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Today In Music History: Missin' Ya, Ray

Posted at 7:07 AM on June 10, 2009 by Steve Seel

Birthdays:

Mike Doughty is 39.
Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan) is 45.
Guitarist Joey Santiago of The Pixies is 44.
Kim Deal of The Pixies is 48.
Shirley Alston Reeves of The Shirelles is 68.

1964 - The Beatles released "A Hard Day's Night," both the album and the single.
1966 - A Beatles song featuring a new audio effect was released. "Rain" used a tape played in reverse. John Lennon said the reverse-tape effect wasn't planned; the tape was just put on the wrong way. Accident or not, though, the band obviously liked the effect, since they left it in the final mix. It's heard on Lennon's vocal at the very end. And so began the tradition of "backward masking" (and thus, suspicion of subliminal messages in rock n' roll on the part of fearful ministers, parents and congresspeople).
1967 - Bob Dylan and The Band began recording sessions that remained unreleased for a long time but eventually surfaced as an album titled "The Basement Tapes."
1972 - Joe Strummer and Topper Headon of The Clash were arrested for painting their band's name on a London wall.
1992 - A Texas law enforcement agency called for a national boycott of "Cop Killer" by Ice-T. Sales of the song skyrocketed.
1993 - Sinead O'Connor took out a full-page ad in the Irish Times asking the public to "stop hurting me please." She blamed her troubles on abuse she suffered as a child. O'Connor was still being criticized for ripping up a picture of the Pope during an appearance on Saturday Night Live the previous October.

Today in 2005, Ray Charles died of liver disease at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 73. We played "I Got A Woman."

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