Wednesday, July 10, 2013

40 Year Itch: This and That...


 

Bits of Music news from the early Summer of 1973:

Richie Havens begins an 8 city tour to promote Portfolio, an album containing eight lithographs Havens himself drew.


Why is John Dean's picture in a music blog? Because the Time Magazine cover story was promised to Paul Simon.



  Buck Owens was spotted in San Diego for farewell ceremonies to two US Navy Destroyers sold to Brazil:
 The USS Buck and the USS Owens.


Gemini announced that their Watergate poster was outselling posters of Donny Osmond, David Cassidy and The Jackson 5.
                                 

Billy Paul bough his wife a Mercedes with the money he earned from "Me and Mrs Jones."

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