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Fear of Rock
July 1957: ABC TV show “The Big Beat” with Alan Freed began a short run. Though popular, in an early episode Frankie Lymon, a Black singer, was seen dancing with a white girl. Southern stations protested and ABC cancelled the show. A local NYC station, WNEW-TV, continued the show. (see In October) (NYT article)
The Rainbow Quest
July 1960: Pete Seeger released The Rainbow Quest album on which was the song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”
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Sidewinder
July 1964: Lee Morgan’s Sidewinder album released. Recorded at the famous Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
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FCC adopted non-duplication rule
July 1964: the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a non-duplication rule prohibiting FM radio stations in cities of more than 100,000 people from merely running a simulcast of the programming from their AM counterparts. Stations fought the rule and delayed implementation. (CM, see September 5, 1965; RR, see December 13, 1965)
Tim Hardin 1
July, 1966: Tim Hardin (age 25) released first album, Tim Hardin 1. (see Aug 15)
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Bob Dylan
In July 1965: Dylan and Sara Lownds purchased an eleven-room mansion in the Arts and Crafts Movement Colony of Byrdcliffe named Hi Lo Ha on Camelot Road one mile from Woodstock, NY. (next Dylan, see July 25; Lowands, see Nov 22)
Cultural Milestone
July 1967: the Summer of Love in San Francisco. (see Sept 3)
Future Woodstock Performers
In July, 1967: Canned Heat released first album, Canned Heat.
Sky Pilot/The War Is Over
July 1968: Eric Burdon and the Animals released “Sky Pilot” and Phil Ochs “The War Is Over.” (see August)
The War is Over
Mind Games
July – August, 1973: in New York’s Record Plant East studio, John Lennon began work on the Mind Games album. Mind Games was completed within a period lasting around two weeks, with Lennon producing it himself. The band was credited as the Plastic U.F.Ono Band.
By that summer John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s marriage was on the rocks. Ono suggested that Lennon embark on an affair with their assistant, May Pang. That decision led to Lennon’s “Lost Weekend,” the 18 months that he lived with Pang in her New York apartment and later a a rented home in Los Angeles. (see Oct 20)