Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, August 9th:

1942: Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, dedicated to the city of Leningrad, is performed, from Leningrad, by starving musicians, and broadcast over loudspeakers to the advancing German army as they invade the city.

[Angharad]

Pretty fricking amazing! Two-and-a-half years of siege, 1.1 million civilians dead in Leningrad, but the Germans never prevailed. 

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day:

"Presence Of The Lord", released 8/9/69, by Blind Faith, on their eponymous debut album.

This version by the Blind Boys of Alabama, from their 2005 album, "Atom Bomb".

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, August 10th:

1909: Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender, b. Anaheim, CA

  

He never actually learns to play guitar.

[Angharad]

I never knew that. Wild!

[Snagg]

Oh, look: They're playing a Fender guitar and a Fender bass.

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day:

"Big Hunk O' Love" (Aaron Scroeder & Sid Wyche), #1 Pop, 8/10/ 59, Elbow Parsley

The Jim Jones Revue, B side of "Rock N' Roll Psychosis", 2017

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, August 11th:

1937: Sheldon, "Shel" Talmy, American music producer, songwriter, and arranger who hit it big in Swinging London, producing early singles and albums by The Who, the Kinks and the Easybeats; Also worked with David Bowie, Manfred Mann, Chad & Jeremy, the Pentangle, and literally dozens of others, b. Chicago, IL  

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover of the Day:

"Apache" (Jerry Lordon), #24 UK, 8/11/60, Bert Weedon; The Shadows covered it first, and had a bigger hit with it two weeks later, taking it to No. 1 on the British charts. Most Americans are familiar with another cover a year later, by Jorgen Ingmann, who reached No.2 on the American pop charts. Funny how often that happened in the '60's...

This version by Romeo Void, released as the B-side of their "White Sweater" single, in 1981

[Snagg]

Today in Musical History, August 12th:

1966: At a press conference in Chicago, John Lennon issues his "apology" (sic) for his wildly-misconstrued comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus". Lennon told the room full of reporters, "Look: I wasn't saying that the Beatles are better than God or Jesus, I said 'Beatles' because it's easy for me to talk about the Beatles. I could have said 'TV' or 'Cinema' or 'Motorcars' or anything popular, and I would have got away with it."  



None of this tamps down the anti-Beatles hysteria that conservatives encouraged; There were still "Beatle Burnings", as rednecks built trash fires and disposed of Beatles records and paraphernalia; A radio station down south in Longview, TX, KLUE, hosts a "Beatles Bonfire" event, to destroy anything related to the band that locals could get their hands on. 

The station is hit by lightning the next day, knocking an engineer unconscious and destroying a much higher dollar-value of transmitting equipment than anything they'd immolated the day before.