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Today in Rock History – December 28

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Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell, and Richie-Havens at the Miami Pop Festival – December-1968. Photo © Bill Mankin. Used by special permission. All rights reserved. Unauthorized use prohibited. From original article, “We Can All Join In: How Rock Festivals Helped Change America”.

1968, The three day Miami Pop Festival took place, the first major rock festival held on the East Coast of the US, with Chuck Berry, The McCoys, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, The Turtles, The Box Tops, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Pacific Gas and Electric, Procol Harum, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly and The Grateful Dead. 100,000 people attended the event.

1968, The Beatles went to number one on the album chart with the White Album, the group’s 12th US chart topping album.

1968, Pink Floyd appeared at the two day festival Flight To Lowlands Paradise II, Margriethal-Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, The Netherlands, replacing Jimi Hendrix. Other acts appearing included Jethro Tull, Jeff Beck, The Pretty Things and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

1968, Vanilla Fudge appeared at the Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada supported by Led Zeppelin on their first US tour.

1968,  The Rolling Stones enter the UK charts at number three with Beggars Banquet.

1969, The Allman Brothers Band appeared at the Fillmore East, New York.

1970, Genesis performed at the Lyceum Ballroom in London.

1971,  Sha Na Na performed at Carnegie Hall. The MC for the event is the Who’s Keith Moon, one of their biggest fans.

1971, George Harrison was at number on the US singles chart with “My Sweet Lord,” making him the first Beatle to score a number one US hit. The song was originally intended for Billy Preston.

1972, David Bowie appeared at The Hardrock, Stretford, Manchester, England on his Ziggy Stardust tour.

1972, Roxy Music played at the Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina.

1973, Queen performed at the Top Rank Club in Liverpool, England.

1974, Helen Reddy went to number one on the US singles chart with “Angie Baby,” the singer’s third US chart topper. The song was turned down by Cher.

1975, “Saturday Night” by Bay City Rollers tops the pop charts.

1976, Freddie King, bluesman, guitarist died of complications from stomach ulcers and acute pancreatitis in Dallas, Texas, aged 42. He is best known for the 1961 single “Have You Ever Loved A Woman,” covered by Eric Clapton with Derek and the Dominos.

stones-Some-Girls1978, Rolling Stone magazine voted Some Girls by The Rolling Stones their “Album of the Year.” The cover designed by Peter Corriston, featured The Rolling Stones in garish drag alongside select female celebrities and lingerie ads. The cover immediately ran into trouble when Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli, representing her mother Judy Garland, Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe, who all threatened legal action.

1978, Rush performed at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario.

1979, The Who appeared at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.

1980, ZZ Top played at the Riverside Centroplex, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1980, Blue Oyster Cult performed at the Civic Center, Dothan, Alabama.

1981, The Allman Brothers Band appeared at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, Indiana.

1982, Siouxsie & the Banshees played at Hammersmith Odeon, London.

1983, Having made two successful dives below a friend’s yacht to find items he’d drunkenly thrown off his own boat three years before, Beach Boy Dennis Wilson took one last dive into the Pacific and never returned from the boat moored in Marina Del Rey, California. With the help of President Ronald Reagan he was given a burial at sea, normally reserved for Naval personnel. Dennis was the only genuine surfer in The Beach Boys.

1988, The Grateful Dead performed at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California.

1991, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana and Pearl Jam all appeared at Del Mar O’Brien Pavilion, San Diego, California.

1998, UK radio station BBC Radio 1 aired the 100 National Anthems, songs voted by listeners. At number 5, Radiohead, “Creep,” number 4, Underworld “Born Slippy,” number 3 The Verve “Bitter Sweet Symphony,” number two, Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” number one, Massive Attack, “Unfinished Sympathy.”

2002, Disgraced rock star Gary Glitter was deported from Cambodia after spending two nights in jail over suspected sex offenses.

2003, 50 Cent’s debut album, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ was named the biggest selling album in the US in 2003 with the album going platinum six times over. Outkast came second with Speakerboxxx’ / ‘The Love Below and Linkin Park’s Meteora was the third biggest seller. The Top 10 albums of 2003 in the USA accounted for around 30 million sales.

Born on December 28: Roebuck “Pop” Staples (1915); Johnny Otis (1921); Charles Neville, sax, The Neville Brothers (1938); Edgar Winter (1946); Dick Diamonde, The Easybeats (1947); Mary Weiss, singer, The Shangri-Las (1948); Alex Chilton, Box Tops (1950); Hugh McDonald,  bass, Bon Jovi (1950); John Legend (1978)

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Today in Rock History – December 8

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beatles -sgtpeppers1966, Working at Abbey Road in London, Paul McCartney overdubbed his lead vocal for “When I’m Sixty-Four.” Then The Beatles set about remaking a new John Lennon song “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

1967, Pink Floyd appeared at the Royal College of Art in London.

1968, Singer and guitarist Graham Nash left The Hollies and started working with David Crosby and Stephen Stills who went on to form Crosby Stills and Nash.

1969, Mick Jagger was quoted saying “I don’t really like singing very much, I enjoy playing the guitar more than I enjoy singing and I can’t play the guitar either.”

1969, On trial in Canada on drug possession charges, Jimi Hendrix told a Toronto court that he had only smoked pot four times in his life, snorted cocaine twice and took LSD no more than five times. Telling the jury that he had now outgrown drugs. They found the guitarist not guilty.

1970, Yes performed at City Hall, Newcastle, England.

1971, This weeks Top selling 8-Track cartridges chart, number 5: Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits Vol. 2, number 4: Carole King, Tapestry, number 3: Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, number two: Motown Chartbusters Vol. 6, and number one: John Lennon, Imagine.

1972, King Crimson played at the Odeon, Newcastle, England.

1972, Led Zeppelin appeared at the Hardrock Concert Theatre in Manchester, England. Ticket price was £1.25 ($2).

1973, The Grateful Dead performed at Cameron Indoor Stadium on the campus of Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina.

1974, Genesis appeared at the Palace Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island.

1975, Bob Dylan played at Madison Square Garden, New York.

1977, Four people were arrested after a riot broke out when Blondie didn’t arrive for a gig in Brisbane. Over 1,000 Australian fans had waited more than an hour for the group to appear on stage, but the gig was cancelled due to singer Debbie Harry being ill.

1979, Styx went to number one on the singles chart with “Babe,” the group’s only chart topper.

John-Lennon-john-lennon-collection1980, John Lennon was shot five times by 25 year old Mark Chapman outside the Dakota building in New York City where John and Yoko lived. Chapman had been stalking Lennon for days outside the Dakota apartments and asked for an autograph as Lennon walked through the courtyard. As he signed a piece of paper Chapman fired five shots, four of which struck the ex-Beatle. Lennon was rushed to Roosevelt hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival shortly after 11 pm.

1981, The Rolling Stones performed at the Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland.

1982, American country singer, songwriter Marty Robbins died aged 57 of complications following cardiac surgery. He had the first number one of the ’60s in the US with “El Paso.”  The song won him a Grammy Award as well. Robbins later portrayed a musician in the 1982 Clint Eastwood film Honkytonk Man.

1984, Frankie Goes To Hollywood were at number one on the UK singles chart with “The Power Of Love.” The group’s third chart topper of the year and final UK number one.

1995, Courtney Love appeared on the ABC TV show 10 Most Fascinating People, telling host Barbara Walters that she wished she had done “eight thousand million things differently” to have prevented the death of her husband Kurt Cobain.

2000, A plaque to commemorate the 20th anniversary of John Lennon’s death was unveiled outside his childhood home in Liverpool.

Born on December 8: Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925);  Jerry Butler, The Impressions (1939);  Bobby Elliott, drums, The Hollies (1941);  Jim Morrison (1943); Mike Botts, drums, Bread (1944); Graham Knight, Marmalade (1946); Greg Allman (1947); Ray Shulman, violinist, guitarist, producer, Simon Dupree and the Big Sound, Gentle Giant (1949); Dan Harman (1950); Kasim Sulton, singer-songwriter, bass, producer Blue Öyster Cult, Utopia (1955); Warren Cuccurullo, guitarist, Duran Duran, Missing Persons (1956); Andrew Edge, drummer, Thompson Twins (1956); Phil Collen, guitar, Def Leppard (1957); Marty Friedman, guitar, Megadeth (1962); Sinéad O’Connor (1966); Corey Taylor, singer, Slipknot (1973); Nick Zinner, guitarist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (1974)

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Today in Rock History – September 22

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The Great Society

1965, San Francisco band The Great Society, featuring Grace Slick, make their live debut at The Coffee Gallery, North Beach, California. The lineup featured Grace, her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, his brother Darby Slick on guitar, David Miner on vocals and guitar, Bard DuPont on bass, and Peter van Gelder on flute, bass, and saxophone.

1967, The Doors appeared on the Murray the K show on WPIX-TV in New York City performing “People Are Strange” and “Light My Fire.”

1968  Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum gives its Beatles statues their fifth hair and clothes makeover in four years, in keeping with the lads’ taste for hippie fashions.

1968, The Amboy Dukes played at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, Michigan.

