An impressive lineup of events have gone down on March 7th through the years, and in this edition of This Day in Music History, we bring to you the news on some of the most happenings ones.
It was on this day in 1966 that the Tina Turner hit track, River Deep Mountain High was recorded, a track that made it to the Top Ten list in the UK. The Phil Spector production however failed to make a similar impression on the US charts, managing to make it only to the 88th spot on this list.
Simon and Garfunkel may have split when their ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ album was released on this day in 1970, but that didn’t stop their work from making it to the No.1 spot on the US charts and then staying there for an impressive 10 weeks!
The hip-hop and rock band from NYC, the Beastie Boys, were the first in rap to find the No.1 spot on the US Album Charts. Their 1987 album Licensed to Ill helped them achieve this feat, and was also their debut album.
On this day in 1987, fans of The Beatles began grooving anew to some of the iconic group’s most popular albums, With the Beatles, Beatles for Sale, Please Please Me, A Hard Day’s Night, and Help! This was the first time in US music history that many of these UK mixes were made available to American fans. CDs released by Capitol Records made this possible.
March 7th, 1946, stood witness to the birth of Matthew Fisher, the organist for Procol Harum, which delivered the 1967 hit, A Whiter Shade Of Pale.
Another popular artist to come into the world on this day in 1945 was the guitarist and songwriter for the American group, Love, – Arthur Lee. After a memorable career, Lee passed away in Memphis on August 3rd, 2006 at the age of 61 years, succumbing to acute myeloid leukemia.
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