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& Story 1963 - July 2nd - Jose Feliciano has his first NYC appearance at Gerde's Folk City 1964: Signed to the RCA Records, releases his debut single "Everybody Do The Click" and the album: "The Voice and Guitar" 1964: The "Happy One" 1965:The Fantastic Feliciano 1966: While releasing "A Bag Full Of Soul" he also begins to sing in spanish in a serie of Latin-Americans recordings which are a major success in Central and South America, as well as among the US Hispanic community. 1966: Mar del Plata 1967: "Sombras... Una Voz, Una Guitarra" 1967 - Jose in tournee in England, recorded a rare single for UK RCA called "My Foolish Heart / Only Once" 1967 - He's guest on BBC at Dusty Sprongfield TV show and sing Come Back To Me/ Don't Let Me Lose This Dream/ Peel Me A Grape/ Duet(with Jose Feliciano)/ If You Go Away/ You Can Have Him. 1967: Jimi Hendrix 1968 - The Year of "Feliciano !" and "Light My Fire" 1968 July 27-Canada - Light My Fire, the hit number 1 of the the Doors the previous year, repeat this place in Hot 100, this year with the Jose Feliciano's version. 1968 August 31- Jose Feliciano is in 3rd position of Top 100 in USA with Light My Fire. In 1968 on october 4th, "Feliciano" album by Jose Feliciano was certified Gold by the RIAA 1968 October: The Star Spangled Banner (by The Personal Web Site) 1968 October 17- Star Spangled Banner of Jose Feliciano, recorded ten days before during the 5th game of the match of Baseball Series a Detroit is on the market by RCA. This controversy rendition of the american Anthem will entered on firsts 50 places on top 100 Usa chart. 11/68 - Rolling Stone Interview With John Lennon - Question: "Are there any other versions of your songs you like?" JOHN: "Well, Ray Charles' version of 'Yesterday' ...that's beautiful. And 'Eleanor Rigby' is a groove. I just dig the strings on that. Like Thirties strings. Jose Feliciano does great things to 'Help!' and 'Day Tripper.'" 1968 December 28- Chuck Berry, Procul Harum, Jose Feliciano, Marvin Gaye, Canned Heat and Fleetwood Mac are the firsts singers invited at the Festival pop of Miami. In front of 100,000 people in the three days of this 1st great Festival on the East Coast. 1969 March 12 - Jose Feliciano won two grammies like Best New Artist and Best Pop Performance (Light My Fire) 1969 April 27 - Glen Campbell and Dionne Warwick are invited at the Special Tv show of Jose Feliciano 17 May . 1969 in Athens, Ohio - Led Zeppelin opening for Jose Feliciano concert! 1969: Paul is Dead 1969: In Concert At The London Palladium 1969: 10 to 23 Melody Maker - October 1969 - Music Reviews - By Maurice Gibb (BeeGees) - THE DOORS: "Light My Fire" (Elektra)
Doors. I love the Jose Feliciano version of this, but I heard this version by the Doors in New York and I don't like it. It's very loud and the whole production is very messy. I think they're quite good..... Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better..... a knockout.1970 - Hollywood Festival 1970: "Fireworks": a classic 1970: The Christmas Album Cat Stevens says This article appeared in the June 5, 1971 issue of the British Music Magazine, The Record Mirror.
