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What happened this week in rock androll history? Let's find out? It's
the rock Omanac on iHeartRadio. What'sgoing on, rock and roll lovers,
It's Andy West. Let's get itstarted. We kick it off. In
nineteen sixty five, The Dean MartinShow makes its debut, with Martin using
his hit Everybody Loves Somebody as thetheme song. The popular variety show runs
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until nineteen seventy five and introduces usto a group of backup dancers called the
gold Diggers. Martin coins a newnickname for guest Frank Sinatra when he refers
to his pal as the Chairman ofthe Board. This Week in nineteen seventy
four, Eric Clapton's I Shot theSheriff, a song written by Bob Marley,
hits number one on the Hot onehundred. It's Clapton's only number one
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either as a solo artist or withone of his bands, Cream, the
Yardbirds and Derek and the Dominos.This Week in nineteen eighty four, the
TV series Miami Vice makes its debutwith a two hour episode that includes a
scene featuring the Phil Collins hit inthe Air Tonight. The song came out
in nineteen eighty one, but sawa spike in sales. The song has
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had many lives over the years,even a viral video in twenty twenty.
This week in nineteen ninety three,one day after the show premieres, Radiohead
becomes the first musical guest on NBC'sLate Night with Conan O'Brien. And this
week in nineteen ninety seven, FleetwoodMac begin their first tour in twenty years
at the Meadows Music Theater in Hartford, Connecticut. The show starts with this
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song and That's when went down toyour rock Omanac on iHeartRadio