David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire) (youtu.be)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/05/1970 (youtu.be)
Atlantic Records releases Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”. It would rise to #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and be ranked at #18 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time” list in March, 2023. Although it made the Top Ten in eight other countries, the song did not chart in the UK.
Patti Smith - Free Money (1975) (www.youtube.com)
Cinderella - Nothin' For Nothin' (1986) (www.youtube.com)
Night Ranger - [You Can Still] Rock In America (1983) (www.youtube.com)
Love - A House Is Not a Motel (1967) (www.youtube.com)
James Gang - Ashes the Rain and I (1970) (youtu.be)
Billy Squier - The Stroke (1981) (www.youtube.com)
Steely Dan - Dirty Work (1972) (m.youtube.com)
The Kind - Loved By You (1982) (www.youtube.com)
From a Chicago-area band that got semi-regular airplay on Chicago radio stations.
Nancy Wilson demonstrates the intro to Crazy on You (youtu.be)
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream (1967) (youtu.be)
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream (1972) (www.youtube.com)
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/03/1967 (youtu.be)
Pink Floyd make their US debut at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The tour will come to an early end when Syd Barrett displays increasingly strange behavior, refusing to lip sync to “Arnold Layne” on American Bandstand and refusing to answer questions on The Pat Boone Show.
Free - Wishing Well (1979) (m.youtube.com)
Aldo Nova - Fantasy (1982) (www.youtube.com)
Taj Mahal - Leaving Trunk (1967) (m.youtube.com)
Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul (1967) (m.youtube.com)
The Specials - Gangsters (1979) (www.youtube.com)
Don’t call me Scarface!
TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 11/02/1973 (youtube.com)
Apple Records releases Ringo Starr’s third album, “Ringo”. Featuring the singles, “Photograph”, (US #1, UK #8), “You’re Sixteen” (US #1, UK #4), “Oh My My” (US #5) and “It Don’t Come Easy” (US #4, UK #4), the LP would reach #1 in Canada, #7 in the UK, and #2 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Lita Ford - Playin' with Fire (1991) (www.youtube.com)
Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs Tears (1986) (www.youtube.com)
When the world falls apart some things stay in place.