August 30, 1972: John Lennon performs a benefit for mentally handicapped children…

August 30, 1972: John Lennon performs at Madison Square Garden. It will be his last concert as a headliner. The show will posthumously be released in 1986 as Live in New York City…

  

R.I.P. John

Thanks for, well, thanks for everything you did…

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The Loco-Motion: Written by Carol King and Gerry Geffin, produced by Don Kirshner and sung by Carol and Gerry’s babysitter, then very successfully covered by Michigan’s GRAND FUNK. Not a bad tune that Cameo Records passed up…

August 25, 1962: 

 
After Cameo Records producers passed on the opportunity to have Dee Dee Sharp record a Gerry Goffin / Carole King song called "The Loco-Motion", Don Kirshner at Dimension Records decided to take a chance on it...

 
 He liked the demo record's singer, Eva Boyd, who was Goffin and King's babysitter, and had her re-record it. The result was a US number one hit…

Then these cats from Michigan got some mileage out of it too…

Not a bad tune

that Cameo Records passed up…

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August 22, 1970: After leaving The Animals the year before, Eric Burdon made a return to the charts when his new band, War, scored a number 3 hit with "Spill The Wine"…

August 22, 1970:

After leaving The Animals the year before, Eric Burdon made a return to the charts when his new band, War, scored a number 3 hit with "Spill The Wine"…

 Although Burdon would split from War in 1971, the rest of the group would have many more hits without him…

 "The World is a Ghetto"

"The Cisco Kid"

"Gypsy Man"   

"Slippin' Into Darkness"

 "Why Can't We Be Friends?"

“Lowrider”

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August 21: The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll sees Louis Jordan, Ann Arbor’s Barbara Lewis, Grosse Pointe’s Suzi Quatro, Jackie DeShannon and Tina Turner making big waves…

August 21, 1947:

 Louis Jordan hits #1 on the R&B chart and #21 on the pop chart with

"Jack, You're Dead”…

 

August 21, 1965: Barbara Lewis hits #11 with "Baby I'm Yours"… 

Barbara Lewis was born in Salem, near Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was writing and recording by her teens with record producer Ollie McLaughlin, a DJ at Ann Arbor radio station WHRV, now WAAM…

August 21, 1973: Suzi Quatro hits #3 in the UK with "48 Crash"

ALSO on August 21: Happy Birthday 

Jackie DeShannon!

August 21, 1984:

Tina Turner's comeback album, "Private Dancer" is certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and the single from it, "What's Love Got To Do With It" is certified Gold. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart and the single reached #1 on the US singles chart as well as reaching #5 in the UK and the Top Ten in several other European countries…

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August 21, 1965: ROLLING STONES TOP THE CHARTS!!!

August 21, 1965:

The Rolling Stones album, "Out of Our Heads" is number one on the US album chart on the strength of:

"Satisfaction"

 "Play With Fire"

 "The Last Time"…

And they said,  

“It’s only Rock ‘n Roll”…

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