On This Day In Music History – September 15th, 2016

It’s Thursday and that can only mean two things, one it’s almost the weekend and two it’s time for another edition of On This Day! So let’s get cracking and find out what went down in Music History On This Day 15th Sept, 2016.

Colour Meaning:

Purple = Record labels, Orange = Places + Concerts, Green = Albums, Blue = Tours, Black = Singles.

On This Day…

1956

🎙 Elvis Presley started a five-week run at No. 1 on the US charts with ‘Don’t Be Cruel.’ ‘Don’t Be Cruel’ went on to become Presley’s biggest selling single, with sales over sis million by 1961. This “double-sided hit” which had ‘Hound Dog‘ on the B side, became the most successful on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. One side reached No.1 on the chart, the other No.2. The two titles spent a combined 55 weeks in the Top 100 in 1956-1957.

1961

🎙 A group from Hawthorne, California called The Pendletones attend their first real recording session at Hite Morgan’s Studio in Los Angeles. The Band recorded ‘Surfin‘, a song that would help shape their career as The Beach Boys.

1962

🎙 The Four Seasons started a five-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sherry‘, it made No.8 in the UK. They became the first American group to have three No.1’s in succession.

1964

🎙 The Beatles on tour in the USA, appeared at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. During the performance a group of fans managed to break through the line of police fronting the stage and were able to get up on-stage. Police ordered The Beatles off-stage in the middle of a song, and the concert only resumed after Derek Taylor got on the PA system and pleaded for order to be restored so that the rest of the performance would not be cancelled by the police.

1965

🎙 The Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to offer an 8-track tape player as an option for their entire line of vehicles on sale in the US. Tapes were initially only available at auto parts stores, as home 8-track equipment was still a year away.

1966

🎙 The Small Faces were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘All Or Nothing‘, their only No.1 hit. According to Kay Marriott, Steve Marriott’s mother, Steve wrote the song about his spilt with ex-fiancee Sue Oliver, though first wife Jenny Rylance states that Marriott told her he wrote the song for her as a result of her split with Rod Stewart.

1967

🎙 Filming continued for The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour.’ Lunch was at James and Amy Smedley’s Fish and Chip Shop in Taunton, Somerset with The Beatles being filmed and photographed eating their fish and chips.

1968

🎙 The Doors were forced to perform as a trio at a concert in Amsterdam after singer Jim Morrison collapsed while dancing during the Jefferson Airplane’s performance.

1970

🎙 US Vice-President Spiro Agnew said in a speech that the youth of American were being “brainwashed into a drug culture” by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers.

1975

🎙 Pink Floyd released their ninth studio album Wish You Were Here in the UK. The album which explores themes of absence, the music business, and former band-mate Syd Barrett’s mental decline peaked at No.1 on both sides of the Atlantic and went on to spend a total of 84 weeks on the chart.

1978

🎙 Bob Dylan kicked off his longest and most continuous US tour of his career in Augusta, Maine, playing the first of sixty-five gigs in sixty-two cities.

1979

🎙 Led Zeppelin scored their sixth US No.1 album when ‘In Through The Out Door‘ started a seven-week run at the top of the charts.

1984

🎙 Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Relax‘ became the longest running chart hit since Engelbert Humperdink‘s ‘Release Me‘, after spending 43 weeks on the UK singles chart.

1990

🎙 George Michael scored his second UK No.1 solo album with his second release ‘Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1.’ The album went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.

🎙 The Steve Miller Band had a UK No.1 with ‘The Joker‘ 16 years after its first release. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974. More than 16 years later it reached No.1 in the UK singles chart after being used in “Great Deal“,  a Hugh Johnson directed television advertisement for Levi’s, thus holding the record for the longest gap between transatlantic chart toppers.

🎙 Wilson Phillips had their second US No.1 with ‘Release Me‘, a No.36 hit in the UK. The group was made up of Carnie & Wendy Wilson, the daughters of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, along with Chynna Phillips, the daughter of Mamas and Papas founder John Phillips.

1994

🎙 A reel to reel tape of The Quarry Men appearing at St Peter’s Parish Church garden party Liverpool in July, 1957, sold for £69,000, ($125,000) at a Sotheby’s auction.

