50 Year Itch

join me on a year long journey exploring the music of 1972

[50 Year Itch @50Itch]

#JulyWordSongs
The Turtles “Food”

Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, spaghetti, rice
French fried potatoes and goulash (Food!)
Eggs over easy, asparagus spears
Hot dogs and baked beans and sauerkraut
Black-bottomed mushrooms and chicken pot PIE
Pink lemonade on the Fourth of July

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Chaos erupts at the Mount Pocono Music Festival in Long Pond, Pennsylvania as excessive rain combined with overcrowding and water shortages causes thousands to become stranded and forced to walk miles to get out.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Elvis Presley and friend Kathy Selph riding around Memphis, Tennessee, on Presley’s motorcycle.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

A plane welcomes English rock band Led Zeppelin back to California as they come to perform in San Bernardino tonight.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

English rockstar David Bowie makes his television debut as Ziggy Stardust as he appears on the TV program “Lift Off.”

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival releases its seventh and final album, Mardi Gras.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Australian government agents raid a Led Zeppelin concert at Thurunka to make drug possession arrests.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Singer David Cassidy performs in Montreal, Quebec.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Fleetwood Mac releases their sixth album, “Bare Trees.”

[50 Year Itch @50Itch]

March 6, 1972
Badfinger releases the US#14 hit single “Baby Blue” on Apple Record, which was in such turmoil at the time they forgot to release the single in the UK. The Straight Up track became popular again when it was used in the Breaking Bad finale. #vinyl #badfinger

[Jon Savage @JonSavage1966]

This wonderful record was 50 years old yesterday. It is short, uncompromising, and perfect

[40 Year Itch 🎸🥁🎹🎤 @1001songs]

Why isn’t The Guess Who in the Rock Hall of Fame?
14 Top 40 singles in the United States and more than 30 in Canada. “American Woman”, “No Sugar Tonight”, “These Eyes”, and that monumental live album recorded in Seattle. Name a better rock vocalist than Burton Cummings.

[Trëy @quiksnowboard7]

#MusicHistory #OTD 1972, the great #NickDrake released this 3rd & final album, #PinkMoon. The B&W photos taken for the cover were too bleak & melancholy to use on an album cover, so a surrealistic painting was commissioned by artist Michael Trevithick, a friend of Drake's sister.

[KING CRIMSON @DGMHQ]

The death of King Crimson co-founder, Ian McDonald, has been announced. His contribution to the original band was invaluable and profound. Our condolences to Ian's family.
https://t.co/VUDoF1mB1C

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

English singer David Bowie officially opens his Ziggy Stardust tour at The Toby Jug pub, Tolworth, Surrey.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Paul and Linda McCartney leaving the Apple Studios, Saville Row, London, after a recording session.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

Rock band Pink Floyd posing in London.

[1976 Live @50YearsAgoLive]

English singer David Bowie performing at the Aylesbury Friars, UK. Bowie is in his first concert tour, the “Ziggy Stardust” tour.

[50 Year Itch @50Itch]

Somehow the record company lost all the tapes to Andersen's 1973 follow-up album so any momentum Andersen created with Blue River was lost by the time 1975's Be True To You came out.

[50 Year Itch @50Itch]

February 1972

As beautiful and well crafted an album as Eric Andersen’s Blue River is said to be, I have to admit I haven't listened to it all that much. Let's call it a "grower". (1/3)

[50 Year Itch @50Itch]

After all The Rolling Stone Record Guide called Blue River "the best example of the 70's singer/songwriter movement" and Andersen did get Joni Mitchell to contribute some ethereal vocals on the title cut ( which I could listen to all day).