This Day in Music History

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Released: January 25, 2000
The tenth studio album by American
singer-songwriter Warren Zevon...
Several of the album's songs deal with
the topic of death; for instance, "My
Shit's Fucked Up" is a mournful lament
on the aging process and the inevitable
decay that accompanies it. "Life'll Kill
Ya" and "Don't Let Us Get Sick" also have
prominent death themes...In 2002, just
two years after the album's release, Zevon
was diagnosed with mesothelioma and died
a year later.

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Released: January 26, 1970
Bridge Over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio
album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel...
Critically and commercially successful, the album topped
the charts in over ten countries and received two Grammy
Awards, plus four more for the title song. The album sold
around 25 million records; making it at the time of release
the best-selling album of all time. It has been ranked on
several lists, including at number 172 on Rolling Stone's
500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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Released: January 27, 1998
The fourth studio album and the major label debut
of American country music band, the Dixie Chicks. It
was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie
Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial
success...At the 41st Grammy Awards, the album was
awarded 2 Grammy Awards out of 3 nominations. It
was awarded Best Country Album (the first of what
would be 4 trophies in this category: they would later
win for Fly in 2000, Home in 2003, and Taking the
Long Way in 2007) and for Best Country Performance
by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song "There's
Your Trouble".

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Released: January 29, 1980
"Call Me" is a song by the American new
wave band Blondie and the theme to the
1980 film American Gigolo..."Call Me" was
No. 1 for six consecutive weeks on the Bill-
board Hot 100 chart, where it became the
band's biggest single and second No. 1. It
also hit No. 1 in the UK and Canada, where
it became their fourth and second chart-
topper, respectively. In the year-end chart
of 1980, it was Billboard's No. 1 single.

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Released: January 30, 1968
White Light/White Heat is the second studio album
by American rock band the Velvet Underground. Re-
leased on Verve Records, it was the band's last studio
recording with multi-instrumentalist and founding
member John Cale...The album was dismissed by many
contemporary mainstream music critics, although under-
ground newspapers took notice. Ultimately, White Light/
White Heat had a hugely significant impact on early forms
of punk rock and no wave and has appeared on several
lists of the greatest albums of all time.

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Released: January 31, 1972
Let's Stay Together is the fourth studio album
by soul singer Al Green. Released in 1972, as
the follow-up to his moderate success, Al Green
Gets Next to You, it was recorded at Royal Re-
cording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. A com-
mercial success, it peaked at number eight on
the pop albums chart and became the first of
six consecutive Green albums to peak at number
one on the soul album chart, where it held the
position for ten straight weeks. Let's Stay Together
is best-known for its title track, "Let's Stay Together",
which became Green's signature song and his only
number-one pop hit single. The third Green album
produced by Willie Mitchell; Let's Stay Together
marked the beginning of Green's classic period of
critically acclaimed albums.

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Released: February 01, 1967


Released: February 01, 1970


Released: February 01, 1972

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Released: February 02, 1976
The fourth studio album by the Southern rock band
Lynyrd Skynyrd. It reached #20 on the U.S. albums
chart. The album was certified Gold on 1/20/1981
by the RIAA. The album was originally titled Ain't No
Dowd About It, in tribute to the producer Tom Dowd,
whom the band idolized. It remains the only studio
album by the pre-crash lineup to have not yet reached
platinum or higher in the United States, though it did
include minor hits "Gimme Back My Bullets" and "Double
Trouble."

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On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as "The Day the Music Died", Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in Iowa, an accident that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Richie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as pilot Roger Peterson.

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On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as "The Day the Music Died", Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in Iowa, an accident that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Richie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as pilot Roger Peterson.

I spent Thursday-today in Clear Lake, always a fun time of year.

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On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as "The Day the Music Died", Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in Iowa, an accident that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Richie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as pilot Roger Peterson.

I spent Thursday-today in Clear Lake, always a fun time of year.

what do they have going on?

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On February 3, 1959, on what has become known as "The Day the Music Died", Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in Iowa, an accident that also claimed the lives of fellow musicians Richie Valens and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, as well as pilot Roger Peterson.

I spent Thursday-today in Clear Lake, always a fun time of year.

what do they have going on?

https://www.surfballroom.com/wdpLineup.html

Lots of stuff at the Surf and around town, the whole city gets into it really.

