May 19, 2025 • 11 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
I'm Buzz Night.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm the host of the Taking a Walk podcast, and
we take a look at music history for the week
of May the nineteenth, and we go over to the
music history.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Desk to Harry Jacobs. Harry, what is your favorite of.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The terms that I have laid out for you? The
Maestro of all things music? I think was the most
recent one. I've gone through many different variations of it.
Do you have a favorite that you'd like to us
to stick with music Maven?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I kind of I enjoy I gotta give some thought
to it, all right, because repetition, you know, is a good.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Thing if it's the right name, and certainly if it's
one you are happy with, so just or listeners can
chime in as well.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Perception is reality, So if you keep using the same thing,
people will think, oh, Harry Jacobs, he's the Maven of
all things music history or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Then I see all sorts of marketing plow merchandise that
it really takes off.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
May nineteenth, Buzz twenty seventeen, Lincoln Park released One More
Light and that was their last album with Chester Bennington,
who died took his own life just a couple months later.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
On the twentieth of July and twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Awful, terrible story, great band and just I mean, just
what a tortured story, My god.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
A great sound for them. It was kind of an
interesting not straight rock. It was almost kind of a
rap or a pop you know. I had multiple elements
in their music.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
They did yeah like industrial sounding, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Really really neat nineteen seventy eight. On May nineteen, Sultan's
a Swing was released, and it was initially a demo
and then they were playing it around town, got released
on the radio, and then when they at their album field,
they re recorded it, so the early recordings were dello.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I have to tell you a funny story about that.
When that came out. I was programming in Connecticut at
the station called I ninety five, and we around the
release of that, had decided we were going to do
something called a Guitar Stars weekend where it was highlighting
(02:25):
you know, various great guitarists. The great Mark Knopfler was
doing a little press to promote the album release, and
once the interview was over, I asked him if he
would cut a little promo saying Hi, I'm Mark Knopfler
and you're listening to a Guitar Stars weekend. And he
(02:47):
didn't want to do it. And he was not like
an ass about it. He just didn't want to do it.
I said, is okay, Well, why don't you want to
do it? And he said, because I don't consider myself
a guitar star.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Isn't that interesting? Ye? Did you ask him to say?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hi, this is Mark Knopfler, And whenever I'm traveling through Danbury, Connecticut,
I'm listening to I ninety five.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I was at that point. I was too intimidated.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I didn't want to piss him off any further, and
I said, okay, you got it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I gotcha. You know I can't listen, by the way, if.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I'm listening to that song and someone's around, there's a
certain part of that song where I just have to say,
stop the conversation right now, and I have to turn
it up and go oh, Mark's gonna say And Harry
doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
He's got a daytime job and he's doing all right.
I love that. Dusty Hill's birthday.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Was May nineteenth, and he passed away in July of
twenty twenty one. He had a bunch of issues that
you wouldn't think would have taken someone's life. He had
an issue with persidas, he had an issue with a hip,
he had a hip surgery.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But he passed away what seemed to be pretty suddenly
for us. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Wondered what else was going on there, but it was
I was so sad, you know, yes, passing.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know. Netflix released the documentary that.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They had an Easy Top documentary.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I think you can find it now on.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Amazon, which was really insightful. But they did a lot.
We learned a lot about all three of those guys
that were in their homes. Dusty Hills a monster Elvis
fan and had a monster collection of Elvis stuff and
all this Easy Top history. But it was quite a
surprise they by the way, they didn't miss a beat.
Elwood Francis, who was their guitar tech, literally stepped in
(04:38):
the next night. Oh wow, Frank Beard and Billy and
Elwood played the next night.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Next night. Wow, that's interesting. You know, when John Entwhistle
passed away here in Vegas by the way, yep, you know,
the who came out days later with a replacement and
played like literally a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Later, when you know when things like this happened. It
often surprises people that a band could go on or
they could find someone who knows, you know, the music
or whatever. But you look at what's someone quickly. There
are always studio guys that know how to play right.
There are always going to be, especially here this happened
in Vegas with that whistle. They might have actually played here.
