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Today In R&R History April 13th
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Rock and Roll Birthdays
April 13th
- April 13th Birthday, The lead vocalist for The Swingin’ Medallions, John McElrath, born in 1941 in Greenwood, South Carolina.
- April 13th Birthday, The New Seekers vocalist Eve Graham, born Evelyn May Beatson in 1943 in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
- April 13th Birthday, Mott The Hoople manager and record producer Guy Stevens, born in East Dilwich, London, England. He died on August 28th, 1981 at the age of 38.
- April 13th Birthday, Bassist and founding member of The Jefferson Airplane Jack Casady, born John William Casady in Washington, DC in 1944.
- April 13th Birthday, Little Feat guitarist and songwriter Lowell George, born in Hollywood, California in 1945. He died on June 29th, 1979, aged 34.
- April 13th Birthday, The Flaming Groovies singer, songwriter Roy Loney, born in San Francisco in 1946. He died on December 13th, 2019, aged 73.
- April 13th Birthday, R&B singer Al Green, born in 1946 in Forest City, Arkansas.
- April 13th Birthday, The E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg, born in 1951 in Newark, New Jersey.
- April 13th Birthday, Jimmy Destri, keyboardist for Blondie born James Mollica, in Brooklyn, New York in 1954.
- April 13th Birthday, The Brothers Johnson bassist Louis Johnson, born 1955 in in Las Vegas, Nevada. He died on May 21st, 2015, aged 60.
- April 13th Birthday, The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak, born in Haifa, Israel in 1962. He died on June 25th, 1988 from a heroin overdose, aged 26.
- April 13th Birthday, The Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford, born in Los Angeles, California in 1966.
- April 13th Birthday, Soundgarden bassist Hiro Yamamoto, born in Park Forest, Illinois, in 1961.
Today In Rock and Roll History
April 13th
- April 13th, 1957 Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up” is the No. 1 record in the US for the first of eight weeks.
- April 13th, 1959 Following a move from Sun Records in 1958, Columbia Records release “Pointed Toe Shoes” by Carl Perkins on 45. Written by Perkins, it was his final Top One Hundred hit, peaking at No. 93 on June 13th.
- April 13th, 1962 Parlophone Records in Britain release “Time Beat” backed with “Waltz In Orbit” by Ray Cathode on 45. Ray Cathode was a pseudonym for Madalena Fagandini and future Beatles producer George Martin, It was the first commercial release from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and later, television, the unit was known for its’ experimental and pioneering work in electronic music.
- April 13th, 1963 Original Sound Records release “Memories Of El Monte” backed with “Be Mine” by The Penguins featuring Cleve Duncan. “Memories Of El Monte” was co-written by Frank Zappa and Ray Collins. Production was credited to Art Laboe, who included the song on a various artists oldies collection. The song was likely recorded in February at Paul Buff’s PAL Recording Studio in Cucamonga, California by The Penguins singer Cleve Duncan backed by The Viceroys with Zappa on xylophone/vibraphone.
- April 13th, 1965 The Beatles win a Grammy for Best New Artist and another for Best Group Performance for “A Hard Day’s Night.”
- April 13th, 1965 Two days of recording sessions begin at Pye Studios in London for The Kinks’ “Set Me Free.” Completed the next day with producer Shel Talmy, the song was written by The Kinks’ Ray Davies and featured that November in the British BBC-TV show Up The Junction. Out May 21st in Britain and five days later in America, the 45 entered the Pop Singles charts in June and hit No. 23 in America on July 24th, No. 9 in the UK.
- April 13th and 14th, 1966 The Beatles record their next single “Paperback Writer,” at EMI Studios in London. Released on May 30th in the US and June 10thin Britain, the song was co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Recording engineer Geoff Emerick stated that the “Paperback Writer” single was cut louder than any other Beatles record up to that time, due to a new piece of equipment used in the mastering process, referred to as “Automatic Transient Overload Control,” which was devised by the EMI maintenance department. The sound of Paul McCartney’s bass on the disc and the contrapuntal backing vocals were innovative and set new standards for Beatles’ records. The record peaked at No. 1 on June 25th.
- April 13th, 1967 The Rolling Stones play their first gig behind the iron curtain, in Warsaw, Poland. Riot police were called in to deal with the two thousand people who weren’t able to buy tickets.
- April 13th, 1967 Gordy Records release “All I Need” by The Temptations on 45. It was the group’s first single to be produced by Norman Whitfield’s protégé Frank Wilson. Co-written by Wilson, Eddie Holland, Jr. and R. Dean Taylor, the record entered the charts two weeks later and peaked at No. 8 on June 17th.
