This Day in Music History

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Released: December 27, 1967
Songs of Leonard Cohen is the debut album by Canadian
folk singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen...Less successful
in the US than in Europe, Songs of Leonard Cohen fore-
shadowed the kind of chart success Cohen would go on
to achieve.


eleased: December 27, 1967
The eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter
Bob Dylan...the album marked Dylan's return to semi-
acoustic instrumentation and folk-influenced songwriting
after three albums of lyrically abstract, blues-indebted
rock music...In 2003, it was ranked No. 301 on Rolling
Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all
time, moving to 303 in the 2012 version of that list.

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Released: December 28, 1964
A song made famous by country music band Buck
Owens and the Buckaroos. Released in December
1964, the song was one of Owens' signature songs
and showcases of the Bakersfield sound in the genre.

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Released: December 29, 1975
Elite Hotel is the third studio album by American country
music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1975. Elite Hotel
was Harris' second album to be released in 1975, preceded
by the widely acclaimed Pieces of the Sky. Elite Hotel sur-
passed it on the Billboard charts, becoming Harris' first #1
country album...Harris' vocals on the album earned her the
Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.

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Recorded: December 30, 1974
"Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by American singer-
songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the
opening track on his 15th studio album Blood on
the Tracks (1975)...The track was initially recorded
in September 1974, but later re-recorded on 30 De-
cember of that year at Sound 80 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The latter version was released on Blood
on the Tracks on 20 January 1975. The song received
widespread acclaim from music critics, with particular
praise for the lyrics. Rolling Stone ranked it No. 68 on
their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Recorded: December 31, 1995
A live concert album by American rock band Phish that
was released in 2005. The album comprises the band's
December 31, 1995 show at Madison Square Garden,
named by Rolling Stone as one of the "Greatest Concerts
of the '90s".

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Released: January 01, 1987
A song written by Bruce Springsteen in
1977 which had its highest profile as a
1978 single release by the Pointer Sisters.
Bruce Springsteen envisioned "Fire" as a
song which could be recorded by his idol
Elvis Presley. It was written after Spring-
steen saw Presley perform at a May 28,
1977 concert at the Spectrum in Phila-
delphia. Springsteen said, "I sent a
demo of it but he died before it arrived."
On the 1986 Springsteen concert album
Live/1975-85 "Fire" is represented by a
December 16, 1978 performance at
Winterland in San Francisco.

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Released: January 02, 1968
Sing Me Back Home is the fifth studio album by American country singer and songwriter Merle Haggard
and The Strangers...The album's title track was inspired by an inmate Haggard knew while he was ser-
ving time in San Quentin named Jimmy "Rabbit" Kendrick. As recounted in his 1981 autobiography Merle
Haggard: Sing Me Back Home, Rabbit devised a brilliant escape and invited Haggard to join him, but
they both agreed it would be best that he stay put. Rabbit was captured two weeks later and eventually
executed for the murder of a state trooper. Haggard, the "guitar playing friend", wrote the song as a tribute.

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going to get yesterday in right now. will be back for today's history later.



A song by the American new wave band Blondie, written
by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. Featured
on the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines (1978), it
was released as the album's third single in January 1979
and reached number one on the charts in several countries,
including the United States and the United Kingdom.
In December 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number
255 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

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Released: January 04, 1929
American song, best known through performances and recordings by the Carter Family.

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Released: January 05, 1973
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. is the debut studio
album by American singer-songwriter Bruce Spring-
steen... In 2003, the album was ranked at No. 379
in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
and in 2013 the same magazine named Greetings
from Asbury Park, N.J. as one of the "100 Greatest
Debut Albums of All-Time".

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Released: January 06, 1976
A double live album by English rock musician Peter
Frampton released in 1976. It is one of the best-selling
live albums in the United States. "Show Me the Way",
"Baby, I Love Your Way", and "Do You Feel Like We Do"
were released as singles; all three reached the Top 15
on the Billboard Hot 100, and frequently receive airplay
on classic rock radio stations. Following four solo albums
with little commercial success, Frampton Comes Alive!
was a breakthrough for the artist. Frampton Comes Alive!
was voted "Album Of The Year" in the 1976 Rolling Stone
readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was
still No. 14 on Billboard's 1977 year-end album chart. It
was ranked No. 41 on Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Live
Albums of All Time" list. Readers of Rolling Stone ranked
it No. 3 in a 2012 poll of all-time favorite live albums.

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Released: January 07, 1972
A song by David Bowie, originally released on the
album Hunky Dory in December 1971 and as a sin-
gle on 7 January 1972, the day before Bowie's 25th
birthday. Despite missing the Billboard top 40,
"Changes" became one of Bowie's best-known songs...
The song ranked number 128 on the Rolling Stone list
of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It is one of four
of Bowie's songs to be included in The Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

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Released: January 08, 1968
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written
by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper.
It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once
just three days before his death in a plane crash on De-
cember 10, 1967...In 1999, BMI named the song as the
sixth-most performed song of the twentieth century,
with about six million performances...It was ranked
twenty-sixth on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of
All Time.

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Released: January 08, 1968
"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written
by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper.
It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once
just three days before his death in a plane crash on De-
cember 10, 1967...In 1999, BMI named the song as the
sixth-most performed song of the twentieth century,
with about six million performances...It was ranked
twenty-sixth on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of
All Time.

Fun fact, the whistling at the end was just supposed to be a placeholder for more lyrics that were to be recorded at a later date. He died before this could happen and it was released as is.

