Month: August 2014

FLASHBACK POP MUSIC HISTORY: AUGUST 31

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: AUGUST 31

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956: Rock ‘n Roll’s dominance of the UK’s is complete: for the first time, all of the Top 10 singles are those of American artists (although all hits are not quite all rock).

Scotty Moore, Elvis and the Jordanaires onstage at Empire Stadium, August 31, 1957. (Click on image for larger view).

1957: Elvis Presley makes his last concert appearance ever outside the U.S., performing at Canada Empire Stadium in Vancouver before a crowd of 26,000 screaming fans.

1958: Ricky Nelson takes the stage for the first time as a solo rock star, performing at Atlantic City’s Steel Pier for two dates and selling a record 44,000 tickets.

1961: Bob Wooler’s piece about the Beatles in today’s edition of Mersey Beat is the first printed reference given to the still-unknown British group.

1968: The Beatles new single, “Hey Jude,” debuts at No. 10, a record for the Billboard Hot 100 Chart at the time.

1969: After spending three-years supposedly recuperating from a motorcycle accident that temporarily derailed his stardom, Bob Dylan reappears on stage for the first time since 1966, playing the Isle of Wight festival in England with backing by a group simply known as The Band.

1974: The final episode of The Partridge Family airs on ABC-TV.

FBI doc affirming Hoover’s federal bureau’s surveillance on John Lennon in 1972. (Click on image for larger view).

1974: During his deportation battle, John Lennon testifies in court that President Nixon had started the proceedings in order to silence the ex-Beatle for his anti-Vietnam war stance.

1976: Though no one ever claims George Harrison stole the song intentionally, the ex-Beatle is nonetheless found guilty of “subconsciously” lifting several key melodic elements from the Chiffons’ 1963 hit “He’s So Fine” for his 1970 smash “My Sweet Lord.” Harrison, who always maintained he was trying to write something like the Edwin Hawkins Singers’ R&B gospel hit “Oh Happy Day,” would appeal 5 years but eventually be ordered to pay the $587,000. The Chiffons, who never saw royalties from their original hits, head back into the studios to cut a version of. . . . “My Sweet Lord.”

1980: In Beverly Hills, Karen Carpenter marries her first and only husband, real estate developer Thomas Burris.

2009: Patty LaBelle is ordered by the IRS to pay $330,000 in back taxes owed.

 

Deaths: Joe Barry; 2004. Carl Wayne (The Move) 2004.

Releases: 1968: “Street Fighting Man,” The Rolling Stones. 1974: ‘Goat’s Head Soup,’ (LP); The Rolling Stones.

Charts: 1963: “My Boyfriend’s Back,” The Angels; hits No. 1 n the charts. 1963: “Be My Baby,” The Ronettes; enters the charts. 1968: ‘Fresh Cream,’ (LP) The Cream; enters the LP charts.

Certifications: 1973: “Live And Let Die,” Paul McCartney and Wings; certified gold by the RIAA.

 

 

 

 

And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day. . . . AUGUST 31.

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IT’S A ’62 ‘WILD WEEKEND’ WITH CKLW TOM SHANNON!

Tom Shannon
TOM SHANNON
 “WILD WEEKEND” (Tom Shannon) * The Rockin’ Rebels * SWAN Records (1962)

 

rockin-rebels-wild-weekend-1962TOM SHANNON! “Wild Weekend,” produced and recorded by Buffalo’s ‘Rockin’ Rebels,’ was co-written in part by (future disk jockey CKLW 1964) Tom Shannon while a radio deejay at WKBW, Buffalo, New York, 1962.

—   M O T O R   C I T Y   R A D I O   F L A S H B A C K S

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SCOTT WESTERMAN WKNR KEENER13.COM PODCASTS!

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The Keener Podcast: “JAM”

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A Scott Westerman WKNR profile card (click on image for larger detailed view).

By request, more from the jingle jungle. We play the Jam Song and preview the Pams box set. WCBS craters with Jack, Moog passes on and Funkadelic turns 50. Plus rare music from Patty & The Emblems, Boyce and Hart and Lee Rogers. Scott Westerman hosts. (Hear the show 31 minutes 29 MB MP3).

(Podcast “Jam” description above courtesy the Keener13.com archives; August, 2005).

A SPECIAL ‘THANK YOU’ goes out to our friends and host of the official WKNR website, Scott Westerman and Steve Schram, for granting MCRFB.COM honors allowing us to archive every one of those memorable classic keener13.com podcasts Scott produced for the WKNR website from 2004 through 2006. These WKNR/S.W. podcasts were acclaimed by many then as the consummate podcast medium at the time — a new form of entertainment, communication art suited for the internet — a template model how all podcasts should sound like when first launched on the WKNR website, 2004. We agree.

Today, MCRFB will showcase the August, 2005, “JAM” podcast — there are  over forty podcasts we have listed the WKNR website produced a decade back. For Detroit radio purists alike, this was podcasting “Keener” gold for the 21st. century!

To relive the WKNR experience 24/7 visit http://keener13.com/  On Facebook? Visit Keener 13 there as well for all the news and updates and more. We salute you both, Scott Westerman, Steve Schram! Well over a decade there — still keeping those fabulous KEENER MEMORIES alive.

M O T O R   C I T Y   R A D I O   F L A S H B A C K S

THE KEENER PODCAST * Jam * KEENER13.COM (August 2005)

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FLASHBACK POP MUSIC HISTORY: AUGUST 25

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: AUGUST 25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1967: After a two-year bout battling depression and stage-fright, Beach Boy founder and resident genius Brian Wilson returns to playing live with the band.

An Elton John capture in iconic ’70s mod-print colors. (Click on image for larger view).

1970: Singer-songwriter Elton John begins a seventeen-night run at the Los Angeles club The Troubadour, his first US club appearance and a move which will catapult him into pop stardom. On the first night, he is first introduced by labelmate Neil Diamond. Quincy Jones and Leon Russell are in the audience, as is future Eagles member Don Henley. The first’s night show includes John’s first hit “Your Song,” “Take Me To The Pilot” and “Country Comfort.”

1970: Jimi Hendrix throws a party to celebrate the opening of his Electric Lady studios in New York City.

1973: Bobby Darin takes to the stage in what is to be his last concert performance before his death, appearing at the Vegas Hilton.

Helen Reddy in the 1970s.

1973: Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers, crashes his car near Macon, Georgia, breaking his leg in the process.

1976: Frankie Avalon’s television summer replacement series, Easy Does It, debuts on the CBS Television Network.

1977: California Governor Jerry Brown appoints singer and long-time environmental activist Helen Reddy to the state’s Park’s Commission.

1989: Chicago Mayor Richard Michael Daley declares today “Pop Staples Day,” in honor of the native musician and leader of the Staple Singers.

1994: Billy Joel is officially divorced from model Christy Brinkley. Their marriage lasted nine years, producing a daughter.

1994: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin reunite in a London studio to record the concert that would become the MTV special Unledded.

Jimmy Buffett recently was in Detroit for a concert at Comerica Park, July 2014.

1994: Jimmy Buffett crashes his seaplane while attempting to take off from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Fortunately, he swims to safety.

2006: Longtime Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton misses his first gig in 24 years after being diagnosed with throat cancer.

2007: While singing his 1968 hit “Fire” on stage in Lewes, England,  Arthur Brown catches on fire after wearing his customary tin-foil hat with a small fire burning in the center.

 

 

Deaths: Stan Kenton; 1979. Jack Nitzsche; 2000.

Releases: 1973: “Ramblin’ Man,” The Allman Brothers. 1975: “Born To Run,” Bruce Springsteen. 1976: ‘Boston’ (LP), Boston.

Charts: 1958: “Little Star,” The Elegants; enters the charts. 1962: “Sherry,” The Four Seasons; enters the charts. 1962: “The Locomotion,” Little Eva; hits No. 1 on the charts. 1973: “Brother Louie,” The Stories; hits No. 1 on the charts.

Certifications: 1964: “A Hard Day’s Night,” The Beatles; certified gold by the RIAA.

 

 

And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day….

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