10/26/65 – The Beatles are awarded their Members of the
Order of the British Empire (MBE) medals by Queen Elizabeth.John Lennon would later say that the group
smoked marijuana in one of the palace bathrooms to calm their nerves before the
ceremony.
Several outraged previous recipients gave their MBE's back
in protest of The Beatles being awarded theirs, to which Lennon responded
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs
for heroism in the war, for killing people.We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours
more."
"Yesterday" holds on to the top spot for a fourth straight week, fending off " A Lover's Concerto."
But there are some serious challengers in The Top Ten this week as "Get Off My Cloud" moves from #5 to #3, "Everybody Loves A Clown" moves from #8 to #5, "You're The One" by The Vogues moves from #12 to #7 and "1-2-3" by Len Barry makes an eleven point jump from #21 to #10.
"A Taste Of Honey," "Let's Hang On" and "Ain't That Peculiar" make impressive moves within The Top 20, each of them up fourteen notches.
Petula Clark, The Supremes and The Byrds also make significant moves this week as "Round Every Corner" climbs from #56 to #38, "I Hear A Symphony" jumps 52 spots to #35 and "Turn, Turn, Turn" makes a move of 31 spots.
10/24/65 – Herman’s Hermits, Marvin Gaye, Richard Pryor and
The Smothers Brothers appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
I will acknowledge this as being a questionable entry, even though I found it listed in several online episode guides.
Tracking each performer's own television appearance list, this would seem to more than likely be the cast line up for an Ed Sullivan Show program that was broadcast in June of 1966. Even at that, finding individual performance clips worth sharing proved to be impossible. So please take today's entry with a grain of salt ... or, at the very least, a hint of doubt. It's all part of our on-going campaign to always present The Most Accurate Truth Possible. (kk)
Kenny Loggins is none too happy with President Trump’s use of
his hit song “Danger Zone” as the background music for his new ridiculous
AI-generated video that shows “King Trump” flying a plane over a major city and
then basically shitting on all of the residents below.
Seriously, what kind of respected leader does something like
this?And aren’t there better uses his time than playing around with this idiotic crap ... like maybe running the country or something?And what does it say about the way he feels
about his own country’s citizens … the people he is supposed to represent and
keep safe?
Honestly, this goes WAY beyond the realm of rational
thinking and I can't just let it slide anymore. Where the hell are we headed if
this is the way our fearless leader feels about us?!?!And yet here he is again, using unlicensed
music to feed his own agenda.
If someone ELSE had posted this video … or a similarly
created video of a plane dropping its load of shit on Trump’s head, he very
likely might have blasted them for an abuse of free speech … much as he
campaigned to have Jimmy Kimmel removed from late night tv …
But HE posted this video HIMSELF!!!This is his OWN doing … as his own
expression of free speech … King Trump?!?!?No wonder The Brits are doing away with some of their titles!!!(kk)
This is an unauthorized use of
my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I
would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed
immediately.I can’t imagine why anybody
would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole
purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we
need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all
patriotic. There is no ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we are, nor is it what we
should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we
can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.
It’s a nice look back at what Forgotten Hits has covered
over the past 26 years …
Take a look if you get a chance!(kk)
Kent,
Love this time of year since
it's football season. Today I heard and saw a television commercial for the
first time (twice). I don't believe it has run before. The product was crispy
chicken from Taco Bell. However, in the background was Jimmie Rodgers' 1960
song T.L.C. (Tender Love & Care).
The flip was THE WIZARD I
believe. Liked the song better than the product being touted.
Larry
Jim Roup has found some more confidential network memos to share ... this time from the ABC Television Special "Around The Beatles" ... as well as an ad for their then-new single, run in The New Musical Express ...
Despite numerous denials to the effect that Fleetwood Mac could never continue without Christine McVie, Tom Cuddy sents us this article about a possible "Rumours" 50th Year Anniversary plan ...
>>>You know, we've been saluting this album now for
over 25 years ... and I can't say for certain just how many times we've
featured this album cover on our website before ... but if I had to hazard an
educated guess, I'll just betcha it's been AT LEAST three or four times
now! (kk)
OH how cute! I'm teaching my
students how to count by tens, too! 10-20-30-40-50
Shelley
Hot on the heels of the passing of original guitarist Ace Frehley, KISS has a brand new, super deluxe box set coming your way, celebrating the band's third album, "Dressed To Kill."
