Today in Music History: Bob Dylan records a classic
October 23, 2015
History Highlight:
Today in 1963, Bob Dylan began recording "The Times They Are A-Changin" in a two-day session at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City. It is one of Dylan's signature tunes - considered one of the greatest protest songs in history and a classic of 20th century popular music. The song was ranked No. 59 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Today In:
1961 - Dion started a two-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Runaround Sue."
1962 - A 12-year-old named Little Stevie Wonder recorded his first single for Motown Records. It was called "Thank You For Loving Me All The Way."
1976 - The band Chicago started a two-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "If You Leave Me Now."
1978 - Mother Maybelle Carter, one of the founding members of the pioneering country-folk group The Carter Family (including June, who later wed Johnny Cash), died at the age of 69.
1982 - The Damned released their album titled Strawberries, packaged with a Strawberry-smelling lyric sheet.
1989 - Nirvana played their first-ever European show when the appeared at Newcastle's Riverside Club in the northeast of England.
1995 - Def Leppard gave themselves a place in the Guinness book Of World Records, by playing three gigs in three continents in 24 hours. The shows were in London, England; Vancouver, Canada; and Tangier, Morocco.
2002 - Kanye West was involved in a car crash after he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from a recording studio in West Hollywood. No other cars were involved in the incident, which left West with his jaw fractured in three places. He's OK now.
Birthday:
Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 59.