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Released: January 09, 1984
1984 is the sixth studio album by American hard rock
band Van Halen...It was the last Van Halen album until
A Different Kind of Truth (2012) to feature lead singer
David Lee Roth, who left in 1985 following creative differences.

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Released: January 10, 1989
The fifteenth solo studio album by American musician
Lou Reed...The album received universal critical suc-
cess upon release, and is widely considered to be a-
mong Reed's strongest solo efforts. It is highly re-
garded for the strength and force of its lyrical content;
Reed stated that he required simple music so that it
would not distract from his frank lyrics. The single "
Dirty Blvd." was a number-one hit on the newly created
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for four weeks.

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Released: January 11, 1971
Pearl is the second and final solo album (and fourth
album overall) by Janis Joplin, released on January
11, 1971, three months after her death on October
4, 1970...It peaked at number one on the Billboard
200, holding that spot for nine weeks. It has been
certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA...The
album cover, photographed by Barry Feinstein in
Los Angeles, shows Joplin reclining on her Victorian
era loveseat with a drink in her hand.

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Released: January 12, 1969
Led Zeppelin is the debut album by English rock band
Led Zeppelin...Led Zeppelin showed the group's fusion
of blues and rock, and their take on the emerging hard
rock sound was immediately commercially successful in
both the UK and US, reaching the top 10 on album charts
in both countries.

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Released: January 13, 1964
The Times They Are a-Changin' is the third studio album
by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan...Whereas his
previous albums Bob Dylan and The Freewheelin' Bob Dy-
lan consisted of original material among cover songs, Dy-
lan's third album was the first to feature only original
compositions.

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Released: January 14, 1977
Low is the 11th studio album by the English musician
David Bowie...In later decades, critics have rated Low
one of Bowie's best works, and it has appeared on
several lists of the greatest albums of all time.

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Released: January 15, 1969
Bayou Country is the second studio album by American
rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival...The album
was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear
Before You Die.

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Released: January 16, 1984
"Radio Ga Ga" is a 1984 song performed and recorded
by the British rock band Queen, written by their drum-
mer Roger Taylor. It was released as a single with "I Go
Crazy" by Brian May as the B-side...The song, which
makes a nostalgic defense of the radio format, was a
worldwide success for the band, reaching number one
in 19 countries, number two on the UK Singles Chart
and the Australian Kent Music Report and number 16
on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's final
single to reach the US top 20 in Freddie Mercury's lifetime.

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Released: January 17, 1974
Court and Spark is the sixth studio album by Canadian
singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. It was an immediate
commercial and critical success—and remains her most
successful album... In 2003 it was listed at No. 111 in
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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Released: January 18, 1978
The third studio album by American
musician Warren Zevon. The album
was released on January 18, 1978,
by Asylum Records. It includes the
single "Werewolves of London", which
reached No. 21 and remained in the
American Top 40 for six weeks. The
album brought Zevon to commercial
attention and remains the best-selling
album of his career. A remastered and
expanded edition was released in 2007.

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Released: January 19, 1977
Ask Rufus is the platinum-selling fifth
studio album by funk band Rufus (and
their third album featuring singer Chaka
Khan), released on the ABC Records label
in 1977. The album spent three weeks
atop the Billboard R&B Albums Chart in
1977.

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Released: January 20, 1975
Blood on the Tracks is the fifteenth studio album by
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan...The album
reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts and No. 4
on the UK Albums Chart, with the single "Tangled Up
in Blue" peaking at No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100
singles chart. The album remains one of Dylan's best-
selling studio releases, with a double-platinum U.S.
certification by the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA). In 2015, it was inducted into the Gram-
my Hall of Fame. It was voted number 7 in the third ed-
ition of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums
(2000), in 2003, the album was ranked No. 16 on Rolling
Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, rising
to the No. 9 spot in the 2020 revision of that same list.
In 2004, it was placed at No. 5 on Pitchfork's list of the
top 100 albums of the 1970s.

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Released: January 21, 1966
The second album by the Northern Irish band,
Them, whose lead singer and songwriter was
Van Morrison...it peaked at #138 on the Bill-
board charts.

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Released: January 22, 1968
The debut album by Dr. John (Mac Rebennack). Produced
by Harold Battiste, it was released on Atco Records in 1968.
The musical style of Gris-Gris is a hybrid of New Orleans
rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock. Despite the New
Orleans style, it was recorded in California, albeit with
several native New Orleans musicians.

Gris-Gris failed to chart in the United Kingdom and the
United States. It was re-issued on compact disc decades
later and received much greater praise from modern critics,
including being listed at #143 on Rolling Stone magazine's
list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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Released: January 23, 2006
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the
debut studio album by English rock band Arctic Mon-
keys...The album received widespread critical acclaim
from critics for its depiction of youth British culture and
for resurging British indie music that had waned after
the 1990s. Among its accolades included being named
the best album of 2006 by Time magazine, winning the
Brit Award for Best British Album, winning the 2007
Mercury Prize, and receiving a Grammy Award nomi-
nation for Best Alternative Music Album. It has been
ranked in several greatest albums lists', including 371
in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, 19
in NME's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and 30 in
Rolling Stone's 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time.

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Released: January 24, 2011
21 is the second studio album by English singer-song-
writer Adele...21 was the biggest selling musical re-
lease of both 2011 and 2012 and helped revitalise the
lagging sales of the UK and US music industry. With sales
of over 31 million copies worldwide, it is the best-selling
album of the 21st century, and one of the best-selling al-
bums of all time...21 won the 2012 Grammy Award for Al-
bum of the Year and the Brit Award for British Album of
the Year.