Wow! The Rolling Stones only took three weeks to top the WLS Hit Parade Chart with their latest release, "Honky Tonk Women." (It went from #30 to #10 to #1!)
Johnny Cash's latest, "A Boy Named Sue," seems poised to hit the top of the chart as well ... this week it moves from #30 to #18 in its third week on the chart.
Tom Jones jumps ten places with "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" (from #35 to #25. Ironically this record and the one by The Youngbloods at #38 ("Get Together") were both first originally released in 1967 but didn't make a dent here in Chicago. Now all of a sudden they're some of this week's Pick Hits!
I'm also REALLY lovin' the new Creedence Clearwater Revival single, "Green River," which premiers at #35 this week. Incredibly, CCR would release THREE albums of new material in 1969 ... "Bayou Country," "Green River" and "Willie And The Poorboys" ... and between them, those three albums would produce FIVE National Top Five Singles: "Proud Mary" (#1), "Bad Moon Rising" (#1), "Green River" (#2), "Down On The Corner" (#3) and "Fortunate Son" (#4).
THIS WEEK IN 1969:
July 22nd – The soundtrack to Elvis Presley's NBC "comeback" television special receives a gold record.
Also on this date, The Band recorded "Up On Cripple Creek" in New York ... and Aretha Franklin is arrested for disorderly conduct after creating a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. Aretha posted $50 bail … and then ran down a road sign while leaving the police station. (As far as I know, there were no costume changes at the police station)
July 24th – Actress / Singer Jennifer Lopez is born
Also on this date, The Band recorded "Up On Cripple Creek" in New York ... and Aretha Franklin is arrested for disorderly conduct after creating a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot. Aretha posted $50 bail … and then ran down a road sign while leaving the police station. (As far as I know, there were no costume changes at the police station)
July 24th – Actress / Singer Jennifer Lopez is born
Also on this date, Paul McCartney recorded a demo of his new song "Come And Get It" to give to Apple Records' recently signed new band, The Iveys. Paul plays all of the instruments on the demo (a practice he'll use again for his first solo LP) and it sounds nearly identical to the version that would eventually come out as a single some six months later, by which time The Iveys had changed their name to Badfinger ... and the song had been commissioned to be used on the soundtrack for "The Magic Christian" film, which starred Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers.
July 25th – Neil Young performs live with Crosby, Stills and Nash for the very first time when they played The Fillmore East in New York. He will be a “sometime member” of the group for the next 40+ years
Also in concert that night ... Led Zeppelin in Milwaukee!
July 28th - Elvis attends Barbra Streisand's appearance at The International Hotel in Las Vegas, where his own show will open in just three days!
