Today you have three [really] different classic 1960's singles all being recorded on this date, in different years and each artist is a legend...we think it's neat-o!

10/23/1962 (53 years ago today) - By the way, he's only 12 years old at the time: Stevie Wonder records his first single for Motown Records: "Thank You For Loving Me All The Way" -- lots of spoken-word bits, but he's not talking about a girlfriend or God; at the end, he thanks...his mother. A strange and sappy record...

10/23/1963 (52 years ago today) - Columbia Recording Studios, New York City: Bob Dylan records "The Times They Are A-Changin'", a quite deliberate (and ultimately successful) attempt to create an anthem of change for the time. It would become the title track of his next album (released in January, 1964); it has been covered by Nina Simone, The Byrds, Peter, Paul & Mary, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Joan Baez, Phil Collins, Bryan Ferry and Bruce Springsteen. Point made. 'Nuff said.

10/23/1966 (49 years ago today) - Pretty good for a first single: The Jimi Hendrix Experience record "Hey Joe" as their debut 45-rpm vinyl release at De Lane Studios in London. Most fans didn't realize it was a cover -- the earliest known recording of the song was the late-1965 single by L.A. garage band The Leaves; that version went on to become a bit more famous when it was issued as part of 1968's ground-breaking "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era" compilation, a two-record set featuring underground-and-one-hit-wonder acts from the mid-to-late Sixties that was put together by future Patti Smith guitarist/collaborator Lenny Kaye. Whew! There's a lot goin' there for a once-obscure rock item...

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