5/21/66 – Muhammad Ali beats Henry Cooper by a TKO in the 6th
round
The bout was a rematch of their 1963 meeting, which Ali also won on a TKO due to Cooper's excessive bleeding. At the time, Ali was still a contender, looking for his first match with Sonny Liston ... and didn't really take the match seriously. When Cooper knocked him down in the fourth round, it was a surprise to everyone on hand. Ali came back with a flurry in the fifth, however, at which point the fight had to be stopped.
After the match, he told reporters that he had greatly underestimated Cooper's abilities and called him "the toughest fighter I ever met and the first to really drop me. He's a real fighter."
The experience stayed with him ... even after Joe Frazier knocked Ali down in the 15th round of their 1971 fight, Ali said that he had gone down "more from exhaustion" ... but "the punch Cooper hit me with, he
didn't just shake me. He shook my relations back in Africa."
The rematch wasn't nearly as exciting. (It wasn't every day back then that you saw Muhammad Ali hit the canvas ... so this bout would be hard to top!)
Ali cautiously stayed away from Cooper for the first three rounds of the fight, and then began to turn it on a bit more in the 4th and 5th rounds.
During the 5th round, he opened up a cut above Cooper's which began bleeding profusely during the 6th round, at which time the fight was stopped.
I expected to see a flood of comments after we ran our Yacht Rock commentary the other day ... this seems to be a very sensitive subject between yacht rock aficionados ... but actually the response was pretty tame (save for a thought-provoking piece from Paul Haney of Record Research.)
Read on ...
Hi Kent,
The term "Yacht Rock"
really seems to be misunderstood by a lot of music fans. Too many songs
and artists are mistakenly labeled Yacht Rock when they really aren't.
The term was created by four
music fans: J.D. Ryznar, Hunter Stair, Dave Lyons and Hollywood Steve
Huey. They host a regular podcast where they rate each song on what they
call the "Yachtski Scale." Each of the four gives an individual
score from 1-100 and the average of the four is the final score. The only
song to get a perfect 100 score is "What A Fool Believes" by The
Doobie Brothers, so at least your #1 song is correct. If a song scores 50
or higher it's "on the boat" but if it's below 50 it's not considered
Yacht Rock.
Looking at your list, the
following are NOT considered Yacht Rock (with the final Yachtski Scale score
listed):
#8 - Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
- Looking Glass (36.825)
(As you can see, I'm very
passionate about Yacht Rock!)
Paul Haney
Then maybe somebody really needs to tell all the Yacht Rock
stations out there (Sirius XM, Amazon Music, Me-TV-FM, and numerous others) to stop playing them …
because all of these songs are on the air CONSTANTLY on what passes for Yacht Rock Radio!!!
Checking out THEIR official list, there are dozens and
dozens of songs on here that we NEVER hear on the Yacht Rock stations … in fact,
there’s probably over a dozen that I’ve never heard before in my entire
life!!!That being said, maybe Yacht
Rock Radio needs to expand their horizons a little bit to include more
variety in their playlist!
(We now have Yacht Rock Deep Cuts and Yacht Rock Soul … so there’s no telling where all of this will end!)
And look how many of these tunes crossover to what is also
branded as Essential Classic Rock … how something like Toto’s “Hold The Line”
became a “soft rock” song is beyond me … at the time, it was one of the
rockin’-est songs on the radio!
The lines are definitely blurred … and Robin Thicke doesn’t
even make the list!(kk)
Kent,
In your coming up with your
favorite yacht songs if you were on a yacht cruise, reminded me of a survey I
took years ago in which the question was simply, '"If you were on a
deserted island and assuming you had electricity and a phonograph player, what
three songs (records) would you want?" As Ace Cannon said in an
instrumental from 1962, that was a TUFF question.
The first record I thought of
when CB (Cabin Boy) wrote in was this one ... from 1956 on Josie Records … CABIN
HIDEAWAY by the Limeliters.
Larry
Make no mistake about it … and to be perfectly clear … these
are NOT my favorite Yacht Rock songs but rather my OBSERVATION as to which
songs get played repeatedly over and over … truth is, most of them have become
“button pushers” for menow, they’re
just so overplayed.
Check out the list Paul Haney sent above … I’ve never even
HEARD of many of these songs in my entire lifetime … so I’m not quite sure how
they rate so highly on the scale presented by the “inventors” of Yacht
Rock!(kk)
The whole premise of their
podcast is that listeners send in songs for them to judge, thus you'll get some
oddball ones from time to time. There are actually new bands out there
nowadays trying to mimic the Yacht Rock sound!
I don't know if you've ever seen
the Yacht Rock Dockumentary, but here's the trailer:
Paul
Oh yeah, we promoted this series when it first came out …
and watched every bit of it.(In fact
now, after all this Yacht Rock discussion, we just watched it again the other night ... and I will say that it is VERY well done.)
I wonder what these guys will think of Keith Urban’s new
album, an homage to Yacht Rock, where he covers some of HIS favorites … plus
one new track, written and recorded by Urban and Michael McDonald, the KING of
Yacht Rock.(HE’s your captain, yeah
yeah yeah yeah!)kk
Here’s what we said on this topic three years ago …
Rupert Holmes does not belong on
the Yacht Rock Artists List
Then how come I hear “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” forty
times a week on there??? (kk)
While I think “Lowdown” by Boz
Scaggs qualifies for Yacht Rock because of the jazz undertones, “Lido Shuffle”
does NOT – that’s a flat out rock beat.
You’re missing “Heart To Heart”
by Kenny Loggins … definitely one they play all the time (and a good one, too!)
Much respect is shown for Kenny in the Yacht Rock "Dockumentary." Incredible for me to think
that this whole genre of music was something that was originally dreamed up as
a comedy sketch!!!Look where it’s gone
from there!(kk)
BTW, the Yacht Rock Dock is available On Demand thru HBO Max ... if you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to check it out. And even if you HAVE seen it, it's well worth watching again.
By the way, BBC Music Magazine recently released its ranking of the “21
Greatest Yacht Rock Albums Of All-Time” ... and the #1 spot goes to Michael McDonald’s
legendary "If That’s What It Takes" (1982)
(I will admit to owning TWELVE of these Top 21 Albums ... but I will ALSO tell you that there are FOUR artists on this list that I have never even HEARD of before ... much less heard their music on the radio ... so I don't understand how they rank in The Top 21! -- kk)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
5/20/66 – The Who were scheduled to perform a gig at The
Ricky Tick Club in Windsor, England, but John Entwistle and Keith Moon were
very late showing up.Aggravated, Pete
Townshend and Roger Daltrey took the stage with the bass player and drummer of
the local band that opened the show. When Moon and Entwistle finally arrived in
the middle of the set, a fight broke out, with Townshend hitting Moon on the
head with his guitar. Moon and Entwistle quit the band … but rejoined a week
later.(Hooligans, each and every one!)
