Friday, September 27, 2013

September 27: John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Phil Spector, The Beatles, Jamie Lyons (R.I.P.) of the Music Explosion, Randy Bachman (BTO) and Meat Loaf all figure heavily in THE EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL…






September 27, 1954: 


T-Bone Walker plays the eleventh night of a two-week stay at The Flame Show Bar, Detroit, Michigan...




September 27, 1967: John Lee Hooker records The Motor City Is Burning...


 


 Boom Boom Boom Boom...



 for Bluesway Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA…






September 27, 1986: The Beatles' "Twist and Shout" re-enters the US Pop singles chart over twenty-five years after it first appeared…



 

The song was featured in the films Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Rodney Dangerfield's Back To School

"Twist and Shout" is a 1961 song written by Righteous Brother Phil Medley and Bert Berns (credited as "Bert Russell") and produced by “pre-wall of sound” Phil Spector...

 It was originally titled "Shake It Up, Baby" and recorded by the Top Notes… 





It was a major 1962 hit for The Isley Brothers, hitting #2 on the Billboard Hot 100:







September 27, 2004: Legendary record producer Phil Spector was formally charged with murder in the February 3rd, 2003 shooting of actress Lana Clarkson. He will be convicted in April, 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in the California State prison system…


September 27, 2006: Jamie Lyons, lead singer of Music Explosion, died of a heart attack at the age of 57. The band is most often remembered for their garage-band classic "Little Bit o' Soul", which spent 16 weeks on the Billboard Pop chart in 1967, peaking at #2…


September 27th ROCK ‘n ROLL Birthdays:



1943 - Randy Bachman - guitarist for Bachman-Turner Overdrive …


1947 - Meat Loaf
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