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Today In Music History: Happy Birthday Joe Ely

Posted at 6:10 AM on February 9, 2010 by Steve Seel (2 Comments)
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Birthdays:

Singer Carole King is 68.

Today in:

1964 - The Beatles made their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show before 73 million people-over one-third of the entire U.S. population (the largest television audience ever). George Harrison had a sore throat, but no matter. He was barely audible above the screaming fans in the audience.
1972 - Wings played its first show - unannounced and uninvited - for students during lunchtime at Nottingham University in England. The price of admission was 33 cents.
2000 - The Million Dollar Hotel, a film starring Mel Gibson and co-written by Bono, opened at the 50th Berlin Film Festival.

Birthday Highlight:

Joe Ely, Texas singer/songwriter and honky-tonk legend, one of the original purveyors of "outlaw country" in the '70s, is 63 today. Ely began with fellow West-Texans Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in The Flatlanders; Merle Haggard took him on a tour of England in 1979 where met Joe Strummer, and he later toured Europe with The Clash and played on their 1982 Combat Rock album. We wished Joe a happy birthday today with a spin of his tune, "Dallas."

Comments (2)

Apparently the Superbowl just beat that record for the largest television audience...

Posted by wellst | February 9, 2010 7:53 AM

Sadly, The Million Dollar Hotel was that forgettable. My husband and I love U2, but he fell asleep halfway through and all either of us remember is Mel Gibson not being able to turn his head.

Posted by listenininnh | February 9, 2010 8:04 AM

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