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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leVXA1urMg4&list=RDleVXA1urMg4&start_radio=1Significant Events In Music This Week - 3.7 - 3.13
March 7th In Music
1970 - Simon and Garfunkels album Bridge Over Troubled Water started a ten week run at No. 1 on the US chart, longer than any other LP in 1970. The duo had split-up by the time of release.
Birthdays:
1946 - Matthew Fisher. From Procol Harum who had the 1967 US No. 5 single 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' (one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies) and scored the hits 'Homburg', 'Conquistador'. Born in Croydon, England.
1946 - Peter Wolf. Singer with American rock band The J Geils Band, who had the 1982 US No. 1 single 'Centerfold' which was taken from their US No. 1 1981 album Freeze Frame. Born in the Bronx, New York.
1952 - Ernie Isley. American group The Isley Brothers who first came to prominence in 1959 with their fourth single, 'Shout', and then the 1962 hit 'Twist and Shout. The Isley Brothers also scored the hits 'This Old Heart Of Mine', 'Summer Breeze' and 'Harvest for the World'. Sixteen of their albums charted in the Top 40. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
March 8th In Music
1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" hits No. 2 on the Hot 100, where it stays for three weeks. It's the first of five CCR singles to reach the runner-up spot on the chart without ever hitting No. 1.
1969 - ”Happy Birthday" becomes the first song to be sung in outer space when the astronauts on Apollo IX sing it to celebrate the birthday of the director of NASA space operations, Christopher Kraft.
1971 - Radio Hanoi, which is a propaganda radio station set up by the North Vietnamese army to broadcast to American troops serving in Vietnam, goes on the air with a recording of Jimi Hendrix' version of The Star-Spangled Banner.
1974 - Rising from the ashes of Free and Mott the Hoople, the newly formed Bad Company play their first live gig, at Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
1975 - Olivia Newton-John's "Have You Never Been Mellow" hits No. 1 in the US.
Birthdays:
1946 - Randy Meisner. Guitarist with Poco who later joined the Eagles. He quit The Eagles in 1977. Born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
1946 - Carole Bayer Sager, singer, songwriter. Wrote 'Groovy Kind Of Love', hit for The Mindbenders and Phil Collins. Born in Manhattan, New York City.
1947 - Mike Allsup. Guitarist with Three Dog Night who had the 1970 US No. 1 single with their version of the Randy Newman song 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'. Born in Oakdale, California.
March 9th In Music
1985 - REO Speedwagon started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Can't Fight This Feeling'.
1987 - U2 released their fifth studio album The Joshua Tree which features the singles 'Where The Streets Have No Name', and 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. The album spent a total of 201 weeks on the UK chart. It topped the charts in over 20 countries and became U2's first US No. 1 album.
Birthdays:
1945 - Robin Trower. English rock guitarist and vocalist who with Procol Harum, had the 1967 US No. 5 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale'. He formed the Robin Trower Band in 1973 and has since released over 20 albums. Born in London, England.
1948 - Chris Thompson. Singer with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, who had the 1976 US No. 1 single 'Blinded By The Light'.
March 10th In Music
1972 - America's self-titled debut album is certified Gold.
1975 - The Rocky Horror Show, which started in London in 1973, opens on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre with Meat Loaf playing both Eddie and Dr. Scott. It's later made into a movie with Meat Loaf reprising his role as the motorcycle-riding Eddie.
Birthdays:
1940 - Dean Torrence. With Jan and Dean had the 1963 US No. 1 single 'Surf City', co written by The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson). Jan and Dean were pioneers of the California Sound and vocal surf music styles. Other hits include 'Drag City' , 'Dead Man's Curve' and 'The Little Old Lady from Pasadena.' Born in Los Angeles, California.
1947 - Tom Scholz. Guitar, keyboards, Boston. Boston have sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 31 million albums in the United States, of which 17 million were from their self-titled debut album and seven million were for their second album, Don't Look Back, making them one of the world's best-selling artists. Born in Toledo, Ohio.
