This day in 'Musical' history

WOLF ANGEL

WOLF ANGEL

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A Thread for to post events, of Music note - along some a small pieces of information.

AUG 21st
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1961 - Marvelettes

Tamla Records released the Marvelettes first single, 'Please Mr. Postman'.The song went on to sell over a million copies and become the group's biggest hit, reaching the top of both the Billboard Pop and R&B charts.
  • The song is notable as the first Motown song to reach the No.1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart.

 

1966 - The Doors
Jim Morrison is a no-show for The Doors set at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles.
They play the first set without him, then get him at his apartment, where he is tripping on acid.
When they play "The End," he improvises Oedipal lyrics: Father... I want to kill you Mother... I want to f--k you

This gets them fired, but provides the final lyric that goes into the song when they record it for their first album.

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WOLF ANGEL said:
A Thread for to post events, of Music note - along some a small pieces of information.

AUG 21st
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1961 - Marvelettes

Tamla Records released the Marvelettes first single, 'Please Mr. Postman'.The song went on to sell over a million copies and become the group's biggest hit, reaching the top of both the Billboard Pop and R&B charts.
  • The song is notable as the first Motown song to reach the No.1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart.
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GREAT SONG!
 

AUG 22nd
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1979 - Led Zeppelin
In Through the Out Door was released in the US, Led Zeppelin's last album while all four members were alive.
'Fool in the Rain' was released as a single in the US.


* In Through The Out Door * has now been certified 6 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales in excess of 6 million copies
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1981
"Girls On Film" hits #5 in the UK, giving Duran Duran their breakthrough hit in Britain.
It does not chart on its US release, but surges in popularity after its music video goes into heavy rotation on MTV.

The clip, directed by Godley and Creme, has to be heavily edited for TV as it was only intended to be played in nightclubs and features adult themes and nudity.
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AUG 23rd
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1967 - Keith Moon
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Enjoying a wild birthday party Keith Moon drummer with The Who drove his Lincoln car into a Holiday Inn swimming pool.

As the party had become out of control, the police were called to put an end to the festivities. Moon, ever keen to avoid the boys in blue snuck outside and got into a Lincoln Continental Limousine and attempted to make a getaway.
Unfortunately, in his inebriated state he released the handbrake, and began rolling towards the pool.

-Moon simply sat back and waited, as the car crashed through the fence around the pool and into the water.

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1970 - Lou Reed
..... plays his last gig with The Velvet Underground at the club Max's Kansas City in New York.
(Ironically, this show was tape recorded by a friend of Warhol's named Brigid Polk and ultimately turned into a 1972 album called Live at Max's Kansas City.)

He went back to his parents' home on Long Island, took a job as a typist at his father's company and started writing poetry instead of songs.

His father brings him home to Long Island and puts him to work in his accounting firm, where he worked as a typist for his father for the next two years, at $40 per week - and started writing poetry instead of songs.

He stays for two years before signing a solo deal.

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- The Rolling Stones

1963
- appeared on UK TV show Ready, Steady, Go! for the first time, performing their debut single 'Come On.'
The group made a total of 20 appearances on the show between 1963 and 1966.


1965
Security guards at a Manchester TV studio hosed down 200 Rolling Stones fans after they broke down barriers while waiting for the band to arrive for a performance.


1969
- started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Honky Tonk Women' the group's fifth US No.1.


The song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards was inspired by Brazilian gauchos at the ranch where Jagger and Richards were staying in Matao, Sao Paulo.
 
AUG 24th
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1963 - "Little" Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder became the first artist ever to score a US No.1 album and single in the same week.
Wonder was at No.1 on the album chart with 'Little Stevie Wonder ("The 12 Year Old Genius') and had the No.1 single 'Fingertips part 2'.

  • This was also the first ever live recording to make No.1.
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1966 - The Doors
The Doors started recording their first album at Sunset Sound Recording Studios, West Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

1967 - Bruce Springsteen
17-year old singer and guitarist Bruce Springsteen joined a group called Earth.

1968 - 'The Roundhouse'
The Incredible String Band, --- Traffic, --- Bonzo Dog Band, Family, -
Fairport Convention, ---Blossom Toes, --- Pretty things, -
-- Deviants, --- Blonde On Blonde - and Free
- all appeared over two nights at The Roundhouse in London.

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1989
The Who perform a special 20th anniversary charity concert of their rock opera Tommy at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles,
- featuring guests
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AUG 25th
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1962 - Little Eva = (The Babysitter)
Little Eva went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Loco-motion'.
The Carole King and Gerry Goffin song was offered to Dee Dee Sharp (Mashed Potatoes), who turned it down.

The writers had their babysitter record it - and who took it to No.1.


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1967 - Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Ode To Billy Joe', a No.13 hit in the UK.
The song generated eight Grammy nominations, resulting in three wins for Gentry and one win for arranger Jimmie Haskell.

 
1993 - Snoop Doggy Dogg
Snoop Doggy Dogg was released on $1 million bail after being accused of being involved with the murder of a member of the By Yerself gang during a shooting in Los Angeles.

