1962 - The Rolling Stones made their live debut at The Marquee Club in London. Their material included the Chicago blues as well as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs. Bassist Bill Wyman joined in December 1962 and drummer Charlie Watts the following January 1963 to form the band's original rhythm section.
1969 - Zager and Evans' "In The Year 2525" hit No. 1. The song was written and composed by Rick Evans in 1964 and originally released on a small regional record label (Truth Records) in 1968. Sadly, the song was the band's only hit, and they broke up in 1971.
1971 - Radio stations start running a Coke commercial called "I'd Like To Buy The World A Coke," sung by The New Seekers. It is later used a TV commercial showing young people from around the world singing on a hillside. The New Seekers later record a full version of the song as "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing," which becomes a huge hit.
1979 - American singer songwriter Minnie Riperton died of cancer aged 31. Her daughter, Maya Rudolph, is 6 years old. The Stevie Wonder produced 'Loving You' gave Minnie a US No.1 single in 1975. She worked at Chess records singing backup for various artists such as Etta James, Fontella Bass, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. She also sang lead for the experimental rock/soul group Rotary Connection, from 1967 to 1971. Also a member of Wonderlove in 1973, a backup group for Stevie Wonder.
1986 - Simply Red scored their first US No.1 single with 'Holding Back The Years'. Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall wrote the song when he was seventeen, while living at his father's house. The chorus did not come to him until many years later.
2020 - English singer-songwriter Judy Dyble died age 71. She was a founding member of Fairport Convention and Trader Horne. In addition, she and multi-instrumental Ian McDonald joined and recorded several tracks with Giles, Giles and Fripp, who later became King Crimson. During Fairport's early live shows in London in the late 1960s Dyble shared stages with acts such as Jimi Hendrix, and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd.
The festival will feature Snoop, Al Green, Jill Scott, Babyface and more. A tribute to the 50th anniversary celebration of hip-hop will also be held at the Andrew J. Brady Music Center Thursday, July 20. Artists for the tribute will be announced at a later date.
I think Charles Dickens said it best. And while the evocation of his name makes for a strange bedfellow to a drinking fraternity that caroused well over a century later, it could be said that he had the Hollywood Vampires firmly in the crosshairs of his immortal lines. For in an age of over indulgence on every level, it was indeed "The best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, (well, maybe not that bit) it was the age of foolishness."
AtUnalaska July 8 F. + I found the big Aleutian Leucosticte quite common, and Sandwich sparrows were universal. Their song is more likethat of the eastern Song Sparrow than like the Savannah's song. The Lapland longspurs were very common, + sang and acted so muchlike bobolinks that it was good to see + hear them. Theirflight call is very like the [female] bob's note, + the call ofthe leucosticte is a metallic chirp, chirp [illus]; + givenjust at the rise of their undulating flight. I got a fine [male] short eared Owl, + saw the others flying over the meadows.An Eagle,lots of ravens,+ several seabirds were seen there also. At the Pribiloffs July 9were colonies of little seabirds, [Page 46]various kinds of auklets. Icouldn't indentify, leucostictes were too common, + Prib. Snowflakes were seen quite commonly on the upperslopes of St. Paul. Also about 4 dunlins were feeding in the longgrass at the edge of the seal colony.
Fulmarswere quite common, following and circling the ship everywhere inBehring Sea except close to land and shearwaters were alsofrequently seen. As we approached the Siberian [July 11] coastmany small water-birds were encountered, but they were hard toidentify. One beautiful [female] phalarope (probably the hyperborean) (laterdetermined to be a red) flew close by the ship's bow, + have us agood view. When quite close in, the eidersbecame more + more numerous, but were quite wild, so that when welanded, we were only able to get one, a [female], which Trudeaushot. The flocks of Steller's ducks, with the [males] about 3 to one, went byjust out of range, and Dr. Merriam thought he could distinguishseveral spectacled eiders among the passing flocks.Long-tailed Jaegers came screaming over the flats back of theEskimo village, where the Snowflakes were common, the males in perfect summerdress, and singing a fine, tho somewhat weak tinkling song. Theyare very beautiful in their clean black and white, and areextremely dainty and at the same time dignified as the [sic] walkaround in the green, feeding and singing.[Page 47]Lapland longspurs were common, mating, apparently, tho youngable to fly were found on the sparse? point. The Siberian yellow wagtail was found quite commonly and onewhite wagtail was seen + shot at by Fisher, but he failedto get it. The yellow wagtail and Snowflakes both had fully fledged young able to flywith the adults. We had cherished hopes of finding the spoonbilled Sandpiper, but were disappointed as none werediscovered. A fork-tailed petrel was flying right near my window when Ifirst looked out on the A.M. of July 10, between the Pribiloffsand St. Lawrence Id.
Even more galling for them was that, as Pittsburghlabor historian Charles McCollester later wrote in The Point of Pittsburgh, "The skilled production workers at Homestead enjoyed wages significantly higher than at any other mill in the country."
At the end of the battle between the Pinkertons and nearly the entire town, seven workers and three Pinkertons were dead. Four days later, 8,500 National Guard forces were sent at the request of Frick to take control of the town and steel mill. After winning his victories, Frick announced, "Under no circumstances will we have any further dealing with the Amalgamated Association as an organization. This is final." And in November, the Amalgamated Association collapsed.
At the end of the 19th century, Homestead inspired a song well known around the country, "Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men." The lyrics of this deeply angry ballad began: "'Twas in Pennsylvania town not very long ago,/Men struck against reduction of their pay./Their millionaire employer with philanthropic show/Had closed the works 'till starved they would obey./They fought for home and right to live where they had toiled so long,/But ere the sun had set, some were laid low."
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