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Post subject: Re: Today in Music History
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:56 am
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I had just finished high school the year that Sugartown came out. It was in the land of MJ brownies, magic mushrooms, and hippie colonies. I lived just across the strait from Jimi Hendrix, and back then I didn’t know there was an LSD connection to the song. I do now. :shock:
I must have worn out the Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra grooves because they did some great recordings of the time. IMHO.

I don’t know which one I liked the best - Lee or Nancy. :lol: Just kiddin’. Nancy of course. She was a babe and most every maturing teenage boy’s eye candy . Later Barbarella and Jane Fonda took over. :P
Thanks, for the posts, mud. It adds to the days’ enjoyment and makes us thmarter.

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Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:31 pm
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I thought I did one yesterday maybe I didn't hit submit , or maybe it was a senior moment
December 21, 1966
The Beach Boys receive three Gold Record citations for the single "Good Vibrations" and the albums "Little Deuce Coupe" and "Shut Down, Vol. 2".

December 21, 1968
Glen Campbell topped the Billboard Hot 200 album chart with "Wichita Lineman". The LP would stay on the chart for 46 weeks, but it would be Campbell's only number one.

December 21, 1969
Diana Ross And The Supremes make their final television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing "Someday We'll Be Together", which would be the last of their twelve number one singles.

December 21, 1969
One of Rock and Roll's strangest oddities happened when "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye hit number one on the Cash Box music chart. The same song was also a number one hit for Gladys Knight And The Pips exactly one year earlier. The tune would also turn up on the chart by Creedence Clearwater Revival, who took it to #43 in 1976.

December 21, 1970
Elvis Presley's stretch limousine pulled up outside the White House in Washington, D.C. One of his guards handed over a letter from Elvis addressed to President Nixon requesting a meeting to discuss how the King of Rock and Roll could help Nixon fight drugs - including getting credentials as a "federal agent at large." About two hours later, Elvis walked into the Oval Office wearing a flamboyant outfit, oversize sunglasses and two huge medallions. He gives Nixon a chrome-plated Colt .45 while the President agreed to give him a Narcotics Bureau badge - but only after learning that the chief of the narcotics bureau had turned down the same request earlier that day and told Presley the only person who could overrule his decision was the President. At Elvis' request, the meeting remained secret for more than a year until The Washington Post broke the story on January 27th, 1972.

December 21, 1972
Martha Reeves And The Vandellas play their last show together at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. Their recording career spanned from 1963 to 1972, charting over two dozen times. Ten of their singles reached the Top Ten of the Billboard R&B chart and twelve made it into the Top 40 of the Hot 100, including "Dancing in the Street", "Heat Wave", "Nowhere to Run" and "Jimmy Mack."

December 21, 1974
Harry Chapin enjoys his only number one single with "Cat's In The Cradle". The song's theme about a distant father and son relationship was suggested to Harry by his wife, after he expressed disappointment about being on tour instead of attending his son's birth.

December 21, 1990
A concert in memory of John Lennon is held at Japan's Tokyo Dome, featuring Sean Lennon, Hall And Oates, Natalie Cole and Linda Ronstadt.

December 21, 2006
The Beatles' "Love" sat at #1 on the European Top 100 Albums chart. The collection was produced by George Martin and his son Giles Martin and features music compiled and remixed for the Cirque du Soleil show of the same name. The disc would quickly be certified Platinum and won Grammys in two categories - Best Compilation Soundtrack Album and Best Surround Sound Album at the 50th annual Grammy awards on February 10th, 2008.

December 21, 2009
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), released its listing of 2009's most played holiday songs, tracked by radio airplay monitoring service, Mediaguide, from over 2,500 radio stations nationwide.
The Top 10 most-played holiday songs in the ASCAP repertory for this holiday season are:
1. "Sleigh Ride" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) - played 118,918 times
2."Jingle Bell Rock" (Joseph Carleton Beal, James Roth Boothe) - played 118,601 times
3."It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (Edward Pola, George Wyle) - played 101,614 times
4. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - played 89,348 times
5. "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) - played 77,599 times
6. "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) - played 74,360 times.
7. "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (Johnny Marks) - played 57,948 times
8. "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone) - played 55,617 times.
9. "Feliz Navidad" (José Feliciano) - played 51,072 times
10. "Frosty the Snowman" (Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins) - played 51,068 times
Note: The above list represents an aggregation of all different artist versions of each cited holiday song.

Born on this day, December 21, 1926, , Freddie Hart, country musician and songwriter best-known for his No.1 hit 'Easy Loving,' which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972.

One of my all time favorites and inspiration
Born on this day, December 21, 1940, Frank Zappa multi instrumentalist, producer and composer. Recorded with The Mothers Of Invention and solo, 1969 album 'Hot Rats', 1974 album 'Apostrophe', featuring 'Don't Eat The Yellow Snow'. First band was The Blackouts, recorded one of the first concept albums 'Freak Out'. Zappa died of prostate cancer on 4th December 1993.


