50 years ago today, Jimi Hendrix recorded his version of the Bob Dylan song ‘All Along the Watchtower’. Sitting in on the session at Olympic Studios in London, just six months after Dylan’s original recording, were Rolling Stone Brian Jones and Dave Mason from Traffic. The single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience peaked at No.
20 on the US charts and was ranked 47th in Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. (1968)MORE Good News on this Date:
- The Kiwanis club was formed in Detroit as a networking group for young professional businessmen; today, the group has 606,000 members in 96 nations who also dedicate themselves to serving children and improving the world (1915)
- Albania declared itself a republic (1925)
- Operatic tenor Placido Domingo, one of the famous trio known as “The Three Tenors,” turns 75 today (1941)
- U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to…
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