Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for September 10th

Today you have four more reasons why the mid-Sixties positively kicked it...

9/10/1964 (51 years ago today) - Rod Stewart records his first single, a version of Willie Dixon's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"; playing bass on the session is John Paul Jones, making ends meet till Jimmy Page calls on him to help start a new band...

9/10/1965 (50 years ago today) - The Byrds begin work on their second single, another classic folk song given the electric-band treatment -- and this time, for "Turn! Turn! Turn!", the actual members of The Byrds get to play on it instead of hired session musicians (which is what happened for "Mr. Tambourine Man"). Little victories...

9/10/1966 (49 years ago today) - It's The Beatles ninth U.S. chart-topper(!): "Revolver" starts a six-week run at No. 1. Like "Rubber Soul", this-go-round we get another "pun"-title from the boys -- "Revolver" refers to both a kind of handgun as well as the "revolving" motion of the record as it's played on a turntable. As perfect an LP as anything anyone has ever done on Planet Earth: "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby", "Here, There And Everywhere", "I'm Only Sleeping", "She Said, She Said" -- amazing, beautiful and stupendous don't even begin to describe what The Beatles achieved with this album...

9/10/1966 (49 years ago today) - One of the (very) few acts capable of bumping The Beatles out of a No. 1 spot, The Supremes get to kick off a two week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "You Can't Hurry Love"; it's their sixth Numero Uno, and by the way, The Supremes are more than all right...

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"Lay down all thought/Surrender to the void...", xoxo!