Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for August 30th

Another cool '60's fest worth noting (wicked line-ups!!!) -- The weird state of hit singles in 1975 -- Props for a Velvets founder...

8/30/1969 (47 years ago today) - It's Day One of The Texas Pop Festival held at the newly opened Dallas International Motor Speedway in Lewisville, Texas, a mere two weeks after Woodstock. Over 120,000 fans attend over the Labor Day weekend and it's a killer list -- some of the classic artists that played include: 1st day -- Canned Heat, Chicago, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Sam & Dave; 2nd day -- Led Zeppelin (notably billed as "The Led Zeppelin"), Herbie Mann, Delaney & Bonnie, Santana; 3rd day -- Johnny Winter, Sly & The Family Stone, Nazz (Todd Rundgren), Spirit, and Ten Years After.

8/30/1975 (41 years ago today) - KC and the Sunshine Band score the first of their five(!) No. 1 singles with "Get Down Tonight". Perspective: while the biggest selling singles of the year included such dreck as "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Una Paloma Blanca" and {gulp!} the dreaded "Feelings", over on the LP side, 1975 looked alot different: "Blood On The Tracks", "Physical Graffiti" and "Born To Run". Just sayin'...

8/30/1995 (21 years ago today) - Founding member of The Velvet Underground, guitarist Sterling Morrison, lost his battle with cancer at home in New York City just two days after his 53rd birthday. The Velvets came to us from some future unknowable dimension, by the way. There is no other explanation for why they still sound so utterly fantastic...

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