"I met some interesting people, did a jam with Feliciano in New Orleans which was fun..''1971 - Jose comes to Italy! 1971: Encore ! (a RCA compilation) August 10, 1971 AT AL HIRT TV SHOW Jose Feliciano joins season regulars Al Hirt, the Carpenters, Patchett & Tarses, Mark Lindsay, and the New Doodletown Pipers.- Songs: "Proud Mary" & "I Only Want to Say" & "California Dreamin' " - Jose Feliciano 1971: "That The Spirit Needs" (the first without Jarrard...) 1972: Memphis Menu 1972: "Sings"... again a RCA compilation 1973: At the Royal Albert Hall with The London Symphony 1973: Compartments 1974: "For My Love...Mother Music" 1974: "And The Feelings Good's" 1974; "Chico And The Man" & an Emmy nomination 3 Oct: Jose Feliciano will make his acting debut, signing on as a guest on McMillan and Wife. He'll play a classical guitarist whose expertise on tobacco brands helps to solve a case. 1975: "Just Wanna Rock'nRoll": the last album at RCA 1976: "Angela": the soundtrack of the movie "Aaron loves Angela" 1977: "Sweet Soul Music" 1978- 29 July:Divorces - Jose Feliciano, 32, and his wife Janna after 13 years of marriage. They have no children. (from Pop history site) 1981 "Jose Feliciano": at the Motown 1982 - August 2 - Jose Feliciano married Susan Omillian in California. 1982: "Escenas De Amor" 1983: "Romance In The Night": a great album again with Rick 1983: "Me Enamore" the best spanush LP and a Grammy after 15 years ! 1984: Jose return to RCA records and release "Como tu Quieres" ('84), "Ya soy Tuyo" ('85) and "Te Amare" ('86), three fortunate spanish album, unfortunately they don't give the chance to release a english world album and Jose miss again popularity in english fields, on the same time in Europe the German RCA re-release all the 60's and early 70s Rca album on vinyl in his catalogue. 26/4/87 Fats Domino, Jose Feliciano and Allen Toussaint were among the headliners at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. 22/5/87 the New York School of Performing Arts was named after Jose Feliciano. 1987: Hollywood's Walk of Fame ! (by The Personal Web Site) 1987: Jose come in Austria and recorded "The Sound Of Vienna" and other materials with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and make a great concert in front of 50.000 people in september: all this gave him again after 15 year a hit there, number One for four weeks on the singles charts. 1992: Latin Street '92 - a different latin album 1997: "On Second Thought": a new re-recording of his old hits 1997: When Carlos Santana was inducted into the 'Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame' he thanked three people: God, his mother and Jose Feliciano ! 1998: At The Carnegie Hall 1998: Sanremo Festival (by Mario Abrate) 1998: "Señor Bolero" 1998 The Lares tribute to Jose 1999: A duet with ELO 1999 Ricky Special Gets Feliciano Fired Up 1999: "Viva La Navidad" 2000: About the Music Piracy 5/4/2000 Grammy Award-winning singer/guitarist Jose Feliciano was among the Latin music legends inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in ceremonies held in the Bronx, N.Y. - "With All My Heart" is part of the Soundtrack movie "Knock Out" - "Light My Fire" (rap Version) is great part of the Soundtrack movie "Under Suspicious" with Gene Hackman - "Tengo Que Decirte Algo" is a bolero duet with Gloria Estefan and part of her world latest album "Alma Caribeña" - "Behind the Mask" is the theme song of the new Tv series "Queen Of Sword" then will ve released for over of 90 countries, also Jose release a video clip for this song. - 2000 September 20: Jose Feliciano is in concert again at NY Carnegie Hall with Paul Simon and Arturo Sandoval - 2000: Jose is one of the artists featured on the soundtrack to the forthcoming (December) movie Moulin Rouge, starring NICOLE KIDMAN and EWAN McGREGOR. Jose will do a new version of the classic rock song "Roxanne" 2001: February was the month of the new english album produced by Emilio Estefan and Rudy Perez and supported (Finally!) directly by Polygram: this is an important news for all us Feliciano's fans of the his english side. - 2001: Banco Popular de Puerto Rico release the CD/VIDEO/DVD "Guitarra Mia - Tributo a Jose Feliciano" with many latin stars. The duet "Oye Guitarra Mia" with Mark Anthony has well impact on latin radio. 2001 : There are voices about Feliciano has been invited to record an Italian album in tribute to Lucio Battisti, in Italy and about an instrumental and classical album called "Six String Lady" (again perhaps much depend from the record company) 2001: see 54 images of the Concert at Vienna Danube Festival in front of 100.000 people Sept. 2001 - Record News: There are news about Jose recording and production in half august of the religious CD, "Spirit Joy nr. 2"; also Jose will be in studio in january 2002 to begin the work of another spanish album, "Senor Bolero nr.2". MY SWEET LORD - JOSE TRIBUTE TO GEORGE HARRISON 2002: For European fans, concerts in London and Portugal in June and Italy in August 2002: Finally the Original Christmas album on cd! 2003: The new spanish single 2003: The Australian Tour 2003: A recording with Dionne Warwick? October 2003: Jose Sing again the Usa Anthem
2003 Nov.: The Soul star Jamiroquay including Jose Felciiano's "California Dreamin" in his last funky hit compilations "Late Night tales", These are favorite, influential songs and artists of Jamiroquai 2003: 5 Dec.: Jose on Tv Show " LiveByRequest" with Barry Manilow OTHER DATES AND IMAGES ON THIS PAGE
JOSE FELICIANO'S NEWS OF THE DAY ->here in Bold the latest news added - 3 aug 2003
