DJ Fred’s Rock N Roll Factoids For August 21st [VIDEOS]

She had gone head-first through a car windshield in a horrible accident just a couple of months prior to recording one of the most memorable songs ever!

It was this date in 1961 that Patsy Cline recorded the WIllie Nelson song Crazy.  Because of her injuries, she had trouble hitting the high notes, but she pulled it off and the song spent twenty one weeks on the charts.

One of the better lines in music history: "I'm crazy for trying and crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you."

The other three members of the Doors reeled in Jim Morrison, their lead singer, and began recording their second studio album, Strange Days, on this date in 1967.  It featured Love Me Two Times and People Are Strange, which a very depressed Morrison wrote after a hike up Hollywood Hills. If I were to guess, the poet/lyricist probably got the idea when other unarmed hikers ran for their lives after seeing him up there in the hills.

Here's some weird musical s**t.  On this date in 1968, Mony Mony by Tommy James and the Shondells hit #1. Then, later in 1987, Billy Idol's version of Mony Mony replaced another Tommy James hit song, I Think We're Alone Now by Tiffany, at the #1 position.  Yeah, the musical gods dig Tommy James every August 21st.

Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 16th Greatest Guitarist of All Time, and it was on this date in 1983 that Johnny Ramone, the flame-throwing guitarist of the Ramones, underwent emergency brain surgery after being injured in a New York City street fight.    Ramone would survive the surgery, (of course he was sedated during the operation), and live to play another day!

The boys in Survivor had an official fit on this date in 2000 when they sued a record company that had just released a soundtrack for the TV show Survivor and called it just that.  Survivor guitarist Frankie Sullivan angrily said, ‘It’s unfortunate that after 23 years of building, promoting, and protecting the name of our band, someone can suddenly come along and release a recording that uses our name and takes away everything we have worked for.’  He didn't mention the present that Rocky Balboa gave the band.

Joe Strummer,, the singer/songwriter/guitarist of what once was The Clash, was born on this date in 1952.  He died in 2002, and then the following year the band that was instrumental in the punk rock movement was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!

We've chosen Sammy Hagar as the I-95 Artist of the Day!  Why?  Because Sammy is f**kin' awesome!  Sammy's had great solo songs like Heavy Metal, all those Van Halen songs, and now his new band The Circle is kickin' ass out there on tour!

Make sure you listen to Sammy's Top Rock Countdown Show this Sunday at 6 right here on I-95!  Yeah, we're the station that Sammy Hagar actually pulls a shift on!