Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for July 19th
7/19/1954 (62 years ago today) - Sun Records released "That's All Right", Elvis Presley's debut 45-RPM single -- Only 7,000 copies of the cover of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's 1946 classic, "That's All Right (Mama)" were pressed, but the soon-to-be irresistible blueprint was in place, and the disc became a local hit in Memphis. Check out this video: fourteen years later, he still kills it...
7/19/1975 (41 years ago today) -Since when did Wings' music start getting closer and closer to being 50-years-old?...: Paul McCartney scores his fourth post-Beatle U.S. No. 1 single with "Listen To What The Man Said" -- It proceeds to sell over a million copies in America alone! -- The Wings album from which it came, "Venus And Mars", will also become Paul's fourth No. 1 solo LP since the break-up of The Fab Four. Still sounds good, actually, one of his most underrated albums...
7/19/1952 - Born on this date, Lynyrd Skynyrd founding member/guitarist Allen Collins, who, along with lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, wrote many of the bands most successful and enduring classics, including "Free Bird", "Gimme Three Steps" and "That Smell". Allen was a highly regarded and quite accomplished guitarist since the age of 12; he survived the 1977 plane crash that took away three band members, but fate wasn't done with him yet: Collins was behind the wheel in a 1986 car accident that killed his girlfriend and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Allen was only 37 years old when he passed away on January 23rd, 1990.
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