Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DepmNwbn8&list=RDl6DepmNwbn8&start_radio=1
And if you remember this song and loved it like me and my girl did, you'll remember this also:
Oogachaka Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY
Significant Events In Music This Week -1.31 - 2.6
January 31st In Music
1968 - The American Breed's "Bend Me, Shape Me" is certified gold.
1970 - ”Whole Lotta Love" reaches No. 4 in the US, the highest Led Zeppelin will ever chart on the Hot 100. Most of their songs, including "Stairway To Heaven," are not released as singles.
1976 - Ohio Players’ "Love Rollercoaster" hits No. 1 in America.
Birthdays:
1946 - Terry Kath. Co-founder and guitarist with Chicago who had the 1976 US No.1 single 'If You Leave Me Now'. Chicago have had five consecutive No. 1 albums on the Billboard chart and 20 top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Born in Chicago, Illinois. Kath died on 1.23.1978.
1951 - Harry Wayne Casey. Singer with American disco and funk group KC and the Sunshine Band who had the 1975 US No. 1 single 'That's The Way, I Like It'. Born in Opa-locka, Florida.
February 1st In Music
1949 - RCA Records issued the first ever 45 RPM record. It's 7 inches wide and plays at a faster speed than the traditional 33-1/3, providing better sound quality. The format takes off, and 45s become known as "singles.” The invention of this size record made jukeboxes possible.
Birthdays:
1937 - Ray Sawyer. Singer, songwriter with American rock band Dr Hook who had the 1970s hits 'The Cover of Rolling Stone', 'A Little Bit More', 'When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman' and 'Sylvia's Mother'. Sawyer died on 12.31.2018 aged 81.
1951 - Rich Williams. Guitarist for Kansas. Born in Topeka, Kansas.
February 2nd In Music
1985 - Foreigner begins a two-week run at No. 1 with "I Want To Know What Love Is.”
Birthdays:
1942 - Graham Nash. British-American singer-songwriter, known for his light tenor voice and for his songwriting contributions as a founding member of The Hollies and supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. Nash initially met both David Crosby and Stephen Stills in 1966 during a Hollies US tour. CSN's scored the hit singles 'Marrakesh Express', 'Our House', 'Teach Your Children'. Born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
1946 - Howard Bellamy. From the Bellamy Brothers who had the 1976 US No. 1 single 'Let Your Love Flow', and the 1979 UK No. 3 single 'If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me'.
1948 - Alan Mckay. Guitarist with Earth, Wind & Fire, who had the 1975 US No. 1 single 'Shining Star'. The band has received 20 Grammy nominations and were the first African-American act to sell out Madison Square Garden. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1949 - Ross Valory. American musician, best known as the bass player for the rock band Journey. He also played with Frumious Bandersnatch followed by the Steve Miller Band appearing on Rock Love. Valory was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Journey in 2017. Born in San Francisco, CA.
1952 - Rick Dufay. American guitarist who played in Aerosmith in the period after Brad Whitford left the band in 1980 up to his return in 1984.
February 3rd In Music
1959 - 22 year old Buddy Holly, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot of the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane was also killed. Don McLean would call it "The Day the Music Died" in his 1971 hit "American Pie."
1970 - Led Zeppelin II was in the Top 20 on both the US & UK album charts after peaking at No. 1. The album went on to spend 138 weeks on the UK chart. The album is now recognized by writers and music critics as one of the greatest and most influential rock albums ever recorded.
1973 - Elton John started a three-week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Crocodile Rock' giving him his first chart-topper in America.
1979 - The Blues Brothers' album Briefcase Full of Blues hits No. 1 in the US, not bad for two comedians (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) who formed the duo for Saturday Night Live.
1989 - ”Wild Thing" by Tone Loc becomes the first rap single certified Platinum.
Birthdays:
1940 - Angelo D'Aleo. Vocals, Dion And The Belmonts, who 1961 US No. 1 single 'Runaround Sue'. Born in the The Bronx, New York City.
1943 - Dennis Edwards. Singer with The Temptations, who had the 1971 US No. 1 single 'Just My Imagination.’
1947 - Melanie Safka. US singer, songwriter who had the 1971 US No. 1 single 'Brand New Key'. Born in Astoria, Queens, New York.
