The Week in Review, Musicwise...

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:47 pm

This is the week that was in matters musical...

1883, New York sees the grand opening of its Metropolitan Opera House...

1908, Columbia takes out an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting their new two-sided records...

1956, "Love Me Tender" is the first song to enter the pop charts at #1 ... Elvis' slow dance tune also appears on the Country and Western chart and the R&B chart, not to mention the Top 100 chart...

1961, 20-year-old Bob Dylan records his eponymous debut album accompanied only by his guitar and harmonica ... studio cost is a whopping $400 ... filling out the studio's tax reporting form, he lists his name as "Blind Boy Grunt" ... the young folkie goes on to become one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century...

1962, Live at the Apollo," one of James Brown's most brilliant performances, is captured in Harlem ... the LP will outsell all previous R&B albums with over a million copies sold ... the artist soon to be known as Little Stevie Wonder makes his first recording ... Steveland Morris Judkins doesn't have instant success with this first record, but the accolades are not far away...

1964, a London band known as the High Numbers is rejected after an audition with EMI ... formerly known as The Who, the four young rockers have recently come under the influence of manager Pete Meaden, who suggested the name change and dressed the boys in mod suits ... Meaden's all wet, but the kids are alright ... they'll resume their name and climb to fame...

1973, Keith Richards gets slapped with a ?205 fine and is given a conditional discharge after his trial in London with actress Anita Pallenberg ... the bobbies arrested them after raiding their Chelsea home on June 26 and finding pot, smack, mandrax, an unlicensed S&W revolver, and an antique shotgun ... Pallenberg walks, too...

1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd fans take a gut shot this week when they learn that band members, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Ronnie Van Zant have died along with three members of their entourage in a plane crash in the swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi ... the band is flying between Greenville, SC, and Baton Rouge, LA, when their chartered plane goes down, probably due either to mechanical failure or lack of fuel ... the whole band is aboard and the surviving members are all severely injured ... three days earlier marked the release of their sixth album Street Survivor, the cover of which featured the band members surrounded by flames ... the cover is changed after the catastrophe ... the crash marks the end of Lynyrd Skynyrd until the survivors reform the band a decade later...

1978, Keith Richards receives a suspended sentence of one year after pleading guilty to heroin possession in Toronto ... also this week Sid Vicious attempts to off himself at Rikers Island Jail, where he's awaiting trial for the murder of his ol' lady, Nancy Spungen ... the bad Pistol will get out and O.D. before he can be prosecuted for the crime...

1980, Paul Kantner's brain starts bleeding one night between recording sessions for Jefferson Starship ... the degree of brain hemorrhage he suffers almost always results in death or brain damage ... but, amazingly, a few weeks in the hospital is all it takes to bring him back to 100% ... apparently a hole in his cranium left over from an earlier motorcycle accident provides enough release of pressure to prevent permanent damage...

1988, Fantasy Records, after more than a decade of rancorous relations with John Fogerty, launches a suit claiming he plagiarized his own song, "Run Through the Jungle," during the composition of "The Old Man Down the Road" ... it will be 1995 before it is finally decided that Fantasy is fantasizing...

1992, long before her career as a writer of children's books, Madonna releases Sex--a steel-bound book of erotic photos of herself and other beautiful people that sells out the first run of a half million copies in no time ... she also releases her album Erotica this week ... it will sell over two million copies...

1998, the company with publishing rights to Alice Cooper's "Eighteen" files suit against Cooper's primary make-up rock emulators, KISS, claiming they ripped off his song "Eighteen" for their song "Dreamin'" ... Cooper has nothing to do with it and hasn't even heard "Dreamin'" when the suit is filed ... asked about the outcome years later, Cooper says, "I think we all forgot to show up at court. Paul Stanley bought me a cheeseburger to make up for the whole thing"...

2001, VH1 hosts its Concert for New York, which raises over $30 million for victims of 9/11 with performances by such heavy hitters as The Who, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Elton John, and Bon Jovi...

and that was the week that was.

The Snow Dog · Post by **The Snow Dog** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:15 am

oy! oy! you got that from MusiciansFriend! CHEATER!

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ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:47 am

The Snow Dog wrote:oy! oy! you got that from MusiciansFriend! CHEATER!

