SINGLES THAT SOLD THE MOST COPIES DURING THE WEEK OF 4-1 T0 4-7: 1961 ~ 1970

BEST SELLING SINGLES

FOR  THE WEEK OF APRIL 1 ~ APRIL 7

1961 ~ 1970:

1961: BLUE MOON by The Marcels

1962: SLOW TWISTIN’ by Chubby Checker w/Dee Dee Sharp

1963: HE’S SO FINE by The Chiffons

1964: TWIST & SHOUT  by The Beatles

1965: CAN’T YOU HEAR MY HEARTBEAT by Herman’s Hermits

1966: 19^th NERVOUS BREAKDOWN by The Rolling Stones

1967: HAPPY TOGETHER by The Turtles

1968: VALLERI  by The Monkees

1969: AQUARIUS/LET THE SUN SHINE IN  by The Fifth Dimension

1970: LET IT BE by The Beatles

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Clarence "Pinetop" Smith In The Evolution Of Rock 'N Roll ~ The Cat Who Invented Boogie Woogie!!!

Clarence Smith
came from deep in the heart of Alabama. After playing piano for a few years and developing his own style derived from the blues he had heard all around him, Clarence first performed publicly in Birmingham at around age fifteen. Soon after, he relocated north to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he launched his career as a performer, and a moniker of "Pinetop"

Based for a time in the Steel City, Smith joined the Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA) Vaudeville circuit--he was one of Maddy Dorsey's pickaninies.

PANTAGES IN PINETOP'S TIME

PANTAGES THEATER TODAY

 Pinetop, though,  focused more on piano as his stint with TOBA progressed, often taking in the local night spots on their tours where barrelhouse pianists played the deepest of blues and also at rent parties, local taverns, and the occasional brothel.

By the mid-1920s, he had a fairly well developed boogie style, and enhanced it with a moving bass ("eight to the bar"), and coined that  as Boogie Woogie.  Smith soon became a master of Boogie Woogie and his reputation spread.  He moved his family to Chicago in late 1927 or early 1928.

Smith cut his first sides at the end of 1928...

 While performing PineTop's Boogie Woogie the composer talked over the playing giving instructions on how to dance to the tune. When released, it was allegedly the first record with the name "boogie woogie" on the label, and it soon became a hit in Chicago and beyond. 

He was soon playing in Chicago hot-spots and had a promising future.

 On March 15, 1929 "PineTop" Smith was performing at a Chicago dance hall when a fight broke out and gunplay followed. Smith was hit by a bullet from the gun of David Bell.

The headline in Downbeat magazine read "I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood and Fall."

The world was deprived of a promising string of original performances and compositions by this stellar player who left behind his wife, two children, a handful of records, and a cadre of mourners...

R.I.P. Pinetop Smith
~ The Cat Who Invented Boogie Woogie!!!

Tropical Jon's EVOLUTION OF ROCK 'N ROLL: EMILE BERLINER INVENTS THE PHONOGRAPH AND MICROPHONE

Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) 

Emile Berliner not only invented the disc record gramophone—THE PHONOGRAPH!! 

But also one of the earliest MICROPHONES!!!    

Phew!!!--Does this cat figure into The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll or what!?!

          Berliner was born in Hanover, Germany in 1851. While his real hobby was invention, he worked as an accountant to make ends meet. To avoid being drafted for the Franco-Prussian War, Berliner migrated to the United States of America in 1870.

Berliner inherited a great fondness for music from his mother and was an avid concertgoer. That he could play the piano is attested by one of his assistants in the gramophone laboratory who said that Berliner was the pianist on some of the very early recordings. In 1897 he wrote a song entitled "Columbian Anthem" in honor of the nation's capital, the District of Columbia. It was arranged for male quartet and was recorded in 1897 on Berliner record 4288 and seems to have been rerecorded several times before June 1900

  

Here’s a short video about Emile Berliner that has recordings of his voice and a video clip  

Emile Berliner died of a heart attack at the age of 78 and is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. 

THANKS FOR STARTING UP THIS RECORDING THING AND GETTING IT ROLLING,

EMILE—R.I.P.!!!