1997

🎙 A 34-year-old man was awarded more than £20,000 by a French court after he lost his hearing when he stood too close to loudspeakers at a U2 concert in 1993.

2003

🎙 ABBA tribute acts overtook Elvis Presley impersonators in the battle of British covers singers according to a survey. The Swedish group jumped from third most tributed act in 2001 to top in 2002 with imitators like Abba Fever and Voulez Vous putting on Abba shows. Elvis dropped to number two while The Beatles dropped to three. The Performing Right Society carried out the research.

2004

🎙 Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) died in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. The founding member of The Ramones was a major influence on many punk and 90’s bands. In 1977 the scored a hit single with ‘Sheena Is A Punk Rocker‘.

2006

🎙 The Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool where The Beatles played their first gig was given a Grade II listed building status after a recommendation from English Heritage. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison played in the converted coal cellar of the house in West Derby, in August 1959 as The Quarrymen.

2008

🎙 Pink Floyd keyboard player and founding member Richard Wright died aged 65 from cancer. Wright appeared on the group’s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason. David Gilmour who joined the band at the start of 1968 said: “He was such a lovely, gentle, genuine man and will be missed terribly by so many who love him” In 2005, the full band reunited – for the first time in 24 years – for the Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park. Wright had also contributed vocals and keyboards to Gilmour’s 2006 solo album On An Island.

2014

🎙 Apple released a tool to remove U2’s new album from its customers’ iTunes accounts six days after giving away the music for free. Some users had complained about the fact that their latest album Songs of Innocence had automatically been downloaded to their devices without their permission.

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Well folks that brings us to the end of this weeks edition of  On This Day 15th Sept, 2016 in Music History. Make sure you check out this weeks OTD Spotify playlist below, it’s bound to get you into weekend mode!! You can catch On This Day (OTD) every Thursday only on Skatronixxx.com you can also find us on Twitter, you will find the links below the OTD playlist.

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On This Day 19th May

Welcome back to this weeks edition of OTD, this week features Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Abba, Madona just to name a few.

1960

🎼 American DJ Alan Freed was indicted along with seven others for excepting $30,650 in payola from six record companies. Two years later, he was convicted and given a suspended sentence and a $300.00 fine.

1967

🎼 The Beatles held a press party at manager’s Brian Epstein’s house in London for the launch of the Sgt. Pepper’s album. Linda Eastman was hired as the press photographer.

1973

🎼 Stevie Wonder went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘You Are The Sunshine Of My Life’. His third US No. 1, won Stevie a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. This song was the second single released from the album ‘Talking Book’

🎼 Wizzard were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘See My Baby Jive’, Roy Wood’s (from The Move), latest group spent four weeks at the top of the charts.

🎼 Paul Simon released the single ‘Kodachrome’ named after the Kodak 35mm film Kodachrome which became a No.2 hit in the US. It was not released as a single in Britain, because the BBC would not play a trademarked name.

1974

🎼 The Rubettes were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Sugar Baby Love’, the group’s only UK No.1.

1976

🎼 Rolling Stone Keith Richards crashed his carnear Newport Pagnell, Bucks, after falling asleep at the wheel; marijuana and cocaine were found by the police resulting in another fine for the guitarist.

1978

🎼 Dire Straits released their first major lable single ‘Sultans Of Swing’, recorded on a £120 budget. The song was first as a demo at Pathway Studios, North London, in July 1977, and quickly acquired a following after it was put on rotation at Radio London.

1979

🎼 ABBA started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Voulez-Vous’ the group’s forth No.1 album.

🎼 Supertramp went to No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Breakfast In America’, the group’s only US No.1. It featured three US Billboard hit singles: ‘ The logical Song’, ‘Goodbye Stranger’ and ‘Take the Long Way Home’.

1980

🎼 Ringo Starr and his future wife were involved in a car crash less than half a mile from where Marc Bolan was killed, the car was a write-off but Starr and Bach were not seriously injured.

1981

🎼 Sting was named songwriter of the year at the 26th Ivor Novello Awards.

