Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for December 1st

Inspiration from the graveyard! -- Neil Young: sued by his own label! -- A birthday for an old Psychedelic Breakfast friend!

12/1/1958 (58 years ago today) - Hard to get this one outta yer head once you start singing along: The Teddy Bears are at No. 1 on the singles chart with the catch--catch--catchy classic "To Know Him Is To Love Him". Weird fact: the title of the Phil Spector song came from word's on his father's tombstone {cue ghost fx here....}.

12/1/1983 (33 years ago today) - Apparently, Big Boss Man didn't like what he was hearing, so...: Neil Young was sued by his label, Geffen Records, because his new releases for the company "were not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums". In other words, they were not money-makers. Neil's latest release for these jerks (his 13th studio album) was a selection of rockabilly songs (both covers and originals) called "Everybody's Rockin'" -- the LP, credited to Neil & The Shocking Pinks, was the shortest album of his career: ten songs clocking in at a total of just under 25 minutes. Brilliant! Actually, this is in our Top 5 Best Neil Young Albums Ever. No foolin', it's seriously great stuff. How can you not love this:

12/1/1944 - Happy Birthday to John Densmore, drummer for The Doors, 72 years old today. Back in April of 2013, John spent three hours live-on-the-air with The Guru and I on the (sadly missed) "Psychedelic Breakfast" show, and he couldn't have been more cordial, funny and intelligent and very...California-dude-like, actually, with some of the best behind-the-scenes-with-Jim-Morrison-stories we've ever heard. John's the definition of The Real Deal, you bet. He was there.

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