965 - "Get Off Of My Cloud" by The Rolling Stones hits #1 in America for the first of two weeks. The song was written in response to record company pressure to follow up "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" with another hit.
1968, The Monkees movie 'Head' was released. The studio that commissioned the film expected something light and funny but got a trippy commentary, a fourth-wall-shattering, stream-of-consciousness black comedy that mocks war, America, Hollywood, television, the music business and the Monkees themselves.
As the story goes, Jack Nicholson was introduced to the band in hopes of doing a movie together. One weekend in late 1967, they all decamped to a hotel suite in California's Ojai Valley for a brainstorming session. Amid clouds of pot smoke, they talked all weekend with the tape recorder running. Nicholson then took the tapes and turned the conversations into a screenplay; according to director Bob Rafelson, he structured it while on LSD.
The film bombed when it was released, but later became a cult classic. Some guest appearances in the movie include Jack Nicholson, Frank Zappa, Dennis Hopper and film choreographer Toni Basil (who would later sing the hit "Hey Mickey").
1976 - Blue Öyster Cult land their biggest hit as "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" peaks at #12 in the US. The song is not about suicide, but about reuniting with loved ones in the afterlife. More cowbell.
1979 - His campaign slogan was, "There's always room for Jello" and a platform that includes making businessmen wear clown suits, Jello Biafra ( Born Eric Reed Boucher in Boulder) of the punk band Dead Kennedys comes in fourth in his run for mayor of San Francisco. Dianne Feinstein is the winner.
Birthdays:
Glenn Frey of The Eagles was born today in 1948. 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 the band broke up.
Glenn and the band have history with Colorado. In 1971, manager David Geffen sent them to Aspen to complete a month-long residency at the Gallery Club. There the musicians honed their chops and collaborative songwriting, as well as their cohesive performance style. Frey said, "After the shows at the Gallery, I swore if I ever made a dime in the music business, I wanted to have a house there. It’s a good place to practice. If you can sing in Aspen’s thin air, you can sing anywhere.”
Turns out CU holds a special place in the band's history too. In December 1971, They left Aspen and played a five-night stint at Tulagi, the now-defunct "3.2 beer nightclub on Boulder's University Hill,". The band was paid $100 per night, and the finals-week crowds for the relatively fledgling band numbered between eight and fifty people. Still, the bandmembers were confident they were on their way to major success. Frey often wore University Of Colorado t-shirts.
He also embarked on an unexpected acting career in the wake of 1984's The Allnighter, which spawned the hit "Smuggler's Blues," a song that subsequently inspired an episode of the hit TV series Miami Vice on which Frey guest starred. He also appeared in Jerry Maguire as Arizona Cardinals general manager Dennis Wilburn.(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
On This Day In Music History was sourced from This Day in Music, Allmusic, Westword, The Guardian, Song Facts and Wikipedia.