Don Barrett's L.A. Radio.com http://www.laradio.com/ website has some more songs in the Flashbacks section for “this day in 1963” that remind me of that time that we were headed to the end of elementary school life and choosing whether to go to Nightingale Jr. High in September for 3 years of 7th to 9th grades, or go to Lincoln for 6 years, where there was a Jr. and Sr. high school combined, 7th through 12 grades. I think that only Eagle Rock High still has a combined Jr. and Sr. high in LAUSD.
Top Five Flashback, March 11, 1961: Pony Time by Chubby Checker, Surrender by Elvis Presley, Wheels by the String-A-Longs, Don't Worry by Marty Robbins, Where The Boys Are by Connie Francis.
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Today in music history has quite a lot of things that jog the memory back to a time when music didn't need a "Parent Advisory" caution or an "R" rating.
In checking LARADIO.COM’s “Rewind” for this date: MARCH 11th 1968-
Otis Redding was posthumously awarded a gold record for "Dock of the Bay"- He's always been one of my favorite performers of all time and died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967, at age 26.
In June 1967, just at the beginning of what was called the “Summer of Love,” the first outdoor big concert of the period was held in Monterey, California. LHS alum and classmate Ruben Brooks later became a U.S. District Court Magistrate in the Southern District of San Diego, but I will always remember him as being one who was adventurous enough to get to that concert to see this all in person. Jimi Hendrix, The Who and other major performers of the pop genre combined to give a few days of outstanding entertainment that you can still see in the famous concert movie, "Monterey Pop." Otis Redding was really not known by many outside of the R&B area and it was at Monterey Pop where introduced the wider public to his passionate and dynamic style as a singer and performer.
It was a sad post-script to that concert story to think that Otis Redding would be dead less than 6 months later, killed in a plane crash with most of the "Bar-Kays," his backup band in a lake in Wisconsin.
There is a web entry in December 2007, on the 40th anniversary of Otis Redding's death that describes a commemorative ceremony that would be held at the site with Otis Redding's widow, Ben Cauley a surviving band member, and the mayor and Governor, making December 10th "Otis Redding Day" in Wisconsin. The story says that before this, the officials kept the site of the crash closed to the public.
“The Otis Redding Plane Crash: 40 Years Later,” Monday December 3, 2007, in About.com's “Robert's Oldies Music Blog,” By Robert Fontenot; http://oldies.about.com/b/2007/12/03/the-otis-redding-plane-crash-40-years-later.htm
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Notable births on March 11th:
1957 - Cheryl Lynn (“Got To Be Real,” “Star Love,” “Encore”) was born in Los Angeles.
1950 - Bobby McFerrin (“Don't worry, Be happy,” “Good Lovin'”) was born in Manhattan.
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