In the Music - July 1
Good Morning All...Happy July 1, 2009. I for one cannot believe we are now past the half-way mark for 2009. Here are a few happenings in music history from past July 1's -- Have a wonderful day!!!! (see 1st reply)
July 1
Elvis Presley appeared on the Steve Allen Show and sang "Hound Dog" to a basset hound. The King earned $5,000 for the performance and headed for the studio the next day to record the song for a single release. US TV critic John Crosby panned Elvis' performance, calling him an 'unspeakable, untalented and vulgar young entertainer.
Elvis Presley appeared on the Steve Allen Show and sang "Hound Dog" to a basset hound. The King earned $5,000 for the performance and headed for the studio the next day to record the song for a single release. US TV critic John Crosby panned Elvis' performance, calling him an 'unspeakable, untalented and vulgar young entertainer.
July 1 Brenda Lee signed her first recording contract at the age of 11, after five years of singing professionally. Little Miss Dynamite as she was called, would go on to have a total of 29 US Top 40 singles in the 1960s, including "I'm Sorry", "Break It Too Me Gently" and "Fool #1".
Brenda Lee ~ Medley
July 1,1976
The Association held down the top spot in the US for the first of four weeks with their biggest hit, "Windy". Strangely, the song failed to chart at all in the UK.
The Association - Windy
July 1,1967
The Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" entered the Billboard chart, where it eventually reached #8.
Somebody To Love/White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane
July 1, 1971
Jethro Tull's first US Top Ten album, "Aqualung" is awarded a Gold record.
From Aqualung - Jethro Tull- My God
5 months ago
Wow! What a collection of music. These really take me back. The Association was the only group to appear at my high school way back when. I still remember slow dancing to "Cherish" at almost every high school dance.(And the nuns running around putting a ruler betweem the dancers, repeating the mantra,"Six inches for the Holy Ghost." And that video of Elvis..was he(and were we) ever really that young? Ah, those were the days! Great way to start July 1, or any other day for that matter.
5 months ago
The Elvis vid really got to me. Wow young, so young -- never thought I would be here. Now I know why you and I are just a little bit non compos mentis -- both catholic school refugees -- yepper the 6-inch rule and holy ghost OMG!!!!!
5 months ago
geee i was confused a moment with that six inches for the holy ghost thing...gave me a bad visual about nuns and rulers ....eeuuwwww
5 months ago
no sense of humor?
5 months ago
Oh yepper...We were there, not visual but 3D LOL - I will tell you about patent leather shoes later! Hey Amond how are you?
5 months ago
One does not emerge from paraochial school with all faculties intact without a sense of humor! And patent leather shoes--they really do refect up. Wasn't that what the recent best-selling book claimed???
5 months ago
Lizzy I bet if we two together had a glass of wine or two and started on tales from CS days, could we ever tell some stories. Would you believe I was slated for the novitiate, when I turned 13 all hell broke loose...twas having none of that!!!!
5 months ago
broke the habit huh?....i walked out of the catholic church at 12, visited once at 16 to be sure it was the same...and it was....
Two nuns decide they're going to sneak out of the convent and have a real night on the town. They hit all the bars and dance clubs, and decide they've finally got to head back to the convent.
To enter the convent's grounds they have to crawl under some barbed wire. The nuns start crawling under the wire on their bellies.
As they're crawling under the wire, the first nun turns to the second and says, "I feel like a marine."
The second replies, "Yeah, me too, but where can you find one this time of night?"
Two nuns decide they're going to sneak out of the convent and have a real night on the town. They hit all the bars and dance clubs, and decide they've finally got to head back to the convent.
To enter the convent's grounds they have to crawl under some barbed wire. The nuns start crawling under the wire on their bellies.
As they're crawling under the wire, the first nun turns to the second and says, "I feel like a marine."
The second replies, "Yeah, me too, but where can you find one this time of night?"
5 months ago
No actually was planning to start one....((evil grin)) Cute joke!
5 months ago
