Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for June 9th

Dylan! Elvis! The Stones! You don't need much else. Really. Like...ever.

6/9/1964 (52 years ago today) - ...and the original versions of "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Chimes Of Freedom" get done: At Columbia Recording Studios, New York City, Bob Dylan records fourteen songs in one night(!) for his upcoming album, "Another Side Of Bob Dylan". Influential to say the least...

6/9/1972 (44 years ago today) - Entertainment history is made when Elvis Presley plays the first of four sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden. In the audience: George Harrison, John Lennon, David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Art Garfunkel. So, no pressure then. The concerts were released as the album "Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden". So, no pressure to give it a really cool LP title then, either.

6/9/1978 (38 years ago today) - Showing the punks how it's done: The Rolling Stones release their first album with Ron Wood as a full-fledged member of the band, and it becomes one of the most successful in their entire catalog -- "Some Girls" features "Miss You", "Beast Of Burden", "Shattered", "Far Away Eyes", "Respectable", and a killer-diller cover of The Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)". As usual, the Stones get into trouble: the original LP cover, designed by longtime friend Peter Corriston, featured the band in garish drag alongside lingerie ads and various female celebrities -- Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Raquel Welch, Liza Minnelli (representing her mom Judy Garland) and the estate of Marilyn Monroe all threaten legal action when their photo's get used without their permission; the first pressings are now much-treasured collector's items worth mucho bucko's.

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"Let me forget about today/Until tomorrow...", xoxo!