Tuesday July the 22nd

ON THIS DAY in 1929
actress Marcia Henderson was born at Andover Mass.  She was Kathleen on TV's The Aldrich Family, had recurring roles on Two Girls Named Smith, World of Giants & Dear Phoebe, and guested on other episodic TV until 1960. She died in Yakima Wash. Nov 23, 1987 at age 58.

                
In 1932, Canadian radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden died at age 65. The broadcasting inventor, engineer, had 300 radio patents.  He broadcast the world's first program of voice and music to ships at sea Christmas Eve, 1906.

In 1937, Hal Kemp and his orchestra recorded the now-standard tune, Got a Date with an Angel, for Victor Records in Hollywood, California. The distinctive vocal was provided by Skinnay Ennis.

In 1965, "Till Death Us Do Part" debuted on England’s BBC-TV. The show was so popular that it became a TV series in Great Britain and was the forerunner of the 1970's CBS-TV hit, All in the Family, starring Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton.

Also in 1965, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones were fined five pounds each for insulting behaviour after urinating on the wall of a London gas station. The owner had refused to give them the key to the men's room.

              
In 1967, Jimi Hendrix either quit or was fired as the opening act for the Monkees' U-S tour after only five days. His replacement was Vanilla Fudge.

Also in 1967, a UK floating pirate radio station, "Swinging Scotland", shut down for lack of funds.

Still in 1967, the Billboard singles chart showed that Windy, by The Association, was the most popular record in the U.S. for the fourth straight week. The Los Angeles-based sextet would make way for Jim Morrison and The Doors a week later when Light My Fire became the hottest record of the mid-summer.

In 1968, the Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album was released.

              
In 1969, singer Aretha Franklin was arrested for disorderly conduct after a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. After posting 50-dollars bail, she ran down a road sign on leaving the police station.

In 1971, a license for Kelowna's second radio station CKIQ-1150 Kelowna was approved by the CRTC; it signed on November 8th with 1000 watts. The station is now CKFR, with a news/talk/sports format.

In 1972, the variety show "The Bobby Darin Amusement Company'' premiered on C-B-S TV.

Also in 1972, The Who's "Join Together" was released.

In 1974, the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit was "Annie's Song," by John Denver. Denver wrote the song in 10 minutes on a ski lift in Switzerland.

In 1977, Tony Orlando announced his retirement from show business. Orlando was performing in Cohasset, MA when he said that he had finally decided to call it quits. Orlando had two solo hits in 1961 (Halfway to Paradise and Bless You) and 14 hits with his backup singers (known as Dawn) through the mid-1970s. He also hosted a weekly TV variety show with Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent) from 1974-1976.

                
Also in 1977, Elvis Costello's first album, "My Aim Is True," was released in Britain. North American release would come three months later.

In 1979, actress Hope Summers, who played Aunt Bee's friend Clara on TV's Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice for "Mrs. Butterworth" the famous talking maple syrup bottle, died of heart failure at age 78.  

In 1979, Little Richard, known as Reverend Richard Penniman, spoke at a revival meeting in suburban San Francisco.  He warned the congregation about the evils of rock & roll music.

In 1983, Diana Ross performed a concert in New York's Central Park. A show the night before had been rained out.

                  
In 1985, Bruce Springsteen's fans disabled the phone system in Washington, D-C by overloading the circuits with requests for tickets to the Boss's show at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. The concert was sold out within 90 minutes.

In 1986, the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit was "Sledgehammer," by Peter Gabriel. The song was the first single from Gabriel's album "So."

In 1987, Hugh Bryant, a member of the Delta Rhythm Boys, collapsed and died of a heart attack in Helsinki while singing at the funeral of the group's founder, Lee Gaines. Gaines had died a week earlier of cancer. The Delta Rhythm Boys were popular in the 1940's, and recorded with such jazz greats as Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie. The Delta Rhythm Boys continued to perform after moving to Europe in the mid-'50s.

                  
In 1987, a New York jury ruled that Morris Albert's 1975 composition "Feelings'' was plagiarised from "Pour Toi,'' a song written in 1956 by French composer Lou Lou Geste. The jury ruled that Geste was owed at least 500-thousand dollars U-S. Pictured above, Albert's own recording of "Feelings'' was a million-seller, and hundreds of other versions of the tune have been recorded.

In 1989, "Toy Soldiers" by Martika topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks.

In 1992, model Wayne McLaren, who was the Marlboro Man in the 70's, and who smoked a pack-and-a-half a day, died of lung cancer that spread to his brain at age 51.

In 1994, more than 54-thousand fans jammed Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as Billy Joel and Elton John performed the first of five concerts together. They dueted on "Your Song," "Honesty" and "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues."

In 1995, two teens drowned in a river during an REM concert at an Irish castle northwest of Dublin. There were about 70-thousand people at the show, which was not interrupted.

