Tags:
Cover of the Day:
"Silver Wings", B of "Workin' Man Blues" (#1 C&W,m 8/16/69, Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Today in Musical History, August 17th:
1959: MIles Davis releases "Kind Of Blue", literally inventing a new musical genre, and forever changing jazz.
Cover of the Day:
"The Shape I'm In", released on "Stage Fright", 8/17/1970, The Band
The Sadies, with Garth Hudson, from a 2010 various-artist tribute album, "Garth Hudson Presents: A Canadian Celebration Of The Band"
Today in Musical History, August 18th:
Edith Frost, gentle Texas psychedelia, b. 1964, San Antonio, TX
Cover of the Day....It's Monday.
"Morning Dew", Never a single; Debuted by Bonnie Dobson at the Mariposa Folk Festival, Orilla, Ontario, 8/18-19/1961...Many, many covers since then....
The Third Mind, like at KEXP 90.3, Seattle, 1/10/2024
Today in Musical History, August 19th:
1955: NYC radio station WINS 1010 AM, then home base of that rascal Alan Freed, announces that they will never play white artists' insipid, watered-down covers of songs by black artists.
(Apparently they do not go so far as to add that "Pat Boone can just go out and get a REAL job.")
© 2025 Created by Aggie.
Powered by