New Jersey 101.5 » U2 http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:56:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This Weekend in Music History http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-26/ http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-26/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:16:43 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=279224 June 16th, 1970 – Mungo Jerry hits No.1 on the UK and Canadian singles charts with ‘In The Summertime’. It wound only reach #3 on US charts but would go on to become the best selling UK single of 1970 spending seven weeks at No.1.

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]]> http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-26/feed/ 0 Mungo Jerry - Photo by Evening Standard / Getty Images This Weekend in Music History http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-20/ http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-20/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:00:47 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=258397 April 26th, 1980 - Blondie is at No.1 with 'Call Me'. It would be the band's biggest selling single to date and was used in the Richard Gere flick 'American Gigolo'. Originally, Stevie Nicks

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1968 - The Doors are forced to perform without Jim Morrison at a concert in Amsterdam. While Jefferson Airplane was performing 'Plastic Fantastic Lover', Morrison, stoned on some

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1964 - The Beatles play a show at The Convention Hall in Philadelphia. There were race-riots days prior to the concert in Philly and The Beatles, who were strong civil rights supporters, are shocked to see

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July 8th
1967 - The Monkees kick off their 29-date tour with The Jimi Hendrix Experience as an opening act. However, Hendrix was eventually dropped after just six shows

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1963 - Stevie Wonder, at the age of 13, enters the singles charts as Little Stevie Wonder with "Fingertips Part One and Two". The song was the first live, out of studio recording to hit No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart in the US since

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June 15th
1956 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet at a church dinner in Liverpool, England where Lennon asks McCartney to join his group The Quarrymen.

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1957 - Buddy Holly releases his only No. 1 hit, "That'll Be the Day." The song had its genesis in a trip to the movies by Holly, Jerry Allison and Sonny Curtis in June 1956.

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