1967 - Carl Wilson, of The Beach Boys, received his summons for induction into the U.S. Army, but refused to be sworn in, claiming he was a conscientious objector.
1970 - The last new song (while all four were alive) The Beatles ever recorded together was "I Me Mine", which became the title of George Harrison's autobiography a decade later.
Prompted by the inclusion of the song in the Let It Be film, The Beatles decided to record ‘I Me Mine’ for the soundtrack album. John Lennon was holidaying in Denmark, and had essentially left the group anyway, so just Harrison, McCartney and Starr attended the session.
During the recording session, George was heard to say. ‘You will all have read that Dave Dee is no longer with us, but Mickey and Titch and I would just like to carry on the good work that’s always gone down in number two’.
But it was not the last time in the studio. The next day, Paul, George and Ringo returned to Abbey Road to record overdubs.
1974 - Bob Dylan begins a 6-week tour in Chicago with The Band, who do double duty: backing Dylan and then playing their own set. In July, the double album Before The Flood is released, featuring highlights from the shows.
1981 - David Bowie made his final appearance as the Elephant Man in the Broadway show in New York City. He debuted the role in Denver.
1987 - Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - she was one of a total of 14 inductees. It was only the second year of the Hall of Fame's existence, but still, a look at the early inductees reveals a list considerably short on females. Franklin was followed the next year by The Supremes, then LaVern Baker and Tina Turner (Ike and Tine Turner) two years later.
2001 - The Dave Matthews Band become the first major artist to release a song on Napster when "I Did It" debuts on the controversial file-sharing platform.
Unlike Metallica, who successfully sued the company for copyright infringement a year earlier, and were outspoken critics of digital piracy, DMB figures if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Birthdays:
Sir George Martin, the "5th Beatle" who produced nearly every Beatles album, was born today in 1926.
His actual credits were diverse, encompassing artists ranging from 1950s jazz bandleader Humphrey Lyttleton to the comic talents of Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, legendary vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, and rock acts as different as Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, America, Peter Gabriel, and Celine Dion.
The association with the Beatles alone made him the most well-known and successful record producer in the history of popular music. But with over a billion copies sold of records and songs whose making he supervised (and they are still selling, with billions of pounds and dollars spent on them), he earned a knighthood and was the subject of a 151-song, six-CD set devoted to his work as a music director.
Stephen Stills, of Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills and Nash, is 79. Famed for his work in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
With Buffalo Springfield, they produced a gumbo of country-rock, psychedelia, soul, and hard rock, all the while embracing the possibilities of the recording studios of Los Angeles. With CSN (and later CSNY) marked the point where rock music transitions from the heady explorations of the 1960s into the burnished self-reflections of the '70s.
After splitting ways with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Stills retreated to the mountains near Gold Hill in Boulder County, forming the genre-bending Manassas, who are in the Colorado Music Hall Of Fame.
Stills has enjoyed a long solo career, with various reunions with Neil Young, CSN, CSNY, and Buffalo Springfield.(Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Van Dyke Parks — musician, producer, and songwriter who has worked with Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, Little Feat, Joanna Newsom, U2, Grizzly Bear, Bob Dylan, and many more — is 81.
John Paul Jones is 78. Best known as the bassist and keyboards with Led Zeppelin. As a session player in the 1960s he worked with The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Donovan, Jeff Beck, Hermans Hermits, Lulu, Tom Jones. In recent years Jones has worked with R.E.M. on 1992 Automatic For The People album and is a member of Them Crooked Vultures.
R.I.P.:
2014 - Phil Everly, one half of the Everly Brothers, died at age 74. Between 1957 and 1962, the Everly Brothers had 19 Top 40 hits, including "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie" and "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and influenced acts such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys.
On this Day In Music History was sourced, copied, pasted, edited, and occasionally woven together with my own crude prose, from This Day in Music, Song Facts, Allmusic, Colorado Music, Beatles Bible, Beatles In London, and Wikipedia.
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