‘’I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character’’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sam Cooke
The 35th Academy Awards was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on April 8th, 1963, honoring movies released in 1962.
On March 5th, 1963, a plane fell from the sky in Tennessee and killed three country artists. The rising star, Patsy Cline, as well as Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas. A truly sad day for all of country music.
Northern Songs Publishing was a good idea. But like business in general, things aren’t that transparent.
Ringo Starr, who was the drummer of a band called Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, played his first gig with The Beatles on August 18th, 1962, and this means that the line-up we’ve come to know and love is finally set.
The 4th annual Grammy Awards was held in May 1962 (might have been in April) to celebrate the best music of the year 1961.
On April 10, Stu Sutcliffe, the original bassist of The Beatles, passed away. He only played with them for a short while, and according to a lot of what I’ve read about him, he wasn’t very good, but that doesn’t mean he is not worth mentioning.
On New Year’s Day, 1962, the Beatles drove down to London in a snowstorm, a trip that took ten hours, to attend the famed Decca audition. This is an event that would go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes ever made in the music industry.
The third member of the abomination that is U2 is born this month, and a monster is getting closer to rise into our world. Can we stop it? No. Can we complain about it? Yes.
I’ve finally stumbled over the first Norwegian release since I started this project. I mean, there have been other releases, but they are not available on the streaming platforms that I use. And like I’ve mentioned before; I’m not rich enough to buy all the records I can’t find on the internet. But The Monn Keys will be the first Norwegian band to get some attention here on This Band Could Be Your Life.
September 1960 saw the birth of the very first prime time animated show on television; The Flintstones. The antics of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble have put a smile on people’s faces for quite a few decades now. And even though it’s been some years since I’ve watched it, I’ll still sing the theme song every now and then.
With releases from big names such as Frank Sinatra, Chuck Berry, and Sammy Davis Jr. one would think that it would be easy to have a good time while checking out their albums. Well, the joke’s on me!
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