Posted
on December 9, 2016
Meet
the Supremes!
Say
goodbye to the Jackson Five!
A
new Beatles song – after a quarter century of nada, nil, zip,
zilch???
Everyday,
history is being made all over the world. Here in Every Day Is
Special, I talk about plenty of political history (national days, for
example) and way too much military history (I'm sad that there are so
many wars, so much military history lying about!). I love to talk
about the history of science and innovation, and of course I also
love to shine a light on historical gains in human rights!
But
there are also really specific types of history – the history of
the Olympics, for example, art history, the history of sci-fi, music
history.
The
latter is what I'm hitting today:
- On this date in 1963, the first album of The Supremes was released. It was called Meet the Supremes.
- On this date in 1968, the Supremes and the Temptations had a special on NBC-TV: TCB – Takin' Care of Business.
On
this date in 1984, the Jacksons played their last show together in
Los Angeles, California.
- On this date in 1992, Bill Wyman left the Rolling Stones. He'd been in the group for more than 30 years!!
On this date in 1995, a documentary on the Beatles aired. It included the song “Free as a Bird,” which had never before been released. So that made it the Beatles' first new song in 25 years (for the simple reason that the Beatles broke up 25 years earlier!!). This song was created by Paul, George, and Ringo based on John's 1977 demo; it reached Number 2 on the UK charts and peaked at Number 5 on the US charts.
Here
are some videos; enjoy these historical musical greats:
SUPREMES
A huge hit for the
Supremes was “Stop in the Name of Love.”
I only knew the name of one of the Supremes: Diana Ross. But there were actually a lot of women who sang in the band called The Supremes. Check it out!
I never met the Supremes'
songs from their first album (hey, I was pretty young!) – but here
is one of the songs from that first record.
Here is the
special TCB.
JACKSONS
This video offering
has clips from the EVEN younger Jackson 5, plus a performance from
the Jackson 5 in 1983, very close to that
last-ever-performance-together.
One of the Jackson Five's
huge hits was “ABC.”
STONES
One of my favorite
Rolling Stones hits is “RubyTuesday” (Bill
Wyman plays on the cello and bass).
Another Stones great is
“Paint It Black.”
(Wyman is on the bass.)
BEATLES
Enjoy the Beatles in
“Free as a Bird.”
This showing of a huge
Beatles hit was my very first time a song ever REALLY got to me – I
was nine years old, and suddenly I was INTO MUSIC! (All caps!)
(By the way, I was so
not into screaming. I was embarrassed of how so many girls acted
about the Beatles.)
In those early days, I
also loved a Beatles song that wasn't written by the Beatles (“Twist & Shout”), “A Day in the Life,” and
“A Hard Day's Night.”
Honestly, there are too
many great Beatles songs to even talk about “favorites”!
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