August 30, 1975: Rod Stewart earned his fifth Number 1 album in the U.K. with Atlantic Crossing.
Atlantic Crossing boasts both a new producer and supporting musical cast.
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The new backup musicians, mainly from Muscle Shoals and Memphis, provide the kind of crisp, authoritative, very spare basics that manage to suggest much of the pre-1975 Stewart as well as something completely different.Read more: Rolling Stones
August 30, 1965: Bob Dylan released Highway 61 Revisited on Columbia Records.
Recorded in a staggering six days, Highway 61 Revisited is one of those albums that changed everything.
"Ballad of a Thin Man" delivered the definitive Sixties comment on the splintering hip-straight fault line: "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is/Do you, Mister Jones?"
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August 30, 1975: Orleans entered the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time with "Dance With Me," which climbed to Number 6.
“Dance With Me” was the work of John Hall and Johanna Hall.
She was a former journalist who’d followed her muse to become a lyricist, he was the guitarist and vocalist for Orleans, and at the time they were married and penning pop songs together.
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August 30, 1980: "Sailing" by Christopher Cross was Billboard's top single. It swept the Grammy Awards the following Spring when it won Song Of The Year and Record Of The Year.
Christopher Cross came from San Antonio, and he spent years toiling on that city’s club circuit, playing in a blues-rock cover band.
He was apparently friendly with people like ZZ Top and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and he tells a story that he once played with Deep Purple, filling in for Ritchie Blackmore at a San Antonio show when Blackmore was too sick to play.
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August 30, 1983: Huey Lewis and the News released the single "Heart And Soul."
"Heart and Soul" is a song written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn and made famous by Huey Lewis and the News.
The song was first recorded by Exile in 1981 as the title track of their album Heart and Soul. Exile's single failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100. Huey Lewis and the News' version was released as the first single from the album Sports in 1983. The single peaked at number 8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
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