I love this song, Soul Man. THIS DATE IN MUSIC HISTORY (October 12th): 1935: Samuel David Hicks was born -- you know him better as Sam Moore and he got together with Dave at a later date 1942: Melvin Franklin (The Temptations) was born 1948: Rick Parfitt (Status Quo, vocals and guitar) was born 1955: Chrysler launched high fidelity record players for their 1956 line-up of cars -- the unit measured about four inches high and less than a foot wide and mounted under the instrument panel and played 7 inch discs rotating at 16 2/3 rpm (requiring almost three times the number of grooves per inch as an LP) -- the players were canned in 1961 1965: A Rubber Soul recording session for The Beatles at Abbey Road Studios -- it took five takes to complete Run For Your Life and This Bird Has Flown (later renamed Norweigian Wood including George Harrisons sitar as the first appearance of that instrument on a pop recording) 1968: Cheap Thrills went to #1 on the US album charts for Big Brother And The Holding Company 1969: The Paul McCartney is dead rumor gets its start as a DJ at WKNR (Detroit) gets a call telling him that Strawberry Fields played backwards reveals John Lennon saying, I buried Paul 1971: Vincent Eugene Craddock (aka Gene Vincent) died from a perforated ulcer at the age of 36 1997: John Denver died when his hand-built experimental plane ran out of gas and crashed off the coast of Monterey Bay, California
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 10:57:20 +0000
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