Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'
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Significant Events In Music This Week - 2.7 - 2.13
February 7th In Music
1970 - Led Zeppelin scored their first UK No. 1 album with Led Zeppelin II. Released in November 1969, and featuring the US No. 4 single 'Whole Lotta Love', it went on to stay on the UK chart for 136 weeks. Also reaching No. 1 in the US, the RIAA in the US has now certified it as having sold over 12 million copies in the US alone.
1976 - Paul Simon started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover', the singers first solo US No. 1.
1981 - Kool & The Gang started a two week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Celebration' the group's first No. 1 hit in the US.
Birthdays:
1934 - Earl King. New Orleans Blues guitarist. He wrote 'Come On, (Let The Good Times Roll'), covered by Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana. King died on 4.17.2003 aged 69.
1946 - Sammy Johns. Has a hit in 1975 with "Chevy Van.” Born in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1948 - Jimmy Greenspoon. Organist with Three Dog Night, who had the 1970 US No. 1 single with a cover of the Randy Newman song 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'. The band scored 21 Billboard Top 40 hits (with three hitting No. 1) between 1969 and 1975. Born in Los Angeles, California. He died on 3.11.2015.
1959 - Brian Travers. Saxophonist with UB40, who had the 1988 US No. 1 single 'Red Red Wine' and over 30 other top 40 hits. Born in Birmingham, England.
February 8th In Music
1965 - The Supremes release "Stop In The Name Of Love."
1975 - The Ohio Players' "Fire" hits No. 1.
Birthdays:
1948 - Dan Seals. American musician from England Dan & John Ford Coley, who had the 1976 US No. 2 single, 'I'd Really Love To See You Tonight.' Dan was the younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals. Born in McCamey, Texas. Seals died on 3.25.2009.
February 9th In Music
Birthdays:
1925 - Bobby Lewis - American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer best known for his 1961 hit singles 'Tossin’ and Turnin,’’ No. 1 for seven weeks on the Billboard chart in the summer of 1961. He died on 4.28.2020 aged 95.
1939 - Barry Mann. US singer, songwriter. Wrote many early 60s pop hits including 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling', and 'Walking In The Rain'. Born in Brooklyn, New York City.
1951 - Dennis Thomas. Alto saxophonist with Kool & The Gang who had the 1981 US No. 1 single 'Celebration', plus over 15 other Top 40 hits. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
February 10th In Music
1968 - Rolling Stone magazine offers free roach clips to new subscribers. (Full disclosure, in my opinion, Rolling Stone magazine used to be a great music magazine but has devolved into a liberal shit rag) In their fifth issue, Rolling Stone offers a new incentive to build their subscriber base: a free roach clip with every paid subscription. They don't call it a "roach clip" though, instead showing a picture and labelling it a "Handy Little Device" and suggesting it has many uses around the home, including hanging jewelry.
Birthdays:
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith. Created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows ‘Star Trek’, ‘Planet of the Apes’, ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ and ‘Dr. Kildare.’ Born in Los Angeles, California. He died on 7.21.2004, aged 75.
February 11th In Music
1967 - The Turtles release "Happy Together."
1972 - Led Zeppelin scored their third US Top 20 hit single with 'Black Dog / Misty Mountain Hop', peaking at No. 15, and taken from their fourth album. The song's title is a reference to a nameless black Labrador retriever that wandered around the Headley Grange studios during recording.
1983 - Bob Seger's The Distance is certified Platinum.
2014 - Queen made UK chart history by becoming the first act to sell six million copies of an individual album. Their first Greatest Hits collection, which includes the hits 'We Will Rock You' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' had extended its lead after being Britain's highest-selling album for several years. The Official Charts Company said one in three British families now owned a copy of the 1981 compilation.
Birthdays:
1939 - Gerry Goffin. American songwriter of over 20 US hits with his then wife Carol King, including The Shirelles 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow', The Drifters 'Up On The Roof', The Chiffons, 'One Fine Day', Herman's Hermits, 'I'm Into Something Good'. After he and King divorced, Goffin wrote with other composers, including Barry Goldberg and Michael Masser, with whom he wrote 'Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)' and 'Saving All My Love for You', also No. 1 hits. During his career Goffin wrote over 114 Billboard Hot 100 hits. Goffin died on 6.19.2014 at 75.
1940 - Bobby Pickett. Had the 1962 US No. 1 single 'The Monster Mash'. The song was a spoof on the dance crazes popular at the time, including the Twist and the Mashed Potato. Born in Somerville, Massachusetts. Pickett died on 4.25.2007 at the age of 69.
