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Aaron Neville's ''Tell It Like It Is'' goes to number 1 on the Billboard rhythm and blues chart.
Birth of Tim McGraw in Delhi, Louisiana.
The late sixties was a period of immense social, cultural, and political upheaval. A new generation, born around the time of World War II, had come into its own and, suddenly, it seemed as if the world was turning upside down. People were living in communes and hippie pads. They were gathering together for huge outdoor events called ''be-ins'' and ''love-ins''. They were marching in the streets to protest the war in Vietnam or to call for more civil rights. They had long hair and were wearing bell-bottoms, fringed vests, and granny glasses - when they were wearing anything at all. They were talking about ''flower power'' and ''free love'', and reading the work of such free-thinking writers as Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Timothy Leary. And they were experimenting with LSD and marijuana. Rock and roll reflected these changes and helped influence them. Thanks to artists like Bob Dylan and the Beatles, rock and roll was being taken seriously, and scores of new groups were forming in San Francisco, London, Los Angeles, and New York. The Doors, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Velvet Underground all released their debut albums in 1967, the year the media dubbed the ''Summer of Love''. And there were other developments, like free-form radio and the underground press, that helped shape rock and roll into the music and social force that we now know.
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The remaining six appeared on an extended play single released to coincide with the March 1967 premiere of the film. It failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, and sold fewer than 30,000 units total. Given that the EP format was no longer a viable marketing medium, and the poor performance of ''Easy Come, Easy Go'', it was the final release of new material by Presley in the EP format.
MARCH 26, 1967 SUNDAY
Ralph Emery marries Joy Kott.
MARCH 29, 1967 WEDNESDAY
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs appear on-screen on CBS-TV's ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', for the sixth time in their career. The duo also performs the sitcom's theme song, ''The Ballad Of Jed Clampett''.
MARCH 30, 1967 THURSDAY
Barbara Mandrell gets engaged to Navy pilot Ken Dudney.
Folk artist Paul Clayton commits suicide by pulling a heater into the bathtub apartment in New York City. Clayton was a co-writer of Billy Grammer's 1959 country hit ''Gotta Travel On''.
MARCH 31, 1967 FRIDAY
The original Country Music Hall of Fame holds an invitation-only ceremony a day before its public opening. Among the attendees, Eddy Arnold, Webb Pierce and Boudleaux and Felice Bryant.
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STUDIO SESSION FOR IVORY JOE HUNTER
FOR GOLD WAX (VEEP) RECORDS 1967
SAM PHILLIPS RECORDING STUDIO
639 MADISON
AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
GOLD WAX SESSION: JUNE 26, DATE 1967
SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN
PRODUCER
- QUINTON CLAUNCH & RUDOLPH RUSSELL
RECORDING ENGINEER - UNKNOWN
Session Published for Historical Reasons
> DON'T YOU BELIEVE HIM <
Composer: - B. Stevenson-J. Shaw
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Unart Music Corporation
Matrix number: - ZTSP 122871 - Single Master (2:24)
Recorded: - June 26, 1967
Released: - 1967
First appearance: - Veep Records (S) 45rpm standard single
V 1258-A stereo
DON'T YOU BELIEVE HIM / WHAT'S THE MATTER BABY
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THE MATTER BABY <
Composer: - Ivory Joe Hunter
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Unart Music Corporation
Matrix number: - ZTSP 122872 - Single Master (1:47)
Recorded: - June 26, 1967
Released: - 1967
First appearance: - Veep Records (S) 45rpm standard single V 1258-B stereo
WHAT'S THE MATTER BABY / DON'T YOU BELIEVE HIM
> DID SHE ASK ABOUT ME <
Composer:
- Chuck Taylor
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Rise Music-Aim Music Corporation
Matrix number: - ZTSP-124206 - Single Master (2:31)
Recorded: - June 26, 1967
Released: - September 1967
First appearance: - Veep Records (S) 45rpm standard
single V 1270-A stereo
DID SHE ASK ABOUT ME / FROM THE FIRST TIME WE MET
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Composer: Ivory Joe Hunter
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Unart Music Corporation
Matrix number: - ZTSP-124207 - Single Master (2:50)
Recorded: - June 26, 1967
Released: - September
1967
First appearance: - Veep Records (S) 45rpm standard single V 1270-B stereo
FROM THE FIRST TIME WE MET / DID SHE ASK ABOUT ME
Name (Or. No. Of Instruments)
Ivory Joe Hunter - Vocal and Piano
Reggie Young - Guitar
Bobby Emmons - Keyboards
More Details Unknown
Bespectacled and velvet-smooth in the vocal department, pianist Ivory Joe Hunter appeared too much mild-mannered to be a rock and roller. But when the rebellious music first crashed the American consciousness in the mid-1950s, there was Ivory Joe, deftly delivering his blues ballad "Since I Met You Baby" right alongside the wildest pioneers of the era.
Hunter was already a grizzled rhythm and blues vet by that time who had first heard his voice on a 1933 Library of Congress cylinder recording made in Texas (where he grew up). An accomplished tunesmith, he played around the Gulf Coast region, hosting his own radio program for a time in Beaumont before migrating to California in 1942. It was a wise move since Hunter - whose real name was Ivory Joe, incidentally (perhaps his folks were psychic!) - found plenty of work pounding out blues and ballads in wartime California. He started his own label, Ivory Records, to press up his "Blues At Sunrise" (with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers backing him), and it became a national hit when leased to Leon Rene's Exclusive imprint in 1945. Another Hunter enterprise, Pacific Records, hosted a major hit in 1948 when the pianist's "Pretty Mama Blues" topped the Rhythm & Blues charts for three weeks.
At whatever logo Hunter paused from the mid-1940s through the late 1950s, his platters sold like hot cakes. For Cincinnati-based King in 1948-1949, he hit with "Don't Fall In Love With Me'', "What Did You Do to Me'', "Waiting In Vain'', and "Guess Who''. At MGM, then new to the record biz, he cut his immortal "I Almost Lost My Mind" (another rhythm and blues chart-topper in 1950), "I Need You So" (later covered by Elvis), and "It's A Sin''. Signing with Atlantic in 1954, he hit big with "Since I Met You Baby" in 1956 and the two-sided smash "Empty Arms"/"Love's a Hurting Game" in 1957.
Hunter's fondness for country music reared its head in 1958. Upon switching to Dot Records, he scored his last pop hit with a cover of Bill Anderson's "City Lights''. Hunter's Dot encores went nowhere; neither did typically mellow outings for Vee-Jay, Smash, Capitol, and Veep. Epic went so far as to recruit a simmering Memphis band (including organist Isaac Hayes, trumpeter Gene "Bowlegs" Miller, and saxist Charles Chalmers) for an LP titled The Return Of Ivory Joe Hunter that he hoped would revitalize his career, but it wasn't meant to be. The album's cover photo - a closeup of Hunter's grinning face with a cigarette dangling from his lips - seems grimly ironic in the face of his death from lung cancer only a few years later.
Liner notes by Bill Dahl
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