Today ya got three legendary vinyl releases, all wickedly cool...

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan
Joan Baez with Bob; Civil Rights Rally, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1963. (Photo: Rowland Scherman/National Archive/Newsmakers/Getty Images)
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5/27/1957 (58 years ago today) - Buddy Holly and the Crickets release their first record "That'll Be The Day"; it goes to No. 3 here in America, No. 1 in Britain! The future classic was inspired by "The Searchers", a John Wayne movie that Buddy and his friends went to see where The Duke was frequently using the world-weary catchphrase "That'll be the day!". It was also the first song to be recorded by U.K. skiffle group The Quarrymen -- within a couple years, they would be known as The Beatles.

5/27/1963 (52 years ago today) - Bob Dylan's second studio album, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", is released by Columbia and immediately propels him to the forefront of the "youth-oriented protest movement". It certainly establishes Bob as a major songwriting talent -- no one else at the time (maybe, arguablyno one since) could even get close to what Dylan was coming up with: on this LP alone, you had "Blowin' In The Wind", "Masters Of War", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". In 2002, "Freewheelin'" was one of the first 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry; it 100% deserves to be called a masterpiece. Still sounds thrilling...

5/27/1977 (38 years ago today) - Meanwhile, over in Merry Olde England, something vaguely terrifying was about to get underway: The Sex Pistols release the single "God Save The Queen", and it proves to be an invaluable lesson in merchandising. You wanna know how to sell 200,000 copies in one week? TV and radio ban it; high street shops say they won't stock it; pressing plant workers refuse to handle it. Well done! In no time at all, it gets up to No. 2 on the U.K. chart, with the top slot going to Rod Stewart's "I Don't Want To Talk About It". Supposedly the biggest selling single in England ever at the time, but the British Phonographic Industry conspired to keep it out of the No. 1 spot! Pistol-Gate!!!

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