Buzz Knight (2:31)

Iconic to this day, you know.

Harry Jacobs (2:34)

Yeah, just a, just a really, really lovely song.

Buzz Knight (2:38)

Yep. Petty, I might add too.

Harry Jacobs (2:41)

Yeah, absolutely. This, you know, this is a, you know, as you said, this is a, you know, a short week. This is a quick1 in 1965 Again, we never get through one of these without something for the Beatles. But September 13, 1965, Beatles won their first Grammy for best performance by a vocal group for A Hard Day's Night. This solidified their dominance in global pop for them to win a Grammy. Big deal.

Buzz Knight (3:13)

I wonder if they thought a Grammy was a big deal.

Harry Jacobs (3:17)

You know, this is before they were saying they were bigger than Jesus before Lenin said that they were, you know, as big or bigger. I forgot. What's the quote?

Buzz Knight (3:27)

I. I think it was taken out in so many contexts. I'm not sure, but big. Bigger. Bigger than Jesus, I think. Yeah.

Harry Jacobs (3:35)

And this, you know, 65. Think about it. Two years after they landed here, they were at the height of. Of their fame and. And fortune. So I don't think the. I think the Grammy was just like, oh, that's cool. Yeah, probably right. Not like, we both really like Stephen Wilson, who, by the way, we want to come on Taking a Walk podcast with you. But if Stephen Wilson won a Grammy, it'd be a huge deal.

Buzz Knight (4:02)

Yeah.

Harry Jacobs (4:03)

For Steve Wilson. It wasn't a big deal for the Beatles two years after, you know, really their explosion. So, you know, was it important to them? Probably. And I'm sure McCartney would. Would say something, you know, gentlemanly about what an honor it was at that time. But, you know, go back, you know, 61 years at this point, or 50. 60 years, and I don't know that they thought it was a huge deal.

Buzz Knight (4:31)

I'll bet Mr. George Martin level set them on that and put some perspective in their head about that. If they, you know, if they had been thinking otherwise, I would bet he. He had a profound influence in that way as well.

Harry Jacobs (4:48)

Let me say that another way. I bet there was a Come to Jesus meeting about the Grammy probably at that point in time. Right?

Buzz Knight (4:54)

Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, they were. Listen, they had the theatrical side of things. They knew how to kind of, you know, play the image of.

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Buzz Knight (5:05)

And fun and games and. And, you know, just their whole vibe. But I think deep down they must have understood the depth of that at that time. You know, we.

Harry Jacobs (5:18)

There's a kind of a New England, Massachusetts connection to the next story. And really, it's the last one for the day. We just have three stories. For the week of September 8th through the 14th, 1981, the Stones began their iconic American tour with a show in Philly. Do you know why I say it was a. There was a tie to Massachusetts. I know. You do?

Buzz Knight (5:41)

No.

Harry Jacobs (5:41)

Oh, okay. I'm gonna.

Buzz Knight (5:44)

When I. Oh, I do. Yes. Okay.

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Harry Jacobs (5:47)

That's correct.

Buzz Knight (5:48)

Thank you. It took me a while. There's been years of impacting the brain cells. Yes. Talk about that. Because you. You could talk about it probably with a better front row seat than me.

Harry Jacobs (6:03)

