This day in 'Musical' history

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Sept 8th:
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1956 - Eddie Cochran


Eddie Cochran signed a one year contract with Liberty Records, Cochran went on to give Liberty three top 40 hits over the next several years including ‘Summertime Blues,’ ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and ‘C’mon Everybody’.
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1957 - Jackie Wilson


Reet Petite' by Jackie Wilson was released for the first time.
It became a UK No. 1, ....... 29 years later.

During a 1975 benefit concert, Wilson collapsed on-stage from a heart attack and subsequently fell into a coma that persisted for nearly nine years until his death in 1984

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Sept 8th:
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1968 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin appeared at Raventlow Parken, Nykobing, Falster, Denmark supported by The Beatnicks and The Ladybirds, (who were a all girl topless go-go dancing outfit).

• This was the group's third ever live gig.

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1979 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin scored their eighth UK No.1 album when 'In Through The Out Door'



It went to the top of the charts for two weeks.
The eighth studio album by Zeppelin, was their final album of entirely new material.
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Sept 8th:
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1997 - Led Zeppelin
29 years after the band first formed, Led Zeppelin released 'Whole Lotta Love', their first ever single in the UK.
The track recorded in 1969 and featured on the bands second album was issued to promote their re-issued back catalogue.

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2004 - Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant was guest of honour at the unveiling of a statue of 15th century rebel leader Owain Glyndwr at Pennal church, near Machynlleth in Wales.
Plant, who owns a farmhouse in the area had donated money towards a bronze sculpture of the Welsh prince.

 

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Sept 8th:
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1955
In an attempt to hide the wrinkles in his suit, Chuck Berry does the duck walk for the first time.


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Berry performs the famous move, squatting on one leg while hopping across the stage, at the Paramount Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, where he is low in the bill at Alan Freed's "Rock and Roll Spectacular," a week-long run of shows that features Tony Bennett, Lillian Briggs and The Rhythmettes.

It's one of Berry's first shows outside of St. Louis, where he has been performing with his trio (piano player Johnnie Johnson and drummer Ebby Harding) since 1952.
Their suits get wrinkled on the way to New York, so Berry keeps a crouch on stage to conceal them, improvising his duck walk along the way. The crowd goes nuts, so Berry does it at the rest of the shows, where it wows the crowd every time. It became his signature move on stage.

Berry has a flat-footed gait, making the duck walk a natural for him, but rather difficult for the many guitarists who try to emulate it along with his licks.

It's a pose he's been striking since he was a kid.The move is one of Berry's many contributions to rock and roll, which is in its infancy. In promoting this new form of music, Freed, a prominent disc jockey, mixes traditional acts with artists like Berry and Fats Domino, who are forging the new sound.

His duck walk remains the most famous stage move in rock.

 

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Sept 9th:
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1965 - The Monkees

• US newspaper The Hollywood reporter ran the following advertisement;
  "'Madness folk & roll musicians, singers wanted for acting roles in new TV show. Parts for 4 insane boys".

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The Monkees were born.- 437 people applied for the job.
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Sept 9th:
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1975 The TV series Welcome Back, Kotter
..... debuts on ABC. The theme song, written by John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful fame, goes to #1 in America in 1976.

Kotter also gives John Travolta, who plays a high school delinquent on the show, his big break; he goes on to star in Saturday Night Fever and Grease.