September 22 in The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL: Joan Jett, Phil Spector, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes and The Supremes. OH YEAH…

September 22 in

The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL…

September 22, 1958:

Joan Jett  hits the planet…    

September 22, 1958:

"To Know Him Is To Love Him" by The Teddy Bears enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #88. Lead singer Annette Kleinbard was backed by Phil Spector on guitar, Marshall Leib on bass and last minute addition Sandy Nelson on drums. Although the recording session lasted only 20 minutes and cost just $75, the single would reach #1 in early December and sell over 1.4 million copies…  

September 22, 1962: Mary Wells hits #9 with "You Beat Me tothe Punch” 

September 22, 1962: 

"Beechwood4-5789"

 by the Marvelettes hits #17… 

September  22, 1965:

The Supremes record

"IHear A Symphony"

The tune will go on to become their sixth US number one. In the UK however, it could only reach #39…

MONSTER date

 in The EVOLUTION of ROCK ‘n ROLL…

 

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June 23, 1962: Playboy" by the Marvelettes reaches #7…

"Playboy" is a song composed by Brian Holland,  Robert Bateman,

Robert Bateman on the right

 Mickey Stevenson  

Mickey Stevenson

 and singer Gladys Horton...

Gladys Horton, lead vocalist of the Motown singing group The Marvelettes

The Marvelettes

 

The song was released as a single on Motown's Tamla imprint
 in 1962…

The single, is led by Horton,  and backed by The Funk Brothers with Marvin Gaye on drums...

 and James Jamerson on bass...

The tune is about a man who fools around with a lot of women and the woman who narrates the story warns him to stay away from her due to the stories she heard of him "running around with every woman in town". Horton is helped out in the song by her Marvelettes cohorts Wanda Young, Georgeanna Tillman, Katherine Anderson & Juanita Cowart...

 

 This was released as the third single by the Marvelettes and was their second top ten pop hit reaching number seven on the charts while reaching number four on the R&B chart…

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It Happened on January 16th…

1942: Barbara Lynn hits the planet in Beaumont, Texas…

1956: The Cadillacs hit #17 with their classic “SPEEDO”…

1957: Little Richard is in the studio recording “LUCILLE”…

1959: Bobby “Blue” Bland’s Duke Records release

“I’LL TAKE CARE OF YOU”

hits #2 on the R ‘n B Chart…

1962: The Orlons reach #4 with

 “DON’T HANG UP”…

1965: The Marvelettes’ “TOO MANY FISH IN THE SEA” charts at #25...

AND IT’S ALL ROCK ‘n ROLL!!!