Hendrix was dropped after six shows after being told his act was not suitable for their teenybopper audience.ġ968: Pink Floyd kicked off their first 20-date North American tour at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago. Jagger was later given a conditional discharge.ġ967: The Monkees began a 29-date tour with The Jimi Hendrix Experience as a support act. All four tracks were taken from The Beatles' sixth UK studio album, Rubber Soul.ġ967: UK music weekly the Melody Maker ran a front-page comment condemning the 3-month jail sentence given to Rolling Stone Mick Jagger for possession of Benzedrine tablets. Songs featured by the group in the movie included 'Catch Us If You Can,' 'Having a Wild Weekend' and 'I Can't Stand It.'ġ966: The Beatles released the ‘Nowhere Man’ 4-track EP in the UK, which included: ‘Drive My Car’, ‘Michelle’ and ‘You Won't See Me’. The film was renamed Having a Wild Weekend for its US release. A Gold single represented sales of one million records.ġ965: The Dave Clark Five had their movie, Catch Us If You Can, premiere in London. The first Gold single issued by the RIAA was 'Catch a Falling Star' by Perry Como in March of 1958. The honor signified that the album had reached one million dollars in sales. He played the song just after 9.30 that evening, the phone lines lit up asking the DJ to play the song again.ġ958: The first Gold record album presented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was awarded to the soundtrack LP, 'Oklahoma'. Have a great Thursday.ġ946: "Tidbits of 1946" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 8 performances.ġ954: Producer Sam Phillips took an acetate recording of Elvis Presley singing 'That's All Right' to Memphis radio station WHBQ DJ Dewey Phillips. Good Thursday morning, This Day In The History Of Music. I do hope you enjoy reading this post, history has always been my favorite subject throughout my whole life, from grade school through college, and even to this day. When I add my own personal opinion I will do so as a side note as well, but that will be highlighted in bold blue. I try my very best to add nothing but true facts to this post, and I will always give the source that I took those facts from. When this happens I will leave it up to the reader to look into the fact and or facts for that blog, and please feel free to leave a reply about any additional information you may have found, and please list the source and or sources that you used for that additional information. When I have to use a third source it will normally agree with one of the other two sources, that is when I will agree with that information, in the case where the third source also differs from the other two I will just go with the first date and information given. When the third source has to be used I will always list it as a ( Side Note:) and it will always be highlighted in bold redjust as you see it now. And for the faithful readers of this post, you probably have also noticed I use a third source when the two sources that I do use are not in agreement with the facts, the third source will always be listed. The first source is This Day In Music and the second source is On This Day in Music History. I will be using two sources of information for " This Day In The History Of Music". Take care everyone, and please stay safe as well. If anyone in the Pandora community would like to add or suggest this post, then please do. P.S I am thinking about posting each day. Elvis Presley was known as the King of Rock-n-Roll. Source- | This Day In Music. For those who may not know. OctoChopin: The Day the Music Died The brief life of Chopin, one of music’s earliest superstars, ended on this day when the sickly composer fell victim to tuberculosis. It did not go well: he came fifth in a local talent show. Elvis Presley made his first public appearance as a singer on this day.
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