On This Day in Music for June 10

Events in Music

1966 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco)

1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California

1972 Elvis Presley records a live album at NYC's Madison Square Garden

1985 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
1990 "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 performances
1990 "Meet Me in St Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 performances
1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity
1991 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
1992 "Price" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 47 performances
1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
1995 "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 performances
1996 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson

2003 "Wicked", starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, officially opens at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco

1781 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
1790 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
1831 W. A. Remy [Wilhelm Mayer], Austro-Bohemian composer (d. 1898)
1843 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
1879 Benjamin Lambord, composer
1890 Powell Weaver, composer
1891 Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips)
1893 Franz Andre, Belgian conductor
1894 Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1901 Frederick Loewe [Friedrich Löwe], Austrian-born American composer (My Fair Lady, Camelot), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1988)
1902 Gaston Brenta, composer
1906 Janos Viski, Hungarian composer, born in Kolozsvár (d. 1961)
1909 Erwin Dressel, composer
1910 Howlin' Wolf, [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
1910 Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
1911 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti), born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1984)
1913 John Edmunds, composer
1913 Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958)
1913 Tikhon Nikoleyevich Khrennikov, composer
1915 Oscar Comras, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park), born in The Bronx, New York
1920 Zbynek Vostrak, composer

1922 Judy Garland [Frances Gumm], American actress and singer (The Wizard of Oz), born in Minnesota (d. 1969)

1929 Harald Juhnke, actor (Guitars of Love), born in Berlin, Germany
1929 Vasile Herman, composer
1931 João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1934 Nicolas Roussakis, composer
1940 John William Stevens, jazz drummer
1941 Harry Muskee, Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby & Blizzards)
1941 Shirley Owens Alston, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy), born in Passaic, New Jersey
1941 Mickey Jones, American musician and actor (Home Improvement, Justified), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2018)
1942 Janet Vogel, rocker (Skyliners)
1945 Martin Wesley-Smith, composer
1961 Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1961 Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
1961 Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
1964 Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1967 Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
1968 The D.O.C., American rapper
1970 Mike Doughty, American singer
1971 Joel Hailey, American singer
1973 Faith Evans, American singer
1977 Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1977 Adam Darski, Polish musician most known for being the leader of Behemoth
1979 Lee Brice, American country singer and songwriter (Love Like Crazy, Hard to Love), born in Sumter, South Carolina
1981 Hoku, American singer and actress

1995 Actress-singer Holly Robinson (30) weds NFL Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Rodney Peete (29) in Los Angeles
2006 Spanish singer Bertin Osborne (51) weds Venezuelan model Fabiola Martinez in Seville, Spain
2012 Country music singer Wynonna Judd (48) weds "Highway 101" drummer Cactus Moser in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee

1556 Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies
1800 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1849 Friedrich Kalkbrenner, German-French pianist and composer, dies at 63
1883 Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71
1893 Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel, dies at 49
1899 Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
1918 Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76
1934 Frederick Delius, British composer (A Mass of Life, Brigg Fair, In a Summer Garden), dies at 72
1953 Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer, dies at 73
1954 Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
1964 Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79
1968 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65
1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
1992 Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure

2004 Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues, dies at 73

2004 Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue), dies at 47
2009 Barry Beckett, American keyboardist and record producer (David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Roger Hawkins), dies from complications of a stroke at 66
2016 Christina Grimmie, American singer and contestant on "The Voice", dies of gunshot wound at 22