1963 - The Beatles released different albums in different markets through their entire career, and the first U.S. album, Introducing The Beatles, was originally set for release today. (For details and videos of other Beatles releases go to our archive search engine). However, due to complex legal reasons, and due to the fact that the Beatles did not rate highly on the record company's priorities at that time, the LP came out on 10 January 1964, and on indie label Vee-Jay Records - mere days before corporate Capitol's Meet The Beatles! was released. It was the subject of much legal wrangling, but ultimately, Vee-Jay were permitted to sell the album until late 1964, by which time it had sold more than 1.3 million copies. When the Please Please Me single was issued in the United States, Vee-Jay Records signed a licensing agreement with Transglobal, an EMI affiliate that worked to place foreign masters with US record labels, giving it the right of first refusal on Beatles records for five years. This was then, and remains, the usual practice and unethical ways of most corporate record companies. As part of that agreement, Vee-Jay planned to release the Please Please Me album in the US, and received copies of the mono and stereo master tapes in late April or early May 1963. Interestingly, on that LP, only five of the 12 songs are originals. The other 7 are covers of mostly black American songs, except for their Burt Bacharach cover. These two video clips show the Beatles in live settings at the height of their early career, and demonstrates only too clearly, the hysteria that soon took over, but just as importantly that they were, essentially, a fun rock'n'roll band. Amazing, really amazing.
1967 - Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, You Keep Me hanging On is a 1966 song originally recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label, quickly becoming the group's eighth #1 single when it topped the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart for two weeks in the United States from November 13, 1966 through November 27, 1966. But this was the day when the absolutely stunning cover version by Vanilla Fudge was released, the band making their concert debut on the same day. Here are two olive television performances form Vanilla Fudge, featuring Carmine Appice on drums; the first from the the Ray Anthony Show, the second from the Ed Sullilvan show. Only one question: what drugs were they on? Or is it pure passion.
1968 - The Byrds remain one of contemporary music's most important seminal band, and for details and videos go to the *MUSICBACKTRACK* search engine. This was the day their influential album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo was released. One of the songs from that album was the Bob Dylan song, You Aint Going Nowhere. This following video is a real moment in rock history, with the Byrds with Clarence White playing the Telecaster, Earl Scruggs, and I think that may well be the legendary Gram Parsons on keys.
1969 - This was the day, 42 years ago, when a 27-year-old Aretha Franklin was arrested for disorderly conduct after creating a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. Two years later, on the Flip Wilson TV show, she was Rock Steady, y'all, the skank guitar funkier than funk, gospel backing vocals, the queen of soul out front.
1972 - Bobby Darin's mutli-talented career ranged from pop singer, club singer, song writer, entrepreneur, actor, record executive and more. He was also a television host, and almost 40 years ago today, TV variety show, The Bobby Darin Amusement Company premiered on American CBS network. He remains one of the finest all-round entertainers from another era of music and entertainment. Here are just two performances from Bobby D's show.
1972 - One of my favourite Who songs, was Join Together, which was released today in 1972. It was was one of the band's three non-album singles relating to the aborted Lifehouse project, along with Let's See Action, and Relay. The song was a worldwide hit, and was included on several compilations, including The Who: The Ultimate Collection and 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Who. In the front guard of the so-called British Invasion of the sixties, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, the display describing them as "Prime contenders, in the minds of many, for the title of World's Greatest Rock Band." In 1979,Time magazine wrote: "No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it", while Rolling Stone magazine wrote: "Along with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, The Who complete the holy trinity of British rock.
1977 - In 1977, Elvis Costello burst on to the international music scene on the wave of the British punk explosion, with the release, on this day, of his debut album, My Aim Is True. For more info and ids on the lad, go to our archive search engine. Here's Elvis, on his own, in front of thousands, at Woodstock '99, eight one of the most beautiful and poignant songs f contemporary music.
