1941 - The swingin' Harry James and his pumpin' orchestra recorded You Made Me Love You, today, but like so many other classics of the day, of course, there's no visual memory, only audio - that I could find. But if you want to get a vibe, a feeling of how this guy and his band just killed it stone dead, watch this video of Harry plus the brilliant Buddy Rich. Man, these guys were just the best.
1942 - And as if Harry and Buddy weren't enough, how about this song, I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo, recorded not quite 70 years ago today by the great Glenn Miller and His swingin'band. This is the full, original clip of the Glenn Miller band with Tex Beneke and one of the greatest dance routines you'll ever see, from the 1942 movie, Orchestra Wives...imagine that, and in 1942!!!
1954 - This is the day Bill Haley and the Comets' first released their song, Rock Around the Clock, but it was not successful until it was released a year later, on the soundtrack to Blackboard Jungle. For full details and a video, go to our archive search engine. Six years later, 1960, and Alan Freed, the disc jockey who popularised the term "rock'n'roll" was indicted for income tax evasion stemming from the music practice of payola. For full details and video, go to our archive search engine.
1967 - Jimi Hendrix created a brand new sound for electric guitar, pioneering the relationship between amplification volume, finesse, guitar virtuosity and showmanship. This was the day that Hendrix signed his first American record contract, and it was with Reprise Records, the record label founded in 1960 by forties and fifties crooner, Frank Sinatra, whose estate own this video and the music and the performance. This is Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan at Monterey Pop Festival.
1977 - Must been something about this day, May 20, because it was this day in 1977 that the stage show Beatlemania opened at the Winter Garden Theater, New York, and a year later, also on the same day, the stage production, The Buddy Holly Story, premiered in Holly's home town of Lubbock, Texas.
1980 - Today's the day the Iva Davies-led band Flowers/Icehouseband announce the 30-year anniversary edition of their blockbuster debut. Flowers/Icehouse was driven by stylistic post-punk, cutting edge new wave music, and led by enigmatic song writer/singer Iva Davies. In 1980 the band, called Flowers at the time, released their debut Icehouse album, and subsequently changed their name the following year. The album went quadruple platinum in both Australia and New Zealand, the biggest debut in Australian history until Savage Garden's 1997 self-titled album. Flowers/Icehouse was kick-started by the quirky songs, We Can Get Together and Can’t Help Myself. And these are they.
1992 - Almost 20 years ago today. Aerosmith donated $10,000 to support Corporal Politics, a controversial art exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This was the year, too, that Aerosmith joined Guns'n'Roses in Paris live. This is a great video.
1996 - The Metallica single Until It Sleeps was released world-wide today, excluding North America, where it was released the following day. Quite an amazing video, this one, from the world's greediest and most self-absorbed, obscenely rich psychiatrists' dreamboats.
1942 - And as if Harry and Buddy weren't enough, how about this song, I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo, recorded not quite 70 years ago today by the great Glenn Miller and His swingin'band. This is the full, original clip of the Glenn Miller band with Tex Beneke and one of the greatest dance routines you'll ever see, from the 1942 movie, Orchestra Wives...imagine that, and in 1942!!!
1954 - This is the day Bill Haley and the Comets' first released their song, Rock Around the Clock, but it was not successful until it was released a year later, on the soundtrack to Blackboard Jungle. For full details and a video, go to our archive search engine. Six years later, 1960, and Alan Freed, the disc jockey who popularised the term "rock'n'roll" was indicted for income tax evasion stemming from the music practice of payola. For full details and video, go to our archive search engine.
1967 - Jimi Hendrix created a brand new sound for electric guitar, pioneering the relationship between amplification volume, finesse, guitar virtuosity and showmanship. This was the day that Hendrix signed his first American record contract, and it was with Reprise Records, the record label founded in 1960 by forties and fifties crooner, Frank Sinatra, whose estate own this video and the music and the performance. This is Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan at Monterey Pop Festival.
1977 - Must been something about this day, May 20, because it was this day in 1977 that the stage show Beatlemania opened at the Winter Garden Theater, New York, and a year later, also on the same day, the stage production, The Buddy Holly Story, premiered in Holly's home town of Lubbock, Texas.
1980 - Today's the day the Iva Davies-led band Flowers/Icehouseband announce the 30-year anniversary edition of their blockbuster debut. Flowers/Icehouse was driven by stylistic post-punk, cutting edge new wave music, and led by enigmatic song writer/singer Iva Davies. In 1980 the band, called Flowers at the time, released their debut Icehouse album, and subsequently changed their name the following year. The album went quadruple platinum in both Australia and New Zealand, the biggest debut in Australian history until Savage Garden's 1997 self-titled album. Flowers/Icehouse was kick-started by the quirky songs, We Can Get Together and Can’t Help Myself. And these are they.
1992 - Almost 20 years ago today. Aerosmith donated $10,000 to support Corporal Politics, a controversial art exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This was the year, too, that Aerosmith joined Guns'n'Roses in Paris live. This is a great video.
1996 - The Metallica single Until It Sleeps was released world-wide today, excluding North America, where it was released the following day. Quite an amazing video, this one, from the world's greediest and most self-absorbed, obscenely rich psychiatrists' dreamboats.
