Deep Purple have a new album (“=1”) coming out later this month (July 19th) and have just released their third advance single from it.
The story behind the track “Lazy Sod” is just too fun not to share.
According to front man Ian Gillan, "Recently, a young journalist asked me how many songs I had written in my life. I replied that the last time my assistant counted, twenty years ago, it was over 500. I felt quite accomplished until she pointed out Dolly Parton's 5,000 songs, calling me a lazy sod. I couldn't help but agree and wrote down the exchange in my notebook."
(ROCKS magazine, June 2024)
The band will kick off a new tour in support of the new release next month …
Here is a list of their North American dates …
August 14th – Hollywood, FL @
Hard Rock Live
August 15th – Tampa, FL @ Seminole Hard Rock Event Center
August 17th – The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 18th – Durant, OK @ Choctaw Casino – Grand Theater
August 19th – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
August 21st – Cincinnati, OH @ PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
August 22nd – Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom
Hill
August 23rd – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
August 25th – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
August 27th – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
August 28th – Gilford, NH @ BankNH Pavilion
August 30th – Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
August 31st – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
September 1st – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
September 3rd – Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
September 4th – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Broadview Stage at SPAC
September 6th – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
September 7th – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
September 8th – Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
Tickets are available at www.deeppurple.com.
And, since we're talking about tours ...
Last week FH Reader Mike DeMartino mentioned going to see Burton Cummings when he comes to play at The Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan in October.
Burton has added a few more dates to his US tour …
The complete list of events as is currently stands is as follows:
July 19th – Kemptville, ON – Kemptville Live Music
Festival
August 17th – Vancouver, ON – Pacific Coliseum
September 13th – Deadwood, SD – Deadwood Jam
September 14th – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre
September 17th – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory
September 18th – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads Saloon
September 20th – Tulsa, OK – River Spirit Casino Resort
September 21st – Arlington, TX – Arlington Music Hall
September 23rd – Marion, IL – Marion Cultural and Civic Center
September 25th – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre
September 26th – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center
September 28th – Northfield, OH – MGM Northfield Park
September 29th – Nashville, IN – Brown County Music Center
October 1st – Hopewell, VA – Beacon Theatre
October 2nd – Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
October 4th – Collingswood, NJ – Scottish Rite Auditorium
October 5th – Lynn, MA – Lynn Memorial Auditorium
October 18th – Windsor, ON – The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
October 19th – New Buffalo, MI – Silver Creek Event Center at Four Winds Casino
November 1st – Edmonton, AB – River Cree Resort and Casino
November 8th – Niagara Falls, ON – Fallsview Casino Resort
December 28th – Moncton, NB – Casino New Brunswick
He's billing it as his 60th Anniversary Hits Tour. (Hmm … maybe he’s planning on keeping it going thru 2029, in order to celebrate the 1969 anniversary of when The Guess Who first burst on the scene with Burton on lead vocals???)
Anyway, if you get the chance to check out this TRUE legend, do yourself a favor and do so. And report back to us, please as as of right now, he doesn’t have any shows booked here locally. (C’mon Ron Onesti … you’re not going to let him pass us by, are you???) kk
All year long we’ve been reliving the events of 60 YEARS AGO TODAY as they pertain to the history of Beatlemania and The British Invasion (as well as many other significant events of this very exciting time.)
This past week, Ultimate Classic Rock published an interesting overview of that first year The Beatles first invaded our lives here in The States, which offers up a cool recap of these events. (If you’ve been following along with our on-going series, you already know that there are plenty more!)
But here’s a great Cliff Notes edition …
I enjoyed the chart talk follow-ups.
I have the personal charts from at least two other friends who did similar.
I liked Paul Haney's story about how he led up to his Record Research work. I went to the library in 70s when I was in college and would sit there and read thru Billboard and Broadcasting each week. I would get irritated when someone else happened to have Billboard already and waited too long to get it and sometimes left without. I would fold the Hot 100 page to fit an 8.5 x 11 size so I could xerox the page, thus leaving the mangled page intact in library copies. Same with Broadcasting Top 70s.
American Top 40 put out their own LP in ‘74 or so. I bought it finally in 2009 at a store in LA, but sent to an AT40 fan/friend. Loved AT40 from 70-80 or so when I could get Billboard weekly, so I didn't need to listen and write. When still in Dodge City, I would write down last week's numbers so I could fill in at home.
Randy's early charts are SO precise and nice -- you can tell how he came up with Super Charts styling! I like his use of * and # and the Stamped Stars for things, as I did, too. Like Ed, I did my own WLS chart comparisons later when I finally got at least a xerox of every 60s chart.
