JUNE 2 in The Evolution of Rock 'n Roll: Charlie Watts, Ray Charles, Patti LaBelle, Joe Tex, Rare Earth, Alice Cooper and Wild Cherry...

June 2: Happy Birthday Charlie Watts!

Charlie Watts

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of the Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder. (According to Wikipedia)

  Born: June 2, 1941 (age 73),

 Kingsbury, London, United Kingdom

Music groups: The Rolling Stones,
 Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated  

Albums: Jamming With Edward!,

 Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project 

June 2, 1962: 

 Ray Charles hits #1 with

 "I Can't Stop Loving You”…

A Blue-Belles cover of The Starlets’

“I Sold My Heart To the Junkman"

goes to #15...  

June 2, 1971: Detroit’s Rare Earth hits #7 with "I Just Want to Celebrate”… 

June 2, 1972: - Joe Tex hits #2 with

"I Gotcha"…

 

June 2, 1973: Detroit’s Alice Cooper hits #25 with

"No More Mr. Nice Guy"….

June 2, 1976: Wild Cherry hits #1 with

 "Play That Funky Music"…

June 2, 1993: A LifetimeAchievement Award is awarded to Ray Charles by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, with Billy Joel as his presenter…   

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June 2nd in the Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll…

June 2, 1962: Ray Charles hits #1 with

 "I Can't Stop Loving You"…  

 

 

June 2, 1962: 

"I Sold My Heart To the Junkman" 

by the Blue-Belles goes to #15…

Although the lead vocal is sung by someone else,this version is credited to

Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles…

June 22, 1971: Rare Earth hits #7 with

"I Just Want to Celebrate"…

June 2, 1972: Joe Tex hits #2 with

 "I Gotcha"…

June 2, 1973: Alice Cooper hits #25 with

 "No More Mr. Nice Guy"…

June 2, 1976: Wild Cherry hits #1 with

 "Play That funky Music"…

June 2, 1993: A Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to Ray Charles by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, with Billy Joel as his presenter…

 Recorded and on top of the chart in 1962, On Top of the WORLD in 1993...

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October 13, 1958 ~ 2010: Little Anthony & The Imperials, The Who, Joe Tex, Edgar Winter, Billy Preston, Shirley Brickley, Stevie Wonder and General Norman Johnson; all dominant figures in THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK ‘n ROLL…

OCTOBER 13  

 A TASTE OF 

THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK 'n ROLL...

1958: Little Anthony & the Imperials hit #2 on the R&B chart and #4 on the pop chart with "Tears On My Pillow"…

1965: The Who record "My Generation", a song that expresses the anger and frustration of teenagers of the day. Roger Daltrey would later say that he stuttered the lyrics to try to fit them to the music. The BBC initially refused to play the song because it did not want to offend people who stammer, but later reversed its decision. The tune would rise to number 2 in the UK, but stalled at number 74 in the US...

1967: Joe Tex hits #10 

with 

"Skinny Legs and All" 


(Check it out as part of a medley LIVE on The Joe Tex Show)

 1973: Edgar Winter Group

 hits #14 with "Free Ride"

1974: Nothing From Nothing (Billy Preston) was a hit...

Shirley Brickley is the woman on the left...

 1977: 32 year old Shirley Brickley

of The Orlons was shot and killed by an intruder in her Philadelphia home. Her group placed five songs in the Billboard Top 20 in 1962 and '63, including "TheWah Watusi" (#2),"Don't Hang Up" (#4) and "South Street" (#3) 

The group carried on, with Shirley’s sister Jean Brickley taking over (The woman singer on the right in the following video), and as shown in the video, they are still sounding great into the new millennium…

 

1984: Stevie Wonder started a three week run at the top of the Billboard singles chart with "I Just Called To Say I Love You", his seventh US #1. The song, produced by Lionel Ritchie, also reached #1 in the Uand 11 other countries…

2010: General Norman Johnson, the lead singer of the Soul band Chairmen Of The Board, died of lung cancer at the age of 67. The Detroit, Michigan quartet reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Pop chart four times in 1970, including the #3 hit
 "Give Me Just A Little More Time"

R.I.P. GENERAL!!!

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