February 4th In Music
1965 - Phil Spector was at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'.
1977 - Fleetwood Mac released Rumours. The songs 'Go Your Own Way', 'Don't Stop', 'Dreams', and 'You Make Loving Fun' were released as singles. Rumours is Fleetwood Mac's most successful release; along with winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978, the record has sold over 45 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Birthdays:
1941 - John Steel. Drummer with The Animals who had the 1964 US No. 1 single 'House Of The Rising Sun'. Born in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
1944 - Florence Larue. From The 5th Dimension who had the 1969 US No. 1 single 'Aquarius'. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey.
1947 - Margie and Mary Ann Ganser. Vocalists for The Shangri-Las, who had a 1964 US No. 1 single with ‘Leader Of The Pack’.
1948 - Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier). American singer, songwriter, who formed the Earwigs, and then the Alice Cooper Band, who had the 1972 US No. 7 single 'School's Out', the 1972 hit 'Elected' and the 1973 US No. 1 album Billion Dollar Babies. Born in Detroit, MI.
1951 - Phil Ehart. From American rock band Kansas, who scored the 1978 US No. 3 single 'Dust In The Wind', and the 1978 hit single 'Carry On Wayward Son'. which was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997. Born in Coffeyville, Kansas.
February 5th In Music
1977 - Mary MacGregor's "Torn Between Two Lovers" hits No. 1 for the first of two weeks.
1983 - ”Africa" by Toto hits No. 1 in the US.
2008 - Lenny Kravitz releases his eighth studio album, It Is Time For A Love Revolution, which peaks at No. 4 in the US.
Birthdays:
1941 - Barrett Strong. Teams up with producer Norman Whitfield to write a number of Motown hits, including “Papa Was A Rolling Stone” and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” Born in West Point, Mississippi.
1942 - Corey Wells. Vocals, with American group Three Dog Night who had the 1970 US No. 1 single 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'. Born in Buffalo, New York.
1943 - Chuck Winfield. Trumpet, from jazz-rock American music group Blood Sweat & Tears. They scored the 1969 US No. 2 single 'Spinning Wheel', and the 1969 US No. 12 single 'You've Made Me So Very Happy'. They had a US No. 1 with their second album Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968.
1944 - Al Kooper. American songwriter, record producer and musician known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears (although he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity). His first professional work was as a 14-year-old guitarist in the The Royal Teens, who in 1958 had the US No. 3 single 'Shorts Shorts'. As a member of Blood Sweat & Tears, he had the 1969 US No. 12 single 'You've Made Me So Very Happy'. Kooper played organ on Bob Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone' as well as playing on hundreds of records, including ones by the Rolling Stones, B. B. King, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Alice Cooper, and Cream. Born in Brooklyn, New York.
1944 - J.R. Cobb. From American southern rock band Atlanta Rhythm Section who had the 1977 US No. 7 single 'So in to You’. Born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1948 - David Denny. Guitarist with the Steve Miller Band who had the 1974 US No. 1 single 'The Joker'.
February 6th In Music
1965 - The Righteous Brothers started a two week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with the Phil Spector produced 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'.
1982 - J Geils Band started a six week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Centrefold', the bands only US No. 1. The bands album 'Freeze-Frame' started a four-week run at No. 1 on the US album chart on the same day.
Birthdays:
1945 - Bob Marley. Singer, songwriter and guitarist who had the 1981 UK No. 8 single with ‘No Woman No Cry’, plus over ten other UK Top 40 singles. The 1984 ‘Best Of’ album spent 330 weeks on the UK chart. In 1990, February 6th was proclaimed a national holiday in Jamaica to commemorate his birth. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. His mother is a native of Jamaica and his father an officer in the British military. Born in Jamaica. He died on 5.11.1981.
1957 - Simon Phillips. English drummer who has worked with Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Mike Oldfield, Judas Priest, Mike Rutherford, Tears for Fears, 10cc and The Who. He became the drummer for the band Toto in 1992 after the death of Jeff Porcaro. Born in London, England.
1981 - Hugo Montenegro. Composer, died in California. Had the 1968 UK No. 1 & US No. 2 single 'The Good The Bad And The Ugly' from the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood spaghetti western film. Worked for RCA records, producing a series of albums and soundtracks and television themes, including two volumes of Music From The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
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