This Day in Music History

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Released: April 15, 1974
Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd
Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It features the
band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an
answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern
Man", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart
in August 1974. Second Helping reached #12 on the Bill-
board album charts. The RIAA certified it Gold on
September 20, 1974, and Double Platinum on July 21,
1987...In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen
Thomas Erlewine said Second Helping "replicated all the
strengths" of the first album's expert Southern rock "but
was a little tighter and a little more professional."
Houston Press placed it #2 on its list of "Five Essential
Boogie-Rock Albums."

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Released: April 16, 1971
"Brown Sugar" is a song recorded by the
English rock band the Rolling Stones.
Written primarily by Mick Jagger, it is the
opening track and lead single from their
album Sticky Fingers (1971). It became a
number one hit in both the United States
and Canada. In the United Kingdom and
Ireland, it charted at number two. In the
United States, Billboard ranked it as the
number 16 song for 1971. Rolling Stone
ranked it number 495 on its list of the 500
Greatest Songs of All Time in 2010 and number
490 in 2004 and at number five on their list of
the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.

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Released: April 17, 1972
"Old Man" is a song written and performed by Canadian
rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Neil Young from his
1972 album Harvest. "Old Man" was released as a single on
Reprise Records in the spring of 1972, reaching number 4
in Canada, and number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles
chart for the week ending June 3. The song was written for
the caretaker of the Northern California Broken Arrow Ranch,
which Young purchased for $350,000 in 1970. The song com-
pares a young man's life to an old man's and shows that the
young man has, to some extent, the same needs as the old one.
James Taylor played six-string banjo (tuned like a guitar) and
sang on the song, and Linda Ronstadt also contributed vocals.

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Released: April 18, 1977
A song written and recorded by Bob Seger
& The Silver Bullet Band. It was released
in April 1977 as the fourth single from the
album Night Moves. The song peaked at
number 24 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and
has since become a staple of classic rock radio.
The song also reached number-one in Canada

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Released: April 19, 1971
L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American
rock band the Doors...It is the last to feature lead singer
Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his sudden death
exactly two months and two weeks following the album's
release. Even more so than its predecessors, the album is
heavily influenced by blues..."Love Her Madly" was released
as a single in March 1971, preceding the album's release,
and reached the Top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100. Upon release,
the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and
reached number 28 on the UK Albums Charts. The track "Riders
on the Storm" also achieved chart success.

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Released: April 19, 1971
L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American
rock band the Doors...It is the last to feature lead singer
Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his sudden death
exactly two months and two weeks following the album's
release. Even more so than its predecessors, the album is
heavily influenced by blues..."Love Her Madly" was released
as a single in March 1971, preceding the album's release,
and reached the Top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100. Upon release,
the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and
reached number 28 on the UK Albums Charts. The track "Riders
on the Storm" also achieved chart success.

Weimy I had a roommate back in college who was heavily into 'The Doors'...this was the first time I really had paid much attention to them and I kind of dug it for awhile. Still enjoy a few of their songs and one has to wonder what would have happened if Jim hadn't died so young. Imagine seeing an 80 year old Jim and his band mates playing at Grand Casino Hinckley!

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Released: April 19, 1971
L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American
rock band the Doors...It is the last to feature lead singer
Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his sudden death
exactly two months and two weeks following the album's
release. Even more so than its predecessors, the album is
heavily influenced by blues..."Love Her Madly" was released
as a single in March 1971, preceding the album's release,
and reached the Top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100. Upon release,
the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and
reached number 28 on the UK Albums Charts. The track "Riders
on the Storm" also achieved chart success.

Weimy I had a roommate back in college who was heavily into 'The Doors'...this was the first time I really had paid much attention to them and I kind of dug it for awhile. Still enjoy a few of their songs and one has to wonder what would have happened if Jim hadn't died so young. Imagine seeing an 80 year old Jim and his band mates playing at Grand Casino Hinckley!

L.A. woman and roadhouse blues were staples in the "Jim Morrison: He's Hot, He's Sexy and He's Dead" years. those were the words on the cover of rolling stone back in 1981. lots of kids were into them. i was a big fan of break on through to the other side. liked that concept. lulz. the end is the one i probably like the best these days.

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Released: April 19, 1971
L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American
rock band the Doors...It is the last to feature lead singer
Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his sudden death
exactly two months and two weeks following the album's
release. Even more so than its predecessors, the album is
heavily influenced by blues..."Love Her Madly" was released
as a single in March 1971, preceding the album's release,
and reached the Top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100. Upon release,
the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and
reached number 28 on the UK Albums Charts. The track "Riders
on the Storm" also achieved chart success.

Weimy I had a roommate back in college who was heavily into 'The Doors'...this was the first time I really had paid much attention to them and I kind of dug it for awhile. Still enjoy a few of their songs and one has to wonder what would have happened if Jim hadn't died so young. Imagine seeing an 80 year old Jim and his band mates playing at Grand Casino Hinckley!

L.A. woman and roadhouse blues were staples in the "Jim Morrison: He's Hot, He's Sexy and He's Dead" years. those were the words on the cover of rolling stone back in 1981. lots of kids were into them. i was a big fan of break on through to the other side. liked that concept. lulz. the end is the one i probably like the best these days.

Speaking of 'This is the End', this same roommate convinced me to go see 'Apocolypse Now' when it came out....I was SLIGHTLY inebriated at the time and thought it was a pretty cool movie.

