September 16th in The EVOLUTION of ROCK 'n ROLL: Dinah Washington, Johnny Otis, Johnny Burnette and Ringo Starr, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night, Rap and a BUNCH of BIRTHDAYS...

September 16^th 1948:

Dinah Washington's Mercury single "Am I Asking Too Much," hits #1 on the R 'n B chart…Don’t have this one in digital, but check out these by the lady…

September 16, 1960:

Johnny Otis hits #2 on the R 'n B chart with "Rockin' Blues"…

September 16, 1960:

Johnny Burnette records the original version of "You're 16", which will rise to #8 in the US… 

   
Fourteen years later, Ringo Starr would take 
the same song to #1…

September 16, 1967: Jimi Hendrix's debut LP, "Are You Experienced?" enters the Billboard Hot 200 album chart, where it will stay for 106 weeks, including 77 weeks in the Top 40. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #15 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and two years later it was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress in the United States…

September 16, 1970: England's Rock and Roll magazine, Melody Maker named Led Zeppelin as England's "Best Group", replacing The Beatles, who had held that honor for eight years. Melody Maker stopped publication in December, 2000 after 73 years…

September 16, 1972: Three Dog Night reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the third time with a song written in 1955 called "Black and White". In the UK however, the record failed to chart at all…

September 16, 1977: Marc Bolan of T. Rex was killed when a car driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree. An investigation would later blame the accident on mechanical failure. Bolan was just weeks away from his 30th birthday…

September 16, 1979:

The first Rap record makes it onto vinyl when the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was recorded over the instrumental break from Chic's "Good Times". The single becomes a Disco smash, selling two million copies in the US. Rap has gone on to open up a whole new industry for people who can't sing, write music or play an instrument…

September 16, 2006: 65 year old Bob Dylan held the #1 spot on the US album chart with "Modern Times", making him the oldest living musician to ever top the Billboard album chart…

Born on September 16^th Into 
THE EVOLUTION of ROCK  ‘n ROLL…

September 16^th Birthdays:

1925 - B.B. King

1942 - Bernie Calvert - bassist for
 The Hollies...

1943 - Joe Butler:
 Drummer for The Lovin' Spoonful…

1944 - Betty Kelly: Vocalist for
 Martha and theVandellas…   

1948 - Kenny Jones: Drummer for 
The Small Faces…   

1954 - Frank Reed: Lead vocalist for
 The Chi-Lites...   

 

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July 16, 1966: The Who, Spoonful and Shondells all score in The Evolution of Rock 'n Roll...

The Number One Record Nationwide on July 16, 1966:

Tommy James and the Shondells'

"HankyPanky” 

 

        "Of all the lost-and-found singles rescued from obscurity in the Sixties, "Hanky Panky" must be the greatest, rocketing this Michigan band to stardom after three years of indifference. Singer James had formed the band as a mere hobby, and only cut the song in question -- written by Brill Building vets Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich and recorded by them as the Raindrops -- as a favor to Niles, MI disc jockey Jack Douglas (of WNIL) in 1964. Only after (Bob Livorio) another enterprising on-air personality in Pittsburgh found it in a box of rejects and started touting it as an "exclusive" did it start to make waves there."
 --Robert Fontenot, About.com Guide

What else happened on July 16, 1966?

There were a couple of GREAT releases:

The Lovin' Spoonful,

"Summer In The City" 

 

The Who,

 "I'm Free"  

JULY 16, 1966: A HECK OF A DAY IN THE EVOLUTION OF ROCK ‘n ROLL!!!

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JUNE 21st is the Summer Solstice: It’s Summer Y’All!!!

The June solstice is here once again, marking the longest daylight period of the year and the start of astronomical summer in Earth’s northern hemisphere…






At 5:04 UTC (1:04 a.m. EDT) on June 21, the sun can be seen straight overhead along the Tropic of Cancer, while the North Pole reaches its maximum annual tilt toward the sun… 



As the planet rotates on its axis, areas within the Arctic Circle see the sun circle through the sky for 24 hours…

 

Long hours of daylight only slowly fading into darkness make the summer solstice a day worth savoring. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, take a moment to admire this seasonal and astronomical turning point before the nights grow longer again. In the meantime, the warmest days of summer are just arriving – even as the sun begins to spend ever less time in the sky…

Bottom Line:

IT’S SUMMER TIME Y’ALL!!!

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