'ere! I haven't got an original bone in my body! Everybody knows that!

I just wanted to share.

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:06 pm

ED wrote:1908, Columbia takes out an ad in The Saturday Evening Post touting their new two-sided records...

, keep sharing Elfie.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:48 pm

I recognized it as a MF e-mail right off too, but I thought: Dang! Why didn't I think to do this? LOL

Good thought, Elfie.

happysmilies007 · Post by **happysmilies007** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:07 pm

me too, t! *high fives t*

who cares if it's original, not everybody hears the same thing!! i personally thought it was awesome!

carolynn

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:53 pm

Then I just might do it again next week.

Man, no wonder I never win the weekly gear giveaway... all you people are entering too.

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:02 am

I'm not...

but cheers for posting it elfie

ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:48 am

This is the week that was in matters musical...

1936, country singer Hank Snow records for the first time ... the songs are "Lonesome Blue Yodel" and "Prisoned Cowboy"...

1956, R&B singer Clarence Henry's "Ain't Got No Home" is released on the Argo Records label ... because he sings like a frog on the record, he is nicknamed "Frogman" and for the rest of his career is known as Clarence "Frogman" Henry ... the same week, Elvis makes his second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show...

1960, Ben E. King, former lead singer for The Drifters, records his first solo numbers, "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand by Me" ... both songs climb high on the pop charts, to number 10 and number 4 respectively, and "Stand by Me" will prove to have long legs...

1964, "Oh Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbinson turns gold ... it is his ninth and last Top Ten single ... The Supremes release "Come See About Me"...

1970, Jim Morrison gets six months in the slammer for exposing his privates in Miami ... Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas marries actor Dennis Hopper ... they divorce eight days later, proving wrong those who said the marriage wouldn't last a week...

1971, 24-year-old Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident in Georgia...

1972, Philly soul singer Billy Paul gets on the soul charts with "Me and Mrs. Jones" ... the song will hold the top position for three weeks and will become a soul classic...

1975, Bruce Springsteen makes both the cover of Time and Newsweek ... Joan Baez signs on as a member of The Rolling Thunder Revue...

1983, Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon becomes the longest listed album ever on the Billboard chart - 491 continuous weeks...

1986, The Beastie Boys release their album License To Ill which will become the first rap album to reach number one on the album chart....

1988, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain smashes his first guitar...

1995, Yolanda Saldivar is sentenced to life for the murder of Tejano singing star Selena...

1998, Kiss launches its Psycho-Circus tour on Halloween in Los Angeles ... thousands attend in costume and The Smashing Pumpkins are the opener...

1999, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle, the surviving members of The Who, reunite for the first time in two years for a concert in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand...KISS, Tony Bennett, and the Dixie Chicks also are on the bill ... the concert marks the launch of Internet video company Pixelon and is webcast ... Korn debuts a new single, "Falling Away From Me," on the season premiere of South Park ... the boys in the band also lend their voices and likenesses ... Tina Turner announces plans for her final stadium concert tour...

2002, hip-hop giant Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC is shot dead in the studio ... police pursue many leads and theories as to motive: unpaid drug bills, rival rappers, armed robbery, insurance scams, rivalry over 50 Cent, and more...the crime remains unsolved to this day...

and that was the week that was.

Kares4Rush · Post by **Kares4Rush** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:53 am

Coolness, Elfie! Thanks!

Ogg · Post by **Ogg** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:15 pm

SirElfie wrote:Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas marries actor Dennis Hopper ... they divorce eight days later, proving wrong those who said the marriage wouldn't last a week...

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ElfDude · Post by **ElfDude** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:16 pm

This is the week that was in matters musical...

1960, in an odd bit of synchronicity, singer Johnny ("Battle of New Orleans") Horton dies in an auto wreck after playing a date at the Skyline Club in Austin, Texas, the same venue that hosted Hank Williams' final gig ... Horton's widow had once been Mrs. Williams...

1963, "Louie Louie" is released by the Kingsmen ... one of the most-covered songs of all time, it is charged that the slurred lyrics are obscene ... the song is banned on some radio stations especially in Indiana where Governor Matthew Welch determines that the ditty is definitely dirty ... even the FBI gets caught up in the controversy though the Bureau ultimately wraps up its 31-month investigation inconclusively stating that they are "unable to interpret any of the wording in the record" ... in 2003, 754 guitarists play a 10-minute rendition of the song at Tacoma, Washington's Cheney Stadium ... the event is thought to be the world's largest jam session...

