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Cover Of The Day:
"Stop Your Sobbing", released 10/2/1964, by the Kinks, on their debut album, ""The Kinks" ("titled "You Really Got Me" in the US)
Made famous 16 years later when the Pretenders covered it, it's funny that Rhoda Dakar very likely first heard their version of the song, in the middle of the ska revival that was blowing up in the UK - thereby combining the Kink's original with a totally-different musical trend from the same time, which is pretty much what she does on her entire "Version Girl" album, the source of this cover. -
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Today, in Musical History, October 3rd, 1901: The first record company, the Victor Talking Machine Company, is incorporated, later merging with the Radio Corporation of America in 1929, to become RCA Victor.
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Cover Of The Day:
"The One I Love", # 2 Mainstream Rock, 10/3/1987 (R.E.M.)
Athens, GA artist Liz Durett recorded this 2 months after she was scheduled to perform it at a 2006 benefit concert for Athens community outreach and school funding; She couldn't make the original show, due to illness, but the charity let her do it when she felt better, and it was added to accompanying album, ""Finest Worksongs: Athens Bands Play The Music Of R.E.M." -
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Today, in Musical History, October 4th, 2024: The Smile release their 3rd album, a collection of new songs along with odds & ends from their first two albums,"Cutouts"
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Cover Of The Day:
"Oh Well" (Peter Green) #2 UK, 10/4/1969, by Fleetwood Mac, when they were a down and dirty blues band
Big Country ripped through it in 1993, during sessions where they taped a bunch of cover songs to use while they were shopping around for a record label; some of the songs were released as b-sides, but eventually they were all compiled and put out in 2001, on the "Under Cover" collection -
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Today, in Musical History, October 5th, 1973:
Dutch prog Band "Focus" appear on NBC's "The Midnight Special", having been invited after their song "Hocus Pocus" became something of a left-field hit.
Shortly after the band arrive at the studio and set up, the first of several insults and double-crosses take place; First, they discover that they will not be allowed to do a sound check, and they are abruptly informed that they only have 3 minutes to play a seven-minute song - Either cut the song in half, or piss off - take it or leave it.
Focus respond by blazing through the song at more than double speed, with the tempo increasing with every stanza - Playing it so fast, that they not only play the entire song, but squeeze in a an extra chorus:
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Cover Of The Day:
"Six O'Clock News", released 10/71 by John Prine, on his eponymous debut album
Lambchop's version comes from a various-artists compilation from 2010, titled "Broken Hearts And Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine" -
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Today, in Musical History, October 6th, 1954:
David Kent Hidalgo, b. Los Angeles, CA
I suspect that Mr. Hidalgo is entirely capable of playing any stringed instrument on the planet, as well as several others; He can certainly also play the accordion, the concertina, and others in the free-reed aerophone family, the melodica, various keyboards and piano, and various percussion.
And he can WRITE, too. He is a talented, thoughtful and accomplished tunesmith and lyricist, as comfortable penning moving, emotional norteñas, corridos or lullabies as he is tossing out a storming, barroom floor-shaker; He has led Los Lobos, one of THE great American roots and rock 'n roll bands for over 50 years, and, while they are all definitely slowing down, I really have a hard time thinking of another American band who has given as much, while remaining grounded, chill, and avoiding the pitfalls of the music business that ruin so many others.
I mean....what other band could come up with a butt-shaker like this, basing it on the rhythms of jump-rope rhymes ?
Los Lobos offshoot, the Latin Playboys:
And, he plays well with others:
(That's DH with Booker T & the MG's)
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