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YOUR ROCK'N RIDE @ 5 playlist:
Cissy Strut The Meters
I Love to Rock 'N' Roll Eddie Bo
Everybody's Carried Away Earl King
Not Fade Away The Rolling Stones
Gimme Shelter (Remastered 2019) The Rolling Stones
Not Fade Away (Live at The Tabernacle, Atlanta, 2018) Blackberry Smoke
Cross Town Traffic Jimi Hendrix
Gov Did Nothin' John Butler Trio
Wide Awake Audioslave
Born On the Bayou Creedence Clearwater Revival
You Better You Bet The Who
The Saints Are Coming U2 & Green Day
Come Together Roberta Flack
Time for Me to Fly REO Speedwagon
mp3 recording of today's Rock'n Ride @ 5:
Supper Sounds playlist:
Nina Simone Do I move you
Professor Longhair Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Kermit Ruffins Mardi Gras Day
Professor Longhair Tipitina
Django Reinhardt Ain't Misbehavin'
Jelly Roll Morton new orleans bump 1
Kid Ory Mahogany Hall Stomp w/ Louis Armstrong's Dixieland Seven
Jack Teagarden Basin Street Blues
Charlie Parker Victory Ball
Jack Teagarden w/ Louis Armstrong My bucket's got a hole in it
Check Your Bucket Eddie Bo & The Soul Finders
Champion Buju Banton
The Day The Dollar Die Peter Tosh
Killing Me Softly With His Song Roberta Flack
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Roberta Flack
Tryin' Times Roberta Flack
Ballad of the Sad Young Men Roberta Flack
To Love Somebody Roberta Flack
Where Is the Love Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
Compared to What Roberta Flack
Free at Last Roberta Flack
It's Way Past Suppertime Roberta Flack
mp3 recording of today's Supper Sounds:
250227 Supper Sounds: NOLA & Roberta Flack w/ dose of Reggae
250227 Supper Sounds: NOLA & Roberta Flack w/ dose of Reggae
February 10, 1937
(Black Mountain, North Carolina, U.S.)
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February 24, 2025
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February 24, 2025
ON THIS DAY - FEB 27:
2010 - U2 raked in more money than any other music act in the US in 2009 making $109m (£71m) from touring, record sales and other royalties, almost twice as much as the second best, Bruce Springsteen who took home $58m (£38m), followed by Madonna with $47m (£31m) and AC/DC with $44m (£29m). Coldplay were the most successful British group, at number eight, with takings of $27m (£18m).
2004 - A worker in a supermarket in Aspen, Colorado alerted the police-after seeing a man shopping with his face covered by a mask. Police arrived on the scene and identified the man as Michael Jackson who was in town on holiday with his children.
1991 - James Brown was paroled after spending two years of a six-year prison sentence, imposed for resisting arrest after a car chase across two States.
1981 - The Who released 'You Better You Bet,' their first single since the death of their drummer, Keith Moon, in 1978, (Kenney Jones, formerly of The Faces had replaced Moon). The single peaked at No. 9 in the UK and No. 18 in the US. Upon the launch of MTV on 1 August 1981, it was the fourth video played.
1960 - BORN: Johnny Roy Van Zant, American musician and the current lead vocalist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He is the younger brother of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and former lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and of the 38 Special founder Donnie Van Zant.
1922 - the US Supreme Court case Leser v. Garnett unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
1973 - On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, some 200 members of the Oglala Lakota tribe, led by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupy Wounded Knee, the site of the infamous 1890 massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry. The AIM members, some of them armed, took 11 residents of the historic Oglala Sioux settlement hostage as local authorities and federal agents descended on the reservation.
Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the deity Shiva, between February and March. According to the Hindu calendar, the festival is observed on the fourteenth day of the first half of the lunar month of Phalguna.
1977 - Keith Richards was arrested at Toronto’s Harbour Castle Hotel, after an ounce of heroin was found following a raid of his hotel room by 15 Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Richards, who was charged with possession with intent to traffic, faced seven years to life in prison. Bail was set at $25,000 (£14,705).
1971 - Five months after her death, Janis Joplin started a nine-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with her second and final solo studio album Pearl. Joplin sang on all tracks except 'Buried Alive in the Blues', which remained a Full Tilt Boogie instrumental because she died before adding her vocals.
1960 - BORN: Johnny Roy Van Zant, American musician and the current lead vocalist of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He is the younger brother of the late Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and former lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and of the 38 Special founder Donnie Van Zant.
1922 - the US Supreme Court case Leser v. Garnett unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
1827 - New Orleanians take to the streets for Mardi Gras. On February 27, 1827, a group of masked and costumed students dance through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, marking the beginning of the city’s famous Mardi Gras celebrations. Previously mask were illegal
1992 - Tiger Woods plays his first PGA tournament at age of 16
2006 - Baseball pioneer Effa Manley becomes the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Manley, who died in 1981, was co-owner of the Newark (New Jersey) Eagles, a Negro League powerhouse, and a huge advocate for Black ballplayers and civil rights causes.
2006 - Baseball pioneer Effa Manley becomes the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Manley, who died in 1981, was co-owner of the Newark (New Jersey) Eagles, a Negro League powerhouse, and a huge advocate for Black ballplayers and civil rights causes.
1973 - On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, some 200 members of the Oglala Lakota tribe, led by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupy Wounded Knee, the site of the infamous 1890 massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry. The AIM members, some of them armed, took 11 residents of the historic Oglala Sioux settlement hostage as local authorities and federal agents descended on the reservation.
Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the deity Shiva, between February and March. According to the Hindu calendar, the festival is observed on the fourteenth day of the first half of the lunar month of Phalguna.