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Released: February 04, 1977
Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-
American rock band Fleetwood Mac...Often con-
sidered Fleetwood Mac's magnum opus, Rumours
has frequently been cited as one of the greatest
albums of all time...In 2020, Rumours was rated
the seventh-greatest album of all time in Rolling
Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

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Released: February 05, 1986
"Kiss" is a song composed, written, and produced by
American musician Prince. Released by the Paisley
Park label as the lead single from Prince and the
Revolution's eighth studio album, Parade (1986), it
was a No. 1 hit worldwide, holding the top spot of
the US Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks...The
song is ranked No. 85 on the Rolling Stone list of the
500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2021.

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Released: February 06, 1969
The Gilded Palace of Sin is the first album by the country
rock group the Flying Burrito Brothers. It continued Gram
Parsons' and Chris Hillman's work in modern country music,
fusing traditional sources like folk and country with other
forms of popular music like gospel, soul, and psychedelic
rock...The Gilded Palace of Sin has been widely regarded
as an important album in 1970s rock. It was included in
Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s
recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock
Albums of the Seventies (1981). It is also listed at number
192 in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All
Time in the 2012 edition.

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Released: February 07, 1975
Pieces of the Sky is the second studio
album and major-label debut by Amer-
ican country music artist Emmylou
Harris...Although she had released the
obscure folk-styled Gliding Bird five
years earlier, Pieces of the Sky became
the album that launched Harris's career
and is widely considered to be her début.
In those intervening years she forged a
musical relationship with Gram Parsons
that altered the musical direction of her
career. The album includes Harris's first
high-charting Billboard country hit, the
#4 "If I Could Only Win Your Love," and
the relatively low-charting #73 "Too Far
Gone" (originally a 1967 hit for Tammy
Wynette). The overall song selection was
varied and showed early on how eclectic
Harris's musical tastes were. In addition
to her own "Boulder to Birmingham" (writ-
ten for Gram Parsons, who had died the
previous year), she included the Merle
Haggard classic "The Bottle Let Me Down,"
The Beatles' "For No One," and Dolly Parton's
"Coat of Many Colors." (Parton, in turn, co-
vered "Boulder to Birmingham" on her 1976
album All I Can Do.) On Shel Silverstein's
"Queen Of The Silver Dollar," Harris's long-
time friend and vocal collaborator, Linda
Ronstadt, sings harmony.

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Released: February 08, 1977
Debut album by American rock band Television. It was
released by Elektra Records. Marquee Moon was met
with widespread acclaim and was hailed by critics as
an original musical development in rock music. The
critical recognition helped the album achieve unexpected
commercial success in the United Kingdom, but it sold
poorly in the United States. The record has since been
viewed by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time
and a foundational record of alternative rock. Television's
innovative post-punk instrumentation on Marquee Moon
strongly influenced the new wave and indie rock movements
of the 1980s.

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Released: February 09, 1970
Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American
rock band the Doors, released by Elektra Records...
The album reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and
performed better overseas than the preceding album
(it was the group's highest-charting studio album in
the United Kingdom, where it peaked at No. 12). The
accompanying "You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues"
single peaked at No. 50 in May 1970 on the Billboard
100 chart. The cover photo was taken by Henry Diltz.

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Released: February 09, 1970
Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American
rock band the Doors, released by Elektra Records...
The album reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and
performed better overseas than the preceding album
(it was the group's highest-charting studio album in
the United Kingdom, where it peaked at No. 12). The
accompanying "You Make Me Real" / "Roadhouse Blues"
single peaked at No. 50 in May 1970 on the Billboard
100 chart. The cover photo was taken by Henry Diltz.

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Released: February 10, 1971
Tapestry is the second studio album by American
singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1971 on
Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. The lead
singles from the album—"It's Too Late" and "I Feel
the Earth Move"—spent five weeks at number one
on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Easy Listening
charts.Tapestry has been certified 14× Platinum by
the Recording Industry Association of America in the
US, and has sold an estimated 30 million copies
worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums
of all time. In 2000, it ranked 74th in Colin Larkin's
All Time Top 1000 Albums, and in 2020, it ranked
25th on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest al-
bums of all time. Tapestry won four Grammy Awards,
including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and
Record of the Year.

