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19 unusual facts about 1971 in music


A Pillow of Winds

"A Pillow of Winds" is the second track from Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle.

Beverley's

Beverley's was a Jamaican record label (19611971) owned by the Chinese Jamaican record producer Leslie Kong.

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1971

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1971 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1971.

Curtis/Live!

Originally released in May 1971 as a double LP on Mayfield's Curtom label (distributed through Neil Bogart's Buddah Records), the album's twelve tracks (track listing below is from the 2000 Rhino reissue, which includes two bonus tracks) — along with Mayfield's interstitial raps on the politics of the day — were recorded at Paul Colby's Bitter End nightclub in New York City.

Déjà Vu Live

All of Young's songs derive from the Living with War album, including three versions of the title track, while no Crosby, Stills, or Nash song dates later than 1971.

Dolly Dagger

It was first released on 9 October 1971 on the posthumous LP Rainbow Bridge, and on 23 October it was released on a single to promote the LP, backed with a solo rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers

Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers is the 1971 (see 1971 in music) debut album of Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor.

Make It Funky

It was released as a two-part single in 1971, which reached #1 on the U.S. R&B chart and #22 on the U.S. Pop chart.

Neighborhood Records

Neighborhood Records (Neighborhood Music Pub. Corp.) was a record label founded by Melanie Safka and her husband Peter Schekeryk in 1971.

One Bad Apple

It hit the top of Billboard's Hot 100 Chart in February 1971 and stayed there for five weeks; it also reached #6 on the R&B chart.

One Way...Or Another

1 Way Or Another is the second album by American hard rock band Cactus, released in 1971 under the Atco label.

She's the Sun

The drumloop in "She's The Sun" is sampled from the introduction of Led Zeppelin's version of "When the Levee Breaks", taken from the 1971 album Led Zeppelin IV.

Show Your Face

It was released in 1971 and did not have the impact on the chart that many of her singles had the previous decade.

The Most of Herman's Hermits

The Most of Herman's Hermits is the name of a greatest hits album released in the U.K. by EMI Records' budget label Music For Pleasure for Herman's Hermits in 1971.

UFO 2: Flying

UFO 2: Flying (sometimes simply UFO 2 or Flying; also subtitled One Hour Space Rock) is the second album by UFO released in 1971 (see 1971 in music) on the Beacon label; it was issued on CD in 1999 on Repertoire Records.

Vaggsång till Jesus

Vaggssång till Jesus, "Somna nu lilla barn" or "Vaggsång för en liten timmerman" is a 1971 Swedish Christmas song, with lyrics by Britt G. Hallqvist and music by Bertil Hallin.

Want Ads

"Want Ads" was released as the first single off Soulful Tapestry in the United States in the spring of 1971 (see 1971 in music).

Warum geht es mir so dreckig?

In 1971, after the release of the first single "Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht", the band went to Klaus Freudigmann's studio in Berlin to record their first album.

Writings and Drawings

The book contained Dylan's lyrics from 1962's Bob Dylan to selections from 1971's Greatest Hits, Volume 2.