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I feel like a trip to Jamaica today mon! We have a one hit wonder from Bobby Bloom today to start off the week. In the early 1960s, Bloom had been a member of the doo-wop group, The Imaginations, and sang lead on “Wait A Little Longer, Son.” Bloom received a big break in 1969 [...]
1973, Stevie Wonder went to No.1 on the singles chart with ‘You Are The Sunshine Of My Life’. His third No.1, 1973, Paul Simon released the single ‘Kodachrome’ which became a hit in the US, but was banned from airplay in the UK because it contained a brand name. 1974, The Grateful Dead performed at [...]
1967, Pink Floyd begin two days of recording with producer Joe Boyd, working on the tracks “Interstellar Overdrive,” “Arnold Layne,” “Let’s Roll Another One” and “Nick’s Boogie.” 1968, Jimi Hendrix moves into a London townhouse formerly owned by the Messiah’s composer George Frederick Handel. The guitarist tells the Daily Mirror that he will “not let [...]
1965, The Rolling Stones kicked off their third North American tour at the Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Canada. 1969, The Beatles were at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Get Back’ the group’s 16th No.1. 1969, The Ash Grove club in Los Angeles, where Canned Heat cut their teeth, burns down. 1969, The Grateful [...]
1969, On the roof of the Apple building in London, John Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono. 1969, In Dolton, England, the Who perform their rock opera Tommy live in its entirety for the first time. 1969, A&M signs a brother/sister act called the Carpenters. 1969, Fleetwood Mac kicked off a 10-date [...]
I’m Uncle Marty, this is The 3D RadioActivity, and on this episode we are playing Gospel Music as we have done in earlier podcasts. Gospel music is an interesting genre. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition varies according to culture and social context. Composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious [...]
1966, The Troggs recorded ‘Wild Thing’ at Regent Sound Studio in London. The song went on to be a No.1 US and No.2 UK hit in June the following year. 1966, John Lennon bought a copy of Timothy Leary’s ‘The Psychedelic Experience’ and ‘The Tibetan Book Of The Dead,’ where he read near the beginning [...]
It was a tale of two Jerries. By 1980 Jerry Garcia had his day job with the Grateful Dead. During that year, the band released the somewhat weak studio album, Go To Heaven, and took to the road to promote it. While the 1979-1980 shows generally found the band in excellent form, in order to [...]
1958, George Harrison joined Liverpool group The Quarrymen. The group who were named after Lennon’s school featured John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Len Garry, Eric Griffiths and John Lowe. 1965, Rolling Stones II knocks Beatles for Sale out of the No. 1 spot on the U.K. Record Retailer chart. 1969, Doors singer Jim Morrison was arrested for drunk [...]
Where do you go after you’ve taken on an assumed name (“The Night Tripper”) and released four of the funkiest, trippiest, psychedelic, voodoo-inspired albums in all of music history? If you’re Dr. John, you go straight back home! ”I decided I’d had enough of the mighty-coo-de-fiyo hoodoo show, so I dumped the Gris-Gris routine we [...]
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