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Feb 10, 2021
1942 - Chattanooga Choo Choo by Colorado Music Hall Of Fame member Glenn Miller and his Orchestra became the first recording to be awarded a Gold Record. It was actually just a master copy of the disc sprayed with gold lacquer by RCA as a publicity stunt. The label was celebrating sales of over one million and soon became a common practice in the industry.
1968 - Rolling Stone magazine offers free roach clips to new subscribers.
1971- Carole King released her second studio album Tapestry. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time. King wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album, several of which had already been hits for other artists such as Aretha Franklin s (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman and The Shirelles Will You Love Me Tomorrow , and James Taylor, who encouraged King to sing her own songs and who also played on Tapestry, would later have a No. 1 hit with You ve Got a Friend . The album remained on the Billboard charts for
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1949 - RCA Records issued the first ever 45rpm single, the invention of this size record made jukeboxes possible.
1967 - At Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles started work on Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Beatles consciously synthesized such disparate influences as psychedelia, art-song, classical music, rock & roll, and music hall, often in the course of one song. After Sgt. Pepper, there were no rules to follow rock and pop bands could try anything, for better or worse.
1972 - Neil Young releases the album Harvest. After the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young went their separate ways in 1970, Young recruited a group of country session musicians (which he christened The Stray Gators) and recorded Harvest. The record was a massive hit, producing a US number one single in Heart of Gold . The album s success caught Young off guard and his first instinct was to back away from stardom. He would later write that the record put me in
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