Happy Birthday to Who?

2 Did you know? WWW.PGCITIZEN.CA | MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012 Chuck Shepherd’s Today in music history Happy • In 1920, the first commercial News of the Weird radio station in the United States, Perspective 8-MK in Detroit, began daily broadcasting. The station later be- birthday People With Too Much Money: The dogs could not care less, but came WWJ. the luxury doghouse market is thriving, according to a June New • In 1924, Jim Reeves, billed as York Times report. “Many of them have carpeting, heating and air- the country singer with the velvet conditioning, indoor and outdoor lighting, elaborate... entertain- touch, was born in Galloway, Tex- to who? ment systems,” wrote the Times, and some even have solar panels. as. He was responsible as much But said one owner, “Maggie’s never been in [hers]. She’s a house as anybody for the marrying of • Writer-producer-director Walter dog.” country and pop music in the late Bernstein is 93. Although walmart.com offers upscale houses for $4,400 to $4,600, 1950s. Although his first hit, Mexi- • Mario Bernardi, pianist and first the more tony ones can go for more than $25,000. Top-shelf inte- can Joe in 1952, was a country conductor of the National Arts rior designers have created dog beds suspended from the ceiling and novelty record, Reeves’ later suc- Centre, is 82. houses in which the music kicks on only as the dog enters (meaning cesses were country only in the lyr- • Boxing promoter Don King is 81. that it almost never kicks on). ics -- the backing was strictly pop. • Canadian jazz drummer Terry Hits such as Four Walls, He’ll Have Clarke is 68. to Go and Am I Losing You were • News anchor Connie Chung is Recurring themes in the forefront of the Nashville 66. PHOTO COURTESY OF [email protected] It has been reported variously as an urban legend and a true story, Sound, which blended his mellow • Trombone player Jimmy Pankow but a well-documented July report in Chinese media, picked up by voice with lush orchestrations and PLANT of Chicago is 65. CNN, looks unfortunately authentic. vocal choruses. RCA Victor contin- Love and Stairway to Heaven, are • Actor Ray Wise is 65. A 13-year-old boy in Shandong Province was severely injured by ued to release new Jim Reeves re- still played regularly on rock radio • Singer Robert Plant (Led a prank at an auto repair shop at which he worked. Doctors at Bayi cordings months – and even years stations. Plant’s 1988 solo album, Zeppelin) is 64. Children’s Hospital in Beijing confirmed that the co-workers had in- – after his death in a plane crash on Now and Zen, was a big success. • Actor John Noble is 64. serted the nozzle of an air pump into his rectum and shot air into the July 31, 1964. Raising Sand, his collaboration Singer Rudy Gatlin of the Gatlin intestines, inflating his belly, damaging his liver, kidneys and stom- • In 1930, pianist Mario Ber- with bluegrass-country singer Ali- Brothers is 60. ach, and sending him into a coma for eight days. Doctors deflated nardi, the first conductor of The son Krauss, won Album of the Year • Singer-songwriter John Hiatt him, but at press time, he remained in intensive care. National Arts Centre Orchestra, at the 2009 Grammys. is 60. was born in Kirkland Lake, Ont. • In 1960, Connie Francis began • Actor-director Peter Horton Bernardi became conductor of the work on her first movie, Where the (thirtysomething) is 59. Least competent criminals newly formed orchestra in 1968. Boys Are. She also starred in the • Today show weatherman (1) Police in Lewiston, Idaho, discovered in July that someone had He was named music director of sequel, When the Boys Meet the Al Roker is 58. passed a counterfeit $1 bill recently. A veteran officer told the Lew- the National Arts Centre three Girls. • Actor Jay Acovone is 57. iston Tribune that counterfeiting a $1 bill is so stupid that he had years later. • In 1967, the New York Times • Actress Joan Allen is 56. seen only one in his life, made by a junior-high student to pay off a • In 1948, Robert Plant, lead reported on a new noise-reduction • Canadian film director and bully. (2) In June, firefighters were called to a trolley stop in National singer for heavy-metal pioneers, system for album and tape re- screenwriter Patricia Rozema is City, Calif., to free the arm of a 17-year-old boy after he got it stuck Led Zeppelin, was born in Brom- cording developed by R. and D-W 54. when he reached up a vending machine slot to try to steal a soda. The wich, England. Plant and drum- Dolby. First used by a subsidiary of • TV personality Asha Blake is 51. rescuers employed axes, crowbars, an air chisel and a rotary saw. mer John Bonham had played to- Elektra Records, the Dolby noise • Actor James Marsters (Buffy the gether in a band called Bundle of reduction system became the in- Vampire Slayer) is 50. Joy, and were invited in 1968 by dustry standard. • Rapper KRS-One is 47. Readers’ choice guitarist Jimmy Page to join The • In 1969, Frank Zappa dis- • Actor Colin Cunningham is 46. (1) Rodney Valentine, 37, was released from jail in Wentworth, New Yardbirds, which became Led banded The Mothers of Invention • Actor Billy Gardell (Mike and N.C., on July 21 about 8 a.m., but adamantly refused to leave un- Zeppelin the following year. Zep- following an eight-day Canadian Molly) is 43. til deputies agreed to drive him to a local motel. They declined, pelin’s debut album, recorded in tour during which he said people Singer Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit is and by noon, Valentine had been re-arrested and charged with less than two days, made the top- clapped for all the wrong reasons. 42. trespassing in the jail. (2) TSA Meets Its Match: Jonah Falcon told 10. Their second LP did even bet- Zappa reformed The Mothers of • Guitarist Brad Avery of Third Day Huffington Post in July that he had recently survived a pat-down at ter, topping the charts, and every Invention a year later. is 41. San Francisco International Airport. Led Zeppelin album that followed • In 1976, Gordon Lightfoot’s • Actor Jonathan Ke Quan (In- Falcon was named in a 1999 HBO documentary as having the larg- sold at least one million copies. By The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzger- diana Jones and the Temple of est penis on record, and apparently the “suspicious” bulge drew the 1975, Led Zeppelin was the most ald, about an ore carrier that sank Doom) is 41. attention of the TSA screener, who patted him down and dusted him popular rock band in the world. on Lake Superior, was released as • Singer Monique Powell of Save with explosive-detecting powder before releasing him. Their hits, such as Whole Lotta a single. Ferris is 37. 250-562-3600 Each office is independently owned & operated. R001156989 Air Quality Readings from 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Area PM TRS S02 Downtown n/a n/a n/a College Hts. n/a - n/a BCR Ind. n/a - - Good 0 - 25; Fair 26 - 50; Poor 51 - 100; Very Poor 100+. Today’s weather picture provided by Emma..

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