This Day in Music History

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Released: November 28, 1969
The album was voted number 40 in Colin Larkin's All Time
Top 1000 Albums 3rd edition (2000). In 2005, the album
was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and is on
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

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Released: November 29, 1968
Astral Weeks has appeared in all-time best album polls
worldwide, and according to Acclaimed Music, it is the
15th most ranked record in critics' all-time lists. In 1978,
it was voted the 4th best album of all time in Paul Gamba-
ccini's poll of 50 prominent American and English rock critics.
It was also ranked second greatest by Mojo in 1995, 19th by
Rolling Stone in 2003, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised
list, and 3rd by The Times. In 1998, it was voted the 9th great-
est album of all time in a "Music of the Millennium" poll con-
ducted by HMV, Channel 4 and The Guardian. In 2000, Q placed
the record at number 6 on its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums
Ever. Time included Astral Weeks in its 2006 list of the "All-TIME
100 Albums". When Astral Weeks was voted the best Irish album of
all time in 2009, Niall Stokes wrote in Hot Press, "It's an extraordinary
work, packed with marvelously evocative songs that are rooted in
Belfast but which deliver a powerful and lasting universal poetic
resonance." The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums
You Must Hear Before You Die. It ranked number 16 in the 2000 third
edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.


Released: November 29, 1963
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" became the Beatles'
best-selling single worldwide selling more than
12 million copies. In 2018, Billboard magazine
named it the 48th biggest hit of all time on the
Billboard Hot 100.

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i missed yesterday. oops. will put it up this morning and today's later.


Released: November 30, 1979
In 2003 and 2012, Rolling Stone placed The Wall at number 87 on its list of the greatest albums of all time, and at number 129 for its 2020 revision.


Released: November 30, 1982
Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time,
with sales of 66 million copies worldwide. It is the
second-best-selling album in the United States and
was certified 33× platinum by the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) in 2017. It won a record-
breaking eight Grammy Awards at the 1984 Grammy
Awards, including Album of the Year, while "Beat It"
won Record of the Year. Jackson also won a record-
breaking eight American Music Awards at the 1984
American Music Awards. The album is often credited
by critics and publications as one of the greatest
albums of all time. It was inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame, the Library of Congress' National
Recording Registry of "culturally, historically, or
aesthetically significant recordings", and the
"Thriller" music video was inducted into the National
Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry of
"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films".

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'Thriller' was AWESOME!!

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Released: December 01, 1971
"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a Christmas song released
in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with
the Harlem Community Choir...Also a protest song against
the Vietnam War, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has since
become a Christmas standard, frequently recorded by
other artists.

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Released: December 03, 1965
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock
band the Beatles...Among its many appearances on critics'
best-album lists, Rolling Stone ranked it fifth on the maga-
zine's 2012 list "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In
2000, it was voted at number 34 in the third edition of
Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums.


Released: December 03, 1965
My Generation is the debut studio album by English
rock band the Who, released by Brunswick Records
in the United Kingdom, and Festival Records in Australia.

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Released: December 03, 1965
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock
band the Beatles...Among its many appearances on critics'
best-album lists, Rolling Stone ranked it fifth on the maga-
zine's 2012 list "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In
2000, it was voted at number 34 in the third edition of
Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums.


Released: December 03, 1965
My Generation is the debut studio album by English
rock band the Who, released by Brunswick Records
in the United Kingdom, and Festival Records in Australia.

A 3 year old Gus Munger didn't even know who the Beatles were when this came out!

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Released: December 04, 1965
Their fifth American studio album by the Rolling
Stones...It is the last of the group's early albums
to feature numerous cover songs; writers Mick
Jagger and Keith Richards wrote only half of the
songs themselves.


Released: December 04, 1972
a song written and recorded by Merle Haggard and The Strangers..."I Wonder If They Ever Think of
Me" was Haggard and The Strangers fourteenth number one on the U.S. country singles chart.

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Released: December 05, 1966
Buffalo Springfield is the debut album by the folk
rock band Buffalo Springfield, released in December
1966 on Atco Records. Band members Stephen Stills
and Neil Young wrote all the material on the album.


Released: December 05, 1975
Live! is a 1975 album by Bob Marley and
the Wailers which was recorded live in
concert during July 1975 at the Lyceum
Theatre, London. "No Woman, No Cry"
was released as a single.

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Released: December 06, 1965
Turn! Turn! Turn! is the second studio album by American
rock band the Byrds, released on December 6, 1965, by
Columbia Records. Like its predecessor, Mr. Tambourine
Man, the album epitomized the folk rock genre and cont-
inued the band's successful mix of vocal harmony and
jangly twelve-string Rickenbacker guitar.


Released: December 06, 1968


Released: December 06, 1977
Running on Empty is the fifth album by American
singer-songwriter Jackson Browne...Released in
1977, the album reached No. 3 on the Billboard
Pop Albums chart in 1978 and stayed on the charts
for 65 weeks.

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Released: December 07, 2004
A live album and documentary from their highly successful
"Old Friends" reunion concert tour of 2003, with The Everly
Brothers as special guests...The CD and DVD were taken
from a series of shows at New York's Madison Square Garden
in early December 2003.

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Released: December 08, 1965


Released: December 08, 1975


Released: December 08, 1976

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Released: December 09, 1966
Fresh Cream is the debut studio album by the British
rock band Cream...In 2012, the album was ranked
number 102 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest
Albums of all time (the highest-ranking album by
Cream on the list)...Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
AllMusic opined that the album was "instrumental
in the birth of heavy metal and jam rock".