1969, A new weekly TV show,  The Music Scene aired on ABC for the first time. Stevie Wonder Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Tom Jones, Cass Elliot, James Brown, Janis Joplin, and Sly and the Family Stone were all booked to appear on the show.

1969, The Band released their self-titled album, which peaked at number nine on the US chart, and included “Rag Mama Rag,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.” In 2009, the album was preserved into the National Recording Registry because the album was “culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and reflects life in the United States.”

1970, The Rolling Stones performed at the Palais des Sport in Paris.

1971, David Crosby and Graham Nash appear at Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus, Ohio.

Bowie-ziggy-stardust1972, David Bowie kicked of the North American leg of his Ziggy Stardust world tour at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Ohio.

1973, The Rolling Stones scored their eighth No.1 album when “Goats Head Soup” started a two-week run at the top of the charts.

1974, The Sonny Bono Comedy Revue was shown for the first time on ABC-TV.

1976, Rush perform at The Dome Arena, Rochester, New York.

1977, Yes appear at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California.

1978, Jethro Tull released the live album Bursting Out. It was recorded at various locations during the European Heavy Horses tour in May and June 1978

1978, Black Sabbath plays at Selland Arena, Fresno, California.

1979, Gary Numan had his second and final UK number one single with “Cars.” Also on this day Gary Numan went to number one on the UK album chart with The Pleasure Principle.

1979, Jackson Browne, Chaka Khan, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and Tom Petty, appeared at Madison Square Garden, New York for two anti-nuclear benefit shows.

1979, Def Leppard had their first major live review when UK music weekly Melody Maker reviewed a gig the band had played in Wolverhampton.  The band had just released their debut 3-track single, and featured a 15 year-old drummer

1981, Composer Harry Warren died aged 88. He wrote over 800 songs including “I Only Have Eyes For You,” a hit for The Flamingos and Art Garfunkel, “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “That’s Amore,” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” Warren’s songs were featured in over 300 films.

1983, During a UK comeback tour The Everly Brothers appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In the audience, Paul and Linda McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and Mickey Dolenz.

1984, Echo And The Bunnymen, Spear Of Destiny, The Sisters Of Mercy, The Redskins, and The Chameleons all appeared at the first York Rock Festival, York, England.

1985, The first Farm Aid benefit concert was held before a crowd of 80,000 people at the Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. Organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, the event had been spurred on by Bob Dylan’s comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers. The star studded line-up of country stars included Alabama, Hoyt Axton, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels Band, John Denver, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Charley Pride, Bonnie Raitt, Kenny Rogers.

1987, The Grateful Dead play at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1990, Nirvana played their biggest gig to date when they appeared at the Motor Sports International Garage in Seattle. Drummer Dave Grohl who would audition for the band in a few days time, was in the audience of 15,000 people.

1990, Garth Brooks album No Fences entered the US album chart. It went on to become the biggest selling country album of all time and sold over 13 million copies in the first five years of release.

1991, The Grateful Dead appeared at the Boston Garden in Boston.

2001, A Tribute to Heroes was aired commercial-free on most of the major US TV networks. The live program was organized to raise money following the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York’s World Trade Center. Neil Young, Tom Petty, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, U2, Limp Bizkit, Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam all performed. Manning the telephones to take pledges were celebrities including Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Meg Ryan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Kurt Russell, Adam Sandler and many more.

2004, Cat Stevens, who now goes by the name of Yusuf Islam, was escorted from a diverted transatlantic flight and refused entry into America by FBI agents. His name showed up on a US watch list after his United Airlines  had taken off from London. The flight landed in Maine where Islam, who was traveling with his 21-year-old daughter, was detained and questioned.

Born on September 22: David Coverdale, vocals, Whitesnake (1949); Richard Fairbrass, singer, Right Said Fred (1953); Debby Boone (1956); Nick Cave (1957); and Joan Jett (1960); Will Farquarson, guitar, Bastille (1983)

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Song Of The Day – “Just A Song Before I Go” by Crosby, Stills & Nash

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The release of 1977’s “CSN” album signaled a comeback for the trio during a time when like-minded artists like Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, America and many others of that ilk were seeing their biggest successes. The airwaves were chock full of mellow singer-songwriter rock, and the group’s now-matured hippie idealism put the trio right back on top. It didn’t hurt that they came up with a pretty strong collection of songs including Stills’ “Dark Star” and “See The Changes,” Crosby’s “Shadow Captain” and “In My Dreams,” and this gem by Nash, plus his classic “Cathedral.” Sadly, it would be the last time that Crosby, Stills & Nash would fashion a collection this solid.

Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress” by The Hollies

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By the time this song had hit the charts in 1972, The Hollies were already on their second career having survived the setback of having two key members leaving the group. Throughout the sixties, they released indelible singles like “Bus Stop,” “Stop Stop Stop,” “Look Through Any Window,” “Carrie Anne” and “Jennifer Eccles” before original member Graham Nash left to join David Crosby and Stephen Stills. By the time of this #2 single in 1972, the band changed record labels after original member Allan Clarke left. As was standard practice back then, their old record label dug up “Long Cool Woman” from the album “Distant Light” resulting in yet another chart renaissance with hits like “The Air That I Breathe” (featuring Elton John on piano) to follow. Allan Clarke would soon rejoin the group in 1973 in time for this 1975 clip is from the British TV show “Supersonic” featuring Marc Bolan of T. Rex introducing the band.

Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – The Jukebox Series #99 – The Hollies: “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” b/w “Look What We’ve Got” Epic 5-10871

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Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – The Jukebox Series #99 – The Hollies: “Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)” b/w “Look What We’ve Got” Epic 5-10871

By the time today’s jukebox classic hit the charts in 1972, The Hollies were already on their second career having survived the setback of having two key members leave the group. Throughout the sixties, they released indelible singles like “Bus Stop,” “Stop Stop Stop,” “Look Through Any Window,” “Carrie Anne” and “Jennifer Eccles” before original member Graham Nash left to join David Crosby and Stephen Stills to form CSN.

By the time of this #2 single in 1972, the band changed record labels (from Epic to Polydor) after original member Allan Clarke left. In fact, today’s single lacks The Hollies’ patented harmonies because the track was originally intended to be a Clarke solo recording. The rest of the band gave Clarke an ultimatum that he could either remain a member of the Hollies or have a solo career, but not both.

Clarke: “I think with me the band feared that if I got a hit I’d leave. How can you stop destiny? Now, if they originally agreed, I might not even have left. ‘Long Cool Woman’ would have been released a year earlier, and we’d have done a few tours of the States and maybe would have been really big.” (Rolling Stone via Songfacts.com)

The song was written in about five minutes time by Clarke with Roger Cooke and Roger Greenway who both also wrote The Seekers’ hit “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing.” The group was intentionally paying homage to Creedence Clearwater Revival who had disbanded around the time of the recording session, and Clarke based his vocals on CCR’s recording of “Green River.”

Clarke ultimately opted to leave the band and go solo, and as was standard practice back then, their old record label dug up “Long Cool Woman” from the Distant Light album which had been out almost a year in the UK but was not released in the US until after Clarke’s departure. The song was released to compete with the Hollies’ first release for Polydor Records featuring Clarke’s replacement Mikael Rickfors.

“Long Cool Woman” climbed all the way to the #2 position on the charts selling over two million copies worldwide making it the group’s best showing in the US. Personnel on the album included Allan Clarke on lead vocals and guitar, Tony Hicks on guitar and vocals, Terry Sylvester on guitar and vocals, Bernie Calvert on bass and Bobby Elliot on drums. The album shot up to the #21 position on the charts based on the performance of today’s jukebox classic and its follow-up single “Long Dark Road,” which charted at #26.

The band were able to participate in yet another chart renaissance with hits like “The Air That I Breathe” (featuring Elton John on piano) after the group’s two Polydor albums sank without a trace here in the states, and Allan Clarke rejoined the group in 1973 (forcing Rickfors out).

The group recorded and released their last album for Epic Records in the US in 1975 featuring a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” which went nowhere as a single. Shortly thereafter, Epic Records gave up on the band in the US, although they continued to release material in the UK and tour. They were inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame in 2010 and the current line-up of Tony Hicks, Bobby Elliott, Ray Stiles, Ian Parker, Peter Howarth and Steve Lauri continue to record and tour today.

“The Jukebox Series” focused on the 80 records that currently inhabit my 1963 Seeburg LPC1 jukebox. I’ve had my jukebox (or as I like to call it “the prehistoric iPod”) for a little over twelve years and in that time I’d like to think that I’ve perfected the mix of 45s within. Over the years, records have come and gone out of the ranks of the juke, but they were all at one time juke-worthy. I’ve decided to expand “The Jukebox Series” to include many of the “juke-worthy” records that are no longer currently in the mix, but at one time inhabited a coveted slot.

Editors Choice: Graham Nash – "Military Madness"

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The Acid Flashback streaming is coming!  Here’s a little sample of what we play. This comes from his first solo release in may, 1971. He is assisted by bandmates David Crosby and Neil Young, along with Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh from the Grateful Dead, as well as  Dave Mason, David Lindley, and Rita Coolidge.