1963 - Bob Dylan began recording "The Times They Are A-Changin" in a two-day session at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City. It is one of Dylan's signature tunes - considered one of the greatest protest songs in history and a classic of 20th century popular music.
In the liner notes of this album Biograph, Dylan wrote: "I wanted to write a big song, some kind of theme song, with short, concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. This is definitely a song with a purpose. I knew exactly what I wanted to say and who I wanted to say it to."
1976 - Led Zeppelin make their US television debut on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. The band generally shied away from TV appearances because ot the sound limitations. For this one, they featured performances from the concert film "The Song Remains The Same". The 25 minutes of “Dazed and Confused” showcased Jimmy Page’s technique with a violin bow.
2001 - Apple introduces the iPod, an MP3 player that can hold about 1000 songs, making digital music portable. Do you still have one?
2006 - Amy Winehouse released her "signature song" 'Rehab' as a single, taken from her second studio album, Back to Black. The lyrics are autobiographical, and talk about Winehouse's refusal one time to enter a rehabilitation clinic.
Amy Winehouse was asked by The Daily Mail how she writes songs. Said Winehouse: "With 'Rehab' I was walking down the street with Mark Ronson, who produced my last album. I just sang the hook out loud. It was quite silly really."
She was then asked, "Did you sing the 'no no no' bit as well?'"
"Yeah, I sang the whole line exactly as it turned out on the record! Mark laughed and asked me who wrote it because he liked it. I told him that I'd just made it up but that it was true and he encouraged me to turn it into a song, which took me five minutes. It wasn't hard. It was about what my old management company wanted me to do." (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 67. With his stripped-down approach to traditional honky tonk and Bakersfield country, Dwight Yoakam helped return country music to its roots in the late '80s. Like his idols Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams, Yoakam never played by Nashville's rules; consequently, he never dominated the charts. Nevertheless, he was frequently able to chart in the country Top Ten, and he remained a respected and adventurous artists well into the '90s.
He's also appeared in many films, most notably in critically acclaimed performances as an ill-tempered, abusive, live-in boyfriend in Sling Blade.
Alfred Matthew Yankovic, better known as "Weird Al" is 64. The foremost song parodist of his generation, "Weird Al" Yankovic has carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman.
Over the course of an enduring career he mocked everything from new wave ("Dare to Be Stupid," a letter-perfect "style parody" of Devo on 1985's Dare to Be Stupid) and Michael Jackson (his commercial breakthrough, "Eat It," on 1984's In 3-D) to grunge ("Smells Like Nirvana" from 1992's Off the Deep End) and gangsta rap (his goof on Chamillionaire's "Ridin'" and "White and Nerdy" on 2006's Straight Outta Lynwood). He even received the ultimate show biz accolade, a wildly inaccurate biopic: 2022's Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
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2020 - Jerry Jeff Walker died at the age of 78.Jerry Jeff Walker was a Texan by choice, not birth, but few artists better typified the mood of the Lone Star State's outlaw country scene and their fabled singer/songwriter community. Walker's best work was literate and rowdy at the same time, with the wild, raucous mood of his performances balanced by a gift for a perceptive lyric that shone through despite his sometimes rough, plain-spoken vocal style, frequent witticisms, and a fondness for alcohol that marked his creative heyday. He wrote 'Mr Bojangles' a hit for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970.
On This Day In Music History was sourced from This Day in Music, Allmusic,, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Song Facts and Wikipedia.
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