April 30, 1983: R.I.P. Muddy Waters. The Mojo is Gone The Master Has Won…

Muddy Waters was born McKinley Morganfield on April 4, 1915, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.

Waters grew up immersed in the Delta blues,
 and was first recorded by archivist Alan Lomax. 

In 1943, he moved to Chicago and began playing in clubs. 

A record deal followed, and hits like "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"   and "Rollin'Stone"  made him an iconic Chicago blues man...

McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters" died of a heart attack on April 30, 1983 at the age of sixty-eight. Morganfield is buried at the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.

 The epitaph on the burial marker reads: "McKinley Morganfield, 1915 - 1983, 
The Mojo is Gone The Master Has Won"

R.I.P. Muddy Waters

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April 28th: Wynonnie Harris, The Chantels, John Lee Hooker, King Curtis and even Pink Floyd In The Evolution of Rock 'n Roll...

APRIL 28^th  

In The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll…

 

1948: Wynonie Harris hits #1 on the R 'n B chart with the King release of

"Good Rockin' Tonight." 

 

 



1950:  John Lee Hooker records

“ Boogie Chillen No2”

 for Sensation Records

 in Detroit, Michigan…

1958: "Every Night I Pray" by the Chantels hits #39…  

   

April 28, 1962: King Curtis hits #1 on the R 'n B chart and #17 on the pop chart with 
"Soul Twist"… 

1973:  Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' hits #1 in the US during a record-breaking 741-week US chart stretch… 

 

IT’S ONLY ROCK ‘n ROLL!!!

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Billboard’s Hot 100, The Top Ten: April 19, 1964

                   Billboard’s Hot 100

The Top Ten

April 19, 1964: 

  

 With The Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” holding the #1 spot, “Twist and Shout” in at #2 ,  “Do You Want To Know A Secret”  at #5 and “She Loves You”    hangin’ in there at #8, holding four ‘Top Ten’ spots on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart…So who else was in that Top Ten? We listened to more than The Beatles!

Holding strong at #3 (after breaking up the record breaking holding of the whole top five by The Beatles a few weeks earlier) is Terry Stafford’s "Suspicion,” a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It was one of 25 songs Pomus and Shuman wrote for Elvis Presley…

Louis Armstrong and his All Star Band grabbed the #4 spot with “Hello Dolly”…  

 

 

Betty Everett’s “The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)” holds on tight to the #6 spot…

The Dave Clark Five is up from the eight spot to #7 with “Glad All Over”…

A group by the name of The Serendipity Singers were at #8 with “Don't Let The Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)”… 

Jan and Dean made a stop at #10 that week, on the way up the chart with the classic

 “Deadman’s Curve”…

The Beatles were HOT but Americans still ROCKED the April 19, 1964 charts in

THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK ‘n ROLL…

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