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This Day In Music History - September 19 2004 - Skeeter Davis, a veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, dies at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital. She is 73. The artist, born Mary Frances Penick in Dry Ridge, Ky., had battled breast cancer since 1988. 2003 - Australian country music icon Slim Dusty dies in Sydney at the age of 76, after a two-year battle with cancer. His signature tune, 1957's "The Pub With No Beer," was a top-10 hit in the U.K. and was the first gold record in Australia. 2003 - Tenor saxophonist Frank Lowe dies in a New...

This Day In Music History - August 29 2005 - Already battling an injured knee, Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme collapses after a show in Hamburg, forcing the cancellation of the next evening's concert in Stuttgart. According to QOTSA's Web site, Homme "was diagnosed with exhaustion and ordered to bed by a local doctor. 2002 - Rapper Cam'ron (Cameron Giles) is arrested on the outskirts of New York's Times Square. Police pull the rapper's Land Rover over on 42nd St. and 11th Avenue after the vehicle makes an illegal lane switch without signaling. Inside the car, officers...

This Day in Music - July 18 2005 - Funeral services for Luther Vandross are held at New York's Riverside Church. The artist died July 1 at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, N.J., two years after suffering a serious stroke. He is 54. 2003 - Barry White, the R&B crooner renowned for his deep, erotic baritone, dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he had been undergoing dialysis after suffering a stroke in May. He is 58. 2001 - Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard is sentenced in a Queens, N.Y., courtroom to two to four...

Neurologist disputes state’s attorney’s office description. A neurologist who treated Zach Sowers following his brutal attack in a street robbery last summer has challenged statements by a high-ranking official in the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office regarding Sowers’ medical condition. Dr. Marek Mirski, director of the Neuroscience Critical Care Division and vice chairman of anesthesia and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, said in a July 7 letter to Margaret T. Burns, chief of communications and governmental affairs in the state’s attorney’s office, that Burns’ comments reported in the June issue of Exhibit A, contained “gross inaccuracies.” In...

Today In Music History - June 06 2006 - Billy Preston, the exuberant keyboardist who landed dream gigs with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and enjoyed his own series of hit singles, including "Outta Space" and "Nothing From Nothing," dies at the age of 59. 2006 - Jazzman Hilton Ruiz has dies from complications following an accident in New Orleans. Ruiz had turned 54 barely a week earlier. 2002 - Founding Ratt guitarist Robbin Crosby succumbs to AIDS after an eight-year battle with the disease. Crosby, who co-wrote many of the pop-metal band's best-known songs, is 42. 2001 -...

A man, woman and two teenage children apparently shared a house in Necedah Township, Wisconsin with a corpse for two months before authorities found the body. At least one of the adults in the house insisted the dead woman inside wasn't "fully dead," and that they could pray her back to life...

Today In Music History - May 09 2005 - In what is billed as the first "descriptive music video," the clip for Stevie Wonder's "So What the Fuss" becomes available with an audio track from rapper Busta Rhymes in an effort to convey its storyline to blind and low vision fans. Rhymes' commentary is accessible by using the SAP (Second Audio Program) function on equipped televisions. 2004 - South African singer Brenda Fassie dies at the Sunninghill Hospital in Johannesburg. She is 39. She had been in a coma since April 26, after suffering an asthma attack. This led to...

April 11th: On this Day in Music History 1682 - Composer Jean-Joseph Mouret was born. 1936 - The SPEBSQSA (Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America) was founded. 1956 - James Brown debuts on the R&B charts with "Please, Please, Please." 1961 - Bob Dylan made his professional singing debut in Greenwich Village. He opened for John Lee Hooker. 1966 - NBC broadcasted the last episode of "Hulabaloo." 1966 - Frank Sinatra recorded "Strangers in the Night." 1968 - Big Brother & the Holding Company made their national TV debut on ABC's "Hollywood Palace."...

March 28th: On this Day 2006 - Galway singer Julie Feeney is the surprise winner of Ireland's inaugural Choice Music Prize, announced during a ceremony at Dublin's Vicar Street music. 2006 - "loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies" premieres during the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas. Directed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin for New York-based Stick Figure Productions, the documentary chronicles the Pixies' year-long reunion tour which began in 2004, starting with the first rehearsals and ending with the band's quiet dissipation. 2004 - Adan Chalino Sanchez, one of the most promising young regional Mexican acts...

Hi all! TGIF! It’s the Weekend! Remember that this Sunday starts Daylight Savings Time – Spring Ahead! Whoo Whoo! First of all, I lost my link to the “This Day in Music History” – it’s no longer available and I haven’t found a good replacement yet. I’ve also been absent for the last few weeks. Sorry but I my cable modem went on the fritz and then I’ve been super crazy busy looking for a new job (I can send my resume to anyone who is interested) and I’ve also been helping out my niece and her husband who have...