(05:26):
I got to that'll be an interesting fact to look at,
but they might. They were here in Vegas when that happened,
and I think they may have. Listen, you could find
somebody in any town that knows, that really knows music,
or studio musician that can look at a chart, especially
with bass. I don't want to I'm not cutting on
the bass players, but what key are we in? You
(05:46):
know what are we It is a surprise I think
the people that that bands can pick up, but not
especially with bass.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Not a huge surprise. Aerosmith did it right. They used
a tech, yeh, a drum tech. And by the way,
who's been used on in other acts too.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They're a handful of guys that are like journeymen that
can fill in like that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So yeah, almost like you know, quality session people. You know, yeah,
absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
In nineteen seventy nine, on May nineteenth, Eric Clapton celebrated
his marriage to Patty Boyd and and Patty Boyd was
was an important figure and led to the recording of
of one of Clapton's most famous songs, bus.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You mean Layla, Yeah that's right, Yeah, big big deal,
Derek and the Dominoes.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Patty is still I think in you know, London area,
aid whatever, and would be interesting to hear her take
on everything now, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Crazy, such a crazy situation for those that aren't familiar
with it. But Eric Clapton fell in love with Patty Harrison,
George Harrison's wife. They were the closest of friends at
the time, which made it, you know, further awkward. What
do you think, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, completely fed up
(07:06):
situation that he fell in love with his best friend's wife.
You know, the air was cleared. Clapton and Harrison got
along after that, which is weird. But they celebrated their
wedding in nineteen seventy nine on May nineteenth, and a
whole bunch of great guests, Mick Jagger and a bunch
of people, and it was a it was a musical
(07:28):
type event. You know, A bunch of those guys played
party May twentieth. Another you know bit of sad news.
I've actually got two pieces of sad news here. From
May twentieth, ray Manzeric, keyboardist from The Doors, died in Germany.
He had a rare form of cancer in twenty thirteen
(07:49):
and it unfortunately took him, took his life. And in
twenty twelve Robin Gibb from the Beg's died of cole
Rechtel cancer and then kidney and liver failure as well
multiple complications from his cancer. No I will, by the way,
I admitted to the Donna Summer thing last week. I'm
kind of a closet Beg's fan as well. I know
(08:09):
you told me to be careful with this.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But I'll come along for the ride on the Beg's Anytime,
Night Fever, stay Alive, you should again, come on, Yeah
go No Worries.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
In nineteen fifty four, on May twentieth, Bill Haley released
Rock around the Clock. This was the first rock song
to reach number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred charts.
It's a big deal musically. It had a lot of
different elements. Bill Haley was a country artist before he
(08:40):
was playing with the Comments, But that song had elements
of R and B. It had elements of country, and
it has elements of swing musically. It's a really neat
song to listen to. Is a lot of different stuff
going on in it, and that song is in ways the.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
First real rock song the beginning.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And that song was used as the theme of Happy
Days in the first couple of seasons before the Happy
Day's theme came along.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I've forgotten that, but now I remember that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Ye May twenty first, sixty six, the Stones released actually
it didn't release, it had been released, but Painted Black
hit number one in the UK and then later on
in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But Painted Black is one of those.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Songs when you hear it like in a movie or something,
you know, something bad's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh yeah, it's just it's it's completely haunting.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So that was nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Another Stone story, actually another two really to follow in
seventy one.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
On May twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Second, they released Brown Sugar and that was the first
song on the Rolling Stones record label, which they kept
going until nineteen ninety two, and they signed with Virgin Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I love them both so Painted black and Brown Sugar
Love Them.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
May twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, was the day that
Charlie Watts passed, and that's our last story for the week.
He died at eighty. He had battled throat cancer two
thousand and four. He had throat cancer and he beat it.
They never released his cause of death in twenty twenty one.
But you know, a sad day for rock and roll
(10:25):
to lose Charlie Watts.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And one of the true gentlemen of rock and roll.
Everyone always said Charlie was really more comfortable playing jazz
rather than playing rock and roll. But what a great drummer,
what a gentleman, and what a terrible loss.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You you really appreciate his work as a drummer.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
If you see video of him playing you know, non stones, right,
playing jazz or playing another style, you really can appreciate, you.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Know, him as a as a drummer, that's right. And
in fact, that Painted Black his drum licks during Pain Black.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We're just amazing. Well that's this week in Music for
the nineteenth, the twenty fifth of May. That'll wrap it
up for the week.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Bus Well, thank you, Harry, And you know it's sad
with a lot of the passing of the great icons
of music, but we do have to report on that
just as much as we celebrate there.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
They're great music as well.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But it's another look at this week in music history
for the week of May the nineteenth, and thanks for
checking out the Taking a Walk podcast. We are available
on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and are part of the iHeart
podcast network.
