Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for May 8th

Today you got Fab Four history, Dylan videography, and the birthdate of a real blues master...

5/08/1964 (51 years ago today) - Remember now, you had to make a trip to the record store and make a purchase to make this happen: By this date it turns out that The Beatles have held onto the Number One position on the U.S. singles chart for an unprecedented fourteen weeks with three No. 1's in a row -- "I Want To Hold Your Hand" for seven weeks; "She Loves You" for two weeks; and "Can't Buy Me Love" for five weeks. What a great time to own a portable transistor radio, eh?

5/08/1965 (50 years ago today) - Long, long, long before MTV, Dylan was there first...of course!: The filming of Bob's"Subterranean Homesick Blues" takes place in London in an alley by the legendary Savoy Hotel. You see the concept of this piece in all kinds of visual media, even today; the whole clip is Dylan's idea: staring into the camera while holding up cue cards with selected words and phrases from the song, then tossing 'em away like he was almost bored with the whole thing. Really cool!

5/08/1911 - Born on this date, blues master Robert Johnson whose canon has been covered by anybody that has ever really mattered: Cream/Lynyrd Skynyrd ("Crossroads"), The Rolling Stones ("Love In Vain"), Steve Miller/Delaney & Bonnie ("Come On In My Kitchen"), Led Zeppelin ("Travelling Riverside Blues"), Fleetwood Mac ("Hellhound On My Trail"), Eric Clapton/John Mayall ("Rambling On My Mind"), plus Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Elmore James, Foghat, The Allman Brothers and so many, many more (we could be here all day). Johnson died August 16th, 1938. Look him up. Learn something.

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"Look out, kid/It's somethin' you did/God knows when but you're doin' it again...", xoxo!