_Annabelle_
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Hi Edna, nothing happened as far as I know...
I haven't been able to get on SF lately because of an error, but nice to read you too.
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January 18:
1941: David Ruffin, singer for The Temptations, is born.
1964: The Beatles made their US chart debut when "I Want To Hold Your Hand" entered the chart at No.45. It went on to spend seven weeks at the No.1 position.
1975: Status Quo were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with "Down Down".
1991: Three fans were killed during a crush in a crowd during an AC/DC gig in Salt Lake City.
1997: Songwriter and producer Keith Diamond died of a heart attack. Wrote, "Caribbean Queen" and "Suddenly" for Billy Ocean. Also wrote for Donna Summer, James Ingram, Mick Jagger, Sheena Easton and Michael Bolton.
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Hi, I think that's "I Can Feel Him in the Morning" from the album Survival (1971).
Lyrics:
Child 1:
He kind of started all the plants growing, and he started people. Well, I guess he's kind of big and fat.
Child 2:
He can see us wherever we do ... whatever we do. He has such powerful eyes -- he has to have millions and thousands and billions. And he can still see us when we're bad.
Child 3:
He could be sitting on the table right now, but you can't see him.
Child 4:
He can't be everywhere at once doing everything for everybdy. Everybody can't get what they want.
Child 5:
Well, his job is to make us good and to make us happy and make us parents happy.
Child 6:
Good is the right thing and bad is the wrong thing.
Child 7:
When I'm good my mother never yells at me, when I'm bad she does.
Child 8:
Good means to obey your mother and father, to do what the teacher says -- the things right. I feel miserable when I'm ... when I'm bad, I feel miserable on the inside but, on the outside, I just feel like I ... I feel now.
Child 9:
I think ... um, um ... there are more people that are bad than there are good. And, um ... if you're good, you'll live forever. And, if you're bad, you'll die when you die ... (repeat last sentence two more times to fade in echo)
Take me down to the water, let me feel it run over me.
Let me feel the pain and the coldness, the loneliness that there must be.
Whoa, can't you see their dreams, as they go drifting by?
Whoa, can't you see their faces, and their tear-soaked eyes?
CHORUS
I can feel him in the morning, I can feel him in the evening too.
I can hear him in the morning, tellin' me what I got to do.
Got to make a new world, ought to make the old one right.
I can see him in the morning, I can see him in the stars at night.
Take me out to the battlefield, let me hear the shells flying by.
Let me hear the sound of the cannons, let me hear them scream and cry.
Whoa, can't you hear their dreams, as they tumble to the blood-soaked ground?
Whoa, hear them scream for shelter, from the world they never found.
CHORUS
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January 15:
1952: Melvyn Gale, cello player for Electric Light Orchestra, is born.
1965: The Who releases "I Can't Explain" in the U.K where it reaches No. 8. It is produced by Shel Talmy also the Kinks producer at the time and features the Ivy League on backing vocals.
1971: George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord".
1973: The Rolling Stones announce they'll put on a benefit concert for the people of Managua, Nicaragua, which had been devestated by an earthquake back on December 23. Nicaragua is the home of Jagger's wife, Bianca.
1974: Brownsville Station earns a gold record for their only Top Ten hit "Smokin' in the Boys' Room."
1976: Paul Simonon auditioned for The London SS. The band went on to become The Clash.
1992: Dee Murray, long time bassist for Elton John, dies of cancer in Nashville.
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Jimi Hendrix played lead guitar on Stephen Stills' "Old Times, Good Times".
Rick Wakeman played piano on Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken".
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January 12:
1941: Long John Baldry, British blues singer, is born.
1963: Parlophone releases, "Please Please Me" backed with "Ask Me Why," the Beatles second U.K. single. In two months, it's #2 on the U.K. charts, however, it doesn't appear on the U.S. charts for another year.
1975: A nine-city 18-show tour of Europe starts for Warner Brothers acts Little Feat, Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers, Bonaroo, Montrose & Graham and Central Station. The Warner Brothers Music Show does well with European audiences, especially Little Feat which establishes an adoring cult audience during the month-long tour.
1976: Long May You Run an LP by the Stephen Stills/Neil Young band is certified gold.
1992: Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall's third child, Georgia May Ayeesha Jagger, is born.
1993: The original members of Cream reunite in Los Angeles to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Along with Cream, others to be inducted included CCR, The Doors, Van Morrison, Sly and the Family Stone, Frankie Lymon, Dinah Washington and Etta James.
2003: Bee Gee Maurice Gibb died in Miami at age 53.
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January 10:
1935: Singer Ronnie Hawkins is born.
1943: Jim Croce is born.
1945: Rod Stewart is born.
1948: Donald Fagen of Steely Dan is born.
1958: Jerry Lee Lewis was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with "Great Balls Of Fire".
1968: Aretha Franklin earns her fourth gold single with "Chain of Fools." The record goes on to win the 1968 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a female.
