This Day in Music History: February 4

February 4, 2017

We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.

 

Today: February 4.

 

1965: The Righteous Brothers topped the UK singles chart with a song by Phil Spector, 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'. The song was also a US No.1 hit at the same time. In 1999 the PRS announced that it was the most played song of the 20th Century.

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1966: '19th Nervous Breakdown' was released by The Rolling Stones. The song reached the No.2 spot on both the US and UK charts, while topping the NME charts and was also the fifth best-selling single of 1966 in the UK.

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1966: Bob Dylan and The Band played at the Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky. This was the first date on a world tour which also noted as Bob Dylan's first that using electric instruments, after he had ‘gone electric’ at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

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1967: The Monkees started a seven-week run at the top of the UK chart with their debut album, The Monkees.

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1968: The Beatles recorded 'Across The Universe' at Abbey Road studios, London. John Lennon and Paul McCartney decided that the song needed some falsetto harmonies. For that, they decided to invite two girl fans into the studio to sing on the song. The two were Lizzie Bravo, a 16-year-old Brazilian who lived near Abbey Road and 17-year-old Londoner Gayleen Pease.

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1977: Fleetwood Mac released the album Rumours, with the songs 'Go Your Own Way', 'Don't Stop', 'Dreams', and 'You Make Loving Fun' released as singles. Rumours is Fleetwood Mac's most successful album. Besides winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978, the album has also sold over 45 million copies all over the world, which makes it one of the best-selling albums of all time.

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1978: The Bee Gees started a four week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'Stayin' Alive', taken from the film soundtrack Saturday Night Fever, it gave the band their fifth US No.1, and also a No.1 hit in the UK.

 

1983: Karen Carpenter died at the age of 32 of a cardiac arrest at her parent's house in Downey, California. The coroner's report gave the cause of death of imbalances associated with anorexia nervosa. The 1970 album Close to You by The Carpenters, featured two hit singles: ‘(They Long to Be) Close to You’ and ‘We've Only Just Begun.’ They reached the No.1 spot and No.2 spot on the US chart. In 1975, readers of Playboy magazine voted Karen Carpenter the Best Rock Drummer of the year as part of the magazine's annual opinion poll.

 

1984: Culture Club started a three-week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'Karma Chameleon', the band's 5th US Top 10 hit and also a No.1 hit in the UK.

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2016: Maurice White, who was an american singer and songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger and bandleader died. He had the 1975 US No.1 single 'Shining Star', and the 1981 UK No.3 single 'Let's Groove' with Earth, Wind & Fire. White won seven Grammys,and was nominated for a total of twenty Grammys. He also worked with Deniece Williams, The Emotions, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond.

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