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On This Day – 1st July

Jul 1, 2009 On This Day
Posted by Phil

I have a friend who does a mean ‘White Rabbit’ karaoke. Most people seem not to know what song she is singing when the music start but they all stop drinking to listen. Jo owes all that to this day in 1967 when Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit entered the Billboard chart. Mind you, the best version of this song is by Patti Smith (I know, heresy).

On this day in 1969 Sam Phillips sold Sun Records to Shelby Singleton. Whether it was a ‘good thing’ for either music, or the label, is an argument for another time. Just think about the people Sam recorded;

Elvis Presley
Carl Perkins
Roy Orbison
Johnny Cash
Jerry Lee Lewis

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