1976: C.W. McCall went to No.1 on the US singles chart with "Convoy", it made No.2 in the UK. CW McCall was in fact an advertising agent whose real name was Bill Fries.
1981: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy goes platinum, a little over a month after Lennon's assassination. The album is Number One for eight weeks.
1997: James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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January 9:
1941: Joan Baez, US folk rock singer, songwriter, is born
1944: Jimmy Page is born.
1944: Scott Engel of The Walker Brothers, is born.
1963: Drummer Charlie Watts joined The Rolling Stones.
1969: Mick Jagger is refused a Japanese visa on account of a 1969 drug bust, halting the Stones' plans to tour the Orient.
1979: A benefit concert called A Gift of Song -- the Music of UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. NBC tapes for broadcast the following night. Those performing include Olivia Newton-John, Rita Coolidge, the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Abba and Earth, Wind & Fire. They help to raise about a half-million dollars for the world hunger organization.
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Well, here is some anyway.
January 8:
1937: Singer Shirley Bassey is born. (First charted in the UK in 1957, 1970 UK No.4 single with cover of The Beatles George Harrison song "Something" also James Bond theme "Goldfinger" and "Diamonds are Forever").
1947: David Bowie is born.
1946: Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger is born.
1957: Bill Haley, who previously rejected in invitation to tour Australia because some of his Comets were averse to flying, begins a two-week tour down under in Newcastle. Sharing the bill are Lavern Baker and Joe Turner.
1979: Canadian rock band Rush is named the country's official "Ambassadors of Music" by the Canadian government.
1991: Steve Clark guitarist with Def Leppard, was found dead at his London apartment, after a night of heavy drinking and drug use.
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I'm listening to "Acquiesce" by Oasis. Good love song.
I like that one too. Their "Slide Away" is another one of my favorite love songs.
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Here's a few more for January 7:
1945: Dave Cousins, singer and guitarist for The Strawbs, (1973 UK No.2 single with Part Of The Union) is born.
1980: Led Zeppelin's "In Through the Out Door" turns platinum. It's the last album issued before the September 25th death of drummer John Bonham.
2002: Jon Lee, drummer and founding member of Feeder, committed suicide.
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January 4:
1960: Michael Stipe, vocalist for R.E.M., is born.
1965: Fender Guitars is sold to CBS for $13 million.
1975: Elton John started a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with his version of The Beatles "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". His third US No.1, the song featured John Lennon on guitar.
1976: Mal Evans, former roadie and bodyguard of the Beatles, is shot to death by police at his Los Angeles apartment. His girlfriend, Fran Hughes, found him upset and despondent and when friends couldn't get Evans to release the unloaded rifle he was holding, they called police. At one point, Evans supposedly pointed the gun at police officers; they opened fire.
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A couple more for January 2:
1971: George Harrison's All Things Must Pass his first LP as an ex-Beatle, hits Number One in the U.S. The album contains hits like, "What Is Life?" and "My Sweet Lord."
1981: David Lynch of The Platters died of cancer.
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A few...
Robbie Robertson (The Band)
Pete Townsend
Neil Young
Ray Davies
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Roger Waters
But if I had to choose one I would probably say Bob Dylan:
One of my favorite songs is "Mr Tambourine Man" from Bringing it All Back Home, I especially like the last verse:
"Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow."
Another favorite is "I Shall Be Released":
"They say everything can be replaced,
Yet every distance is not near.
So I remember every face
Of every man who put me here.
[Chorus]
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.
They say every man needs protection,
They say every man must fall.
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall.
[Chorus]
Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame.
All day long I hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
[Chorus]
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December 31:
1942: Andy Summers, guitarist for the Police, is born.
1951: Tom Hamilton, bassist for Aerosmith, is born.
1966: The Monkess started a seven-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Neil Diamond song "I'm A Believer".
1967: Songwriter and producer Bert Berns (aka Bert Russell) died. He wrote many classic songs including "Twist And Shout", "Hang On Sloopy" and "Cry Baby".
1982: Max's Kansas City in New York closed down, the venue had been a launching pad for such artists as The New York Dolls, Bruce Springsteen and The Velvet Underground.
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Congrats on 3000+ Edna, you're amazing... and always so kind and knowledgeable!
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A few more for December 28:
1955: Drifters singer Clyde McPhatter's first solo hit, "Seven Days," enters the R&B chart. It will peak at #3 and go on to #44 on the pop chart next year.
1968: The Miami Festival, the first big rock festival held on the east coast, gets under way in Hallendale, Florida. Tickets go for six and seven dollars and 100,000 people show-up at the three day event. Those appearing include Jose Feliciano, Procul Harem, Three Dog Night, Chuck Berry, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, the Turtles and Canned Heat.
1979: The Who, Pretenders, Specials, the Clash, Paul McCartney and others perform at the third of four shows for the people of Kampuchea.
