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Speaker 1: Podcast playground. I'm Buzznight, the host of Taking a Walk

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Speaker 1: Music History on Foot. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: and definitely leave us a review as well. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: this Week in Music History for the week of February thirteenth,

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Speaker 1: as we're taking a walk in the mean streets of Carlisle, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: On February thirteenth, nineteen fourteen, the American Society of Composers,

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Speaker 1: Authors and Publishers known as ASCAP was founded, still a

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Speaker 1: very influential organization to this day. On February fourteenth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty four, British pop music duo Peter and Gordon released

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Speaker 1: a single A World Without Love written by this I

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Speaker 1: named Paul McCartney born on February fourteenth. Singer Rob Thomas

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Speaker 1: from the great band Matchbox twenty. On February fifteenth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty five, he lost an American icon, Nat King Cole

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Speaker 1: died of lung cancer at the age of forty five.

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Speaker 1: He was the first black host of an American TV series,

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Speaker 1: and he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the

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Speaker 1: Grammys in nineteen ninety. I always wish we make these

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Speaker 1: awards when these individuals are alive to enjoy it for sure.

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Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, on this day, Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk

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Speaker 1: reached the one million sales mark ten weeks after its release,

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Speaker 1: featuring those amazing vocals of mister Bruno Mars. On February sixteenth.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy two, Led Zeppelin made their live debut

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Speaker 1: in Australia in Perth, Way down Under. They performed Stairway

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Speaker 1: to Heaven, Immigrant Song and Going to California. That would

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Speaker 1: have been a trip to be there for that. Born

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Speaker 1: on February sixteenth, nineteen ninety, Abell test Fay was born.

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Speaker 1: You know him as the Canadian superstar the Weekend. On

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Speaker 1: February seventeenth, nineteen sixty, Elvis Presley. Elvis earned his first

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Speaker 1: gold record for an album created weeks before his discharge

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Speaker 1: from the US Army in nineteen seventy five. On February seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: ac DC released their debut studio album High Voltage in

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Speaker 1: Australia only. It was released at first and we were

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Speaker 1: fortunate on taking a walk to have the current lead

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Speaker 1: singer of ac DC Beyond some episodes ago. Go check

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Speaker 1: it out. It was a lot of fun with Brian

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Speaker 1: Johnson born on February seventeenth, nineteen ninety one, the Lovely

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Speaker 1: Ed Shearon and on February eighteenth, nineteen sixty six, Beach

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Speaker 1: Boy leader Brian Wilson began recording the band soon to

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Speaker 1: be classic Good Vibrations. And also, if you want to

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Speaker 1: check out a great past episode Taking a Walk Music

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Speaker 1: History on Foot, David Leif, who is a friend of

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Speaker 1: Brian Wilson's and a great writer and historian about the

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Speaker 1: Beach Boys, was on with an episode, so you want

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Speaker 1: to check that one out. In nineteen ninety on February eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury made his final public appearance at

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Speaker 1: the brit Awards, accepting an honor alongside his mates of

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Speaker 1: outstanding contribution to British music and Mercury died in November

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one at the age of forty five. In

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Speaker 1: the coming weeks on Taking a Walk Music History on Foot,

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Speaker 1: look forward to episodes from country artist Russell Dickerson. Love

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Speaker 1: that Guy. Martha Earls, another one of the influential music

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Speaker 1: figures and managers in Nashville, managing the hot country artist

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Speaker 1: Kane Brown. We also have episodes with Mike Levine from

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Speaker 1: Triumph and Mick Box from Uriah Heap and check out

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