Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for Rocktober 13th

Today The Who record one of their definitive singles -- The Stones hit Numero Uno again-- and the passing of a true TV legend without whom...

10/13/1965 (50 years ago today) - Pye Studios, London: The Who record "My Generation" which will go as high as No. 2 on the U.K. chart. It's kept out of the top spot by The Seekers' "The Carnival Is Over", which, of course, no one remembers....at all. Roger Daltrey later claimed that he added the stuttering to the lyrics so that they would better fit the music; the BBC initially refused top play the song, fearing it would offend listeners who really stuttered. The Seekers?!?!?!?

10/13/1973 (42 years ago today) - The Rolling Stones begin a four-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with "Goat's Head Soup" -- it's the band's fourth chart-topping LP in America (also their third in a row!). Holds up better than you remember, too, with some of their very best album cuts of the decade: "Dancing With Mr. D", "Silver Train", "100 Years Ago", "Winter", "Hide Your Love" and "Coming Down Again" all as good 'n' Stonesy as anything else they had done up to this point. Really!!!

10/13/1974 (41 years ago today) - TV host Ed Sullivan passes away. His Sunday night show on CBS-TV, live from New York City, ran from June 20th, 1948 to June 6th, 1971. The Beatles appearance on February 9th, 1964, is a milestone in American culture -- the broadcast drew 73 million viewers and marked the beginning of "The British Invasion". Ed also made sure there was something for everybody in the family to gather 'round and watch, from circus acts and Vegas comedians to Broadway singers and dancers and animal performers and puppets and...well,  if you can think of something/anything, then it has probably appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show".

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"Why don't you all fade away/And don't try to dig what we all say...", xoxo!