#music-history

#music-history

"Take Me Out" was by far the most popular of the many new songs that hoped to capitalize on the sport's immense and growing popularity. There was so much hype that it really boosted the sales of the songs."

Y&T, originally named Yesterday & Today, formed in 1972 and began as a cover band before transitioning to writing their own music by 1974.

Rocketship's debut album, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness, sits at the crossroads of indie pop, marking a transition from raucous exuberance to a more tender, literary form.

The duo's biggest hit was 1972's 'Summer Breeze,' which described a peaceful Friday night at home, reaching No. 6 on Billboard's Hot 100 and driving the band's album to double-platinum sales.

Alabama has sold over 56 million records, per the The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and has scored 43 No. 1 hits. It also has 11 multi-platinum albums and two Grammys.

Cahill invented the Telharmonium, also known as the Dynamaphone, to broadcast music over the telephone, making it a precursor to what we know today as 'Muzak.'

We were pretty stoked to make another album after the success of our previous album and its single 'Pepper'. Capitol Records was stoked to get that next record until our relationship soured. Hollywood Records bought the album but wanted to make changes to it which was an uncomfortable experience for us. Now we have the right to release the original recording the way we intended it to be with its original title, After The Astronaut.

Detroit is perhaps best known for its legacy as the U.S.'s premier car manufacturing hub. The first auto companies set up shop in Detroit around the turn of the 20th century, and by 1917, the city's plants produced over one million cars per year. Beyond manufacturing, though, Motor City significantly impacted American pop culture.

We had planned on being open on New Year's Day,

For the past three decades, Rio de Janeiro has marked the national day of samba in December with a remarkable tradition, the samba train, a musical journey that revisits the genre's early struggles and salutes the musicians who shape it. Julia Carneiro takes the ride. It's 6 p.m. in Rio's Central Station. This platform is usually packed with people waiting for their trains to commute back home after work. But today, all the passengers are dancing to samba music, and every carriage has a different band playing.

In 1965, the United States launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Cmdr. James A. Lovell aboard on a two-week mission. (While Gemini 7 was in orbit, its sister ship, Gemini 6A, was launched on Dec. 15 on a one-day mission; the two spacecraft were able to rendezvous within a foot of each other.) In 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party were shot and killed during a raid by Chicago police.

A couple long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery described as a 'great moment for the world of music'. The two solo organ works, written while Bach was working as an organ teacher in the town of Arnstadt in Thuringia early in his career, first caught the attention of researchers over 30 years ago.

For decades, Portland's lampposts and community boards have told a vibrant history. Oftentimes stacked one on top of another, feet-thick, stapled up on poles lining hip-strips like Mississippi and Hawthorne avenues, concert posters clue in passersby that certain artists will be playing at a certain time and date at a certain place; while also telling a story of a city's culture and history, its music and art scenes, and the people involved in those scenes.

Mythological creatures parading through our world are not unusual at Halloween. Goblins, werewolves, and zombies prowl for treats with superheroes, princesses, witches, and famous athletes. Mythological creatures have been prevalent throughout music history as well. Prominent composers including Edvard Grieg, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Richard Wagner have musically immortalized gods and goddesses, nymphs and giants, pranksters and folk heroes. The Faustian legend, complete with the Devil himself, has found its way into ballet, opera, symphonic poems, and onto the Broadway stage.

The flute is an enigmatic, beautiful instrument able to produce sounds at once sweet and sorrowful seeming pulled literally out of thin air. The Magic Flute (or Die Zauberflote) is the title of a beautiful Mozart opera, but played by a talented musician, the flute itself can make its own magic. In the hands of a gifted musician, there are few, if any, things as beautiful as the mesmerizing sound of this instrument.

The first cumbia recorded in Ecuador at the end of the 1960s had only one verse. It was called "Cumbia Triste" and was written by Polibio Mayorga. This musician from Ambato, Ecuador, tropicalized the national music of the Ecuadorian highlands, which had long been stigmatized for its Indigenous roots and the sad melodies often associated with them. Mayorga combined the rhythms of the San Juanito traditional Andean music with rural Colombian cumbia, which arrived in Ecuador via the record industry, already processed and whitewashed.

From the exhibition to the pages of its magazine, RRPL maintains a strong thematic structure. "Mick's thinking is that the magazine is like a record and that each article is a track," Kirk says, "So we work on the ordering of the pages, how they flow, in the same way he would've worked on the track listing for an album." Cohesion and narrative are RRPL's foundational elements. The room was carved into a dead tech section playing old clips, a theatrical rendition of a traditional British living room, a dedication to The Clash's love for New York's burgeoning hip-hop scene, songwriting artefacts, news clippings, a record library, and more.

"I don't do what the people expect. I do what they demand to see - a great rock show," Thorogood, 75, told the Advance/SILive.com of the upcoming performance, among other things.

John Fogerty was immensely talented, both as a songwriter and guitarist, but faced resentment from his brother Tom, leading to their bitter fallout and eventual estrangement.

Roland's TR-808 Rhythm Composer, now 45 years old, has evolved into a symbol of global rhythm culture, influencing hip-hop, techno, and trap music.

Eddie Palmieri's monumental 1969 album, Justicia, combined elements of funk, soul, and psychedelic rock with Cuban dance rhythms while addressing themes of racism and colonialism.

Billboard's year-end No. 1 singles from 1940 reveal a diverse array of major artists and hits, showcasing the evolution of popular music over decades.