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Today In Music History: Johnny B. Goode!

Posted at 6:08 AM on March 31, 2011 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History


Birthdays:

Trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert is 76.
Guitarist Angus Young of AC/DC is 56.
Bassist Bob Crawford of The Avett Brothers is 40.


Today in:

1949 - RCA Victor introduced the 45rpm single record, which had been in development since 1940. The 7-inch disc was designed to compete with the Long Playing record introduced by Columbia a year earlier. Both formats offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78rpm record that was currently in use. Advertisements for new record players boasted that with 45rpm records, the listener could hear up to ten records with speedy, silent, hardly noticeable changes.
1967 - Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire in front of an audience for the first time, during a concert in London.
1964 - Filming for A Hard Days Night, The Beatles played a "live television performance" in front of a studio of screaming fans. One of those fans was Phil Collins.
1995 - Jimmy Page escaped being knifed when a fan rushed the stage at a Page and Plant gig at Auburn Hills, Michigan. After his arrest, the perp told police that he wanted to kill Jimmy Page because of the Satanic music he was playing.


History Highlight:

Today in 1958, Chuck Berry released the single "Johnny B. Goode." It entered the US charts six weeks later and peaked at No.8. The song's original lyrics referred to Johnny as a "colored boy", but Berry later acknowledged that he changed it to "country boy" to ensure radio play. Today, "Johnny B. Goode" is considered one of the most well-known songs in music history, and Rolling Stone magazine placed it at #1 in their list of "100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time."

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