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FLASHBACK POP MUSIC HISTORY: OCTOBER 13

From the MCRFB music calendar:

Events on this date: OCTOBER 13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frank and Bing on CBS-TV Sunday, October 13, 1957 promoting the brand-new 1957 Edsel by the Ford Motor Company. (Click on image for larger view).

1957: CBS television (see YouTube “The Edsel Show”, below) presents a star-studded new musical variety special sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, featuring Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and the Four Preps all singing praises of… the Ford Edsel, a new model which would soon be considered the standard by which all automobiles flops are measured.

1962: At London’s Prince of Wales Theater, the Everly Brothers’ Don Everly collapses from exhaustion during rehearsal for the duo’s upcoming tour of the U. K. Brother Phil continues the tour alone.

1963: Beatlemania begins in earnest as the Beatles appears on the popular BBC television show Sunday Night At The Palladium, performing “She Loves You,” “From Me To You,” “I’ll Get You,” and “Twist And Shout.” 15 million people in the U. K. alone watch the live performance on television, while thousands of fans pack Argyll street to catch a glimpse of the group.

1968: Ex-Supreme Florence Ballard gives birth to premature twin daughters, Michelle and Nicole.

1970: The ashes of Janis Joplin are scattered into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Stinson Beach in California.

Neil Young in 1975. (Click on image for larger view).

1975: Neil Young undergoes throat surgery in Los Angeles to remove a growth from his vocal cords.

1990: In a move that stuns his longtime fans, Bob Dylan is invited to perform at the West Point Military Academy. Oddly, he take the opportunity to perform his scathing anti-war attack “Masters Of War”; even more strangely, a cadre of cadets turn his protest song “Blowin’ In The Wind” into a choral unified singalong.

2000: The Eagles’ Don Henley is sued by a fan who claims the singer bashed her on the head with a pair of maracas after she tried to take his picture at a concert in Arkansas.

Country great Merle Haggard.

2001: Country legend Merle Haggard, who has a history of heart disease, cancels the remainder of his U. S. tour after complaining of tightness in his chest.

2004: The US Internal Revenue Service charges Ronald Isley of the Isley Brothers with five counts of tax evasion for failing to report income from 1997 through 2002. Exactly one year later to the day, he goes on trial in Los Angeles for the charges and is sentenced to three years in prison.

 

Deaths: Ed Sullivan; 1974. Shirley Brickley (Orlons); 1977. Wade Flemons (Earth, Wind and Fire); 1993. Craig Atkinson (Count Five); 1998. Peter Doyle (New Seekers); 2001.

Releases: “American Pie,” Don McLean; 1971.

Recording: “Problems,” Everly Brothers; 1958. “Drive My Car,” Beatles; 1965. “My Generation,” The Who; 1965. “Julia,” Beatles; 1968.

Charts: 1958: ‘Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely,’ (LP) Frank Sinatra; hits No. 1 on the LP charts. 1973: ‘Goat’s Head,’ Rolling Stones; hits No. 1 on the LP charts. 1979: “Don’t Stop ‘Til You get Enough,” Michael Jackson; hits No. 1 on the charts.

Certification: 1971: “Go Away Little Girl,” Donny Osmond; certified gold by the RIAA.

The 1957 Ford Edsel Corsair.

 

And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day….

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DETROIT MOTOWN SOUND CAPTURES WINDY CITY . . . MAY 4, 1963

From the MCRFB news archives:

Chicago Motown Stay Proves Huge Success For Berry Gordy’s Detroit Hit Makers

 

 

 

 

CHICAGO — These days mention personal appearance tours in the Windy City and the name of the Tamla-Motortown Review is sure to crop up. The 10-act bill opened in Chicago’s Regal Theater last week for the first of a series of appearances that will last into June. It’s been strictly SRO (standing room only) all week, so much so, if fact, that the Regal changed from a three to four-show-per-day policy. Tamla-Motown has so much success during the past year with its tour that in September the review will be broken into three separate shows, each featuring several of the tour’s top stars plus some new Tamla-Motown talent.

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas with a few “memories” from 1963. (Click on image for larger view).

Meanwhile in other current Motown news, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas will break with their first album this week. It includes their big single hit, “Come And Get These Memories,” while the Miracles celebrate their fifth year together with an anniversary album that includes some of their early hits, many of which are nigh impossible to get: “Bad Girl,” “Get A Job” and “I Need Some Money,” they are three of the best.

May is birthday month at Tamla-Motown. Sandra Brown is first up on the third, Billie Jean Brown follows on the 12th. Mary Wells and Barney Ales, Tamla-Motown vice-president, both share the 13th., and Gladys Horton, lead singer of the Marvelettes, will wind up the month with one on the 30th.

Most of the Tamla-Motown group were in Chicago to catch the Regal opening. Berry Gordy, Jr., made it back just in time from his European tour which ended last month. . . . Billie Jean Brown and Sandra Edwards, together with Billie Jean’s mother, Mrs. Angie M. Brown, tours the city’s sights, stopping in for a fast hello and luncheon with a Billboard magazine reporter. Incidentally, Billie Jean and Sandra are the two girls who did “Camelwalk” by the Beljeans on Gordy last September. END.

 

(Information and news source: Billboard; May 4, 1963).

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in the 1960s.

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