Singer-songwriter Terry Kirkman, a founding member of the 1960s folk-rock band the Association, has died at 83.
In the years following his departure from the Association, Kirkman retired from the music industry, and worked in California as an addictions counselor.
Charles Hardin Holley – known as Buddy Holly (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
If you took out a map of the United States and traced a line beginning at New Orleans and running up the Mississippi River to Memphis, the tip of your finger would pass through the very birthplace of rock and roll—a region where nearly every step in its early development took place and where nearly every significant contributor to that development was born.
But if the foundation of rock and roll was mostly laid down within 100 miles of the Mississippi River in the mid-1950s, the blueprint for what would follow required the further contributions of a young man born 700 miles to the west on this day in 1936: Charles Harden Holley.
Writing and performing under the name Buddy Holly, this Lubbock, Texas, native would have an influence on rock and roll that would far outlast his tragically shortened career.
The 1960s pop duo Paul & Paula, who had a hit with “Hey Paula.”
Ray Hildebrand was an American singer that performed in the 60’s group ‘Paul and Paula’. It has been reported that Hildebrand passed away at his home in Kansas City, Missouri last Friday. No cause of death was revealed.
By the spring of 1965, Bob Dylan’s presence in the world of music was beginning to be felt well outside the boundaries of his nominal genre. Within the world of folk music, he had been hailed as a hero for several years already, but now his music was capturing the attention and influencing artists like the Byrds, the Beatles and even a young Stevie Wonder.
With Dylan as a direct inspiration, popular music was about to change its direction, but so was Dylan himself. On June 16, 1965, on their second day of recording at Columbia Records’ Studio A in Manhattan, he and a band featuring electric guitars and an organ laid down the master take of the song that would make that change: “Like A Rolling Stone.” It would prove to be “folksinger” Bob Dylan’s magnum opus and, arguably, the greatest rock and roll record of all time.
It was the fourth of 11 takes that day that yielded the six-minute- and-34-second recording that very nearly didn’t become a big hit single.