1961: Bobby Lewis enjoyed his eighth week at #1 of the R&B chart with "Tossin' and Turnin'".
1963: The Ronettes released the single "Be My Baby".
1963: Cilla Black appeared in a major concert for the first time, opening for the Beatles at the Odeon Cinema in Southport, England.
1964: Roy Orbison released the single "Oh Pretty Woman".
1965: The Byrds were in concert at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California.
1967: The Beatles gave a press conference with guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul McCartney announced that the group had given up drugs. "It was an experience we went through," he said. "We don't need it anymore."
1967: Small Faces, the Move, Jeff Beck, Eric Burdon, Marmalade and Denny Laine appeared on the first day of the three-day Festival of the Flower Children at Woburn Abbey in England.
1967: Aretha Franklin had the new #1 R&B song with "Baby I Love You".
1967: The Box Tops moved from 58 to 25 with "The Letter".
They don't make 'em much better than this classic from Bobbie Joe
1967: After just four weeks, Bobbie Gentry had made the long haul up to #1 with "Ode to Billie Joe". The Beatles retreated after a brief one-week stay with "All You Need Is Love". The Monkees maintained at #3 with "Pleasant Valley Sunday" with "Light My Fire" by the Doors still hanging around. The rest of the Top 10: "Baby I Love You" by Aretha Franklin, "I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, "Cold Sweat" by James Brown, the Supremes moved from 20 to 8 with the innovative "Reflections", the Temptations were up to 9 with "You're My Everything" and Procol Harum held on with "A Whiter Shade of Pale.
The Association reached the Top 10 with the best of their studio albums
1967: The Beatles made it week number nine as the top album once again was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Headquarters by the Monkees was #2. The Rolling Stones had a distant #3 with Flowers while the Doors' debut moved up to #4. The rest of the Top 10: Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You from Aretha Franklin at #6, Sounds Like from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Engelbert Humperdinck had #8 with Release Me, the 5th Dimension with Up, Up and Away and the Association reached the Top 10 with Insight Out.
1970: Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio opened in New York City.
1970: Duane Allman joined Derek & the Dominoes in a recording studio in Florida.
1970: Neil Diamond released the single "Cracklin' Rosie".
1970: Chicago, The Who, the Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, the Doors, Sly and the Family Stone, Donovan, Jethro Tull, Joan Baez, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Free, Procol Harum, Mungo Jerry and Spirit appeared at one fantastic Isle of Wight Festival.
1972: Three Dog Night had a hot song as one of The Most Important Songs of the Rock Era*--"Black and White" moved from 47-23.
1972: It was their only hit but "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" was a good one--#1 in fact. Gilbert O'Sullivan grudgingly dropped to #2 with "Alone Again (Naturally)" but he would be back. The Hollies held on to 3 with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" and Al Green moved up with "I'm Still in Love With You". Jim Croce ("You Don't Mess Around With Jim") and Mac Davis ("Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me") had new entries in the Top 10.
1973: 10cc appeared live for the first time at the Palace Lido Isle of Man.
1974: Carole King released her single "Jazzman".
1974: Bachman-Turner Overdrive released their great album Not Fragile.
1975: The Eagles were in concert in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1977: The Pretenders made their live debut opening for Strangeways.
1977: The Doobie Brothers, Aerosmith, Uriah Heap, Thin Lizzy, Golden Earring and John Miles appeared at the three-day Reading Festival in England.
1978: Here's a great show--Fleetwood Mac, the Cars, Todd Rundgren, Eddie Money and Bob Welch were in concert at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
1978: Oh Canada! The First Jam Festival opened on Ontario.
1978: The Commodores scored a second week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Three Times a Lady".
1978: "Don't Look Back" by Boston moved from 62 to 36 on this date.
1978: "Grease" had been the word all summer and finally the charts proved it as Frankie Valli reached #1. The Commodores slipped with "Three Times a Lady". The Rolling Stones latched on to position #3 with "Miss You" while "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste of Honey was fourth. The rest of the Top 10: Foreigner with "Hot Blooded", Pablo Cruise at #6 with "Love Will Find a Way", Olivia Newton-John with "Hopelessly Devoted to You", Walter Egan and "Magnet and Steel", Andy Gibb had his fourth straight Top 10 with "An Everlasting Love" and Donna Summer's former #1 "Last Dance" finished the list.
1979: Peter Gabriel was joined by former Genesis bandmate Phil Collins for a version of the Genesis song "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" at the Reading Festival in England.
1980: Tom Peterson left Cheap Trick.
1981: Dan Fogelberg released the single "Hard to Say".
1981: The Ottawa City Council honored Paul Anka by naming today "Paul Anka Day" and also named a street in Ottawa "Paul Anka Drive".
1983: David Bowie starred in the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which opened in theaters.
1987: Sonny Bono announced that he would run for mayor of Palm Springs, California. He was victorious.
1988: If I want to see a good festival, I'm going to England. On this date, the Reading Festival kicked off with Starship, Squeeze, Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf, Iggy Pop, the Ramones, Hothouse Flowers and more.
1989: "It's No Crime" by Babyface was the new R&B #1 song.
1989: Richard Marx owned the #1 Adult Contemporary song for a fourth week with "Right Here Waiting".
1990: Randy Newman won an Emmy Award for the music he composed in "Cop Rock".
1990: Stevie Ray Vaughan performed in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin. Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Jimmie Vaughan join Stevie Ray for the encore. The next morning, Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash.
1991: Mariah Carey released the single "Emotions", the title track from her new album.
1995: Blur reached #1 in the U.K. with "Country House".
1995: "Boombastic" by Shaggy rose to #1 on the R&B chart.
1995: Coolio moved from 28 to 6 with his remake of the Stevie Wonder song retitled "Gangsta's Paradise".
1995: Seal hit #1 with "Kiss From a Rose", ending TLC's seven-week stay at #1 with "Waterfalls".
1996: The Corrs were at the Carrickdale Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland.
1997: Boyzone began their tour in Gangalore, India. That was a first.
1997: Creed released their debut album My Own Prison.
1997: Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers was hospitalized following a motorcycle crash on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
2000: Douglas Allen Woody, bassist of the Allman Brothers, was found dead in New York City.
2001: Madonna's concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan was filmed and would be part of the DVD Madonna - Drowned World Tour 2001.
2001: Staind owned the top U.K. album with Break the Cycle.
2001: Maxwell had the top album with Now.
2004: Laura Branigan died of a brain aneurysm at home in East Quogue, New York at the age of 47.
2005: Former Quarrymen members John Duff Lowe and Colin Hantonat unveiled a plaque at the Percy Phillips studio in Liverpool, England, the site where the band that was to become the Beatles made their first recordings in 1958.
2005: A post office near where Ray Charles recorded most of his music was renamed the Ray Charles Post Office.
2008: Pink Floyd was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize.
2009: It's Gonna' Be Alright, a documentary film about Gerry & the Pacemakers, debuted in Liverpool, England.
2009: Ellie Greenwich, a songwriter who gave us "Hanky Panky", "Leader of the Pack" and "Da Doo Ron Ron", died of a heart attack at the age of 68.
Born This Day:
1905: Ernie Fields, who hit #4 in 1959 with his remake of "In the Mood", was born in Nacogdoches, Texas.
1926: Georgia Gibbs ("Dance With Me Henry") was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1941: Chris Curtis, drummer with the Searchers, was born in Oldham, England.
1942: Vic Dana, who had a hit with a remake of "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" in 1959, was born in Buffalo, New York.
1944: Maureen Tucker, drummer of Velvet Underground, was born in Levittown, New York.
1946: Valerie Simpson of the duo Ashford & Simpson ("Solid") was born in the Bronx, New York.
1949: Bob Cowsill of the Cowsills was born in Portsmouth, Virginia.
1950: Bill and Dick Cowsill of the Cowsills
1952: Billy Rush, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
1954: Michael Chetwood, keyboard player for T'Paul ("Heart and Soul" from 1987)
1957: John O'Neill of the Undertones
1966: Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1966: Dan Vickrey, lead guitarist of the Counting Crows, was born in Walnut Creek, California.
1969: Adrian Young, drummer of No Doubt, was born in Long Beach, California.Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-day-in-rock-music-history-august_25.html
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1963: The Ronettes released the single "Be My Baby".
1963: Cilla Black appeared in a major concert for the first time, opening for the Beatles at the Odeon Cinema in Southport, England.
1964: Roy Orbison released the single "Oh Pretty Woman".
1965: The Byrds were in concert at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California.
1967: The Beatles gave a press conference with guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Paul McCartney announced that the group had given up drugs. "It was an experience we went through," he said. "We don't need it anymore."
1967: Small Faces, the Move, Jeff Beck, Eric Burdon, Marmalade and Denny Laine appeared on the first day of the three-day Festival of the Flower Children at Woburn Abbey in England.
1967: Aretha Franklin had the new #1 R&B song with "Baby I Love You".
1967: The Box Tops moved from 58 to 25 with "The Letter".
They don't make 'em much better than this classic from Bobbie Joe
1967: After just four weeks, Bobbie Gentry had made the long haul up to #1 with "Ode to Billie Joe". The Beatles retreated after a brief one-week stay with "All You Need Is Love". The Monkees maintained at #3 with "Pleasant Valley Sunday" with "Light My Fire" by the Doors still hanging around. The rest of the Top 10: "Baby I Love You" by Aretha Franklin, "I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, "Cold Sweat" by James Brown, the Supremes moved from 20 to 8 with the innovative "Reflections", the Temptations were up to 9 with "You're My Everything" and Procol Harum held on with "A Whiter Shade of Pale.
1967: The Beatles made it week number nine as the top album once again was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Headquarters by the Monkees was #2. The Rolling Stones had a distant #3 with Flowers while the Doors' debut moved up to #4. The rest of the Top 10: Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You from Aretha Franklin at #6, Sounds Like from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Engelbert Humperdinck had #8 with Release Me, the 5th Dimension with Up, Up and Away and the Association reached the Top 10 with Insight Out.
1970: Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studio opened in New York City.
1970: Duane Allman joined Derek & the Dominoes in a recording studio in Florida.
1970: Neil Diamond released the single "Cracklin' Rosie".
1970: Chicago, The Who, the Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, the Doors, Sly and the Family Stone, Donovan, Jethro Tull, Joan Baez, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Free, Procol Harum, Mungo Jerry and Spirit appeared at one fantastic Isle of Wight Festival.
1972: Three Dog Night had a hot song as one of The Most Important Songs of the Rock Era*--"Black and White" moved from 47-23.
1972: It was their only hit but "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" was a good one--#1 in fact. Gilbert O'Sullivan grudgingly dropped to #2 with "Alone Again (Naturally)" but he would be back. The Hollies held on to 3 with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" and Al Green moved up with "I'm Still in Love With You". Jim Croce ("You Don't Mess Around With Jim") and Mac Davis ("Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me") had new entries in the Top 10.
1973: 10cc appeared live for the first time at the Palace Lido Isle of Man.
1974: Carole King released her single "Jazzman".
1974: Bachman-Turner Overdrive released their great album Not Fragile.
1975: The Eagles were in concert in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1977: The Pretenders made their live debut opening for Strangeways.
1977: The Doobie Brothers, Aerosmith, Uriah Heap, Thin Lizzy, Golden Earring and John Miles appeared at the three-day Reading Festival in England.
1978: Here's a great show--Fleetwood Mac, the Cars, Todd Rundgren, Eddie Money and Bob Welch were in concert at Cleveland Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio.
1978: Oh Canada! The First Jam Festival opened on Ontario.
1978: The Commodores scored a second week at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart with "Three Times a Lady".
1978: "Don't Look Back" by Boston moved from 62 to 36 on this date.
1978: "Grease" had been the word all summer and finally the charts proved it as Frankie Valli reached #1. The Commodores slipped with "Three Times a Lady". The Rolling Stones latched on to position #3 with "Miss You" while "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste of Honey was fourth. The rest of the Top 10: Foreigner with "Hot Blooded", Pablo Cruise at #6 with "Love Will Find a Way", Olivia Newton-John with "Hopelessly Devoted to You", Walter Egan and "Magnet and Steel", Andy Gibb had his fourth straight Top 10 with "An Everlasting Love" and Donna Summer's former #1 "Last Dance" finished the list.
1979: Peter Gabriel was joined by former Genesis bandmate Phil Collins for a version of the Genesis song "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" at the Reading Festival in England.
1980: Tom Peterson left Cheap Trick.
1981: Dan Fogelberg released the single "Hard to Say".
1981: The Ottawa City Council honored Paul Anka by naming today "Paul Anka Day" and also named a street in Ottawa "Paul Anka Drive".
1983: David Bowie starred in the movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which opened in theaters.
1987: Sonny Bono announced that he would run for mayor of Palm Springs, California. He was victorious.
1988: If I want to see a good festival, I'm going to England. On this date, the Reading Festival kicked off with Starship, Squeeze, Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf, Iggy Pop, the Ramones, Hothouse Flowers and more.
1989: "It's No Crime" by Babyface was the new R&B #1 song.
1989: Richard Marx owned the #1 Adult Contemporary song for a fourth week with "Right Here Waiting".
1990: Randy Newman won an Emmy Award for the music he composed in "Cop Rock".
1990: Stevie Ray Vaughan performed in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin. Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Jimmie Vaughan join Stevie Ray for the encore. The next morning, Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash.
1991: Mariah Carey released the single "Emotions", the title track from her new album.
1995: Blur reached #1 in the U.K. with "Country House".
1995: "Boombastic" by Shaggy rose to #1 on the R&B chart.
1995: Coolio moved from 28 to 6 with his remake of the Stevie Wonder song retitled "Gangsta's Paradise".
1995: Seal hit #1 with "Kiss From a Rose", ending TLC's seven-week stay at #1 with "Waterfalls".
1996: The Corrs were at the Carrickdale Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland.
1997: Boyzone began their tour in Gangalore, India. That was a first.
1997: Creed released their debut album My Own Prison.
1997: Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers was hospitalized following a motorcycle crash on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
2000: Douglas Allen Woody, bassist of the Allman Brothers, was found dead in New York City.
2001: Madonna's concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan was filmed and would be part of the DVD Madonna - Drowned World Tour 2001.
2001: Staind owned the top U.K. album with Break the Cycle.
2001: Maxwell had the top album with Now.
2004: Laura Branigan died of a brain aneurysm at home in East Quogue, New York at the age of 47.
2005: Former Quarrymen members John Duff Lowe and Colin Hantonat unveiled a plaque at the Percy Phillips studio in Liverpool, England, the site where the band that was to become the Beatles made their first recordings in 1958.
2005: A post office near where Ray Charles recorded most of his music was renamed the Ray Charles Post Office.
2008: Pink Floyd was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize.
2009: It's Gonna' Be Alright, a documentary film about Gerry & the Pacemakers, debuted in Liverpool, England.
2009: Ellie Greenwich, a songwriter who gave us "Hanky Panky", "Leader of the Pack" and "Da Doo Ron Ron", died of a heart attack at the age of 68.
Born This Day:
1905: Ernie Fields, who hit #4 in 1959 with his remake of "In the Mood", was born in Nacogdoches, Texas.
1926: Georgia Gibbs ("Dance With Me Henry") was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1941: Chris Curtis, drummer with the Searchers, was born in Oldham, England.
1942: Vic Dana, who had a hit with a remake of "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" in 1959, was born in Buffalo, New York.
1944: Maureen Tucker, drummer of Velvet Underground, was born in Levittown, New York.
1946: Valerie Simpson of the duo Ashford & Simpson ("Solid") was born in the Bronx, New York.
1949: Bob Cowsill of the Cowsills was born in Portsmouth, Virginia.
1950: Bill and Dick Cowsill of the Cowsills
1952: Billy Rush, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
1954: Michael Chetwood, keyboard player for T'Paul ("Heart and Soul" from 1987)
1957: John O'Neill of the Undertones
1966: Shirley Manson, lead singer of Garbage, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1966: Dan Vickrey, lead guitarist of the Counting Crows, was born in Walnut Creek, California.
1969: Adrian Young, drummer of No Doubt, was born in Long Beach, California.Source URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-day-in-rock-music-history-august_25.html
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