The Current Music Blog: June 1, 2009 Archive

Today in Music History... a very big Day in the Life of the Beatles

Posted at 8:30 AM on June 1, 2009 by Jim McGuinn

1974 - Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette is born in Ottawa, Ontario. (35)
1960 - Simon Gallup of the Cure is born in Surrey, England. (49)
1959 - Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode is born in London. (50)
1950 - Graham Russell of Air Supply is born in Nottingham, England. (59)
1947 - Ronnie Wood of the Faces and the Rolling Stones is born in London. (62)
1934 - Singer Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone) is born in Jacksonville, Fla. (75)

1991 - Temptations co-founder David Ruffin dies of an apparent drug overdose in Philadelphia. He is 50.
1985 - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1971 - The two-room shack in Tupelo, Miss., where Elvis Presley was born opens as a tourist attraction.
1969 - During their "bed-in" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" with friends Tommy and Dick Smothers, Derek Taylor, Murray the K and Timothy Leary.
1967 - The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
1967 - David Bowie releases his self-titled debut album.
1964 - The Rolling Stones arrive at New York's Kennedy Airport for their first U.S. tour.
1964 - Dolly Parton moves to Nashville, Tenn., one day after her high school graduation.

June 1, 1967 has been called the day the '60s peaked - when the Beatles releases Sgt. Pepper. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, Sgt. Pepper was ranked the greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone in 2003. The album project had originally been titled Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but after it was discovered that Dr. Pepper was a trademarked name for an American soft drink, The Beatles changed the title to Sgt. Pepper's, and the rest is history...

Get some free Townes Van Zandt philosophy done Steve Earle style...

Posted at 9:42 AM on June 1, 2009 by Barb Abney

Townes is the latest release from Steve Earle. He recorded his favorite Townes Van Zandt songs for the album as a tribute to Townes Van Zandt. Today on our Song Of The Day podcast you can grab the tune ""To Live Is To Fly" for free!

According to his tour page, Steve Earle will be playing Pantages Theater on Thursday July 23rd.

If you're a new subscriber to the Song Of The Day podcast, you'll also receive new music from Maria Isa, Passion Pit and Illinois. Later this week we will be featuring new music from Superchunck, Akron Family, John Vanderslice and local music from The Alarmists.

3 Songs To Celebrate The Summer Concert Season...

Posted at 11:11 AM on June 1, 2009 by Barb Abney
Filed under: My Three Songs

Kristopher Reichel from Ramsey picked today's My 3 Songs set because...

"My wife and I love all three of these bands & have seen them live multiple times. The Metric song is new, but all of these remind me of spring & outdoor concert season. Thank you!!"

Heartless Bastards - "All This Time" (live in-studio performance)
Metric - "Help, I'm Alive"
Yo La Tengo - "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House"

Make your "My 3 Songs" requests here.

Tunes On The Telly Tonight: (June 1)

Posted at 11:37 AM on June 1, 2009 by Barb Abney

Pearl Jam on Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien
Tori Amos on Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
No Doubt (rerun) on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Everybody's Talkin... Supremely Senatorial

Posted at 2:02 PM on June 1, 2009 by Jim McGuinn
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

Today lawyers for both Norm Coleman and Al Franken had their day in court - the MN Supreme Court. As the non-election rolls into month 7, depending on their ruling, this could be the end of the line (maybe) for Coleman campaign, or not. So the theme today was arguments and lawyers... and to quote Radiohead's "Electioneering" -

I will stop, I will stop at nothing.
Say the right things when electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote.

When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
When I go forwards you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet.
Ha ha ha

Songs played: Warren Zevon "Lawyers, Guns, and Money
The Clash "I Fought the Law"
The O' Jays "992 Arguments"
My favorite "song that shouldn't but totally does fit" was a request for Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" -

Will not let you go-let me go
Will not let you go-let me go
No,no,no,no,no,no,no-
Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go-
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me...