By Keefer
Mar 16, 2021
1964 - The Beatles set a new record for advance sales in the US with 2,100,000 copies of their latest single Can t Buy Me Love. When pressed by American journalists in 1966 to reveal the song s true meaning, Paul McCartney stated I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can t Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line .
1968 - Otis Redding s (Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay hits #1, becoming the first-ever posthumous #1 hit. Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. Redding really was sitting on the dock of the (San Francisco) Bay when he came up with the line, I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again. He took the idea to Steve Cropper, his producer at Stax Records and guitarist in Booker T & the MGs, who wrote the rest of the song with him. Cropper made it about Redding s life, how he went from a small town in Georgia to headlining the famous Fillmore West in
LEON MCAULIFFE - Texas Music Magazine
txmusic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from txmusic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Country Music Memories: Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Split Up
koel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from koel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.