Episode Transcript
I'm Buds Night and welcome to the Taken a Walk Podcast, and welcome to another this week in music history.
This is for the week of October the sixth to October the thirteenth today.
Mathematically, do that correctly, Harry Jacobs over at the Music History Desk, the Master of Music, the Master of Mayhem.
Speaker 2Monday to sixth through Sunday to twelfth.
All right, we go, Okay, our calendar is Monday through Sunday.
Bus all right, so you you I sit corrected, correct, correct.
Speaker 3Let's get into it.
Speaker 2There's a lot to get to and I'm going to kind of fly through some stuff and we could decide what you want to talk about and what you want to let go by first one nineteen sixty seven, October sixth, Purple Hayes released in the US arguably one.
Speaker 3Of the best Hendrick songs.
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Bizarre sounding from a musical standpoint, very different but iconic, but I oh yeah.
Barn Burner seventy eight in Excess played their first live show in Sydney.
Speaker 3They realized they went back to seventy eight.
But I guess thinking about you.
Speaker 2Know, they were you know, they were around in eighty you know, kind of the tail end of New Waves, so it you know, that makes sense.
But in seventy eight they played their first show in Sydney, and I'm a.
Speaker 3Fan of the Asses myself.
Yeah, yeah, I am.
I am too.
Speaker 2And you know what else I liked from that region.
It was Jimmy Barnes who played with Inxcess.
Speaker 3I forgot about him.
Speaker 2Yeah, good times Jimmy Barnes and in excess, what a barn burner that song is.
Right nineteen eighty, Bob Marley collapsed on stage in Pittsburgh and that would be his final performance.
Speaker 3Oh man, I.
Speaker 2Don't believe that he knew he was sick when he went on that tour.
Oh wow, I believe he lived without knowing he had cancer.
Speaker 3Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 2October seventh, nineteen sixty seven, Cass Elliott, Mama's and Papas gave birth to her daughter, Owen Vanessa.
It's a name that doesn't ring up bell with me.
And everybody loved Cass.
Speaker 1I think we talked of that on a previous episode.
She was she was beloved.
Did you know she was on a little bit of a career track that one of the things she could have been doing would have been hosting kind of like some sort of variety show, like sit down talk show, that.
Speaker 3Type of thing.
Do you know there was there was talk about that, Oh she's a she was a little bit of a gabby girl that she loved to just chit chat.
Yep.
Very interesting.
Speaker 2Her her birth name was Ellen Naomi Cohen, but she took cass Elliott on.
She lost her life in nineteen seventy four.
Speaker 1I think there would have been I think there would have been a lot of a lot of a lot of stuff music out of her if she if she survived and lived on, so agreed.
Speaker 2Nineteen seventy five, October seventh, John Lennon won his green card battle against the United States government.
Wow, there was a movement of foot to keep him out yep.
Nineteen seventy nine, October seventh, in Through the Outdoor, Zeppelin went to number one on the album charts.
And I I believe this is right around the time that they lost John Bonham, right, that's right.
The album was released and then then it happened.
Speaker 1Yeah, because the album I remember it was so well received, right, The packaging was brillioned.
It was a deep album, had hits, had you know, deep tracks, on it.
Speaker 3Remember carauslambra on Oh.
Speaker 1Yeah, so it was really it was really well received, and that was in particular my recollection.
You know why even more everybody was floored by the death of John Bonham because it was such a bright moment that album and Zeppelin history in the evening was an they're great long one on that, but a bunch of great songs.
Speaker 3He one.
Speaker 2But ye, yeah, this was the day I went to number one on the US charts.
October eighth, nineteen sixty six.
Cream made their London debut at London Polytechnic College.
Speaker 3That's wild thinking about it out of college.
Yeah right, you know absolutely.
Speaker 2You know, I wonder if artists look at dates.
You know, I'm kind of noticing a little led Zeppelin trend on this date in different years.
And seventy one they released their fourth album with Stairway and Misty Mountain Hop and you know, just when the levy breaks, just a barn burner of an album.
And you know, nineteen seventy nine, the day before they had released In Through the Outdoor.
I wonder if if there's a pattern or logic in release dates or superstition.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's a really good question.
Speaker 1I wonder whether it has to do with the fact, at least in European culture, that holidays are are very sacred for citizens of the UK or Europe.
They take their time, They take a long period of time.
Three weeks, you know, a month off is not unusual compared to the American attitude is grind a week out, you've taken your vacation.
If you did two, oh my god, how could you?
So?
Speaker 3I wonder whether.
Speaker 1It was lifestyle that yielded or I wonder whether it had to do, you know, strategically on airplay releases and that was what led it, or I think it was the first, but superstition could have been there too.
Speaker 3You never know.
Speaker 2You know, you're also going when you do it.
You're talking about the fourth corner, right, talking about Christmas.
Speaker 3That's old sales and all that stuff.
Speaker 2So there's probably logic and from a from a marketing and purchase album sales perspective, yeah, probably not a beast strategy, that's right.
Ninth nineteen forty, John Lennon was born in Liverpool and by the way, thirty years later, thirty five years later, Sean was born on John's thirty fifth birthday.
Crazy yep, and in eighty five This is all Beatles related.
On October ninth, Yoko dedicated the Imagined Mosaic Memorial in Central Park.
October ninth, the tenth of October, King Crimson recorded their debut album in the Core of the Crimson King.
Speaker 3I love it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2Seventy Black Sabbath released Paranoid in the US, and in nineteen eighty on October tenth, John Bonham's funeral took place.
Speaker 3Oh everything comes full circle, Yeah, it does, it does.
Speaker 2I don't know if there's any anything worth stopping, you know, on that four I did, by the way, just watch again in the last year.
Speaker 3Song remains the same, oh really.
Speaker 2Which I thought was really fun, all right, And obviously we saw the Zeppelin documentary as well, coming Led Zeppelin or whatever it was.
Speaker 3That's called great great film.
Speaker 2October eleventh and sixty eight, Mary Hopkins Apple Records released Mary Hopkins.
Speaker 3Those were the days, produced by holl McCartney.
I loved it.
Great song.
Yeah, I don't know that one.
I just know it's a.
Speaker 1Test almost like a song you would you would sing at a pub over there.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah, gotcha, Yeah, beer drinking piny guinness kind of in seventy five on October eleventh, Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC.
Of course, the show became iconic for iconic rock acts and and music musicians of all genres YEP to play there.
Nineteen ninety, Dave Grohle played his first gig with Nirvana in North Carolina.
Wow, big day there.
Last day of the week, October the twelfth, and sixty two, Little Richard returned to rock and roll after a brief stint as a minister.
Speaker 3That's right, pretty sure, yeah, ye.
Speaker 1Well that's great.
Well, Harry, thank you for this week in music history.
It's a perfect time to wind this one down because there's a FedEx truck here.
Speaker 3The dogs are
Speaker 1Barking, and that's usually a sign that we end this week in music History for the week of October sixth to October the til Thank you, Harry Jacobs, and thanks to all of you for listening to the Taking a Walk podcast.