"The horror"
"The horror"

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Released: April 20, 1979
The 10th studio album by The Charlie Daniels Band, re-
leased on April 20, 1979. It is best known for the hit single
The Devil Went Down to Georgia. The title refers to the
band having passed the million mile mark in its touring. The
song Reflections is a tribute to Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin, and
Ronnie Van Zant. Daniels dedicated the album to Van Zant,
who had died in October, 1977 in a plane crash.

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Released: April 21, 1992
The ninth studio album by British alternative rock band
The Cure, released on record label Fiction in the UK and
Elektra in the US...It received positive reviews upon re-
lease, including a four-star review in Rolling Stone that
stated: "For its cult of millions, the Cure offers the only
kind of optimism that makes sense." Wish was also the
band's overall highest charting album, and most commerc-
ially successful in the band's career, given its debut at
number one in the UK and number two in the United States,
where it sold more than 1.2 million copies. Wish was also
nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music
Album in 1993.

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Released: April 22, 1966
A song written by American songwriter Chip Taylor and
popularized by the English rock band the Troggs. It was
originally recorded and released by the American rock
band the Wild Ones in 1965, but it did not chart. The
Troggs' single reached number one on the Billboard Hot
100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart in 1966. Their
version of "Wild Thing" was ranked at number 257 on the
Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time. It has also been performed by many other musicians.

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Released: April 23, 1971
Sticky Fingers is the 9th British and 11th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on their new, and own, label Rolling Stones Records after previously having been contracted by Decca Records and London Records in the UK and US since 1963. It is Mick Taylor's second full-length appearance on a Rolling Stones album (after the live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!), and the first studio album without Brian Jones who died two years earlier. The original cover artwork, conceived by Andy Warhol and photographed and designed by members of his art collective, The Factory, showed a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zipper that opened to reveal underwear fabric. The cover was expensive to produce and damaged the vinyl record, so later re-issues featured just the outer photograph of the jeans...Sticky Fingers is considered one of the Rolling Stones' best albums. It was the band's first album to reach number one on both the UK albums and US albums charts, and has since achieved triple platinum certification in the US. "Brown Sugar” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971...The album is inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame and included in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

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Released: April 24, 1967
A song by the American rock band the Doors. It was recorded in August 1966 and
released in January 1967 on their eponymous debut album. Released as an edited
single on April 24, 1967, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot
100 chart in late July, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after
its recording.

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Released: April 25, 1955
The ninth studio album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra.
It was released in April 1955 by Capitol and produced by
Voyle Gilmore with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. All the
songs on the album deal with themes such as loneliness,
introspection, lost love, failed relationships, depression and
night life. In the Wee Small Hours has been called one of the
first concept albums. The cover artwork reflects these themes,
portraying Sinatra on an eerie and deserted street awash in
blue-tinged street lights. In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it the
101st greatest album of all time.

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Released: April 26, 1994
American Recordings is the 81st album by the country
singer Johnny Cash...The album marked the beginning
of a career resurgence for Cash, who was widely re-
cognized as an icon of American music but whose record
sales had suffered during the late 1970s and 1980s. Cash
was approached by producer Rick Rubin and offered a
contract with Rubin's American Recordings label, better
known for rap and heavy metal than for country music.
Rubin had seen Cash perform at Bob Dylan's 30th anniversary
concert in late 1992, and felt Cash was still a vital artist who
had been unfairly written off by the music industry. Suffering
from health problems and recovering from a relapse of his
drug addiction, Cash was initially skeptical. The two men soon
bonded, however, particularly when Rubin promised Cash a high
level of creative control. Rubin told the singer: "I would like you
to do whatever feels right for you", and Cash decided to record
the first solo album of his career without any accompanying music-
ians. "Sitting and talking and playing music… that was when we got
to build up a friendship," Rubin recalled. "My fondest memories are
just of hanging out and hearing his stories. He didn't speak much but,
if you drew him out, he seemed to know everything. He was shy and
quiet but a wise, wise man."

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Released: April 27, 2004
Van Lear Rose is the forty-second solo studio album by
American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn.
It was released on Interscope Records. The album was
produced by Jack White, then of the White Stripes. The
album was widely praised by critics, peaking at No. 2 on
the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart and at No. 24
on the Billboard 200, the most successful crossover album
of Lynn's 60-year career. The track "Portland, Oregon" was
listed as the 305th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media.

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Released: April 28, 2009
The 33rd studio album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan,
released on April 28, 2009, by Columbia Records. The
album debuted at number 1 in several countries, in-
cluding the U.S. and the UK. It was Dylan's first chart-
topping album in Britain since New Morning in 1970.
Rolling Stone gave the album 4 stars out of 5. Describing
the album as a "murky-sounding, often perplexing record",
David Fricke of Rolling Stone writes, "Dylan, who turns 68
in May, has never sounded as ravaged, pissed off and lusty".
BBC noted that the album is "a masterful reading of 20th
century American folk, albeit shot through with some mis-
chievous lyrical twists" and compares it to "some Chicago
urban blues tribute".

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Released: April 29, 1967
A song written and originally released by American
recording artist Otis Redding in 1965. The song be-
came a 1967 hit and signature song for soul singer
Aretha Franklin. The music in the two versions is
significantly different, and through a few changes
in the lyrics, the stories told by the songs have a
different flavor. .. Franklin's version is a declaration
from a strong, confident woman, who knows that she
has everything her man wants. She never does him
wrong, and demands his "respect". Franklin's version
adds the "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" chorus and the backup singers'
refrain of "Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me..."
Franklin's cover was a landmark for the feminist move-
ment, and is often considered one of the best songs of
the R&B era, earning her two Grammy Awards in 1968
for "Best Rhythm & Blues Recording" and "Best Rhythm
& Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Female", and was in-
ducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1987.