On this day in music history - - in 1959, Joan Baez makes her breakthrough performance, playing two duets with Bob Gibson at the Newport Folk Festival. There are two versions of the story for how the virtual unknown got on stage that day. In one version, she had met Gibson and Odetta in Cambridge while recording Folksingers Round Harvard and wowed them with her raw talent. In the other, she talked her way into the green room at Newport and begged everyone to let her on stage. Either way, the performance at Newport was so powerful that both Columbia and Vanguard tried to sign her (she went with Vanguard), and within a year, her self-titled album was out and making waves in the folk world. - in 1968, the Doors release their third studio album, Waiting for the Sun. In its original conception, a full side of the album was supposed to be taken up by a live recording of Celebration of the Lizard, but the band was dissatisfied with the recordings. In the end, as a compromise with Jim (who was adamant about having his poetic...whatever it was...on the album, they took the Not to Touch the Earth section of the piece and made it its own track (you can hear a full performance of Celebration on Absolutely Live or Legacy). With the additional space freed up by cutting Celebration, the band had room to add the more poppy Hello, I Love You and Summers Almost Gone. Also missing from the album is the title track, which didnt make it onto an album until 1970s Morrison Hotel. Waiting for the Sun was the bands only number 1 album. - in 1975, Fleetwood Mac released their tenth studio album and their second self-titled album, The White Album (aka that other album called The White Album). It was the first Fleetwood Mac album with Lindsey Buckingham on guitar and Stevie Nicks on lead vocals (Mick Fleetwood was only looking to bring Buckingham in after Bob Welch left, but Buckingham insisted that his musical and romantic partner, Nicks, be allowed to join as well). Although the album was almost completely ignored when it came out (the collective decision of the rock intelligentsia being that the band had effectively broken up and should just disappear), it eventually picked up momentum off the strength of Rhiannon, Over My Head, and Say You Love Me (Landslide only became popular in the late 90s) and cracked the number one spot on the Billboard charts over a year after its release. It spent 37 weeks in the top 10 and 15 months in the top 40, priming the public for 1977s Rumors (which was then used to justify a re-release of The White Album and Rihanna as a single in 1978) - in 1992, November Rain by Guns N Roses breaks into the US Top 20 (eventually going to number 3), becoming the longest song to ever do that. The single clocks in at 8:57 (making it only the second longest song on Use Your Illusion) - in 1994, The Rolling Stones released their 22nd studio album, Voodoo Lounge. Speaking of things that go on too long... Happy birthdays to Yul Brynner, Bonnie Pointer, Peter Brown, Richie Sambora and Suzanne Vega (born on the same day Joan Baez was breaking out at Newport), Andrew Bird, and Lil Kim.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:09:37 +0000
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