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July 1

1933 Eddie Bond, leader of the rockabilly band The Stompers, born in Memphis, TN.
1935 Progressive jazz drummer Rashied Ali born in Philadelphia, PA., best known as one of the dual drummers in John Coltrane's 60s combo.
1939 Delaney Bramlett, who recorded with wife Bonnie Lynn, toured with Blind Faith and Eric Clapton, is born in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
1946 Debbie Harry, blond lead singer of Blondie born.
1947 Marc Benno, session musician who was once in The Asylem Choir with Leon Russell, bron in Dallas, Texas.
1950 Tom Robinson born.
1951 Fred Schneider (ARChive Board Member) of the B-52s and the Shake Society born.
1956 Elvis, dressed in a tux, sings "Hound Dog" to a basset hound on the Steve Allen Show.
1957 Future Doors vocalist Jim Morrison, age 14, quits Albuquerque Public School.
1964 Pol Burton of Transvision Vamp born.
1975 Ringo and Maureen Starr are divorced. Maureen later marries Isaac Tigrett, one of the Hard Rock and House of Blues founders.
1975 Shooting begins in New Mexico for Nicholas Roeg's (sp?) film, The Man Who Fell To Earth, starring David Bowie.
1997 EMI Music Publishing pays $132 million for half of the publishing rights to the Motown catalog of songs controlled by Barry Gordy. Considered the best of the last remaining available catalogs, EMI gets access to over 100 number one songs.
1997 Robert Mitchum (79) dies. Bobby was not only an actor, but the vocalist on one of the greatest cheese records ever recorded, Calypso Is Like So.
1999 Reggae singer Dennis Brown died in Kingston at the age of 42 from unknown causes.