1979 - I can remember, at aged seven, I used to sneak under my bed covers at night, listening to my little crystal set, and hear a new form of music, that I could only hear on Sunday nights for one hour - the only airspace given to rock'n'roll in Australia in 1954. one night I heard the voice of Little Richard and my future was immediately mapped out, such was his life-long impact one me. For me, along with Jerry Lee, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry, he was a prime architect of rock'n'roll music. Not long after I heard his voice, he denounced rock'n'roll music during an Australian tour, and three all of his jewellery into the Sydney Harbour. It didn't take long before he took up music again. But on this day at the end of the seventies, Little Richard, then known as the Reverend Richard Pennman told his congregation about the evils of rock & roll music, declaring, 'If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody.' in the same year, he performed the very first song I heard from him, his first big hit, and this is it. Magnificent!
1967 - Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, You Keep Me hanging On is a 1966 song originally recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label, quickly becoming the group's eighth #1 single when it topped the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart for two weeks in the United States from November 13, 1966 through November 27, 1966. But this was the day when the absolutely stunning cover version by Vanilla Fudge was released, the band making their concert debut on the same day. Here are two olive television performances form Vanilla Fudge, featuring Carmine Appice on drums; the first from the the Ray Anthony Show, the second from the Ed Sullilvan show. Only one question: what drugs were they on? Or is it pure passion.
1968 - The Byrds remain one of contemporary music's most important seminal band, and for details and videos go to the *MUSICBACKTRACK* search engine. This was the day their influential album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo was released. One of the songs from that album was the Bob Dylan song, You Aint Going Nowhere. This following video is a real moment in rock history, with the Byrds with Clarence White playing the Telecaster, Earl Scruggs, and I think that may well be the legendary Gram Parsons on keys.
1969 - This was the day, 42 years ago, when a 27-year-old Aretha Franklin was arrested for disorderly conduct after creating a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. Two years later, on the Flip Wilson TV show, she was Rock Steady, y'all, the skank guitar funkier than funk, gospel backing vocals, the queen of soul out front.
1972 - Bobby Darin's mutli-talented career ranged from pop singer, club singer, song writer, entrepreneur, actor, record executive and more. He was also a television host, and almost 40 years ago today, TV variety show, The Bobby Darin Amusement Company premiered on American CBS network. He remains one of the finest all-round entertainers from another era of music and entertainment. Here are just two performances from Bobby D's show.
1972 - One of my favourite Who songs, was Join Together, which was released today in 1972. It was was one of the band's three non-album singles relating to the aborted Lifehouse project, along with Let's See Action, and Relay. The song was a worldwide hit, and was included on several compilations, including The Who: The Ultimate Collection and 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Who. In the front guard of the so-called British Invasion of the sixties, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, the display describing them as "Prime contenders, in the minds of many, for the title of World's Greatest Rock Band." In 1979,Time magazine wrote: "No other group has ever pushed rock so far, or asked so much from it", while Rolling Stone magazine wrote: "Along with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, The Who complete the holy trinity of British rock.
1977 - In 1977, Elvis Costello burst on to the international music scene on the wave of the British punk explosion, with the release, on this day, of his debut album, My Aim Is True. For more info and ids on the lad, go to our archive search engine. Here's Elvis, on his own, in front of thousands, at Woodstock '99, eight one of the most beautiful and poignant songs f contemporary music.
1979 - I can remember, at aged seven, I used to sneak under my bed covers at night, listening to my little crystal set, and hear a new form of music, that I could only hear on Sunday nights for one hour - the only airspace given to rock'n'roll in Australia in 1954. one night I heard the voice of Little Richard and my future was immediately mapped out, such was his life-long impact one me. For me, along with Jerry Lee, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry, he was a prime architect of rock'n'roll music. Not long after I heard his voice, he denounced rock'n'roll music during an Australian tour, and three all of his jewellery into the Sydney Harbour. It didn't take long before he took up music again. But on this day at the end of the seventies, Little Richard, then known as the Reverend Richard Pennman told his congregation about the evils of rock & roll music, declaring, 'If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody.' in the same year, he performed the very first song I heard from him, his first big hit, and this is it. Magnificent!