He drives his Jeep Cherokee to Woodbine Park in Los Angeles, where his passenger, McKinley Lee, shoots and kills a rival gang member.
Snoop turns himself in on September 2, following the MTV Video Music Awards, where he's one of the presenters for Best R&B Video.

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He has yet to release an album, but is all over Dr. Dre's massive-selling album The Chronic and signed to Dre's Death Row Records.
The label posts his bail of $1 million, and in November, his album Doggystyle is released, going straight to #1.The murder charges hang over Snoop's head and integrate into his music.
The Doggystyle track "Murder Was The Case," which addresses a fictional killing, is made into a short film in 1994 with Snoop in the starring role and supplying the soundtrack.

The trial starts in November 1995, with Snoop and McKinley Lee represented by Johnnie Cochran, one of the lawyers who helped get O.J. Simpson acquitted on murder charges just a month earlier.
According to testimony, Lee fired the shot that killed the victim, Philip Woldemariam, only after Woldemariam reached for a gun.
  • The trail ends in February 1996 with both Lee and Snoop acquitted. - "This has been an ordeal that has affected our lives for the past 2 1/2 years,"
  • Snoop says after the verdict. "I was just trying to figure out if I was going to be here to raise my son
 
2013 - Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus released 'Wrecking Ball' which became Cyrus' first No.1 song on the chart after the release of its controversial music video.

Nine weeks later, the track returned to number one, and consequently had the largest gap between No.1 sittings in Billboard Hot 100 history within a single chart run.

The video for 'Wrecking Ball' features close-up scenes of Cyrus tearfully singing, interspersed with footage of a nude Cyrus swinging on a wrecking ball.

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1970
The little-known 23-year-old singer Elton John plays his first live show in the United States, it is a 17-date tour at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

Co-headlining with the singer/songwriter David Ackles at The Troubadour in West Hollywood.
The show gets rave reviews, giving him a huge career boost in America.

In his Los Angeles Times review, Robert Hilburn writes, "Rock music, which has been going through a rather uneventful period lately, has a new star. He's Elton John."
Similar praise comes in the Hollywood Reporter and the San Francisco Chronicle, where John L. Wasserman writes, "He had hardly opened his mouth when it was apparent that he is going to be a very, very big star."
The good word draws lots of luminaries to the next five shows on his six-night run at the Troubadour, including Quincy Jones and Elton's idol Leon Russell.

A standout in the setlist is "Your Song," which is released as a single in October, giving Elton his first big hit when it goes to #8 in January.Elton's co-headliner David Ackles never gets very far in America, but after the show, he and Elton, a big fan, share a bottle of whiskey.
On his next album, Tumbleweed Connection, Elton sings about it on the track "Talking Old Soldiers."

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In the audience that night were Don Henley, Quincy Jones and Leon Russell. Elton's latest single 'Border Song' had just debuted at number 92 on the US chart.
 
2009 - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan revealed during his weekly radio show broadcast on 6 Music, that he was speaking to a number of car companies about becoming the voice of their satellite navigation systems.
- The 68 year-old said he thought it be would be good for drivers to hear him saying things such as: "Take a left at the next street. No, a right. You know what, just go straight".


2014 - Led Zeppelin
The rock classic came out top from a list of 100 riffs drawn up by a panel of Radio 2 and 6 Music DJs, critics and record producers.
1. 'Whole Lotta Love' was voted the greatest
2. 'Sweet Child O' Mine' (Guns 'N' Roses )
3 .'Back In Black' (AC/DC)
4. 'Smoke On The Water' (Deep Purple)
- being the next most popular.

2024 - Amy Winehouse
  1. Amy Winehouse's Radio 1 Live Lounge performance was voted the best from the past 25 years with her 2007 cover of
    The Zutons' 'Valerie' topping the list
  2. Arctic Monkeys took second with their covers of Girls Aloud’s 'Love Machine' +
  3. Drake’s 'Hold On We’re Goin+g Home'. third place
  4. Adele’s cover of Cheryl’s 'Promise' came in fourth place.
  5. Ben Howard’s rendition of 'Call Me Maybe' by Carly Rae Jepsen was fifth.
 
AUG 26th
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1963
British singer Cilla Black makes her concert debut, opening for The Beatles at the Odeon in Southport, Lancashire, England.

1967
  • The Small Faces,
  • Move,
  • The Gass,
  • Tomorrow,
  • Denny Laine,
  • Jeff Beck,
  • Eric Burdon and Marmalade
    ... all appeared on the first day of the 3-day non-stop happening 'Festival of the Flower Children' at Woburn Abbey, England.
    Plus DJ's John Peel and Tommy Vance.
  • Tickets cost £1.
1968
Mary Hopkin releases "Those Were The Days" in the US.
(Ain't that the truth) !!!

 
1977
  • Alex Harvey
  • Uriah Heep,
  • Thin Lizzy,
  • The Sensational Alex Harvey Band,
  • Eddie and the Hot Rods
  • , Golden Earing, Aerosmith,
  • Doobie Brothers,
  • Hawkwind,
  • Racing Cars,
  • John Miles,
  • Graham Parker,
  • The Enid,
  • No Dice and Frankie Miller's Full House
all appeared at the 17th three day Reading Festival, England. A three day ticket cost £7.95.

