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1965: THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY YEAR IN MUSIC THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY YEAR IN MUSIC 1ST EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Andrew Grant Jackson | --- | --- | --- | 9781250059628 | --- | --- History of the Compact Disc | Low End Mac On August 11, , German forces begin a six-day evacuation of the Italian island of Sicily, having been beaten back by the Allies, who invaded the island in July. The Germans had maintained a presence in Sicily since the earliest days of the war. But with the arrival of Gen. The last U. The unit had been guarding the U. This left only 43, advisors, airmen, and support troops left in-country. This number did Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. On August 11, , President Ronald Reagan makes a joking but controversial off-the-cuff remark about bombing Russia while testing a microphone before a scheduled radio address. While hunting for elk along the Missouri River, Meriwether Lewis is shot in the hip, probably by one of his own men. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had embarked on their epic journey to the Pacific two years earlier. The 33 members of the Corps of Discovery had experienced On August 11, , the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George Lucas, opens in theaters across the United States. For the remainder of the decade, the trio walked a fine line, appealing to liberals and antiwar activists, and raising the consciousness of the interested, but also entertaining middle-of-the-road listeners, and especially to parents who felt their music was safe for younger children. They were accomplishing precisely what the Weavers had set out to do a decade and a half earlier and, not coincidentally, also exactly what the Weavers ' political opponents had feared the latter group would do, spreading liberal ideas and politics on the popular landscape with pretty music. Their commercial fortunes and mass appeal remained intact into the second half of the decade. The album In Concert , an unprecedented for a folk group double LP, hit number four during the summer and fall of , and the group's next studio LP, A Song Will Rise got to number eight in the spring of At the same time, however, its highest-charting single, "For Lovin' Me," only reached number See What Tomorrow Brings peaked at number 11 in late , their first placement outside of the Top Ten with an LP, but hardly unrespectable. Those albums were considered solidly competitive in the musical environment of and , amid the sounds of folk-rock and psychedelic rock of the era, and both have held up better than those by most of the competition, mostly owing to the quality of the music and the songs. From the beginning of its history, the trio displayed an uncanny ear for great songs and songwriters -- Stookey had steered Grossman to Bob Dylan before many people in Greenwich Village had even heard of him. And in early , before their debut album had even been released, the Kingston Trio had picked up a then-new Pete Seeger song, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," from one of the group's live performances and had a hit with it. And when they caught the moment again with a song, the trio proved that they could sell records with the best of them. For much of the year that followed this commercial comeback, the group was involved in politics, in the form of Senator Eugene McCarthy 's antiwar campaign for the White House. They appeared on behalf of McCarthy , and even released a record supporting him. McCarthy 's candidacy ultimately failed, in a year that also saw the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. In , they returned to the middle of the charts again with Yarrow 's "Day Is Done," a surprisingly autumnal work. They also chalked up another Grammy Award that year for Peter, Paul and Mommy , an album of children's songs that became a mainstay of their catalog, reaching generation after generation of parents and children. During the summer of , Warner Bros. Released that September, the single "Leaving on a Jet Plane" peaked at number one, the trio's only chart-topping single, and also pulled Album back onto the list of top-selling LPs. It was inevitable that there would be a split at some point, given their different, evolving lives. Mary Travers was now the mother of two daughters, Yarrow was newly married, and Stookey , in addition to wanting to work with new and different musical sounds, had developed a serious belief in Christianity. Amid a flurry of sales behind "Leaving on a Jet Plane," and the release in the spring of Ten Years Together: The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary which rose to number 15 , the trio completed their concert obligations and announced in the fall of that they were taking a year's sabbatical from Peter, Paul and Mary. Mary Travers continued working in a folk-pop vein for a time, while Peter Yarrow wrote topical songs dealing with the politics of the time, and Paul Stookey proved the most adventurous of the three musically, exploring harder rock sounds as well as jazz, and delving into Christian-oriented music. They moved around each other's orbits, appearing on each other's albums occasionally and even reuniting on behalf of George McGovern 's presidential campaign, but it was clear by the late '70s that none of them had enough of an audience on his own to sustain a full-time performing career. Travers moved from Warner Bros. This was all a long way from their s heyday, and a reunion album also proved a false start, selling more poorly than any LP in their history. The concerts surrounding that album, however, marked the beginning of a gradual re-forming of the trio. Travers , a single mother with two daughters and a menagerie of pets to look after, was nonetheless concerned with the antinuclear movement, with which Yarrow had long been involved. Stookey rejoined after some hesitation, and by the early '80s Peter, Paul and Mary were a functioning trio again, playing concerts occasionally and trying to record, including their annual Christmas concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York. Without skipping a beat, they picked up from their early-'60s beginnings, only the civil rights anthems had new meaning in an era when the laws protecting those rights were under attack by the Reagan administration. And they were interspersed with songs about the political strife in El Salvador and the nuclear arms race. As long as they included "Puff The Magic Dragon " in their repertoire, however, the trio was still largely immune from attack by the right. The real difficulty was getting their work heard by a larger public in the music environment of the s. By that late date, none of the major labels were interested in the work of folk groups of their vintage so they did it themselves, initially releasing the live reunion album Such Is Love on their own Peter, Paul and Mary label. They were associated with Gold Castle Records, a promising independent label, for much of the late '80s, until its failure, but they did get to record a handful of LPs that they ended up owning outright. They retained good relations with Warner Bros. Finally, in , some 30 years after the trio signed with them, Warner Bros. Records became interested in doing a follow-up to Peter, Paul and Mommy , which had been a perennially good seller in its catalog. After the s, the group had been moving into the role of elder statesmen of the folk community -- Mary Travers even hosted a television special that brought together the entire present and former membership of the Kingston Trio on-stage -- and this status was borne out in with the Lifelines album. The latter, an all-star concept album featuring the trio performing with colleagues, older and younger -- including ex- Weaver Ronnie Gilbert and blues legend B. King -- was sufficiently successful to generate a concert follow-up, Lifelines Live , the following year. In , Matsushita accepted the new CD standard, but the collaboration between Sony and Philips ended as the two companies had products ready for CDs are made from 1. A thin layer of aluminum is applied to the surface, making it reflective, and then protected by a film of lacquer. The most common printing method for compact discs is screen-printing. The data on a CD is stored as tiny indentations encoded in a spiral track moulded into the top layer of polycarbonate. Digital data on a CD begins at the center and proceeds outwards to the edge, allowing for flexibility as many different sizes of CDs can be made; the most common being 12 cm in diameter known as maxi singles when used for storing music. As the first players surfaced on the market that year, the compact disc format began to attract widespread usage and popularity in Japan and Europe. CDs were manufactured at only two facilities in the entire world, each owned by Philips and Sony. The manufacturing process was tedious and required masked technicians in labs. Hitachi also released their first CD players in , selling about 6, units, whilst Sony sold over 20, CD players. By the end of the year, CD titles were available. That year, growth soared as 30, players and , CDs were sold in the US alone. Portable CD players were first introduced in the mid s but were not popular until the s when anti-skip technology was introduced. At first, the D was not profitable but as the product gained popularity, it soon became profitable, and Sony began to create a portable CD market.

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