"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song written and recorded originally by
Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record
Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube" (Zulu for “lion”). The song has
earned at least $15 million in royalties from cover versions and movie
licensing in the United States..
Solomon Popoli Linda (1909 – October 8, 1962)
Johnny Rivers (John Henry Ramistella) was born in New York City
Rock ‘n’ roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Johnny Rivers
charted hits during the 1960s and 1970s and remains best known for a string
of hit singles between 1964 and 1968, among them a Chuck Berry "Memphis" ,
"Mountain of Love", "Secret Agent Man", "Poor Side of Town", which went
to #1 and a Motown cover, “Baby I Need Your Lovin”.
Although his recording career is slowing down, Johnny Rivers is still touring,
however, performing 50 to 60 shows a year. Increasingly he has returned to
the blues that inspired him initially.
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On this day on 1776.
A depiction of the hanging of Nathan Hale.
A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale
war on this day in 1980.
Gerald Ford looks to where a shot was fired as he is leaving the St.
Francis Hotel.
On Sept. 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore’s attempt to assassinate President Ford
was thwarted by Oliver Sipple, a disabled former marine. It was the second
attempt on Ford’s life in less than three weeks.
Sara Jane Moore
On this day in 1964, "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway. It was the beginning of a run of 3,242 performances.
Irving Berlin (Israel Beilin) (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)
Irving Berlin was a Russian born, American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.
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On this day in 1997.
Lech Walesa (standing), anti-communist leader of Solidarity in
Poland.
Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born on this day in 1980
with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day strike.
Jack the Ripper’s first victim found dead in London on this day
in 1888.
Itzhak Perlman in 1964.
Itzhak Perlman is 72 years old today.
Perlman is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and pedagogue. Over
the course of his career, he has performed worldwide, and throughout the
United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White
House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and a Presidential Inauguration, and
he has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano)
(September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969)
On August 31, 1969, the evening before his 46th birthday,
Marciano was a passenger in a fatal small private plane
crash near an airfield outside Newton, Iowa.
The wreckage of the Cessna 172 lies under a large oak tree. Rocky
Marciano along with the pilot and another passenger died in the
crash.
Sir George Ivan Morrison is 72 years old today.
Known as "Van the Man", singer/songwriter Van Morrison
1950s, Much of his music is structured around soul music
and R&B, such as the popular single "Brown Eyed Girl”.
The Newbeats: Brothers Dean and Marc Mathis and Larry Henley
(center).
Lawrence Joel "Larry" Henley was born in Arp, TX.
(June 30, 1937 – December 18, 2014)
Larry Henley was the lead singer of the pop group The
Newbeats, formed in the 1964, singing in a distinctive
falsetto. The group had two hits that charted in the top
20 of Billboard magazine, with one of them, "Bread and
Butter", reaching No. 2 on the chart and selling over a
million copies. They toured Australia and New Zealand
with Roy Orbison, Ray Columbus and the Invaders and
the Rolling Stones on the "Big Beat ’65" tour. The group’s
last single was released in 1974. Henley had a solo album,
Piece a Cake, released in 1975.
Henley died of Lewy Body Dementia in Nashville, Tenn.
at age 77. He had been suffering from Parkinson’s and
Alzheimer’s diseases.
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