I'm Buzz Night.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm the host of the Taking a Walk podcast, and
we take a look at music history for the week
of May the nineteenth, and we go over to the
music history.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Desk to Harry Jacobs. Harry, what is your favorite of.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The terms that I have laid out for you? The
Maestro of all things music? I think was the most
recent one. I've gone through many different variations of it.
Do you have a favorite that you'd like to us
to stick with music Maven?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I kind of I enjoy I gotta give some thought
to it, all right, because repetition, you know, is a good.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Thing if it's the right name, and certainly if it's
one you are happy with, so just or listeners can
chime in as well.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Perception is reality, So if you keep using the same thing,
people will think, oh, Harry Jacobs, he's the Maven of
all things music history or whatever.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Then I see all sorts of marketing plow merchandise that
it really takes off.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
May nineteenth, Buzz twenty seventeen, Lincoln Park released One More
Light and that was their last album with Chester Bennington,
who died took his own life just a couple months later.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
On the twentieth of July and twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Awful, terrible story, great band and just I mean, just
what a tortured story, My god.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
A great sound for them. It was kind of an
interesting not straight rock. It was almost kind of a
rap or a pop you know. I had multiple elements
in their music.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
They did yeah like industrial sounding, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Really really neat nineteen seventy eight. On May nineteen, Sultan's
a Swing was released, and it was initially a demo
and then they were playing it around town, got released
on the radio, and then when they at their album field,
they re recorded it, so the early recordings were dello.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I have to tell you a funny story about that.
When that came out. I was programming in Connecticut at
the station called I ninety five, and we around the
release of that, had decided we were going to do
something called a Guitar Stars weekend where it was highlighting
(02:25):
you know, various great guitarists. The great Mark Knopfler was
doing a little press to promote the album release, and
once the interview was over, I asked him if he
would cut a little promo saying Hi, I'm Mark Knopfler
and you're listening to a Guitar Stars weekend. And he
(02:47):
didn't want to do it. And he was not like
an ass about it. He just didn't want to do it.
I said, is okay, Well, why don't you want to
do it? And he said, because I don't consider myself
a guitar star.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Isn't that interesting? Ye? Did you ask him to say?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hi, this is Mark Knopfler, And whenever I'm traveling through Danbury, Connecticut,
I'm listening to I ninety five.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I was at that point. I was too intimidated.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I didn't want to piss him off any further, and
I said, okay, you got it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I gotcha. You know I can't listen, by the way, if.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I'm listening to that song and someone's around, there's a
certain part of that song where I just have to say,
stop the conversation right now, and I have to turn
it up and go oh, Mark's gonna say And Harry
doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
He's got a daytime job and he's doing all right.
I love that. Dusty Hill's birthday.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Was May nineteenth, and he passed away in July of
twenty twenty one. He had a bunch of issues that
you wouldn't think would have taken someone's life. He had
an issue with persidas, he had an issue with a hip,
he had a hip surgery.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But he passed away what seemed to be pretty suddenly
for us. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Wondered what else was going on there, but it was
I was so sad, you know, yes, passing.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You know. Netflix released the documentary that.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They had an Easy Top documentary.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I think you can find it now on.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Amazon, which was really insightful. But they did a lot.
We learned a lot about all three of those guys
that were in their homes. Dusty Hills a monster Elvis
fan and had a monster collection of Elvis stuff and
all this Easy Top history. But it was quite a
surprise they by the way, they didn't miss a beat.
Elwood Francis, who was their guitar tech, literally stepped in
(04:38):
the next night. Oh wow, Frank Beard and Billy and
Elwood played the next night.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Next night. Wow, that's interesting. You know, when John Entwhistle
passed away here in Vegas by the way, yep, you know,
the who came out days later with a replacement and
played like literally a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Later, when you know when things like this happened. It
often surprises people that a band could go on or
they could find someone who knows, you know, the music
or whatever. But you look at what's someone quickly. There
are always studio guys that know how to play right.
There are always going to be, especially here this happened
in Vegas with that whistle. They might have actually played here.
