Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for August 9th

Remembering Jerry -- Macca works alone...in the middle of the night -- Classic '60's one-hit wonder was written by a Papa...

8/9/1967 (49 years ago today) - A song about America, sung by an American, goes to No. 1 in England: Scott McKenzie topped the British singles chart with his classic period piece "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)". Scott's one-and-done 45-spin-of-fame was written by Mamas and Papas main man John Philips.

8/9/1968 (48 years ago today) - It's just after 2:00 am at Abbey Road studios in London, and the other Beatles have gone home for the night; Paul McCartney stays behind and records twenty-five -- TWENTY-FIVE!!! -- versions of "Mother's Nature's Son"...One of 'em's a keeper: it ends up on "The White Album".

8/9/1995 (21 years ago today) - His distinctive guitar playing put him at No. 13 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time": The Grateful Dead's much beloved founder Jerry Garcia died from a heart attack at the Serenity Knolls rehabilitation clinic in San Francisco; he was only 53 years old.

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"All across the nation/Such a strange vibration...", xoxo!