1965 - The Rolling Stones recorded "The Last Time" and "Play With Fire" at the RCA studio in Hollywood, California. Phil Spector played bass. on "Play With Fire."
At the time, the band was working 'round the clock. “Everyone was very tired,” said manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Charlie, Bill and Brian Jones couldn’t stay awake. “But we needed a B-side. So we recorded ‘Play with Fire’ at 8 A.M. with some portly gentleman cleaning the studio.
1969 - Neil Young records "Cowgirl in the Sand." Like three other songs from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, "Cinnamon Girl", "Down by the River" and the title track, Young wrote "Cowgirl in the Sand" while he was suffering from the flu with a high fever at his home in Topanga, California.
“Sometimes [when] I get sick, get a fever, it’s easy to write,” Young explained to Uncut. “Everything opens up. You don’t have any resistance. You just let things go.”
1974 - Free's Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke, Mott The Hoople's Mick Ralphs, and King Crimson's Boz Burrell unite to form the band Bad Company.
1985 - USA Today readers select Cleveland, Ohio, as their choice for the permanent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cleveland Rocks...
1989 - At just 38 years old, Stevie Wonder became the youngest living person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At a ceremony held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, other inductees include The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, Otis Redding and Dion DiMucci.
Birthdays:
David Ruffin of The Temptations was born today in 1941. One of the greatest lead singers the Motown stable ever had, David Ruffin became one of the artistic cornerstones of the Temptations after his lead vocal on "My Girl" paved the way for such majestic follow-ups as "Since I Lost My Baby", "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep", "All I Need", and "I Wish It Would Rain" (1968). Unfortunately, ever-mounting internal pressures within the group, led to his dismissal from the group in late 1968.
R.I.P.:
2016 - Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey died at the age of 67. Glenn Frey was best known as one of the two longest tenured members (along with Don Henley) of the Eagles, and as an intermittently successful solo artist in the decades since that band broke up.
Also between that time and the Eagles reunion, Frey dipped his toes in acting. His best known roles were in Miami Vice as pilot Jimmy Cole, and Jerry McGuire as Arizona Cardinals general manager Dennis Wilburn, the man that will ultimately decide whether to show Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) the money.
Glenn and the Eagles had serious connections with Colorado. They would cut their teeth and hone their sound with a residency at the Gallery in Aspen. They also did a 5 night stand at Tulagi in Boulder.
On Aspen, he said this: It’s a good place to practice. If you can sing in Aspen’s thin air, you can sing anywhere.”
2023 - David Crosby died aged 81. He possessed a tenor that could sound like he was pondering every line he sang. He was also happy to dissolve that voice into shared vocal harmonies. As a founding member of the Byrds, he shaped the ringing sound of 1960s folk-rock and pioneered trippy psychedelia, yet his greatest fame came as part of Crosby, Stills & Nash, a supergroup he formed with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash that helped usher in the reflective '70s. Sometimes joined by Neil Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash were wildly successful but volatile, so the members cycled through solo projects and other line-up permutations during their salad days in the '70s. He also did albums with Graham Nash and CPR. Crosby-Nash did a session in KBCO Studio C and "Lay Me Down" appeared on KBCO Studio C Volume 16.
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On This Day In Music History was sourced, copied, pasted, and sometimes woven together with my own crude prose, from This Day in Music, Song Facts, Number One Albums, Ultimate Classic Rock, Colorado Music Experience, Allmusic, New York Times, Far Out Magazine, and Wikipedia.
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