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Released:February 11, 1949
A show tune written by Cliff Friend
and Irving Mills. The recordings by
Griffin and Miller inspired Hank
Williams to perform the song dur-
ing his first appearances on the
Louisiana Hayride in 1948. Re-
ceiving an enthusiastic reception
from the audience, Williams de-
cided to record his own version
despite initial push back from his
producer Fred Rose and his band.
MGM Records released "Lovesick
Blues" in February 1949, and it
became an overnight success,
quickly reaching number one on
Billboard's Top C&W singles and
number 24 on the Most Played in
Jukeboxes list. The publication
named it the top country and
western record of the year,
while Cashbox named it "Best
Hillbilly Record of the Year".

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Released: February 12, 1972
Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by American rock
band the Allman Brothers Band, containing a mix of
live and studio recordings. Following their artistic and
commercial breakthrough with the July 1971 release
of the live album At Fillmore East, the Allman Brothers
Band got to work on their third studio album. Drug use
among the band became an increasing problem, and at
least one member underwent rehab for heroin addiction.
On October 29, 1971, lead and slide guitarist Duane Allman,
group leader and founder, was killed in a motorcycle accident
in the band's adopted hometown of Macon, Georgia, making it
the final album to feature him...On release Eat a Peach was
an immediate commercial success and peaked at number four
on Billboard's Top 200 Pop Albums chart. The album was later
certified platinum and remains a top seller in the band's
discography.

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Released: February 13, 1970
Debut studio album by the English rock band Black
Sabbath...Black Sabbath is widely considered the
first heavy metal album. Additionally, the opening
track of the album—Black Sabbath—is widely con-
sidered to be the first doom metal song... In 2005,
it was ranked number 238 on Rolling Stone maga-
zine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time;
it was ranked number 243 in a revised edition of
the list in 2012. Rolling Stone ranked Black Sabbath
number 44 in their list of the 100 Best Debut Albums
of All Time, describing the title track as the song
that "would define the sound of a thousand bands".

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Released: February 14, 1985
The debut studio album by American contemporary
R&B and pop singer Whitney Houston. The album
initially had a slow commercial response, but began
getting more popular in the summer of 1985. It
eventually topped the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks in
1986, generating three number-one singles. In 2003,
the album was ranked number 254 on Rolling Stone
magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
In its 2012 edition, the album was ranked at number 257.

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Released: February 15, 1974
A song by David Bowie, released in 1974 as a single from the album Diamond Dogs.
Cited as his most-covered track, it has been described as being effectively Bowie's
farewell to the glam rock movement that he had helped pioneer, as well as being a
proto-punk track. The single quickly became a glam anthem, the female equivalent
of Bowie's earlier hit for Mott the Hoople, "All the Young Dudes". Originally planned
in late 1973 as part of an aborted Ziggy Stardust musical, "Rebel Rebel" was Bowie's
last single in his signature glam rock style. It was also his first hit since 1969 not to
feature lead guitarist Mick Ronson; Bowie played guitar himself on this and almost all
the other tracks on Diamond Dogs, producing what NME critics Roy Carr and Charles
Shaar Murray called "a rocking dirty noise that owed as much to Keith Richards as it
did to the departed Ronno".

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Released: February 16, 1982
The thirteenth studio album by Northern
Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, re-
leased in February 1982. It continued
Morrison's departure from R&B at the
time, instead favoring Celtic folk and
American jazz in its music. As with many
of Morrison's recordings, spirituality is a
major theme and some of the songs are
based on the teachings of Alice Bailey.
Other songs show Morrison's Celtic heritage
and reminiscence of his Belfast background.

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Released: February 17, 1975
High Voltage is the debut studio album by Australian
hard rock band AC/DC, released only in Australia in
1975. Their first international release in 1976 would
also be named High Voltage, though with a radically
different track list.

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Released: February 18, 1974
Kiss is the debut studio album by American rock band
Kiss. Much of the material on the album was written by
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, as members of their
pre-Kiss band Wicked Lester. Simmons estimated that
the entire process of recording and mixing took three
weeks, while co-producer Richie Wise has stated it took
just 13 days.

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Released: February 19, 1991
"Losing My Religion" is a song by American alternative
rock band R.E.M., released in February 1991 as the first
single from the group's seventh album, Out of Time (1991).
Built on a mandolin riff, the song was an unlikely hit for the
group, garnering extensive airplay on radio as well as on MTV
and VH1 due to its critically acclaimed music video. The single
became R.E.M.'s highest-charting hit in the United States, rea-
ching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and expanding the group's
popularity beyond its original fanbase. At the 1992 Grammy
Awards, "Losing My Religion" won two awards: Best Short Form
Music Video and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal.