New Jersey 101.5 » This Day In Music History http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Sun, 19 May 2013 03:21:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This Day in Music History http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-145/ http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-145/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:27:07 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=179724 October 14th
1957 - Elvis Presley releases, ‘Jailhouse Rock’ which would become his 9th number one single and stay on the Billboard chart for 19 weeks. He is credited with having the first rock n roll

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1965 - The Who record 'My Generation' at Pye studios in London. The single would almost be a chart topper when released, however it was held off of hitting the No.1 position by The Seekers' 'The Carnival Is Over'.

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1965 - Working on Rubber Soul at Abbey Road Studios, The Beatles record ‘Run For Your Life’ in its entirety, in five takes, and another new Lennon song at the time called 'This Bird Has Flown’. The title would later get changed to ‘Norwegian Wood (This Bird

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1967 - Cass Elliot from The Mamas And The Papas spends the night in jail after being accused of stealing from a hotel in London. An appearance on TV and concert had to be cancelled as a result.

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1969 - George Harrison's hits a milestone in his career when his song 'Something' was released as the "A" side of a Beatles' 45, a first for Harrison. Along with Lennon and McCartney's Come Together

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1967 - The Doors play the final show of a five night run at Steve Paul's "The Scene" in New York City. Steve Paul, owner of The Scene, and notable as the one-time manager of Johnny Winter, refused to pay protection money to the Mafia.

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1974 - Police are needed at a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert after a fight broke out between their sound engineer and the sound engineer of Blue Oyster Cult. A roadie clarified that the sound had been deliberately

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1967 - The Beatles are mixing John Lennon's 'I Am The Walrus' at Abbey Road Studios. Lennon had combined three unfinished songs together to form 'I Am The Walrus', and when he learned that a teacher

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1968 - Bruce Springsteen and local folk rock group, The Founders, appeared at the Off Broad Street Coffee House in Red Bank. The Coffee house was operated by a board of directors which included

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1968 - The Beatles recorded a new John Lennon song ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand’ while working on their next album. The title of the song comes from the cover of a gun magazine that their producer, George Martin, had showed to John.

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