1966 - Edie Brickell. US singer, 1989 UK No. 31 single with the New Bohemians, 'What I Am.’ Born in Dallas, Texas.
March 11th In Music
1963 - The Mann-Hugg Blues Brothers attract record company interest with a show at the Marquee Club in London. They later sign with HMV (a division of EMI) and change their name to Manfred Mann.
1968 - The Otis Redding single '(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay' went gold in the US three months after the singer was killed in a plane crash. Recorded just days before his death, it became the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US.
1975 - 10cc’s third album, The Original Soundtrack, was released. It featured the world wide, multi million selling single 'I'm Not in Love'. The song was the band's breakthrough hit worldwide, reaching No. 1 in Ireland and Canada and No. 2 in the US, as well as reaching the top ten in Australia, New Zealand and several European countries.
1978 - Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell album began a 416-week run on the UK chart. The album went on to become one of the most influential and iconic albums of all time and its songs have remained classic rock staples.
Birthdays:
1903 - Lawrence Welk. Bandleader and host of the long-running Lawrence Welk Show. Born in Strasburg, North Dakota.
1948 - George Kooymans. Dutch guitarist and vocalist from Golden Earring. They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit 'Radar Love' in 1973. Born in The Hague, Netherlands.
1950 - Bobby McFerrin. American jazz vocalist and conductor known for his 1988 US No. 1 single 'Don't Worry Be Happy'. The track won Song of the Year and Record of the Year at the 1989 Grammy Awards. Born in Manhattan, NY.
March 12th In Music
1975 - ABBA recorded 'Mamma Mia' at Metronome Studio in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the last track recorded for their self-titled third album and was never intended for release as a single. ABBA's Australian record company, RCA, asked that 'Mamma Mia' be released as a single but Polar Music at first refused. The song went on to become a No. 1 hit around the world.
1983 - Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler had her only UK No. 1 single with a song written by Meat Loaf's producer, Jim Steinman, 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart'. Also No. 1 in the US, (the only Welsh artist to score a US No. 1), Canada and Australia, the single sold over 5 million copies world wide.
2001 - Judy Garland's 'Over The Rainbow' was voted the Song Of The Century in a poll published in America. Musicians, critics and fans compiled the list by the RIA.
2006 - Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour went to No. 1 on the UK album chart with his third solo album On An Island. In 2009 UK radio station Planet Rock held a poll asking listeners to name the 'Greatest Solo Album Written By A Former Band Member'. David Gilmour was voted into first place with On An Island.
Birthdays:
1949 - Bill Payne. American pianist who co-founded with Lowell George the American rock band Little Feat. Their best-known songs are 'Dixie Chicken' and 'Sailin Shoes'. Payne has also worked and recorded with J. J. Cale, Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, Toto, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks and Robert Palmer. Born in Waco, Texas.
March 13th In Music
1965 - Eric Clapton quit The Yardbirds due to musical differences with the other band members. Clapton wanted to continue in a blues type vein, while the rest of the band preferred the style of their first hit, 'For Your Love'. His replacement is Jeff Beck.
1966 - Pink Floyd appeared for the first time at The The Marquee Club in Wardour Street, London, England. The Marquee became the most important venue for the emerging British scene and witnessed the rise of some of the most important artists in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Manfred Mann, The Who, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, King Crimson and Genesis.
1971 - Brewer and Shipley entered the US singles chart with 'One Toke Over The Line'. The song, which featured Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia on steel guitar, peaked at No. 10 despite being banned by radio stations for its drug references. Brewer and Shipley maintained that the word 'toke' meant 'token' as in ticket, hence the line 'waitin' downtown at the railway station, one toke over the line.'
1976 - The Four Seasons started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'December 1963, (Oh What A Night)', the group's 5th US No. 1, also their only UK No. 1.