Yeah. In. In 1981, when the Stones were rehearsing for Tattoo you album with a bunch of great songs, neighbors, and you Know, a bunch of. Bunch of Start Me up, the legendary album. I think, in a lot of ways, Slave was on that. Right. They rehearsed for their world tour at Longview Farms in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Gil Marle own Longview Farms. And it was a very interesting place to record or to rehearse. A lot of famous people had. Had played out there, you know, Jackson Brown, Jake Isles, because they were, you know, in the neighborhood there. But it was a big deal when the Stones came through and decided they were gonna. Gonna rehearse there. I don't think they recorded there. I think they just rehearsed. I don't think that's where Tattoo U was recorded. But I'll tell you this. It was a big deal. If you were in, in or around Worcester, Mass. At that point, our friend Rob Barnett, who you've had on Taking a Walk, who is just a mensch among men, was influential in getting to the Stones, I believe through Gil Markle. And Barnett can tell the story far better than I can. But what happened was while they were recording there, and I know some people that hid out in the field behind Longview Farm, and Longview Farm is just literally. Is literally a farm, and the Stones were playing in a barn. So people would go out there at night and lay down in the field. There wasn't a lot of security or anything there. You could just lay out and listen to the Stones, you know, work out their set list. But Rob Barnett coordinated with the Stones to play a date at the legendary Worcester rock Club, which is no longer there, called Sir Morgan's Cove on Green street in. Just out on the outskirts of downtown Worcester. And that show. Rob was the program director at WAAF at the time. AAF had all these Volkswagen Beatles that were painted up with the AAF logos all over them. And. And they did ticket giveaways for that show. I was too young to go to that. I wasn't really involved much at that point, but it was because it was at a nightclub. You know, I. I couldn't go. I couldn't attend it. And it was a big deal. You know, one of the. If you talk to Rob Barnett, a guy who worked for VH1, who, you know, was part of, you know, In Infinity cbs, you know, radio. I mean, he's. He's done a lot of things in his life, and you ask him about his life, the Stones thing in Worcester, I'm sure would come up in. In the top. Top two or three, I'd be willing to bet.

Buzz Knight (8:57)

Why wouldn't it? Yeah. My God. And I can't believe when you asked me about the significance, I was like, first tour sponsored by a perfume. I couldn't, you know, I was like wrestling with all this and then I'm like, of course that magical moment in Worcester, Mass. Which, you know, as someone who, you know, has Worcester has a lot of meaning to, I don't take this disrespectfully, but in a way it kind of put Worcester on the map, didn't it?

Harry Jacobs (9:32)

Yeah, Worcester has struggled and I'm, that's where I was born. And I, you know, I, I will always have a fondness for Worcester. I loved living there and you know, like many places in New England, there are a lot of people that live there and stay there for their entire lives. And there's a cultural thing about Worcester like there is about a lot of places.

Buzz Knight (9:55)

Cleveland.

Harry Jacobs (9:57)

Yeah.

Buzz Knight (9:58)

Really?

Harry Jacobs (9:59)

Yeah.

Buzz Knight (9:59)

Working class places that are, you know, cycles of tough times. I mean, Cleveland's a good example, but there's so many others. The American city, it's the challenge of the American city. So, yeah, I don't, that's why I hesitated. I wasn't meaning to knock Worcester even though when we programmed in Boston. Yeah, of course we knocked Worcester, you know.

Harry Jacobs (10:21)

Yeah, listen, well, you, you know, when you programmed in Boston, Chuck Nolan was doing afternoon drive for us and Chuck is from Burnco. Went to, went to, went to Burncote High School. Grew up in Greendale. I, I, I've known Chuck since I was 14. He's a, he's a Worcester guy. He'll, he's proud of that through and through and, and it's a, that's a city that's gotten its, its ass kicked from a reputation perspective over the years. But it, I think it's a wonderful place. And I, when I go home, I don't, you know, I don't go to Boston. I will go, I'll go to Boston for a visit. You know, last I was home around Covid with you and we had to eat outside upstairs when it was February. But I went, I went home to Worcester.

Buzz Knight (10:59)

Right.

Harry Jacobs (11:00)

And spent a week in Worcester. And they're, you know, great wreck Coney island hot dogs in the Boynton Pierce. I mean, it's just, I just, I love Worcester. I'm proud that I'm from Worcester.

Buzz Knight (11:08)

Great people too.

Harry Jacobs (11:09)

Yes. So the Stones 1981 tour began in the suburbs of Worcester in North Brookfield. The rehearsal at Longview Farms. Gil Markle, Rob Barnett. And that is our last story for the very short week, September 8th through the 14th.

Buzz Knight (11:27)

Harry, thank you so much for another look at this Week in Music history. A short week, but still an eventful week. A great story on Worcester and the Rolling St. Thank you for it. And thank you to all of you for listening to the Taking a Walk podcast this Week in Music History, available wherever you get your podcasts.