                
Also on this date in 1995, Canadian singer David Clayton-Thomas angered patrons at a Blood, Sweat and Tears concert in the heavily Jewish Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield. Halfway through the show, he remarked that the weather was "as hot as the last train car going to Auschwitz." Clayton-Thomas later apologized, saying he spoke "in the heat of the moment."

Still in 1995, Jimmy Keyes, a founding member of the New York doo-wop quintet The Chords, died following an operation for an aneurysm. He was 65. The Chords' "Sh-Boom" was a top-10 pop hit in 1954, a rarity for a black vocal group at the time. But their fame was shortlived. Mercury Records rushed out a cover version by a white group, The Crew Cuts, and heavy radio play by white stations pushed that record to number-one on the charts.

In 1996, the parents of a 15-year-old murder victim Elsye Pahler sued the band Slayer. The suit contended that the band's lyrics were ``satanic'' and inspired three teenage boys to rape, torture and stab the girl to death. Her body was found near her home in Arroyo Grande, California in March 1996. The suit was delayed until 2000 until the killers' trial ended and the suit was thrown out. The parents filed a second suit, but it too was dismissed.

              
Also in 1996, Scottish folk singer Donovan was forced to postpone a comeback tour of the U-S because of a 30-year-old marijuana conviction in Britain.

In 1999, in an unfortunate case of history repeating, East Village art-rockers Jon Spencer Blues Explosion found that its equipment has been stolen. The theft, which occurred in Vancouver, echoed that of N.Y. avant-garde rockers Sonic Youth, who had a van full of their vintage and customized gear stolen from outside their hotel room in Orange County, Calif. over the July 4 weekend.

In 2002, Vancouver's CKVU signed off at 6 a.m. and City TV signed on to channel 10, cable 13.  It was branded after Toronto’s City TV with an emphasis on local programming; over 27 hours a week.  The first new show was a live 3-hour program called “Breakfast Television.”
                

In 2005, a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles issued a permanent injunction banning two members of the Doors -- keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger -- from using the band's name and any likeness of late front man Jim Morrison to promote a renewed version of the band. They'd been touring without Doors drummer John Densmore under the name The Doors of the 21st Century, and Densmore sued.

Also in 2005, Eugene Record, the leader of the Chicago-based vocal group The Chi-Lites, died in Chicago after a long battle with cancer. Record was 64.

Still in 2005, country singer Mindy McCready attempted suicide by ingesting two unidentified substances and drinking alcohol at a hotel in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida.
                  

Today's Birthdays:

Singer Margaret Whiting is 84.

Actor Orson Bean (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, One Life to Live) is 80.

Actor Perry Lopez (Zorro, Hec Ramsey) is 77.

Actress Louise Fletcher (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is 74.

Singer Chuck Jackson is 71.

Actor Terence Stamp (Smallville) is 69.

Ontario-born game show host Alex Trebek (Jeopardy) is 68.

Singer George Clinton is 67.

Singer-actor Bobby Sherman is 65.

Singer Estelle Bennett of The Ronettes is 64.
  
Singer Don Henley is 61.

Actor Danny Glover (ER, Queen, Lonesome Dove) is 61.

Actor-comedian-director Albert Brooks (The Simpsons, Hot Wheels) is 61.

Actress Belinda J. Montgomery (Doogie Howser, Miami Vice) is 58.

Singer Keith Sweat is 47.

Actress Joanna Going (Search for Tomorrow, Another World, Into the West) is 45.

Actor Rob Estes (Melrose Place, Silk Stalkings) is 45.

Singer Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls is 45.

Actor-comedian David Spade (8 Simple Rules, Just Shoot Me) is 44.

Actor John Leguizamo (ER) is 44.

Actor Patrick Labyorteaux (JAG, Little House on the Prairie) is 43.

Actress Irene Bedard (Into the West) is 41.

Musician Daniel Jones (Savage Garden) is 35.

Montreal-born singer Rufus Wainwright is 35.

Actress A.J. Cook (Criminal Minds, Tru Calling) is 30.


Chart Toppers: July 22nd

1948
You Can’t Be True, Dear - The Ken Griffin Orchestra (vocal: Jerry Wayne)
Woody Woodpecker Song - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Gloria Wood & The Campus Kids)
It’s Magic - Doris Day
Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold

1957
Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone
It’s Not for Me to Say - Johnny Mathis
Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers

1966
Hanky Panky - Tommy James & The Shondells
Wild Thing - The Troggs
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me - Dusty Springfield
Think of Me - Buck Owens

1975
Listen to What the Man Said - Wings
The Hustle - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony
I’m Not in Love - 10cc
Touch the Hand - Conway Twitty

1984
When Doves Cry - Prince
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
Just Another Woman in Love - Anne Murray

1993
Weak - SWV (Sisters With Voices)
Can’t Help Falling in Love - UB40
I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me) - Expose
Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson

2002
Hot In Herre - Nelly
Complicated - Avril Lavigne
Days Go By - Dirty Vegas
Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) - Toby Keith