- April 13th, 1967 Spanky and Our Gang record “Sunday Will Never Be The Same” at Bell Sound Studios in NYC. The song was co-written by Terry Cashman and Gene Pistilli and borrows an interlude from the French carol “Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes.” The arrangement was done by Jimmy Wisner. Produced by Jerry Ross at Bell Sound Studios in New York City with a number of session musicians and backing vocalists that included guitarists Al Gorgoni and Hugh McCracken. “Sunday Will Never Be The Same” became the band’s first charting record, entering a week later and peaking at No. 9 on June 24th.
- April 13th, 1968 UNI Records release the self-titled first album by Houston, Texas band Fever Tree. The group relocated to Los Angeles and recorded in January at Andrus Studios in LA with Walter Andrus engineering. The LP featured orchestrations conducted by David Angel, who had worked in the same capacity on the first album by Love. The record featured the hit “San Francisco Girls (Return Of The Native)” and peaked at No. 156 on July 13th.
- April 13th, 1968 Jubilee Records release “The Doctor” by Mary Wells on 45. Co-written and produced by Cecil and Mary Womack, the record became Wells’ last charting single, peaking at No. 65 on June 29th.
- April 13th, 1968 Tiny Tim’s “Tip-Toe through the Tulips” is released on Warner Brothers Records. An eventual Top Twenty hit, Tiny Tim sang it on the February 5thdebut episode of the American television show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. First published in 1929, the song was co-written by lyricist Al Dubin and Joe Burke and was popularized by guitarist Nick Lucas. The record entered the charts in May and peaked at No. 17 on June 29th.
- April 13th, 1968 Scepter Records release “Do You Know The Way To San Jose?” by Dionne Warwick on 45. The song was co-written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, Warwick won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the recording in 1969. The record peaked at No. 10 on May 18th.
- April 13th, 1973 RCA Records release “Aladdin Sane,” the sixth album by David Bowie. Recorded at Trident Studios in London and RCA Studios in New York City between concert dates during the tour to promote the Ziggy Stardust LP with his band The Spiders From Mars. Co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott, the record peaked at No. 17 on June 16th in the album charts, No. 1 in Britain.
- April 13th, 1974 Elton John’s “Bennie and The Jets” is the No. 1 record in the US.
- April 13th, 1974 Palladium/Capitol Records release “Seven,” the seventh album by Bob Seger. Co-produced by Seger and Punch Andrews at Quadraphonic Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in 1973, it was the first appearance of Seger’s long-time backing group, The Silver Bullet Band on his records. The album featured the hit single “Get Out Of Denver.”
- April 13th, 1979 Mercury Records release “Black Rose: A Rock Legend,” the ninth studio album by Thin Lizzy. Produced by Tony Visconti at Visconti’s Good Earth Studios and Morgan Studios in London and Pathe Marconi EMI Studios in Paris, France, the record peaked at No. 81 in the US on June 16th. The record went to No. 2 in Britain.
- April 13th, 1979 EG/Polydor Records in Britain release “Dance Away” by Roxy Music on 45, out in March in the US. It was the group’s second single from the “Manifesto” LP, written by singer Bryan Ferry, originally for his solo album, “In Your Mind.” Paul Carrack plays keyboards on the album and single. “Dance Away” peaked at No. 2 on the UK singles charts. In America, “Dance Away” was one of a handful of Roxy Music singles to chart, where it peaked at No. 44 on June 9th.
- April 13th, 1981 Capitol Records release “Don’t Say No,” the second solo album by by Billy Squier. The LP was co-produced by Squier and Reinhold Mack. The former Piper singer charted for one hundred and eleven weeks with “Don’t Say No” and peaked at No. 5 on September 5th. “Don’t Say No” featured the hits “In the Dark,” “Lonely Is the Night,” “My Kinda Lover” and “The Stroke.”
Miscellaneous April
- April 1953 Specialty Records release “Don’t Take It Out On Me” backed with “Lucy Mae Blues,” the third single by Texas electric blues guitarist Frankie Lee Sims. Both songs were written by Frankie Lee Sims, a cousin to musician Lightnin’ Hopkins. “Lucy Mae Blues” became a regional hit in Texas.
- April 1954 Specialty Records release “The Story Of My Life” backed with “A Letter To My Girl Friend,” the third single by electric blues pioneer Guitar Slim and His Band. Both songs were written by Slim, credited to his given name Eddie Jones.
- April 1963 Ron Romans record “Tell Me” and “Love Of My Life.” Daani Records released them as the A and B-side of a single. The A-side was written by Frank Zappa associate Kenny Williams, while “Love Of My Life” was a Zappa/Dave Aerni co-write. The song was recorded at PAL Recording Studio in Cucamonga, California with Zappa playing guitar and drums. Zappa rerecorded “Love Of My Life” with The Mothers Of Invention on the 1968 LP “Cruising With Ruben and The Jets.
