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2009 Mike Francis, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis', produced before dying of lung cancer, at age 47
1997 Dawn Steel, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction', dies at 51 1993 Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire 1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages 1989 Disney's MGM Studio theme park officially opens to public 1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking 1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 1977 New York's famed disco Studio 54 opens 1974 1st quadrophonic studio in U.K. is open by Moody Blues 1966 Tracy Byrd, born in Vidor, Texas, Tracy Lynn Byrd, country singer, musician, known for Number One Billboard hit single 'Holdin' Heaven', recorded nine studio albums, 30 hit singles, 11 top ten hits 1964 Clinton Gregory, born in Martinsville, Virginia, singer, songwriter, recording artist, fiddler, country and bluegrass genres, recorded seven studio albums, chartered 11 Billboard Hot country Singles and Tracks, including Play, Ruby, Play, which reached no. 25 on the charts 1961 Mike Francis, born in Florence, Italy, Michele Francesco Puccioni, singer, composer, known for Survivor, a 1982 disco hit, recorded ten studio albums during his career, last album, 'The Very Best of Mike Francis' 1958 "Studio One," TV Anthology Drama last airs on CBS-TV 1956 Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One 1954 Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, musician, rocker, songwriter, record producer, formed the dB's, founded Car Records indie record label, founded recording studio called Modern Recording where he recorded and mixed Whiskeytown 1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire 1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way" 1946 Dawn Steel, born in America, film maker, first woman to head a major Hollywood studio, responsible for 'Flashdance', 'Fatal Attraction' 1942 Joop van den Ende, director, Alsmeer Studio 1936 Daniel Goode, born in America, composer, clarinetist, studied with Henry Cowell, influenced by Indonesian gamelan music, bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, minimal music, member, Gamelan Son of Lion, Director, Electronic Music Studio, Rutgers University 1935 Gordon Mumma, born in Framingham, Massachusetts, composer, musician, co-founder, the Cooperative Studio for Electronic Music, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1933 Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract 1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland 1927 Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music 1916 Helmut Eder, born in Linz, Austria, composer, studied and later taught at the Linz Conservatory, conducted the Singakademie, founded electronic music studio in Linz in 1959 1916 Betty Furness, New York City, actress/consumer activist, Studio 1 1893 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ 1893 Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ) 1892 Jack Warner, U.S. movie studio head, Warner Bros 1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta |
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