Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for Rocktober 13th

Classic st-st-stuttering gets on tape! -- Another No. 1 for The Glimmer Twins franchise! -- Grossly underappreciated writer's b'day...

10/13/1965 (51 years ago today) - Pye Studios, London: The Who record "My Generation" -- It reaches No. 2 on the U.K. singles chart, kept off the top spot by The Seekers' "The Carnival Is Over" (yeah, we had to look that one up, too!) -- The BBC initially refused to play the song because they were afraid it would offend people who stutter.

10/13/1973 (43 years ago today) - The Rolling Stones start a four week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with "Goat's Head Soup", their fourth U.S. chart-topping LP. The unheard gems on this one are some of their best -- "100 Years Ago", "Coming Down Again", "Can You Hear The Music", "Silver Train", "Winter" -- really, another in a long line of  fantastic Stones albums, proving the run didn't end with "Exile...".

10/13/1944 - Happy Birthday to Chicago singer-songwriter-keyboardist Robert Lamm, 72 years old today! Just a reminder: Robert was the sole composer of the original/definitive Chicago songs on that ultra-classic two-LP debut set "Chicago Transit Authority"; all these years later, those tracks hold up as (still) the best stuff the band ever did -- "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is", "Beginnings", "Question 67 & 68", "Listen", and the totally overlooked killers "Poem 58" and "South California Purples". There was a time when these guys were superb...

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"Mostly I'm silent/Never think about words to say...", xoxo!