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.

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There goes another one...

Raul Malo, 1965-2025

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Today, in Musical History, December 12, 2008: The town where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards grew up - Dartford, Kent - announces that it's going to re-name 13 streets after Rolling Stones songs.
"Angie Mews", "Babylon Close", "Sympathy Vale", "Little Red Walk" and "Satisfaction Street" are just some of the ideas, with council leader Jeremy Kite opining that "Ruby Tuesday Drive sounds like a fantastic place to live".
Local police, however, were concerned that street signs would be stolen by fans.

Hmph. AS if any serious Stones fan would even want to steal something as normal and as average as a street sign, especially one approved of by the authorities; Any REAL Stones fan would just VANDALIZE them.

(The town already goes out of it's way to remind anybody and everybody and the Glimmer Twins lived there as kids - Plaques on subway platforms, public statues, blah blah blah. They're not at all subtle about it...)

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Cover Of The Day:

"She's Not There", #2 Pop, 12/12/1964 (the Zombies)

Nick Cave and Neko Case's cover comes from volume Three of the soundtrack series to the HBO series "True Blood"

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Today, in Musical History, December 13th, 1759: The first music store in America opens for business, selling instruments and sheet music, owned and operated by future Secretary of the Treasury Michael Hillegas.

Cher makes an in-store appearance and performs "If I Could Turn Back Time".

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Cover Of The Day:

"Everybody's Talkin'", released 12/66, on Fred Neil's eponymous debut album

The Cruel Sea's version comes from their 1995 covers album, "Rock n' Roll Duds"

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Today, in Musical History, December 14th, 1899: DeFord Bailey, b. Smith County, TN.

An African-American descendant of slaves, deformed by polio, Bailey went on to become the very first performer on the very first radio broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry, and he also laid down the very first professional recordings in Nashville's history. 

Bailey appeared on the Opry more times than any other performer in it's history - 49 of the first 52 episodes alone, and remained a fixture on the show for the next 15 years. (He outlived the radio show itself by four years.) No other artist comes close to Bailey's number of performances on the Opry - Yet, due to institutional (and Roy Acuff's) racism, he was largely unknown and forgotten. But, in early 2005, Nashville Public Television made a documentary about him, and PBS broadcast it nationally, generating considerable interest in him. Later in the year, he was finally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

His signature tune, which he wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeFord_Bailey

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Joseph Byrd, leader of the '60's psychedelic band, the United States Of America, b, 12/13/1937, d. 11/2/2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Byrd