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Wait…it’s 2013 already? The holiday craze has finally settled down, and somewhere along the way we slipped into a brand new year, apocalypse free. And, while you’ve all been heading back to work after a nice break and contemplating just how long it’ll take you to break your resolution, here at TuneUp HQ we have been searching for some awesome music facts for you to reflect upon. Here are some music history highlights from many Januarys-past!
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January 6, 2009: The iTunes Music Store reaches 6 billion songs sold.
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January 10, 1949: Vinyl records are introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).
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January 13, 1963: Bob Dylan plays a folk singer in a radio play for the BBC in London called “The Madhouse of Castle Street.”
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January 8, 1947: David Bowie is born as David Robert Jones in London. He later changes his last name to Bowie to avoid confusion between himself and rising star Davy Jones of The Monkees.
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January 18, 1939: Louis Armstrong and his orchestra record the song “Jeepers Creepers.”
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January 21, 1982: B.B. King donates his entire record collection to the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The collection consists of about 20,000 rare blues records.
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January 21, 1987: Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Bill Haley and 14 others.
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January 24, 1969: Jethro Tull plays its very first U.S. concert in New York City as the opening act for Led Zeppelin.
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January 27, 1968: Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” is released. The release comes 6 weeks after he is tragically killed in a plane crash.
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January 29, 1996: Garth Brooks refuses to accept his American Music Award for Favorite Overall Artist, stating that Hootie and the Blowfish did much more for music that year.