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Tag Archives: On This Day
On This day – The Beatles Hit our TV Screens
On this day in 1962 The Beatles make it onto the small screen. They were on a local TV station “Granada” that broadcasts to the North West of England. The show is a local news programme with a magazine format called ‘People and Places’. On the programme they sang 2 songs live ‘Some Other Guy’ […]
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On This day – The Payola Scandal Made Public
On This day in 1958 Billboard ran an article attacking the practice of accepting money to play certain records on the radio. The term used was ‘payola’ a combination of ‘pay’ and ‘victrola’ (Victrola was a line of phonographs originally introduced by RCA Victor in 1906 that continued until 1970). The article went on to […]
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Tagged as: alan freed, chuck berry, love rock music, On This Day, payola, real rock and blues, rock and blues
On This Day – Bob Crashes
On this day in 1966 Bob Dylan crashed his motorbike. Apparently he suffered serious neck injuries although their extent have never been fully confirmed. After the accident an ambulance was not called and was taken home in a car by his then wife Sara. The crash, the circumstances of which were not fully explained, did have […]
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Tagged as: bob dylan, classic rock music, love rock music, On This Day, real rock and blues
On This Day – The Stones’ TV Debut & First Single
The Stones made their TV debut this day in 1963 on Thank Your Lucky Stars playing their first single C’mon. It may come a surprise to some of the younger readers that The Stones were once a rock and blues band playing blues covers. Their first album, imaginatively titled The Rolling Stones featured songs by […]
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Tagged as: Blues, blues music, chuck berry, classic rock music, muddy waters, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rolling stones, rufus thomas, skip james, willie dixon
On This Day – Bobby Darin Sings Rock Island Line
On this day in 1956 Bobby Darin made his first appearance on TV when he sings “Rock Island Line” on ‘The Stage Show’. ‘The Stage Show’ was a variety programme on CBS US TV. One of the interesting things about the show (this blog was going to be about Bobby Darin, then it was going […]
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Tagged as: bobby darin, elvis, jimmy dorsey, On This Day, rock and blues, tommy dorsey
On This Day – Stagger Lee (Yet Again)
On this day in 1959 Lloyd Price reached number one in the States with “Stagger Lee”. “Stagger Lee” has been recorded many times under many names by many people. The song has been Bowderized, revised, chewed up and spat out by too many people to mention. Some of whom should have known better and some […]
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On This Day (Nearly) – Billy Fury Dies
This is one that got away from me….On this day (yesterday) in 1983 Billy Fury died from heart and kidney problems. He was 42. Billy Fury was almost unknown in the States but in the UK he was huge in the early 60s. In fact he had 24 hits in the UK charts in the […]
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On This Day – Peggy, er, Pegs Out
On this day in 2002 the wonderful Peggy Lee died at home after having a heart attack. Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in North Dakota Peggy Lee came from scandinavian stock and was a revered vocalist given her first big break by Benny Goodman, the band leader and jazz clarinetist. Most of us will know her […]
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Tagged as: benny goodman, jazz, On This Day, peggy lee, rock and blues
On This Day – Rock ‘n’ Roll Has To Go!
On this day in 1958 radio station KWK in St Loius announced that Rock ‘n’ roll was to be banned from their air waves. According to the station manager, Robert T Convey (along with most Brits I find the American habit of using their middle initial faintly comical. I would never refer to myself as […]
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On This Day – Dylan Storms New York, Nearly.
On this day in 1962 Dylan headlined his first concert in New York at Carnegie Chapter Hall. Tickets cost $2 each and the box office was not over run. Just 53 tickets were sold, apparently. Most of those watching his Bobness’s debut in New York were friends and he was paid $20. There is a […]
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