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Released: December 10, 1976

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Released: December 11, 2020
Evermore (stylized in all lowercase) is the ninth studio
album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift...
Spin critic Bobby Olivier thought that the "career-re-
defining" album finds Swift at her prime, joining "the
pantheon of songwriters who consistently deliver de-
spite unimaginable expectations"

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Released: December 12, 1980
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by English punk
rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December
1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6
songs on each side...Sandinista! was voted best album
of the year in the Pazz & Jop critics poll in The Village
Voice. In 2012 was ranked number 407 on the Rolling
Stone list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"
whilst Slant Magazine listed the album at number 85
on its "Best Albums of the 1980s" list.

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Released: December 13, 1990
Released to coincide with Sinatra's
75th birthday, this three-disc set has
an abundance of classic Sinatra per-
formances from his career with Cap-
itol Records, which spanned the years
1953 to 1961.


Released: December 13, 1977
A disco song written and performed by the Bee Gees
from the Saturday Night Fever motion picture sound-
track. The song was released as the second single from
the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack...It is one of the
Bee Gees' signature songs. In 2004, "Stayin' Alive" was
placed at number 189 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500
Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Released: December 14, 1979
Third studio album by English rock band The Clash...
London Calling reflects the band's growing interest in
a range of styles beyond their punk roots, including
reggae, rockabilly, ska, New Orleans R&B, pop, lounge
jazz, and hard rock...A widespread critical success, it
has often been mentioned as one of the greatest albums
of all time, including a ranking of number eight on Rolling
Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.

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Released: December 15, 1955
"Folsom Prison Blues" is a song by American singer-
songwriter Johnny Cash...Cash performed the song
live to a crowd of inmates at Folsom State Prison in
1968 for his live album At Folsom Prison (1968), rel-
eased through Columbia Records. This version became
a No. 1 hit on the country music charts and reached
No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the same year. This
version also won the Grammy Award for Best Country
Vocal Performance, Male, at the 11th Annual Grammy
Awards in 1969.

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Released: December 16, 1966


Released: December 16, 1974

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Released: December 17, 1971
Hunky Dory is the fourth studio album by English
musician David Bowie...Retrospectively, Hunky Dory
has been critically acclaimed as one of Bowie's best
works, and features on several lists of the greatest
albums of all time. Within the context of his career,
it is considered to be the album where "Bowie starts
to become Bowie", definitively discovering his voice
and style.

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Released: December 18, 1965
Song written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and
Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham. It
was released as a single by Marianne Faithfull in
1964 and peaked at number 9 in the United King-
dom. The Rolling Stones recorded their own version
later, releasing the track in late 1965 on the album
December's Children (And Everybody's) and subse-
quently as a single in North America.

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Released: December 19, 1964

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Released: December 20, 1971
The Concert for Bangladesh (originally spelt The Concert
for Bangla Desh) is a live triple album credited to
"George Harrison & Friends" and released on Apple
Records...On release, The Concert for Bangladesh was
a major critical and commercial success. It topped
albums charts in several countries and went on to win
the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in March 1973.


Released: December 20, 1971
Hot Rocks 1964–1971 is a compilation album by the
Rolling Stones released by London Records in December
1971. It became the Rolling Stones' best-selling release
of their career and an enduring and popular retrospective.

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My Girl
Released: December 21, 1964
"My Girl" is a soul music song recorded by the Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) record label. Written and produced by the Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, it became the Temptations' first U.S. number 1 single, and is today their signature song.

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Released: December 22, 2017
"What follows is an electric, 22-song performance that delivers much of the core ‘78 tour set along with
special selections for those stalwart local supporters, including a long, band-showcasing “Kitty’s Back”;
the galvanizing cover of the Animals’ “It’s My Life” (frequently played at 1976-77 shows but uncommon in
‘78); and a very rare live coupling a la the album of “Incident on 57th Street” into “Rosalita” which justi-
fiably brings the house down. Smashing stuff."- Erik Flannigan

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Released: December 23, 1966
a song written by Stephen Stills. Performed by Buffalo
Springfield, it was recorded on December 5, 1966; re-
leased as a single on Atco Records on December 23, 1966;
and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Released: December 24, 2015
Arizona State University, Tempe 1980 is a live album
by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, released
in December 2015 and was the ninth official release
through the Bruce Springsteen Archives. The songs were
performed on November 5, 1980, at the ASU Activity
Center in Tempe, Arizona, during The River Tour. Unlike
previous archive releases which contain full concerts,
this ten-song collection includes only the songs that were
missing from the live concert video release on Spring-
steen's 2015 box set The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.

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Released: December 25, 1982
A song written and sung by Pete Townshend of the Who.
It appears as the sixth track on the group's 1982 studio
album, It's Hard. The single reached number 68 on the
Billboard Hot 100. Lead singer Roger Daltrey, vocally
critical of the album, described "Eminence Front" as the
only song on it that he felt was worthy of being released.

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Released: December 26, 1963
A song by the English rock band the
Beatles credited to Paul McCartney
and John Lennon, but written primarily
by McCartney. It is the opening track on
the band's 1963 debut album Please
Please Me..."I Saw Her Standing There"
was ranked No. 139 on Rolling Stone's list
of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.