Timmy's petition was BOLD! Good show! As for kk, IF I had been a typing class person, I could have studied much more, as I am still basically a one-finger (on both hands) typer. Ugh.
Clark
In addition to Chuck's Science Lesson, perhaps there is a Social Studies lesson as well.
I'd never even thought about it, but midsummer in the northern hemisphere does cause a huge percentage of earth's population to be in daylight at the same time. With Australia having less than one half of one percent of the world's population, darkness there - and in nearby south Pacific islands - results in only one percent of the inhabitants of earth in darkness.
You just never know what you'll learn on Forgotten Hits!
We're loving the chart stories, too.
David Lewis
Sadly, David shared with us news of Dave Loggins’ passing …
David Allen Loggins, Grammy nominated Hall of Fame singer/songwriter best known for “Please Come To Boston,” died on July 10th, 2024
https://www.tennessean.com/obituaries/pokr0878306
In addition to his own Top Five smash “Please Come To Boston,” Loggins also wrote Three Dog Night’s hit “Pieces Of April,” a Top 20 Hit for the group in early 1973. One of MY favorite recordings by him is the duet he cut with Anne Murray, “Nobody Loves Me Like You Do,” which somehow managed to miss The Top 100 altogether but was a #1 Country Hit in 1984. (kk)
And, when it comes to Country Music, there were few acts as popular over the years as The Oak Ridge Boys, who also crossed over to the pop charts a number of times in the early '80's.
Sadly, we lost Joe Bonsall earlier this past week (July 9th). He had been a member of the famed quartet for over fifty years.
He will certainly be missed ... but fortunately his voice will live on forever thanks to all of the great recordings they made over the years. (kk)
Rod Argent, founder of both The Zombies and the band that bore his name, has announced his retirement from touring.
Argent recently suffered a stroke, which became the determining factor in this decision.
We, of course, wish him the very best. (In the meantime, just hold your head up!) kk
Meanwhile, Mick Fleetwood is feeling quite a bit of sadness that Fleetwood Mac will not go on.
Last week, Stevie Nicks made a comment that she would never return to the band now that Christine McVie is gone …
And she’s not exactly on the best of terms with her ex, Lindsey Buckingham, either … which, according to Mick, is his biggest disappointment.
In a recent interview with Mojo Magazine, Fleetwood said that he hoped Nicks and Buckingham could reconnect in some way.
“I would love to see a healing between them. And it doesn’t have to take the shape of a tour, necessarily.”
Between all of the downtime due to Covid, the firing of Buckingham from the band, the death of Christine and then the devastating loss of his property due to the Hawaiian wildfires, Mick feels like he’s been dealt a pretty hard hand to play these past few years.
The idea of regrouping Fleetwood Mac in some fashion as a way to say goodbye to the fans has been weighing on his mind quite a bit lately … but it just doesn’t sound like they’re going to have the chance to do so. (kk)
>>>Old and new Chuck Berry at #3 and #11 (Clark Besch)
Clark's comment brought to mind another 1964 song with a Chuck Berry connection. The Rivieras’ song "Little Donna" uses the melody from the song "Rock & Roll Music" and Chuck Berry isn't even credited on the label. I don't see any record of him ever pressing for co-writer credit … maybe he didn't figure it was worth it. The song only spent two weeks on Randy Price's Superchart, peaking at #90 on May 9, 1964.
It was a different story here in Chicago where it peaked at #4 on WLS. It was one of my favorites back then, but listening to it recently it reminded me of a 33 rpm record being played at 45. I guess I listen slower than I did 60 years ago.
Ed Erxleben
Funnily enough, I heard it recently, too …
It’s pretty darn awful! (And yet they did such an incredible job with “California Sun”) kk
>>>On your showing of the WLS survey for May 7, 1965, the one record that stuck out with me was the one that was charted at #33, MAGIC TRUMPET, by the University Orchestra. In OKC, that record peaked at #27 for the week of June 16, 1965. On the survey, the artist was listed as Compares Universitaria De La Laguna. (Larry Neal)
Herb Alpert did a rendition of the song and his version rocked around our house from room to room as even my parents liked it.
Shelley
Herb Alpert??? Wasn’t he the guy who did that …
Oh, never mind! (kk)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
7/12/64 – “The Ed Sullivan Show” shows a rerun of The Beatles’ first appearance on the program from back in February. (Look how much has happened since then!)