1998: Singer Ronnie Hammond of the Atlanta Rhythm Section is shot in the chest by a Macon police after allegedly lunging at an officer with a broken guitar handle and a hammer. Police were responding to reports that the singer was trying to commit suicide.
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December 27:
1932: New York's famed Radio City Music Hall opens.
1941: Mike Pinder, keyboardist and vocalist for the Moody Blues, is born.
1952: David Knopfler, guitar player for Dire Straits, is born.
1969: Led Zeppelin II was at No.1 on the US album charts, it went on to sell over six million in the US.
1978: The Cars' classic self-titled debut album turns platinum. It was one of the first 'new wave' albums to get regular play on FM AOR radio.
1980: Nearly three weeks to the day after John Lennon's murder, Lennon and Yoko Ono's "(Just Like) Starting Over" hits Number One in the U.S. and the U.K. simultaneously.
1981: "Hoagy" Carmichael, U.S. pianist, vocalist and composer of such songs as "Georgia On My Mind" "Stardust" and "Lazy River", dies of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California.
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Annabelle, I'll leave it to you, Don and Crystal. Don hadn't made his post for the 24th, and I wanted to make sure that Bob Dylan's Birthday wasn't missed ! You all certainly do a lot of research and I enjoy reading your great posts. Like Jr, it's a thread I wouldn't miss (I rated it a 5 Dave).
Ok, well always feel free to share your knowledge with us.
December 26:
1955: Bill Haley and the Comets' "See You Later Alligator" is released by Decca Records. Topping out at #6 on the pop chart, it will be his biggest hit since "Rock Around the Clock."
1963: Stevie Wonder arrived in the UK for appearances on TV shows Ready Steady Go! and Thank Your Lucky Stars.
1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience played an afternoon show at The Uppercut Club, London. Hendrix also wrote the lyrics to "Purple Haze" in the dressing room that day.
1970: George Harrison started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with "My Sweet Lord", making him the first Beatle to score a No.1 US hit.
1981: AC/DC started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with For Those About To Rock We Salute You .
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Hi, I think that's "Last Kiss" written by Wayne Cochran. It was covered by J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers and Pearl Jam.
Lyrics:
Oh, where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world
We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road, straight ahead
A car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screamin' tires, the bustin' glass
The painful scream that I heard last
Oh, where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world
When I woke up, the rain was pourin' down
There were people standing all around
Something warm rollin' through my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said
"Hold me darling just a little while."
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew I would miss
But now she's gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life that night.
Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.
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Annabelle, you're on double secret probation. I neeeed you to do this. No soup for you!!
Lol, sorry Jr, but my computer has been acting strange. Sometimes it wouldn't let me get on SF and other times it wouldn't let me post. Besides, Crazy Don, Elvish, Old 55 and Edna are doing a great job.
December 25:
1958: Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens a ten-day run at the Loew's State Theater in Manhattan with seventeen acts, including Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, the Moonglows, Jackie Wilson, Frankie Avalon, the Everly Brothers and Johnnie Ray.
1964: George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd is attacked by female Beatle fans at one of the groups Christmas shows in London.
1965: Lou Christie's biggest hit, "Lightning Strikes," enters the US Hot 100 where it stays for 15 weeks, eventually giving Christie his only Number One hit.
1965: The Beatles 6th album Rubber Soul started a nine-week run at No.1 on the UK chart.
1965: The Dave Clark Five hit Number One on the U.S. pop chart with "Over and Over.", their only US No.1 single.
1976: The Eagles started a eight-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Hotel California .
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All the resources I've checked say 21st...
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"Dear Prudence" - The Beatles
"Jazzman" - Carole King
"Rock N' Roll" - Led Zeppelin
"You Really Got Me" - The Kinks
"Rock 'n' Roll Star" - Oasis
"Rock the Casbah" - The Clash
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December 21:
1940: Frank Zappa is born.
1946: Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is born.
1969: Diana Ross gives her last performance as a member of the Supremes, on The Ed Sullivan Show.
1974: The Doobie Brothers' "Black Water" is released.
1979: The Eagles, Chicago and Linda Ronstadt perform at a benefit show for the presidential campaign for California governor Jerry Brown, who also happens to be Ronstadt's boyfriend.
1992: Albert King, blues guitarist, died.
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January 19:
1939: Phil Everly, of the Everly Brothers, is born.
1943: Janis Joplin is born.
1949: Singer Robert Palmer is born.
1963: The Beatles made their first national TV appearance in the UK on Thank Your Lucky Stars performing "Please Please Me".
1967: The Monkees were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with "I'm A Believer".
1974: Two Bob Dylan/The Band shows, cause a nine-mile-long traffic jam in Miami that keeps many ticket holders from entering the Sportsatorium until the show is half over.
1998: Legendary rockabilly pioneer, guitarist and songwriter Carl Perkins, died in Nashville.