February 1st: On this Day 1999 The Web site Lycos begins a new search service that offers easy access to a half-million high quality recordings. The search service finds titles that use MP3, an easy-download technology. Such files alarm the recording industry, since many of the songs are illegal copies made by those who sell or give them away online. 1992 Nirvana's album, "Nevermind" goes to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Album chart for the second time. 1986 Diana Ross marries Norwegian millionaire Arne Naess in Geneva. 1977 The film ``Genesis in Concert'' premieres in London, with Princess...

January 26th: On this Day 2007, The Rolling Stones topped the US music rich list for the second year running after making $150.6m (£76.2m) in 2006. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were second in the poll with a combined fortune of $132m (£67.2m) and American country band Rascal Flatts appeared third, having earnt $110.5m (£56.2m) in the past year. 2004, John Lydon was one of ten contestants to take part in the latest I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here UK TV show set in the Australian outback. The former Sex Pistols singer was seen by 11 million viewers...

Today in music history - December 28: 1998 - LaFace/Arista artist Usher sues trendy clothing company Tommy Hilfiger for alleged infringement of publicity rights and false endorsement. 1983- Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys drowns while swimming near his boat in the harbor at Marina del Ray, Calif. 1975 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Saturday Night,'' Bay City Rollers. 1968 - Miami Pop Festival features performances by Procul Harum, Chuck Berry, Fleetwood Mac and Canned Heat. 1950 - Alex Chilton, lead singer of the Box Tops, and leader of Big Star, is born in Memphis, Tenn. 1915 - Roebuck...

Today in music history - December 8th: 2005 - Martina McBride, LeAnn Rimes and Carrie Underwood perform a holiday show at the Palace at Auburn Hills (Mich.) to benefit Habitat for Humanity. The Country Cares concert is presented by Detroit country station WYCD and Chrysler Financial. 2004 - Damageplan/Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott is murdered on stage in Columbus, Ohio, in a shooting spree that also claims the life of the band's head of security, Jeffrey "Mayhem" Thompson, a club employee and an audience member. 2004 - R&B/hip-hop artists reign supreme at the Billboard Music Awards, where Usher walks away...

Today in music history - November 30th: 2006 - Perry Henzell, who in 1972 co-authored, directed and produced the Jamaican movie, "The Harder They Come," dies in Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 70. The film's soundtrack, featuring the likes of Jimmy Cliff, Toots & the Maytals, and the Heptones, played a major role in introducing reggae to the world. 2006 - Pearl Jam plays a secret show outdoors at the Waimea Valley Audubon Center on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, as part of the opening festivities for the Quiksilver Big Wave Invitational surfing competition. 2002 - Oasis is forced...

Today in music history - November 16: 2005 - Pink Floyd, the Kinks and the Eurythmics are among the honorees inducted into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame. The second annual show, which takes place in a ceremony at London's Alexandra Palace, features some momentous reunions, including the gathering of the original Kinks and a performance by the classic line-up of Black Sabbath, featuring Ozzy Osbourne. 2002 - Blues pianist/vocalist Mose Vinson dies of diabetes at his home in Memphis. He is 85. 2001 - Havana's National Theatre debuts "Se Seco el Arroyito" (the Brooklet Dried Up), a musical written...

Today in music history: 2006 - Justin Timberlake and Gnarls Barkley each win several trophies at the 13th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, held in Copenhagen. Timberlake, who also serves as host and performer at the event, wins for best male and best pop. Gnarls Barkley wins best song for their international smash "Crazy." 2006 - Surprising no one, Shakira is the big winner at the seventh annual Latin Grammy Awards, taking home four statues during the ceremony at Madison Square Garden. The Colombian pop star wins song and record of the year awards for ``La Tortura,'' a duet with...

Today in music history: 2006 - Sonic Youth principal Kim Gordon offers the U.S. premiere of her film, "Perfect Partner," and participates in a live performance of the soundtrack at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J. 2005 - New York rappers Jay-Z and Nas end their longtime feud and promote peace on-stage during New York radio station Power 105.1's Power House concert at New Jersey's Continental Airlines Arena. 2005 - Cherryholmes is named entertainer of the year at the 16th Annual International Bluegrass Music Assn. Awards, held at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. The family band makes history as the first act...

“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds...” -High Flight When John Gillespie Magee wrote the above famed lines describing the thrill and freedom of flying in September, 1941, it was still possible to enjoy the experience of powered flight. After all, Pilot Officer Magee had only the Nazi air force trying to ruin the experience for him; he had never encountered the soul-killing experience of traveling on a modern commercial airline. Snip...

Events on this day in music history, September 28st 2006 - The Grascals claim the entertainer of the year trophy at the 17th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. 2004 - In a Los Angeles Times editorial, Yusuf Islam blasts the United States' system of screening airline passengers of potential terrorists as "indiscriminate" and "unjust." The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens was barred from entering the United States the previous week because his named appeared on a government security watch list. Blah, blah, blah! Who cares. 2002 - Singer/songwriter Mickey Newbury dies...