Born on this day, December 21, 1946, Carl Wilson, American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded The Beach Boys. He performed lead vocals on several of their hits, including 'God Only Knows' (1966) and 'Good Vibrations' (1966). Wilson died on 6th February 1998 after a long battle with lung cancer.

Born on this day, December 21, 1947, Paco de Lucía, Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer. His collaborations with guitarists John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola and Larry Coryell in the late 1970s saw him gain wider popularity outside his native Spain and collaborated with jazz pianist Chick Corea on their 1990 album, Zyryab. Lucía died on 25th Feb 2014.

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Post subject: Re: Today in Music History
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 11:49 pm
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Great historical post for December 21, mud.

+1 on Zappa. I remember introducing Frank’s music to my father who was in his mid sixties. He dug it.

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December 22, 1955
Alan Freed's Rock 'n' Roll Holiday Jubilee opens in New York. The twelve day show features Count Basie, LaVern Baker, The Cadillacs, The Wrens, The Valentines, The Chuckles and a host of others.

December 22, 1956
Billboard magazine reported that Elvis Presley had the most charting records this year with seventeen. Pat Boone was next with five, followed by Fats Domino, Little Richard and The Platters with three each.

December 22, 1958
After just two weeks on the Billboard Pop chart, "The Chipmunk Song" was the number one tune in the US. It's creator, David Seville (Ross Bagdasarian), named the Chipmunks Alvin, Simon and Theodore, after executives at Liberty Records.

December 22, 1962
The Tornadoes became the first British group to have a number 1 record in the US when they hit the top with their instrumental, "Telstar". The song was named after the world's first communication satellite launched by the US earlier in the year and preceded the Beatles' chart debut by 13 months.

December 22, 1962
Acker Bilk's "Stranger On The Shore" finally drops off of the UK charts after 55 weeks. That record would stand until 1968 when Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me" stayed for 56. Frank Sinatra's "My Way", later charted for 124 non-consecutive weeks.

December 22, 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono meet for one hour with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in Ottawa. Earlier in the day, they saw the Minister of Health, John Munro and discussed drug abuse.

December 22, 1975
Ike And Tina Turner are robbed of $86,000 when a suitcase containing concert receipts is stolen.

December 22, 1978
Kenney Jones, formerly of The Small Faces, becomes The Who's drummer, replacing the late Keith Moon who died two months earlier.


December 22, 1980 Seems like it was a copy of John Cage's 4′33″ (pronounced "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds" or just "Four thirty-three")
An album called "The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan" was released by London, England's Stiff Records. The entire disc contained 40 minutes of silence, but still sold over 30,000 copies.

December 22, 1981
Sotheby's in London holds a Rock and Roll memorabilia auction. An enameled Abbey Road street sign sold for $600, John and Cynthia Lennon's marriage certificate was worth $850 and an autographed program from The Beatles' Royal Command Performance went for $2,000. Not all of the items up for bid did as well however. A jacket once worn by Tom Jones brought only $12.

December 22, 2002
Joe Strummer, lead singer for the landmark British punk band The Clash, suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 50.

December 22, 2008
A cassette tape of John Lennon performing Lloyd Price's "Just Because" sold at auction in Los Angeles for $30,000 (20,200 Pounds). The song was recorded 'live' with an unknown backing band in the autumn of 1973, during the 18-month period Lennon later called his "lost weekend", when he left his wife Yoko Ono and moved from New York to Los Angeles.

December 22, 2010
The British government declared the Beatles' famous Abbey Road zebra-crossing a national heritage site. Britain's Minister for Tourism and Heritage, John Penrose, said "This London zebra crossing is no castle or cathedral, but thanks to the Beatles and a 10-minute photo shoot one August morning in 1969, it has just as strong a claim as any to be seen as part of our heritage."

December 22, 2014
Joe Cocker, whose unique, gravely voice propelled him to stardom in the late 1960s, died of lung cancer at the age of 70. During his forty year career, Cocker placed ten songs on the Billboard Top 40, including the Top 10 hits, "The Letter" (1970), "You Are So Beautiful" (1975) and "Up Where We Belong" with Jennifer Warnes in 1982.

December 22, 2016
Rick Parfitt, original guitarist for the English Rock band Status Quo, died at the age of 68 due to a severe infection after suffering an injury to his shoulder. The band reached #12 in the US in 1968 with "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" and topped the UK chart in 1975 with "Down Down".

Born on this day, December 22, 1944, Barry Jenkins, drums, The Animals, (1964 UK & US No.1 single 'House Of The Rising Sun'), also a member of The Nashville Teens.

