Good Afternoon, Music Lovers! We’ve got your trivia lesson here guaranteed to make you the envy of your family and friends. You’ll impress them with the wealth of useless information you have!
Here’s today’s lesson:
February 18, 1959: Ray Charles recorded What’d I Say.
February 18, 1963: Peter, Paul & Mary released their single Puff The Magic Dragon.
February 18, 1965: The Beatles recorded two new songs on this day, You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away and Tell Me What You See.
Also on this day, The Beatles’ publishing company, Northern Songs, appears on the London Stock Exchange.
The Kinks get into the act on this day also by topping the UK chart with Tired Of Waiting For You.
February 18, 1968: Paul McCartney and Ring Starr headed to Rishikesh, India to meet up with John Lennon and George Harrison. There they will study under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Also on this day, Pink Floyd fired erratic frontman Syd Barrett.
February 18, 1969: The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at Royal Albert Hall in London.
February 18, 1972: Neil Young’s Harvest album was certified Gold.
February 18, 1973: The nationally-syndicated King Biscuit Flower Hour made its debut, featuring Blood, Sweat & Tears, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.
February 18, 1980: Bob Seger released the hit Fire Lake.
February 18, 1985: Don Henley released the single All She Wants To Do Is Dance.
February 18, 1995: Denny Cordell, who produced Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Moody Blues, and Procol Harum dies in Dublin of lymphoma at the age of 51.
February 18, 2006: The Rolling Stones gave a free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, with 1.5 million people in attendance.
February 18, 2007: Norah Jones went to #1 on the Album chart with Not Too Late, her third consecutive #1.
Born On This Day
February 18, 1934: Skip Battin, singer-songwriter and bassist for The Byrds, the New Riders of The Purple Sage, and The Flying Burrito Brothers was born in Gallipolis, Ohio.
February 18, 1941: Irma Thomas, The Soul Queen of New Orleans, was born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.
February 18, 1948: Keith Knudson, songwriter and drummer for The Doobie Brothers, was born in LeMars, Iowa.
February 18, 1953: Robbie Bachman, drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
And that is your lesson for today!
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