On this Day in Music – 20th July

2010’s

2014Rixton’s Me And My Broken Heart began a one week spell at the top of the UK Singles Chart.  The song was the lead single from their debut studio album Let the Road.

Previous Albums Of The Day

No.1415 20/07/2020

The 1965 debut self-titled album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch includes his best known song Needle of Death. Apparently the LP was recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder at engineer Bill Leader’s house and sold to Transatlantic Records for £100…a bargain!

No.1048 20/07/2019

The 1972 album Ben by Brazilliant artist Jorge Ben Jor contains two of his most famous songs Taj Mahal and Fio Maravilha. The former has a passing resemblance to Rod Stewart’s hit single Da Ya Think I’m Sexy. Stewart settled a copyright infringement. Anyone heard Ben?

No.683 20/07/2018

The 2nd Cypress Hill album Black Sunday is 25 years old today! Darker than their debut, and with a could be ‘metal’ album cover, Black Sunday did not disappoint. Includes the popular I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That and Insane in the Brain. cypresshill.com

No.318 20/07/2017

Critically acclaimed 1965 A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. Supreme musicianship with Coltrane on Sax, McCoy Tyner piano, Jimmy Garrison bass and drummer Elvin Jones johncoltrane.com

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