1966, Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco opens its doors ... the venue is destined to become the focal point for psychedelic music...

1967, the movie How I Won the War starring John Lennon opens in the US ... it is the first film to feature a solo performance by a Beatle...

1970, Bob Dylan records "George Jackson" a tribute to the black militant leader killed in a California prison shootout...

1972, James Taylor and Carly Simon tie the knot in her Manhattan apartment ... they will separate 10 years later...

1972, Johnny Paycheck starts pulling down a regular salary when he officially joins the cast of the Grand Ole Opry...

1977, during a London concert Elton John announces that he is retiring from live performance ... he gets back in the road game in February 1979...

1977, Martin Scorcese's film The Last Waltz commemorating The Band's last concert opens to rave reviews in New York ... Ozzy Osbourne quits Black Sabbath then rejoins the proto-metalists a few weeks later...

1978, Donna Summer's cover of "MacArthur Park" becomes the Billboard #1 Pop Hit ... a decade earlier actor Richard Harris had taken his bombastic reading of the Jimmy Webb tune noted for its incomprehensible lyrics to #2...

1985, the theme from the TV show Miami Vice rides the top of the Billboard Hot 100 ... the soundtrack LP also goes to #1 in the album chart where it will reside for 11 weeks beating the former TV-theme record-holder, The Music from Peter Gunn...

1986, Willie Nelson plays a corrupt cop in a guest appearance on TV's Miami Vice...

1991, a crowd of more than 300,000 attend a free show in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to commemorate the death of rock promoter Bill Graham ... the bill includes the Grateful Dead; Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young; Joan Baez; Santana; and Journey who reunite for the memorial show ... Graham died on October 26 when the helicopter in which he was traveling hit a utility tower...

1991, blues, soul, rock, and country are all well represented when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Bobby "Blue" Bland, Booker T & The MGs, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, The Isley Brothers, The Yardbirds, and Sam and Dave...

1992, Elton John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin sign a $39 million publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music ... Boyz II Men's "End of the Road" reaches the end of the #1 road when it makes its 13th and final appearance in the Billboard Hot 100 chart's top slot...

1995, Hootie and the Blowfish and Bob Dylan reach an out-of-court settlement over the band's unauthorized use of Dylan's lyrics in their song "Only Want To Be With You"... that same day Michael Jackson's ATV Music catalog and Sony Corp. merge to form the world's third biggest music publishing company worth an estimated $300 million...among the goodies Jackson brings to the table are a raft of classic Beatles tunes ... that evening The Wizard of Oz in Concert is performed at the Lincoln Center in New York ... the cast includes Jewel as Dorothy, Jackson Browne as the Scarecrow, and Roger Daltrey as the Tin Man...

1996, Michael Jackson announces that he and friend Debbie Rowe are expecting a child ... the King of Pop denies reports that the baby was conceived using artificial insemination and that Rowe was paid to bear the child...

1998, Little Jimmy Dickens's appearance at the Grand Ole Opry marks his 50th year as a member of the cast ... Dickens is best-remembered for his 1965 hit "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" ... Rick James has a stroke when a blood vessel in his neck ruptures during a head-banging performance in Denver ... Old Dirty Bastard of Wu Tang Clan is arrested for threatening to kill his former girlfriend ... he is apprehended while climbing over a security gate at the woman's place of employment ... Michael Jackson settles his suit against the London Daily Mirror over pictures and stories run by the scandal sheet claiming that the star's face has been disfigured by plastic surgery ... a lawyer representing the Mirror says, "The photographs were taken honestly and were not tampered with, but the Mirror has since met with the plaintiff in person and acknowledges that the photographs do not accurately represent the plaintiff's true appearance"...

1999, as a follow-up to her tersely-titled debut album, Tidal, Fiona Apple releases her sophomore effort, When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws The Blows When He Goes To The Fight And He'll Win The Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters The Ring There's Nobody To Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand And Remember That Depth Is The Greatest Of Heights And If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where To Land And If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right...yeah, right...whatever...

and that was the week that was.