1984

🎼 Bob Marley and the Wailers started a twelve-week run at No.1 on tge UK album chart with the compilation album ‘Legend’, released to commemorate the third anniversary of Marley’s death.

1988

🎼 James Brown was arrested for the fifth time in 12 months, following a car chase near his home, he was charged with assault, resisting arrest and being in charge of illegal weapons, he was given a 6 year jail sentence.

1990

🎼 Madonna started a three-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Vogue’. Originally planned as a B-side, it became the singers eighth US No.1 and seventh UK No.1 hit.

2001

🎼 Mike Sammes founder of The Mike Sammes Singers died aged 73. He workedwith Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and featured on The Beatles, ‘I Am Walrus’, and ‘The Long And Winding Road’.

2002

🎼 Liberty X went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Just A Little’. They were the five runners-up from the TV talent show “Pop Stars”, who failed to become part of the winning group Hear’Say.

2007

🎼 Lawyers for Michael Jackson dropped an effort to block an auction of the star’s personal belongings and other Jackson family items. An agreement was reached with representatives of an auctioneer, who was the current owner of the materials, and a New Jersey man who claimed to own a warehouse full of Jackson memorabilia after a failed business venture wound up in bankruptcy court.

2010

🎼 ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was named the UK’s favorite rock song in a survey by listeners to radio station Absolute Classic Rock. Led Zeppelin had two other tracks in the top 10; ‘Whole Lotta Love’ was voted at No.4 and ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’, from the group’s forth album, was at No.7.

2013

🎼 A guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison sold for $408,000 (£269,000) at auction. The custom-made instrument, built in 1966 by VOX was bought by an unidentified US buyer in New York. Harrison played ‘I Am the Walrus’, on the guitar in a scene from Magical Mystery Tour in 1967. Lennon used it in a video for ‘Hello, Goodbye’ later that year. After playing the guitar, Lennon gave it as a 25th birthday present to Alexis “Magic Alex” Mardas, a member of The Beatles’ inner circle in the 1960s.

2015

🎼 Lee Ryan became the forth and final member of Blue to declare himself bankrupt. Lee became the last member of the chart-topping boyband – who earned more than £80million after selling in excess of 15million records worldwide – to file for bankruptcy, following in the financial footsteps of his band mates Simon Webbe, Antony Costa and Duncan James.

Well guys that’s it for this weeks edition of On This Day hope you have enjoyed reading it, as much as I have enjoyed writing it.  Below its this weeks playlist of OTD so enjoy that some great somg on their this week. See you next week and remember if you can’t be good, then be good at it. 

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On This Day 28th April 2016

Welcome back to this weeks edition of On This Day, this week features, The Beatles, Alan Freed’s Big Beat Show, Pink Floyd, T Rex, U2 and many more. This week we start in 1958 and conclude in 2015 so without further ado lets kick off this weeks OTD….

1958

🎵. Alan Freed’s Big Beat Show played 2 shows at the Central High School Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The tour featured; Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Frank Lymon, Buddy Holly, The Diamonds, Billy Ford, Danny & The Juniors, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screaming Jay Hawkins and The Pastels. Man! What a cracking line up!

1964

🎵. The Beatles recorded the TV special ‘Around The Beatles’ at Wembely studios England. As well as performing songs they played Act V Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ with John playing the female role of Thisbe, Paul as Pyramus, George as Moonshine and Ringo as Lion. Paul later named his cat Thisbe.

1968

🎵. The Broadway musical ‘Hair’ opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York. The show featured the following songs, ‘Aquarius’, ‘Let the Sunshine In’, ‘Good Morning Starshine’ and the title song. The production ran for 1,729 performances, finally closing on July 1st, 1972. Wow that’s a staggering amount of performances, definitely deserving of 👏👏👏

1973

🎵. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon went to No. 1 in the US. The album went on to enjoy a record-breaking 741 discontinuous weeks on the Billboard chart and has now sold over 45 million copies world-wide. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks there, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006. Well done boys! Well deserved that’s for sure!

1980

🎵. Marshall Tucker Band’s bass player Tommy Caldwell died of injuries from a car accident, in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina, he was 30-year-old. He was the original frontman for the Marshall Tucker Band between 1973 and 1980.

1981

🎵. Former member of T Rex, Steve Currie was killed in a car crash returning to his home near Vale de Parra, Algarve, Portugal, he was 33 years old. He joined T. Rex (renamed from Tyrannosaurus Rex) as bass guitarist in late 1970, he also worked as a session player. He played on ‘Motobikin’ by Chris Spedding.

1982

🎵. The California State Assembly consumer-protection-committee heard testimony from “experts” who claimed that when ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was played backward, it contained the words: “I sing because I live with Satan, the Lord turns me off, there’s no escaping it. Here’s to my sweet Satan, whose power is Satan. He will give you 666. I live for Satan”.

1983

🎵. During the second leg of their ‘War’ North American tour, U2 appeared at the Rochester Institute Of Technology Ice Rink, Rochester, New York.

1990

🎵. Guns’N’Roses leader Axl Rose married Erin Everly, daughter of The Everly Brothers Don at Cupid’s Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. The divorced in January 1991 after a stormy nine months of marriage.

🎵. Sinead O’Connor started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’.

1997

🎵. Mark Morrison was fined £750 after admitting threatening behavior during an incident in Leicester city centre, when he believed someone had kicked his car.

1999

🎵. The tour bus carrying The Clint Boon Experience was involved in a near fatal accident, when it was involved in a crash outside Glasgow. Members of the band had to be airlifted to hospital.

🎵. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2000

🎵. A blaze swept through James Brown Enterprises, the office that co-ordinates the superstar’s tours. Nobody was injured, but memorabilia and live tapes were destroyed in the blaze. An employee was later arrested and charged with arson.

🎵. Paul Atkinson was jailed for three years after being found guilty of stealing more than £25,000 from Rolling Stone Charlie Watts. Atkinson had been the manager of an Arabian stud farm owned by Watts.

2002

🎵. Sugarbabes scored their first UK No. 1 single with ‘Freak Like Me’. The song was originally by American Adina Howard (1995) and was mixed with the synth line from Gary Numan’s 1979 hit ‘Are Friends Electric?’.

2006

🎵. ABBA star Bjorn Ulvaeus was accused of avoiding paying 87m Swedish kronor (£6.5m) in taxes on the band’s hit songs and musicals. The Swedish government was demanding he repaid the money. ABBA sold over 370 million records and he also co-wrote the musical Mamma Mia.

2007

🎵. Scott Weiland singer with The Stone Temple Pilots was sentenced to 192 hours in county jail for his November 2007 drink driving offence. He was also fined $2000, required to complete an 18-month alcohol program and was placed on probation for four years.

2009

🎵. A TV commercial for insurance featuring Iggy Pop was ruled as misleading by the Advertising Standard Authority. In the advert, the singer was seen exclaiming that he had an insurance policy with Swiftcover but the company did not cover musicians at the time of the ad being shown. Swiftcover had since started to offer policies to musicians, and started that Mr Pop would continue to endorse the company.

2013

🎵. Emeli Sande set a new record for the most consecutive weeks on the UK’s Official Album Chart top 10 of any debut album. ‘Our Version Of Events’ was released in February 2012 and went on to become the biggest selling album that year. The album hadn’t dropped out of the top 10 since its release and had been in the UK’s Official Album Chart for 63 weeks. The 26-year-old singer had overtaken The Beatles who previously held the record.

2014

🎵. Scorpions drummer James Kottak was sentenced to one month in jail in Dubai for offensive behavior after an incident at Dubai Airport on 3rd April. He was convicted of insulting Islam, raising his middle finger and being under the influence of alcohol.

🎵. Paul Simon and his wife Edie Brickell appeared in court after being arrested over a domestic dispute. The arrest came after a caller from the singers’ home phoned the emergency services and then hung up. Simon told a Superior Court Judge in Norwalk, Connecticut, he had a rare argument with his wife on Saturday night at their home and they were now fine.

2015

🎵.  Jack Ely died at the age of 71 after a long illness. The Kingman singer’s hit ‘Louie Louie’ reached the top of the charts in 1963 and sparked a FBI investigation into whether or not its lyrics were obscene.
Well guys that concludes this weeks edition, below you will find this weeks Spotify playlist for OTD 28th April 2016. So sit back and enjoy the tunes. Be sure to check back the same time next week. Untill then, be good, if you can’t be good, then be good at it 😉

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On This Day 17th March St Patrick’s Day

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Have a great and safe day all!

Its that time again friends, so lets take a stroll down memory lane and see what happed inmusic industry today.

Our first stop on memory lane is at

1957 and it was the year The King of Rock’n’Roll Elvis Presley brought the Graceland mansion from Mrs Ruth Brown-Moore for $102,500 USD. (For my English friends out there it’s £60,295) That was so much money back then but compared to now he picked it up cheap! The 23 room, 10,000 square foot home, on 13.8 acres would be expanded to 17,552 square feet of living space before the king moved in a few weeks later.

Our second stop is at 1967 where The Beatles were working at Abby Road studios in London, they finished the recording of ‘She’s Leaving Home’ after adding backing vocals to the track. Harpest Shelia Bromberg who was part of the string section on the track thus making her the first women to play on a Beatles recording.

Our third stop is in 1968 and is just a quick stop. The Bee Gees made their US television debut when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

We’re entering our forth stop on memory lane tour, 1973 Dr Hooks’s single ‘On The Cover Of Rolling Stone’ peaked at No.6 on the US charts. Did you know the single was banned in the UK by BBC due to the reference of the magazine.

Ok off to another quick stop number five which is 1978, U2 won £500 ($850)and a chance to audition for CBS Ireland in a talent contest held in Dublin.

1979 is our sixth stop, Gloria Gaynor started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘I Will Survive’. The song was originally released as the B-side to a song first recorded by The Righteous Brothers called ‘Substitute’. Also in 1979, The Bee Gees went to No.1 on the UK album after their fifteenth studio album release ‘Spirits Have Flown’. It was the group’s first album after their collaboration on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The albums first three tracks were released as singles and impressively they all reached No.1 in the US, giving the Bee Gees an unbroken run of six US chart-toppers and tying a record set by The Beatles.

Please make sure your seat belts are fastened, were headed to 1984, stop number seven on this tour. Van Halen’s ‘Jump’ peaked at No.1 in the US and its definitely on my all time favorite list. David Lee Roth has given various accounts of the meaning behind the lyrics over the years, but most often says they are about a TV news story he saw where a man was about to kill himself by jumping off a building.

1997 brings us to the eighth stop. US singer Jermaine Stewart died of cancer, in 1986 her single ‘We Don’t Have To …. Take Our Clothes Off’ reached No.2 in the UK. Jermaine worked with Shalamar, The Temptations and Boy George.

Sit down shut up and hold on, we are entering the 2000’s, stop nine. In 2004 The Kinks singer Ray Davies received his CBE medal from the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to the music industry.

We are almost at the end of this weeks tour just 3 stops left. Stop ten brings us to 2006, The Smiths turned down a $5m (£2.8m) offer to reform for a music festival. The band who split acrimoniously in 1987, rejected the bid to get back together for the Coachella US festival.

Stop eleven is 2008, The former drummer with ABBA Ola Brunkert, was found dead with his throat cut at his home in Majorca, Spain. Brunkert died after he hit his head against a glass door in the dining room at his home. He was found dead in his garden after trying to seek help. The 62 year old musician had played on every Abba album and toured with the group, its it just me or dose this sound a little suspicious?

Ok the second last stop number twelve, in 2010 Alex Chilton singer and guitarist with Big Star died in hospital of heart problems in New Orleans he was 59, as a teenager Chilton had been a member of The Box Tops, who had the 1967 hit ‘The Letter’.

Last but not least stop thirteen, lucky for some not so lucky for others. In 2013 John Lennon and George Harrison were honored with a blue plaque at the site of the former Apple Boutique in a ceremony in London held at 94 Baker Street. The new plaque reads “John Lennon, M.B.E., 1940-1980, and George Harrison, M.B.E., 1943-2001, worked here”.

Well kids that concludes this weeks magical memory lane tour. Be sure to check back next week for more adventures down memory lane.