Showing posts with label Rickie Lee Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rickie Lee Jones. Show all posts

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Music History Today: June 25, 2021

June 25, 1971: The movie Shaft was released.

The MGM film "Shaft" starred Richard Roundtree as a new kind of hero, private detective John Shaft. Made for a reported budget of $1 million, it grossed anything up to ten times that amount. 

Monday, June 1, 2020

Music History Today: June 2, 2020

June 2, 1984:  "Time After Time," from Cyndi Lauper's debut studio album "She's So Unusual," reached the Number 1 position on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Cyndi Lauper didn’t plan to write “Time after Time” at all. The New York-raised singer had already left the recording studio after — she thought — completing her first solo album, She’s So Unusual.