And Clark Besch tells us about another new Billboard "rule of methodology" that will change the way the current Hot 100 Chart is calculated ...
Billboard
has changed its' rules on when a song is dropped from the Hot 100. The
article is amazing to us 60s music fans, Im sure. Songs on for a year,
imagine that!
Insane,
even before the change of rules, if you think of 1960s. Usually on Hot
100, songs that made top 10 never stayed on the Hot 100, if they fell
below top 40 to 50. Very seldom did any song stay for more than 15
weeks and most 8 weeks or less. Wooly Bully got #1 for the year 1965 mainly by STAYING on for a whopping 18 weeks despite only reaching #2 on the WEEKLY Hot
100. "Hey Jude" managed to chart into 1969 reaching 19 weeks before
dropping off. I remember the 70s and 80s getting stretched more with "i
Go Crazy", which reached 40 weeks somehow despite finally dropping off
after getting down to 99 before ending. Somebody at Billboard wanted 40
weeks, Im guessing. Good news for Paul Davis, I guess. Things get
more out of hand as the years go by, but today is just sick.
Clark
We've been saying it for years ...
Songs staying on the chart for over two years is just ridiculous ... it only goes to prove the point of lack of creativity in today's music market.
Even in radio's most boring era (before rock and roll made music exciting and competitive and innovative) songs didn't stay on the chart for two years!!! And I'm talking about some absolute proven classics here!
A quick glance at Joel Whitburn's book "Top Pop Hits, 1940 - 1954," the fifteen year era before Bill Haley first exploded on the chart with "Rock Around The Clock," no song other than Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" ever charted longer than 38 weeks ... and Bing's hit came back to chart eleven times to reach its total of 54 weeks.
Today's charts are pretty meaningless to me ... the method of calculation has changed SO many times ... and yet Billboard themselves continue to compare today's hits side by side with the hits of the '50's, '60's, '70's and '80's where there is no mathematical correlation between these methods whatsoever.
But seriously, a song hanging on for over two years??? Maybe they need to start a recurring oldies chart for records that hang around that long ... but then what would be left of The Hot 100 other than all the songs that chart for a week or two when they're first released and then disappear forever?
Seriously ... read the article ... it's pretty sad. (kk)
Back in April when we interviewed John Cafferty about his
new album (his first in over thirty years), we told him that we were going to
find a way to bring him to Chicago for a show … and, thanks to the helpful hand
of Ron Onesti and The Arcada Theatre, that show will now be a reality next
Sunday, November 2nd, at 5 pm.(This will also be John’s first Chicago-area appearance in over thirty
years!)
Flashback and revisit our interview … and give a listen to
one of the new tracks from the album … these guys haven’t lost a step.
Sadly, we lost John’s long-time sax player Michael “Tunes” Antunes in the
intervening months … and while you can never really replace someone like that (they'd been together for close to fifty years!), the band
has to keep moving forward and John tells us …
We’ll have our old buddy Ronnie
Dee on sax (his dad is Joey Dee of Joey Dee & the Starlighters). Ronnie
grew up with this style and does a terrific job with us. He also knew Tunes.
I was talking to Tunes’ son
Kevin a little while back, who is a very successful musician in his own right
with Justin Timberlake Janet Jackson & Madonna. He told me of a long ago
story from when he was just a young kid. He asked me what kind of music
his dad and I played. He said I didn’t even hesitate. “We play grown man
music!” I said. He never forgot that. And now … as grown men when we lose
someone dear … we express our love, our loss, we mourn, we pay our respect and
then we go back to work. We are working men who provide for our families. So …
that’s what we are doing. We continue on at a high level to shed the warmest
light on the road travelled and keep well lit the road ahead.
best - jc
Great seats are still available … and we’ll be giving away a
couple of pair of tickets as well … so if you’d like to see the show, drop me a
line quickly so we can get these comps into a few good hands. (Thanks again to Ron Onesti for this generous offer.)
Don’t miss your chance to see this great show … tickets can
be purchased here:
