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SISTER GOLDEN HAIR - AMERICA - 1975


NEWS

• Watergate was still headline news.

• President Ford escapes 2 assassination attempts!

• The Edmund Fitzgerald would slip beneath the waves of Lake Superior

• Jimmy Hoffa disappears!

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIE: “Jaws” “Rocky Horror Picture Show” “Dog Day Afternoon” & “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”.

• TV: “Saturday Night Live” “Barney Miller” & “Welcome Back Kotter”.

• The “Betamax” would change the way we watched TV.

• Microsoft is founded.

• Mohammad Ali whupped Joe Frazier in the Thrilla in Manila.

• Atari’s home version of “Pong” was the hot video game.

 

DEAD

• Rod Serling

• Larry & Moe of the 3 Stooges

 

#1@1

• From their fifth album Hearts.

• The song features a memorable guitar riff admittedly inspired by George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord".

• They were able to secure the services of George Martin, and Geoff Emerick [Beatles Recording Engineer 1966-1970] who played a major role in shaping the sound of the Beatles.

• The title was initially inspired by the mothers of all three members of the group, all of whom were golden-haired blondes.

• On January 16, 2007, America released Here & Now, the band's first major label studio album in over twenty years.

• America with Sister Golden Hair your #1 @ 1 from June 1975.



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