- April 1964 Chess records release the “Folk Singer” album, the fourth by Muddy Waters. The album features Waters on acoustic guitar, Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar.
- April 1965 Fantasy Records release “Where You Been” backed with “You Came Walking,” the second single by The Golliwogs on 45. Both sides were co-written by Tom and John Fogerty, using the names Rann Wild and Toby Green. The Golliwogs renamed themselves Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1967.
- April 1966 Are You Kidding Me? Records issue “The Ballad Of The Yellow Beret” backed with “Florida Time” by The Beach Bums, actually Bob Seger’s first released record. Done as an answer record to Sgt. Barry Sandler’s “The Ballad Of The Green Beret,” “The Ballad Of The Yellow Beret” is executed in a humorous manner but the lyrics are a sharp criticism of men who dodged the draft in the US. The song is credited to D. Dodger. “Florida Time” is closer to the style of The Beach Boys, written by long-time Seger producer “Punch,” with both sides produced and arranged by The Omens.
- April 1966 Paradise Records out of Texas release “Splash Day” backed with “Life’s A Misery” by The Warlocks on 45. The band featured brothers Rocky and Dusty Hill. The band would change their name to American Blues when drummer Frank Beard joined. Beard and Dusty Hill would later join Billy Gibbons in ZZ Top.
- April 1969 Liberty Records in Britain release “Folkjoke Opus,” the third album by Roy Harper. Produced by Shel Talmy, the LP sessions included Nicky Hopkins on piano and Clem Cattini on drums. Ron Geesin scored the arrangements on the record.
- April 1970 CBS Records in Britain release “Zero She Flies,” the third album by Al Stewart. The LP was produced by Roy Guest at Sound Technics Studios in London. Gerry Conway and Trevor Lucas from Fairport Convention played sessions on the record.
- April 1971 Harvest Records release “Stormcock,” the fifth studio album by Roy Harper. Produced by Peter Jenner at EMI Studios in London, David Bedford played keyboards and did the arrangements and Jimmy Page played guitar on “The Same Old Rock,” credited as S. Favius Mercurius.
- April 1973 Chrysalis Record in England release “Parcel Of Rogues,” the fifth studio album by Steeleye Span. The LP was co-produced by Steeleye Span and Jerry Boys at Sound Techniques Studios in Chelsea, London. The band toured the album in the US opening for Jethro Tull.
- April 1975 Asylum Records release “Fountain Of Sorrow” by Jackson Browne on 45. Written by Browne, it was the second single issued from his “Late For The Sky” LP. The 45 version was two minutes shorter than the nearly seven-minute-long album version.
- April 1975 Bob Seger releases “Beautiful Loser,” his first single for Capitol Records. The 45 peaked at No. 103 on the Pop Singles charts.
- April 1978 DB Records in Georgia release “Rock Lobster” backed with “52 Girls,” the debut single by The B-52’s. The A-side was co-written by Fred Schneider and Ricky Wilson. “52 Girls” was co-written by Jeremy Ayers and Ricky Wilson.
- April 1978 Virgin Records release “This Is Pop” backed with “Heatwave,” the third single by XTC. “This Is Pop” was written by Andy Partridge and “Heatwave” was written by Colin Moulding. Both songs were produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange. The A-side was an album track, re-recorded for its’ single release.
- April 1979 Asylum Records release “Alison,” Linda Ronstadt’s cover version of the Elvis Costello song on 45, produced by Peter Asher.
- April 1980 Harvest Records release “The Unknown Soldier,” the tenth studio album by Roy Harper. Co-produced by Harper and Peter Jenner at Abbey Road Studios in London, David Gilmour Andy Roberts, Andy Newmark, Kate Bush, B.J. Cole, Pete Wingfield and others play on the record. David Bedford did the orchestral arrangements.
- April 1981 RCA Records release the soundtrack to the movie Christiane F., Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo. The record was a collection of previously released songs by David Bowie that spanned the years 1976-1978. Bowie appears in an in-concert sequence of the movie during the Isolar Tour of 1976.
- April 1982 Warner Brothers Records release “Deep Sleep” by The B-52’s on 45. The track came from the David Byne produced “Mesopotamia” EP, recorded at Blank Tape Studios in New York City. The song was co-written by Keith Strickland, Kate Pierson and Robert Waldrop.
- April 1982 Woody Records in Britain release “O.T.T.” backed with “Mystery Song” by Roy Wood on 45. Both songs were written and produced by Roy Wood.
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