On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.
"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE
40 years ago this week, "Radioactive" by #TheFirm entered the #Top40 at 40. It peaked at 28 on 13 Apr 1985. Although Jimmy Page uses his famous doubleneck guitar in the video, he didn't actually use it in the recording. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niYtMuhvDU8 #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
40 years ago this week, "Relax" by #FrankieGoesToHollywood entered the #Top10 and peaked at 10. If you're thinking we already saw this go by, you're right. However, when "Two Tribes" came out a year later, "Relax" climbed the charts again. Since I already posted the music video, here's an early performance from before they had a record contract. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPRsmeUbE-U #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
40 years ago this week, "Material Girl" by #Madonna entered the #Top10 at 5. It peaked at 2 on 23 Mar 1985. Another huge hit for her, cementing her persona as the "material girl". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p-lDYPR2P8 #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
today my long-planned research appointment at the Tamiment Library & Wagner Labor Archives at NYU has finally come up. I'm mainly looking for music union materials from before WWII (A.F.M. locals 310 + 802) and maybe stuff about United Hebrew Trades if they have anything relevant to me. we'll see what I can find! If nothing else the union members booklets with address (of which I've only seen snippets on facebook) will be quite helpful.
Looks messy, but this is a great archival document of New York klezmer history. It's a burial map of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society's section at Beth Israel cemetery in New Jersey. This was a mutual aid society of mostly klezmer musicians and their families, but also some theatre and classical musicians of immigrant Jewish backgrounds. The list of names isn't online like their plot at Mt Hebron cemetery is. Great way to find out about forgotten musicians 
40 years ago this week, "Why Can't I Have You" by #TheCars entered the #Top40 at 36. It peaked at 33 on 30 Mar 1985. It was the final US single off the "Heartbeat City" album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxGO23cI92U #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
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Song: “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”
Album: Bringing It All Back Home
First played: 1964-09-01
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry
40 years ago this week, "This Is Not America" by #DavidBowie and the #PatMethenyGroup entered the #Top40 at 35. It peaked at 32 on 23 Mar 1985. It was written for the soundtrack of "The Falcon and The Snowman", with Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubc3o2KZA4w #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
40 years ago this week, "Too Late For Goodbyes" by #JulianLennon entered the #Top10 at 6. It peaked at 5 on 23 Mar 1985. The video was the last professional project for director Sam Peckinpah, famous for westerns, such as "The Wild Bunch". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQs1Ynq0rlk #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
40 years ago this week, "Can't Fight This Feeling" by #REOSpeedwagon reached the top spot, replacing "Careless Whisper" by #Wham! featuring #GeorgeMichael after 3 weeks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpOULjyy-n8 #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
Mendelssohn volume I is available now on the Barnes and Noble website!
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Also on Amazon:
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You say you’re shakin’
And you’re always achin’
But you know how hard you try
Sometimes it gets so hard to care
It can’t be this way ev’rywhere
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Song: “Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)”
Album: Blonde on Blonde
First played: 1974-01-03
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https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/most-likely-you-go-your-way-and-ill-go-mine/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry
40 years ago this week, "The Old Man Down The Road" by #JohnFogerty entered the #Top10 and peaked at 10. How many times can you spot John Fogerty in the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1_cDgKAelk #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
42 years ago, an iconic New Wave record was released, in a sleeve that looked like a floppy disk. The song was Blue Monday, by New Order. https://dfarq.homeip.net/blue-monday-by-new-order-released-1983/ #BlueMonday #NewOrder #NewWave #MusicHistory #1980sMusic #VinylRecords #FloppyDiskArt #IconicAlbums #RetroMusic #MusicLegends
40 years ago this week, "Take Me With U" by #Prince And The Revolution with #Apollonia entered the #Top40 at 37. It peaked at 25 on 23 Mar 1985. It was the last single from the "Purple Rain" soundtrack, and the only one of the five singles not to make it into the top 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEtEsBf3iRg #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz vibraphonist and composer, sampled by countless artists, dies at 84.
Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk.
His soul lingers in the vibrato always.
University of Salford: Unseen photos of U2 and The Smiths released as Maxwell Hall Digital Archive is unveiled. “Unseen photos and other nostalgic memorabilia from some of Salford’s most famous concerts have been revealed in a new digital archive for an iconic Greater Manchester music venue. From new footage of The Smith’s infamous concert in July 1986 to Blondie’s rider for their […]
