages Leo Sayer and acts in film and TV. He has only marginal success with his own musical work, placing just two singles on Billboard's Hot 100.

This Day in Music
For June 24, 2006
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2003 - Mariah Carey embarks on her first tour in more than three years in Osaka, Japan.
2000 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks weds actor Adrian Pasdar in Las Vegas.
1999 - Eric Clapton parts with 100 of his guitars and generates over $5 million for his Crossroads Centre at Antigua, and alcohol and drug-dependency treatment center in the West Indies. Among the stringed beauties auctioned off is "Brownie," a 1956 sunburst Fender upon which he recorded his hit "Layla"; the instrument goes for a record-breaking $497,500. The previous record holder was an axe of Jimi Hendrix's that went for $320,000.
1998 - Johnny Cash returns to a Nashville stage and performs for the first time since has was stricken with Shy-Drager Syndrome the preceding October. Cash joins a surprised Kris Kristofferson, who is singing Cash's "Sunday Morning Coming Down" at "Witness History II," a tribute to Cash and Waylon Jennings at the Ryman Auditorium.
1998 - The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band starts a run of 12 European dates in London. Stops include Helsinki, Brussels, Paris, and Munich, as well as shows July 7 and 8 at the Montreux (Switzerland) Jazz Festival.
1992 - Billy Joel receives his high school diploma from Hicksville High School on Long Island, N.Y. He failed to graduate with his class in 1967 because of missed gym and English credits. The school choir sings Joel's song ``Summer, Highland Falls'' at the ceremony.
1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Ring My Bell,'' Anita Ward.
1973 - The Blues Project holds a reunion concert in Central Park, New York.
1969 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet,'' Henry Mancini.
1961 - Bass player Curt Smith of Tears for Fears is born in Bath, England. The group has two No. 1 hits in 1985: ``Shout'' and ``Everybody Wants to Rule the World.''
1945 - Vocalist Colin Blunstone of the Zombies is born in Hatfield, England. The group's biggest hits are ``She's Not There,'' a No. 2 song in 1964, and ``Time of the Season,'' a million-selling No. 3 hit in 1969.
1944 - Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England. He is a member of the Yardbirds from 1964-66. He is joined by Rod Stewart and Ron Wood in the Jeff Beck Group from 1967-69. He joins other rock superstars in the Honeydrippers, which has a No. 3 song, ``Sea of Love,'' in 1984.
1942 - Drummer Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac is born in London. The group's biggest hit is ``Dreams,'' a million-selling No. 1 song in 1977. Billboard ranks the group's ``Rumours'' as the No. 1 album of 1977; it tops the album chart for 31 weeks.

This Day in Music
For June 25, 2006
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2003 - Tim McGraw stages a benefit concert in Gulfport, Miss., at the Grand Casino Events Center. Proceeds from the show go to Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre's Forward Foundation for disabled and disadvantaged children in Mississippi and Wisconsin.
2000 - Country's latest kid phenom, 12-year-old Billy Gilman, makes his Grand Ole Opry debut during the TNN-televised portion of the show. "This has been my dream ever since I started singing," Gilman said.
1998 - Goth rock band Marilyn Manson is forced to miss its appearance at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark due to drummer Ginger Fish's bout with mononucleosis.
1995 - Pearl Jam cancels their current tour, citing their ongoing war with Ticketmaster as the reason.
1969 - Guitarist Mick Taylor makes his performance debut with the Rolling Stones in Rome. He replaces Brian Jones, who later drowns on July 3. Taylor leaves the group in 1975 and is replaced by Ron Wood.
1969 - The Hollies record ``He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother,'' with Elton John playing piano. The song reaches No. 7 on Billboard's singles chart.
1967 - The Beatles' ``All You Need Is Love'' is recorded live during a British TV broadcast. (Marianne Faithfull sings in the chorus.)
1954 - David Paich of Toto is born. He and his father, Marty, win an Emmy Award for writing the theme to the TV series ``Ironside.'' Toto's biggest hits are ``Africa,'' a No. 1 song in 1983,'' and ``Rosanna,'' which never tops Billboard's Hot 100 but stays at No. 2 for five weeks in 1982.
1946 - Ian McDonald of Foreigner is born in London. The group's biggest hits are the million sellers ``I Want to Know What Love Is'' (No. 1), ``Waiting for a Girl Like You'' (No. 2 for 10 weeks) and ``Double Vision'' (No. 2). He leaves the group in 1980.
1945 - Carly Simon is born in New York, daughter of the co-founder of Simon & Schuster publishing house. She wins the Best New Artist Grammy in 1971. Her biggest hit is the million-selling No. 1 single ``You're So Vain.''