1962 - Sheryl Crow, US singer, songwriter, who had the 1994 US No. 2 single 'All I Wanna Do', from her 1993 album 'Tuesday Night Music Club' as well as hits with 'If It Makes You Happy' (1996), 'Everyday Is a Winding Road' (1996), 'Tomorrow Never Dies' (1997) the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name. Born in Kennett, Missouri.
February 12th In Music
1956 - Jay Hawkins records "I Put A Spell On You."
1958 - The Monotones release "Book Of Love."
1961 - The Miracles, 'Shop Around' became Motown Record's first million-selling single. It was also the label's first No. 1 hit on Billboard's R&B singles chart. In the following ten years, The Miracles would have six more million sellers.
1977 - Pink Floyd released their tenth studio album Animals in the US, where it reached No. 3 in the charts. The album's cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station, was conceived by bassist Roger Waters and realized by long-time design and photographic collaborators Hipgnosis.
2015 - ”Weird Al" Yankovic becomes the first-ever guest editor at MAD magazine when it is announced that he will be assisting with issue #533.
Birthday:
1920 - Bill Pitman. American guitarist and session musician. He played ukulele in the Academy Award-winning song 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,' and as a session musician played on The Byrds hit 'Mr. Tambourine Man', 'Good Vibrations', The Beach Boys, 'Strangers in the Night', Frank Sinatra, 'Be My Baby', The Ronettes, 'Deep Purple' Nino Tempo & April Stevens and 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'' Nancy Sinatra.
1939 - Ray Manzarek. Keyboards, with The Doors, who had the 1967 US No. 1 single 'Light My Fire' and the 1971 single 'Riders On The Storm'. He formed the band with lead singer Jim Morrison in 1965 after a chance meeting in Venice Beach, Los Angeles. Born in Chicago, Illinois. Manzarek died on 5.20.2013.
1945 - Joe Schermie. Bassist with Three Dog Night, who had the 1970 US No. 1 single with a cover of the Randy Newman song 'Mama Told Me Not To Come'. The band scored 21 Billboard Top 40 hits (with three hitting No. 1) between 1969 and 1975. Born in Madison, Wisconsin.
1952 - Michael McDonald. Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter, who with The Doobie Brothers had the 1979 US No. 1 single 'What A Fool Believes', and the 1993 UK No. 7 single 'Long Train Runnin'. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan and has also worked with Kenny Loggins, David Cassidy, Van Halen, Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin and Toto. Born in Madison, Wisconsin
1956 - Brian Robertson. Scottish rock guitarist from Thin Lizzy appearing on five studio albums: Nightlife (1974), Fighting (1975), Jailbreak (1976), Johnny the Fox (1976), Bad Reputation (1977) and a live album Live and Dangerous (1978). Robertson later replaced "Fast" Eddie Clarke as the lead guitarist of Motorhead in May 1982 and also worked with Wild Horses.
February 13th In Music
On This Date In Music
1967 - The Beatles release "Strawberry Fields Forever" as a single in the US, with "Penny Lane" on the flip side.
1969 - The Doors' "Touch Me" is certified gold.
1970 - Black Sabbath release their self-titled debut album, which not coincidentally, comes out on Friday the 13th. To add mystique to the band's image, new manager Patrick Meehan asks the band to stop giving interviews. The plan works, and through word of mouth, the album sell over 5,000 copies in the first week. The first single, "Evil Woman," doesn't chart, but the album reaches #8 in the UK.
1972 - Led Zeppelin is forced to cancel a gig in Singapore when local officials, seeing their long hair, refuse to let them off the plane.
1975 - Jefferson Starship records "Miracles."
1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer of "The Ride Of The Valkyries”, dies at age 69.
Birthdays:
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford. American recording artist and television host, who had a 1955 US No.1 & 1956 UK No.1 single with ‘Sixteen Tons’. It was Capitol Records’ first No. 1 of the rock era. Born in Bristol, Tennessee. Ford died on 10.17.1991 age 72.
1952 - Ed Gagliardi. Bassist with English-American rock band Foreigner, who scored the 1985 US No. 1 single 'I Want To Know What Love Is'. They are one of the world's best-selling bands of all time with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. Born in Brooklyn, New York.
1966 - Frederick ’Freedom’ Williams. Singer with C+C Music Factory, who had the 1991 UK No. 4 single 'Things That Make You Go Hmmm..., and the 1991 US No. 1 single 'Gonna Make You Sweat'. Born in Brooklyn, New York.
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