Born on this day, December 22, 1948, Rick Nielsen, vocals, guitar, Cheap Trick, (1979 UK No.29 & US No.17 single 'I Want You To Want Me', 1988 US No.1 single 'The Flame')

Born on this day, December 22, 1949, Robin and Maurice Gibb, The Bee Gees singers, songwriters, producers, Robin was the eldest by 1 hour. (1967 UK No.1 single 'Massachusetts', 1978 UK & US No.1 single 'Night Fever', over 30 UK Top 40 hits and 9 US No.1's over 4 decades). Maurice died on 12th January 2003 of a heart attack. Robin died of cancer aged 62 on 20 May 2012.

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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:28 am
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Ain’t music history great? Thanks, mud. :D
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Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:42 am
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Ain’t music history great? Thanks, mud. :D
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Yes it's fun. It brings back lots of memories. :)

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The Box Tops and Big Star vocalist Alex Chilton would have celebrated his 62nd birthday today. Alex had his first hit, "The Letter" when he was only 16 years old. After The Box Tops, he was in Big Star. While in Big Star, Alex co-wrote the song "In The Street". This song was covered by Cheap Trick and was used as the theme song for "That 70's Show."

Alex passed away on March 17, 2010 at the age of 59 from a heart attack.

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December 28, 1968, The Beatles went to No.1 on the US album chart with the The White Album the group's 12th US No.1 album. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed, which was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's earlier Sgt. Pepper's. No singles were issued from the album in Britain and the United States, the songs 'Hey Jude' and 'Revolution' originated from the same recording sessions and were issued on a single in August 1968.

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The year was 1939, Born on this day, American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bass guitarist Felix Pappalardi. He produced Disraeli Gears for Cream and The Youngbloods' first album. He was a founding member of the American hard rock band/heavy metal forerunner Mountain.

Pappalardi was shot and killed by his wife, Gail, on April 17, 1983, in their East Side Manhattan apartment. Gail Pappalardi was subsequently charged with second-degree murder.

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Thanks for the post, Mike.

Gail Pappalardi was acquitted in the homicide, found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and, after a few years in prison, was released on parole, and died of Cancer in Mexico on December 6, 2013. She was 72.

She co-wrote many Mountain songs, Cream’s Strange Brew, and others. She was also responsible for album cover artworks.

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Happy New Year and thanks for keeping up. The place I work shuts down between Christmas and New Year and pays us to stay home, I am not complaining, so as a result I am not on the computer very much when I am home, and this years break there was a boat load of family, kept me quit busy

January 2, 1926
The first issue of The Melody Maker magazine went on sale in the UK. Advertised as being for "all who are interested in the production of popular music," the first issue featured dance band news, a story about ukuleles and how to read music by sight.

January 2, 1957
Harry Belafonte's version of the traditional Jamaican Folk song "Banana Boat" (Day-O) enters the Hot 100 where it will peak at #5 next March.

January 2, 1962
After refusing to sign an oath that says they have never been members of the Communist party, the American Folk group, The Weavers are removed from the line-up of NBC-TV's Jack Parr Show.

January 2, 1965
Roger Miller reaches #31 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a most unusual song called "Do-Wacka-Do". The lyrics tell the story of a man who would like to trade places with a friend: "I wish I had your good luck charm, and you hadda do-wacka-do". In the middle of next March, Miller would enjoy his biggest hit when "King Of The Road" reached #4 in America and #1 in the UK.

January 2, 1971
George Harrison became the first solo Beatle to have a #1 album in the US when "All Things Must Pass" went to the top of the Billboard chart for a seven week stay. It was eventually certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA and was ranked #437 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

January 2, 1971
A cover version of Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr. Bojangles" by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band enters the Billboard Top 40 on its way to number nine. The record would stay in the Hot 100 for an amazing thirty-six weeks.

January 2, 1972
Elvis Presley buys a $10,000 robe inscribed "The People's Champion" and presents it to boxer Muhammad Ali.

January 2, 1979
Shock rocker Sid Vicious went on trial for stabbing his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. The trial was never completed as Vicious died a month later of a heroin overdose. He had attempted suicide twice while in a cell after his arrest.

January 2, 1999
Soul singer Isaac Hayes topped the UK chart with a tune called "Chocolate Salty Balls", using the exaggerated deep voice of Chef, his character in the animated TV series South Park.


Born on this day, January 2, 1936, Roger Miller singer, guitarist and TV star. (1965 UK No.1 & US No.4 single 'King Of The Road'). He won four Grammy awards in 1965 including Best Country & Western Album. Roger died of lung cancer on October 25th 1991, aged 56. Scottish duo The Proclaimers had the 1990 UK No.9 hit with their version of 'King Of The Road.'

Born on this day, January 2, 1942, Chick Churchill, keyboards, Ten Years After, 1970 UK No.10 single 'Love Like A Man.'

Born on this day, January 2, 1954, Glenn Goins, guitar, vocals, Parliament, Funkadelic. Died 29/7/78. 1978 US No.16 album 'One Nation Under A Groove.'
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