Reading Festival 26th – 28th August 1977
 
AUG 27th
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1955
Fats Domino's "Ain't That A Shame" hits #10 in the US, becoming the first R&B song to hit the Top 10 on the Pop chart.


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1966
The Beach Boys 'God Only Knows' peaked at No.2 on the UK singles chart.
The song broke new ground in many ways.
It was one of the first commercial songs to use the word 'God' in its title and Brian Wilson used many unorthodox instruments, including the French horns that are heard in the song's famous introduction.
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1988
20-year-old Kylie Minogue becomes the youngest female artist to land a #1 album in the UK when her debut, Kylie, claims the top spot.
Her record stands until 2003, when 18-year-old Avril Lavigne goes to #1 with Let Go.

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2018
Weird Al Yankovic receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
At the ceremony, he tells the crowd, ---
"My name is gonna be walked on, spit on, and let's face it ... urinated on for generations to come. --- That's a legacy, my friends."

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AUG 28th
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1963
Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
The music connection:?
Peter, Paul and Mary play their hit version of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" before King speaks.

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1968
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, overzealous police in riot gear brutally beat protestors who are demonstrating against the Vietnam War.

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The Doors, Graham Nash and Chicago ... all write songs about it.

The incident is a clear case of police brutality that energizes the antiwar movement. For Chicago (using the band name Chicago Transit Authority), it really hits home, as it takes place on their turf. On their 1969 debut album, they respond with the song "Someday (August 29, 1968)," which includes sections of the famous chant that broke out:

The whole world is watching.Jim Morrison writes the event into the Doors song "Peace Frog," where he ominously sings, "Blood in the streets of the town of Chicago."

Graham Nash covers it on his 1971 track "Chicago (We Can Change The World)," a call for politicians to open their eyes to the reality of what's going on in America.


His song also brings up the "Chicago Seven" who were charged with inciting the riot.

 
AUG 29th
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1970
The Isle of Wight Festival hits its stride on Day 4 (of 5), with performances by Miles Davis, The Doors and The Who. Joni Mitchell's set is interrupted by a hippie named Yogi Joe who has to be removed by security.
It also features Emerson, Lake And Palmer in only their second live performance, which is later released as the album Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970.

Some of the hundreds of thousands of fans at the festival are there to protest its consumerism, believing that music should be free.
When Yogi Joe comes on stage, it's peaceful at first -
- But when he starts playing congas (poorly), Mitchell asks him to leave, which is when he grabs the microphone and goes on a rant while as Mitchell plays on

The crowd starts giving her the business, but Mitchell not only stays on stage, but upbraids the audience. "You're acting like tourists," she says. "Give us some respect."They do, listening quietly as she finishes her set.

 
1964 - Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison's 'Oh, Pretty Woman' was released in the US. It went on to reach No.1 four weeks later.
The title was inspired by Orbison's wife Claudette interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out; when Orbison asked if she was okay for cash, his co-writer Bill Dees interjected "A pretty woman never needs any money."

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1970 - Edwin Starr
Edwin Starr started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'War', his only No.1a No.3 in the UK.


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1977 - Elvis Presley
Three people were arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis' body. As a result, his remains would be later moved to Graceland.

On This Day in 1977, a Group of Men Attempted To Steal the Remains of Elvis Presley for Ransom
 
1987 - Rick Astley (The Perfect botfriend )

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Rick Astley's debut hit 'Never Gonna Give You Up', started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart.
It became the biggest selling single of 1987 and the song won Best British Single at the 1988 Brit Awards.
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1994 - Oasis
Oasis released their debut album Definitely Maybe which went on to spend 177 weeks on the UK chart.

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  • It also became the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK and the album went on to sell over eight million copies worldwide.
Definitely Maybe was embraced by critics for its optimistic themes and rejection of the negative outlook of much of the grunge music of the time, and is regarded as a cornerstone of the Britpop genre.
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AUG 30th
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1969
The three day Texas Pop Festival took place featuring
  • Janis Joplin,
  • Led Zeppelin,
  • Sam & Dave,
  • Santana,
  • Johnny Winter,
  • Grand Funk Railroad,
  • Delaney & Bonnie,
  • Nazz,
  • Spirit,
  • B.B. King,
  • Canned Heat and Chicago.
    Over 120,000 fans attended the festival.

1969
It's the first day of the two-day Isle of Wight Festival - ,Two weeks after the Woodstock.
Over 150,000 turned up over the two days to see
  • Bob Dylan
  • The Band,
  • Blodwyn Pig,
  • Blonde On Blonde,
  • Bonzo Dog Dooh Dah Band,
  • Edgar Broughton Band,
  • Joe Cocker,
  • Aynsley Dunbar,
  • Family,
  • Fat Mattress,
  • Julie Felix,
  • Free, Gypsy,
  • Richie Havens,
  • The Nice,
  • Tom Paxton,
  • Pentangle,
  • The Pretty Things,
  • Third Ear Band
  • The Moody Blues and
  • The Who.
This is the second Isle of Wight Festival - it goes on again next year, but doesn't return until 2002.
 

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