Herb Alpert co-wrote "Baby Talk" by Jan & Dean and "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke. The first A&M release was "The Lonely Bull" by "The Tijuana Brass featuring Herb Alpert," which came out in late 1962 (and was recorded in Herb's garage). You'll note that the catalog number was 703... there was no A&M 700-702, but those catalog number were used by Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert's short-lived earlier labels: • Carol 700 was by "Herbie Alpert & His Quartet" - Sweet Georgia Brown b/w Vipers Blues • Carnival 701 was by "Dore Alpert" - Tell It To The Birds b/w Fallout Shelter • Carnival 702 was by Charlie Robinson - Love Is Back In Style b/w Peppermint Twist Why did they choose 700 for their first record release? Jerry Moss wanted it to appear that it was an established label, so he arbitrarily chose to begin numbering the releases at 700. Much of this info was provided by @HGN2001 over at the A&M Corner forum.
Oasis were often accused of ripping off The Beatles, but we're actually forced by legal action to give a songwriting credit to the co-creator of "The Rutles"
Who, in turn, had to give credit to Lennon & McCartney on all of his songs (on the first album anyway).
American band Coven released an album called Witchcraft Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls in 1969. It not only had a song called "Black Sabbath", but also featured a guy named "Oz Osborne" on bass.
I remember reading about Tight Fit. The single The Lion Sleeps Tonight was a studio project, the main singer being Roy Ward of City Boy. When the single became a hit, a "band" was hastily assembled for TV appearance etc. and by some lucky happenstance, not only did they look good but they were all decent singers too so the producer, Tim Friese-Green was happy for them to record the next single (Fantasy Island) awhich was another success and by default, almost, they became the band. Not sure if that's all true but it's a great story so I hope it is. Glad to know they are still going, too.
Tony Glover of early 60s folk combo Koerner, Ray & Glover taught both Mick Jagger and David Johansen to play harmonica.
The weird lead guitar on The Firm's "Radioactive" was played by Paul Rodgers, not Jimmy Page. The guitar figure was derived from an exercise Rodgers had learned from British bluesman Alexis Korner. Korner also came up with the name for Rogers band- Free. Page had jammed with Korner in the 60s and Robert Plant recorded 2 songs with Korner in 1968.
I have actually performed Doc Watson's "Down in the Valley to Pray" to the tune of "War Pigs". It actually works!
Yes, Janis Joplin died in a hotel in LA and Bobby Fuller (apparently) died in the parking lot of the apartment building across the street.
Always wondered if the 20th Century Christian hymn 'I Am The Lord Of The Dance' was based on (or ripped off from) the old English pastoral song 'The Floral Dance'? Just trying singing the former along to the tune of the latter...surely they didn't Christianise a pagan song of joy?!!!?!!
The Eagles 1975 album One Of These Nights, kicks off with the title track, which naturally contains one of these nights in the lyrics. The following song is Too Many Hands, which has a lyric, "One of these days, she may not be so good to you."
And if you play that instrumental song backwards, you'll hear someone say "one of these mornings I'm going to cut you into little evenings!"
Couldn't remember the title and wanted to get that dumb joke out there before the few brain cells that are still firing today fell out of my ears!!
My four favorite Iron Maiden albums, beginning with Bruce Dickinson's joining the group up through Somewhere In Time, all end with epic songs which also happen to be the longest song on each of the four records... Hallowed Be Thy Name (Number Of The Beast) 7:11 To Tame A Land (Piece Of Mind) 7:29 Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Powerslave) 13:39 Alexander The Great (Somewhere In Time) 8:37
Trump just met with a classic-rock legend and a missile-defense expert — and it was the same guy Reminds me a bit of the actress Hedy Lamarr who invented frequency hopping in guided systems. Actress Hedy Lamarr's World War II Era Invention | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine