Video: 'Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'
(Saturday, July 21, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — Joan Baez was among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC-TV series The Midnight Special as hosted tonight by Baez.
(Monday, July 19, 1993) — The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, a live double-album of an Oct. 16, 1992, concert celebrating Bob Dylan’s 30 years as a recording artist, was released today in the UK, featuring ex-Beatle George Harrison among other acts (the album would be released in the USA on Aug. 24, 1993).
Video: 'Elvis Presley - My Happiness (Elvis' first recording)'
(Saturday, July 18, 1953) — Elvis Presley, 18, recorded “My Happiness” today as a gift for his mother at The Memphis Recording Service, home of the Sun label; it was his first recording.
Video: 'Paul McCartney-Give My Regards to Broad Street-Full Movie-HQ' ('Leicester tube station' sequence begins at 1:38:45)
(Saturday, July 16, 1983, early hours of the morning) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, in disguise, was secretly filmed performing today outside London’s Leicester Square tube station, near the Talk Of The Town, in London, 10 days before completing principal photography for the movie Give My Regards To Broad Street. The film, directed by Peter Webb, was written and starred McCartney.
(Monday, July 16, 1973; during the Watergate Scandal) — Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly revealed the existence of President Richard Nixon’s secret taping system today during the Senate Watergate hearings. Butterfield had already told Senate Watergate Committee staff members privately on July 13, 1973.
(Tuesday, July 15, 1913) — Augustus Bacon, a Democrat from Georgia, became the first person elected to the U.S. Senate today under the terms of the recently ratified 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for popular election of senators.