T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film released by American International Pictures. It includes performances by numerous popular rock and roll and R&B musicians from the United States and England. The concert was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on October 28 and 29, 1964. Free tickets were distributed to local high school students. The acronym "T.A.M.I." was used inconsistently in the show's publicity to mean both "Teenage Awards […]
On October 26, 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented “law and order” […]
In the thick of the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Brown records his electrifying stage show for the album Live at the Apollo, on October 24th, 1962. Brown has been wowing fans for years, but you wouldn't know it from his album sales, which typically sell about 10,000 copies. No studio can reproduce his energy, so he books a series of shows at the Apollo Theater in Harlem to record his […]
Bob Seger Releases Night Moves, His First Big Studio Album Bob Seger releases Night Moves, his first studio album to make an impact outside of Michigan. Seger started in high school, making a name for himself in the vibrant Detroit music scene. By the time he was 23, he had a deal with Capitol Records and was a mentor to Glenn Frey, another local upstart. His talent was never in […]
Lynyrd Skynyrd endured one of the worst tragedies in music history on October 20, 1977, when a plane carrying the band and their entourage crashed in Mississippi, killing several members of the group. But the band would rise again to bring the music of Skynyrd to an entirely new generation of fans. The pioneering Southern rock band had just released their fifth album, Street Survivors, on Oct. 17, following a […]
On October 12, 1997, best-selling singer-songwriter John Denver died at the age of 53. The artist, who was an avid pilot, was killed while flying a handmade airplane in Monterey Bay, CA. One of the most popular singer-songwriters of the 70s, Denver was known for his love of the outdoors and his joyful, acoustic melodies. He released hundreds of songs during his lengthy career, including such signature hits as “Rocky […]
September 30, 1955, James Dean dies at 24 James Dean is killed in a car accident at age 24. Dean dies around the same time rock and roll comes alive (the #1 song the day he dies: Pat Boone's cover of "Ain't That A Shame" - clearly America is at a crossroads). https://youtu.be/hU5N2SrEaZI?si=9XTq5npVfBZNH_IB Over the next 10 years, songs about cars, teenagers and tragedy became commonplace, with Dean the template […]
Happened Today In Music, September 22nd: Farm Aid, Bryan Adams, The Doors, Grace Slick 1991 - Bryan Adams Bryan Adams made chart history when '(Everything I Do), I Do It For You', had its twelfth consecutive week as the UK No.1 single. https://youtu.be/Y0pdQU87dc8?si=2RnRV5g7NLRehoYw 1985 - Neil Young The first Farm Aid benefit concert was held before a crowd of 80,000 people at the Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. Organized by […]
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) On 18th Sept 1970, Jimi Hendrix was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Mary Abbot’s Hospital in London at the age of 27 after choking on his own vomit. Hendrix left the message ‘I need help bad man’, on his managers answer phone earlier that night. He had taken nine pills of the barbiturate Vesparax, […]
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