{"id":2309,"date":"2009-09-03T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-01T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T22:04:16","slug":"that-day-i-ll-always-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/that-day-i-ll-always-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"That Day I’ll Always Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"

Townsman chuckflack<\/strong> passed along the following thoughts for us to ponder.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Quick:<\/em> Why is today, September 3rd<\/strong>, an important date in musical history? <\/p>\n

Hints:<\/em> Motown, strings, death.
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\nTime’s up. \u201cIt was the third of September. That day I’ll always remember. Yes I will. ‘Cause that was the day, that my daddy died.\u201d Papa, who was a Rolling Stone, rolled no more after September 3rd. <\/p>\n

Hearing this great Norman Whitfield\/Barrett Strong<\/strong> song via The Temptations<\/strong> recently, and slogging away at my job in a bookstore where the onslaught of calendars these days is killing me, got me thinking: How many songs actually mention a specific date (beyond the usual holidays, Christmas, July 4th, etc.)? I couldn’t come up with that many. Bob Dylan<\/strong>‘s \u201cIsis\u201d (\u201cI married Isis on the fifth day of May\u201d–cinco de mayo, yes, but the holiday is never mentioned or alluded to in the song, so I’ll give Bob a pass); Kristin Hersh<\/strong>‘s \u201cThe Letter\u201d (\u201cSeptember twenty-ninth, nineteen eighty-four\u201d–kudos for the year, Kristin); John Lennon<\/strong>‘s \u201cRemember: (\u201cDo you remember, the fifth of November?!\u201d –Guy Fawkes Day, I suppose, but that’s hardly a real holiday unless you’re a Jesuit terrorist) and, and…I’m not counting U2<\/strong>‘s historically inaccurate \u201cEarly morning April four\u201d since it refers to a specific event in history. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m looking for other songs with specific, non-historical\/holiday dates<\/strong><\/em> in them. I’m thinking if Stephin Merrit<\/strong> or Sufjan Stevens<\/strong> or some other nut realizes the opportunities in writing a song for every calendar date, we might just get a magnum opus 366 Days title out of them.