(05:26):
I got to that'll be an interesting fact to look at,
but they might. They were here in Vegas when that happened,
and I think they may have. Listen, you could find
somebody in any town that knows, that really knows music,
or studio musician that can look at a chart, especially
with bass. I don't want to I'm not cutting on
the bass players, but what key are we in? You
(05:46):
know what are we It is a surprise I think
the people that that bands can pick up, but not
especially with bass.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Not a huge surprise. Aerosmith did it right. They used
a tech, yeh, a drum tech. And by the way,
who's been used on in other acts too.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
They're a handful of guys that are like journeymen that
can fill in like that.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So yeah, almost like you know, quality session people. You know, yeah,
absolutely right.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
In nineteen seventy nine, on May nineteenth, Eric Clapton celebrated
his marriage to Patty Boyd and and Patty Boyd was
was an important figure and led to the recording of
of one of Clapton's most famous songs, bus.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You mean Layla, Yeah that's right, Yeah, big big deal,
Derek and the Dominoes.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Patty is still I think in you know, London area,
aid whatever, and would be interesting to hear her take
on everything now, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Crazy, such a crazy situation for those that aren't familiar
with it. But Eric Clapton fell in love with Patty Harrison,
George Harrison's wife. They were the closest of friends at
the time, which made it, you know, further awkward. What
do you think, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, completely fed up
(07:06):
situation that he fell in love with his best friend's wife.
You know, the air was cleared. Clapton and Harrison got
along after that, which is weird. But they celebrated their
wedding in nineteen seventy nine on May nineteenth, and a
whole bunch of great guests, Mick Jagger and a bunch
of people, and it was a it was a musical
(07:28):
type event. You know, A bunch of those guys played
party May twentieth. Another you know bit of sad news.
I've actually got two pieces of sad news here. From
May twentieth, ray Manzeric, keyboardist from The Doors, died in Germany.
He had a rare form of cancer in twenty thirteen
(07:49):
and it unfortunately took him, took his life. And in
twenty twelve Robin Gibb from the Beg's died of cole
Rechtel cancer and then kidney and liver failure as well
multiple complications from his cancer. No I will, by the way,
I admitted to the Donna Summer thing last week. I'm
kind of a closet Beg's fan as well. I know
(08:09):
you told me to be careful with this.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But I'll come along for the ride on the Beg's Anytime,
Night Fever, stay Alive, you should again, come on, Yeah
go No Worries.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
In nineteen fifty four, on May twentieth, Bill Haley released
Rock around the Clock. This was the first rock song
to reach number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred charts.
It's a big deal musically. It had a lot of
different elements. Bill Haley was a country artist before he
(08:40):
was playing with the Comments, But that song had elements
of R and B. It had elements of country, and
it has elements of swing musically. It's a really neat
song to listen to. Is a lot of different stuff
going on in it, and that song is in ways the.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
First real rock song the beginning.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
And that song was used as the theme of Happy
Days in the first couple of seasons before the Happy
Day's theme came along.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I've forgotten that, but now I remember that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Ye May twenty first, sixty six, the Stones released actually
it didn't release, it had been released, but Painted Black
hit number one in the UK and then later on
in the US.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But Painted Black is one of those.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Songs when you hear it like in a movie or something,
you know, something bad's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Oh yeah, it's just it's it's completely haunting.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So that was nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Another Stone story, actually another two really to follow in
seventy one.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
On May twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Second, they released Brown Sugar and that was the first
song on the Rolling Stones record label, which they kept
going until nineteen ninety two, and they signed with Virgin Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I love them both so Painted black and Brown Sugar
Love Them.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
May twenty fourth, twenty twenty one, was the day that
Charlie Watts passed, and that's our last story for the week.
He died at eighty. He had battled throat cancer two
thousand and four. He had throat cancer and he beat it.
They never released his cause of death in twenty twenty one.
But you know, a sad day for rock and roll
(10:25):
to lose Charlie Watts.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
And one of the true gentlemen of rock and roll.
Everyone always said Charlie was really more comfortable playing jazz
rather than playing rock and roll. But what a great drummer,
what a gentleman, and what a terrible loss.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You you really appreciate his work as a drummer.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
If you see video of him playing you know, non stones, right,
playing jazz or playing another style, you really can appreciate, you.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Know, him as a as a drummer, that's right. And
in fact, that Painted Black his drum licks during Pain Black.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We're just amazing. Well that's this week in Music for
the nineteenth, the twenty fifth of May. That'll wrap it
up for the week.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Bus Well, thank you, Harry, And you know it's sad
with a lot of the passing of the great icons
of music, but we do have to report on that
just as much as we celebrate there.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
They're great music as well.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
But it's another look at this week in music history
for the week of May the nineteenth, and thanks for
checking out the Taking a Walk podcast. We are available
on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and are part of the iHeart
podcast network.
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