40 years ago this week, "That Was Yesterday" by #Foreigner entered the #Top40 at 37. It peaked at 12 on 04 May 1985. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPg3_W-WeMs #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
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heading back for another research appointment at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives today, looking at old musician's union (local 802) papers from 1922 onwards. (I was there 2 weeks ago but didn't remotely finish looking at stuff.) great at connecting dots in other parts of my research even though the detailed record only starts around 3 decades into the period of organized Jewish musician labor in New York..
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it's about an earlier phase of his research, but the episode of Ottoman History Podcast with Ian was one of my faves:
"During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of thousands of people from the Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman states emigrated to the United States. Among them were musicians, singers, and artists who catered to the new diaspora communities that emerged in cities like New York and Boston."
https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/american-music-of-the-ottoman-diaspora-ian-nagoski
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unfortunately no online option, but this event coming up this weekend looks super interesting. going to go to it
40 years ago this week, "Forever Young" by #Alphaville entered the #Top100 at 95. It peaked at 93 on 30 Mar 1985, but actually climbed higher as a re-release and peaked at 65 on 24 Dec 1988. There have been several remixes and cover versions over the years, and I quite like the one by #YouthGroup that was featured in "The O.C.". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNjQXmoxiQ8 #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
40 years ago this week, "Lucky" by #GregKihn entered the #Top40 at 38. It peaked at 30 on 06 Apr 1985. It didn't do as well as "Jeopardy" had two years earlier, but I think it's catchy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNHWpi7CKgU #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
40 years ago this week, "Private Dancer" by #TinaTurner entered the #Top10 at 9. It peaked at 7 on 23 Mar 1985. This might be my favourite of her songs, contrasting the wistful lyrics and the funky melody. I just learned it was originally written and recorded by #DireStraits, but never released. They gave it to Tina Turner, and most of them participated in the new recording. Mark Knopfler was replaced by Jeff Beck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QnalIHlVc #1980s #MusicHistory #MusicVideo
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
Grand Staircase at St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, England#musichistory #hotels #stairs #section-Atlas
Grand Staircase at St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel
Grand Staircase at St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel
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
www.bobdylan.comIt’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) | The Official Bob Dylan Site
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
