On This Date In Music
1964 - The animated TV special Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer debuts on CBS, with Burl Ives as the voice of Sam the Snowman. The special is based on the 1949 song, which has become a perennial favorite.
1968 - Cream's ‘Fresh Cream’ album is certified gold.
1968 - Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-da-Vida album is certified gold.
1971 - Deep Purple arrive in Montreux, Switzerland to record their Machine Head album at the Montreux Casino. It doesn't go as planned: The casino burns down the next day and they end up recording in a hotel using the Rolling Stones' mobile unit. They tell the tale in the song "Smoke On The Water."
1976 - A giant 40 ft inflatable pig could be seen floating above London, England after breaking free from its moorings at the Battersea Power Station on the River Thames. The pig, nicknamed Algie, was being photographed for the forthcoming Pink Floyd Animals album cover. The Civil Aviation Authority issued a warning to all pilots that a flying pig was on the run, the pig reaches a height of 18,000 feet before descending and the pig eventually crashed into a barn in Godmersham, Kent, where the farmer was incensed because of his cows being scared by the incident.
The first attempt to photograph the pig flying over the power station was the previous day. They had a marksman standing by in case they needed to shoot down the pig, but they couldn't inflate it in time to get the shot. They didn't re-hire the marksman for the next day, so there was nothing to stop the floating pig when it got loose.
1994 - Adam Sandler performs "The Chanukah Song" on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live, enlightening us to the fact that Harrison Ford, Paul Newman and David Lee Roth (among many others) are, in fact, Jewish. Released as a single the following year, the song reaches No. 10 in the US and become a seasonal favorite.
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