“March 1972 Tasaday Babe” Copyright 2022 00individual TLL *
EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE! March 1972
March 1972 marks an extremely fun high-point in 00’s life; he had just turned 21 in February and was in the middle of a solid rockin’ year as manager of “Cranes” Palos Verdes record store.
The release of “Hendrix in the West” within the first month of 1972 was a righteous anthem to begin the new year and the continuous amazing six month run before leaving the store that he had made home for a job as a Record and Tape Rack Jobber for an L.A. distributor for the following year.
These were the days when EVERYTHING was new and every day was an adventure – it was the times – not just for 00, but for all of those individuals who contributed to the VIBE!
And to be a record store manager or rack jobber back then was seen as being on a level of celebrity. 00 was looked up to in some circles because back then record store managers knew their shit and rockers knew it; as one didn’t achieve that position without a lot of hard core knowledge of Rock, and music in general.
The early ’70s were unexplored lands, new adventures, new highs, new experiences, and new sounds! 1970 through 1975 was epic and the pinnacle of Classic Rock – 00 was there.
March 1972 Happenings:
Mar 2 The student senate at Stanford University voted, 18–4, to accept the recommendation that the school’s athletic teams drop the nickname “Stanford Indians”. Other college and high school teams would follow, retiring Indians, Redskins, Braves, and other Native American inspired mascots.
Mar 3 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashed into a house on Edgewood Avenue in Albany, New York, killing 16 of the 47 persons on board, and one person in an upstairs apartment. The impact happened at 8:48 pm after the commuter plane lost power during a snowstorm.
Mar 4 “About 1.1 million young people reached adulthood at midnight”, as the New York Times described it, when a law took effect in California to lower the age of majority from 21 to 18.
Mar 7 TWA Flight 7 was half an hour into its flight from New York to Los Angeles when the airline’s officials were notified that it had a time bomb on board. The plane landed back at JFK at 12:10 pm. A trained German shepherd named “Brandy” sniffed out the explosive, found in an attache case in the cockpit. With five pounds of C4, the device would have destroyed the Boeing 707, with 52 on board, in midflight at 1:00 pm. Police defused the explosive with 12 minutes to spare.
Mar 7 Federal Express was granted an FAA Operating Certificate by the Federal Aviation Administration, permitting it to operate jet service to deliver packages.
Mar 7 “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” single written by Ewan MacColl, released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year 1972) – and excellently placed interlude in Eastwood’s equally excellent directorial debut, the thriller, “Play Misty For Me”.
Mar 8 As the extortion plot against Trans World Airlines continued, a C4 packed time bomb was found on a second Boeing 707. Hidden in a bathroom, the bomb exploded at 3:55 a.m. while the jet sat, unoccupied, at the airport in Las Vegas. Two searches had failed to detect the explosive. The plane had arrived seven hours earlier from New York. The plotters had warned TWA about bombs on four separate flights, and had demanded a $2,000,000 ransom.
Mar 8 The highest recorded speed for a gust of wind was measured at 207 m.p.h. during a storm at Thule Air Base in Greenland.
Mar 8 President Nixon issued Executive Order 11652, setting standards for top secret, secret, and confidential classifications of government documents, as well as a schedule of declassification. EO 11652 was superseded by the orders of later American Presidents, and classified information is now governed by Executive Order 13292.
Mar 8 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
Mar 9 The Volkskammer voted to legalize abortion in East Germany, although 14 legislators voted against the bill and another 8 abstained, a rarity in a Communist state.[18] The new law gave a woman, rather than a government board, the right to terminate her pregnancy within the first 12 weeks after conception, effective immediately. The number of legal abortions went from 18,700 in 1971 to 115,600 in 1972 opens in Gary, Indiana
Mar 10 1st black US political convention
Mar 10 Broadcaster Larry King was cleared of charges of grand larceny that had been brought by a former business partner. His arrest in December 1971 nearly ruined his career, and King would work at various radio jobs before getting a nationally syndicated talk show in 1978. In 1985, he would launch Larry King Live on CNN.
Mar 10 “What’s Up, Doc?”, Peter Bogdanovich’s film homage to screwball comedies, starring Ryan O’Neal, Barbra Streisand, Madeline Kahn & Kenneth Mars premieres
Mar 11 Carnival Cruise Lines made its very first voyage, as the Mardi Gras departed Miami for an 8-day cruise … and ran aground on a sandbar. The 530 passengers, most of whom were travel agents and their families, continued to enjoy themselves until tugboats dislodged the ship the next day, and the new company received national publicity from the inciden
Mar 11 “Inner City” closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
Mar 11 OPEC threatens “appropriate sanctions” against companies that “fail to comply with . . . any action taken by a Member Country in accordance with [OPEC] decisions.”
Mar 13 The Australian soap opera Number 96 made its debut on Network Ten, after an ad campaign with the slogan “Tonight at 8:30, Television loses its virginity!”. During its five-year run, the show would break taboos against showing nudity and sexual intercourse.
Mar 13 Clifford Irving, and his wife Edith, pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to charges of conspiracy to defraud, and grand larceny. Irving admitted that he had made up the autobiography of Howard Hughes, for which he had received an advance from McGraw-Hill
Mar 13 7th Academy of Country Music Awards: Freddie Hart and Loretta Lynn win
Mar 14 14th Grammy Awards: Carole King’s “It’s Too Late”; Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine”; Carly Simon; Isaac Hayes; Muddy Waters; and Bill Evans win
Mar 14 Muddy Waters wins his first Grammy Award, for his album”They Call Me Muddy Waters”
Mar 15 Sterling Airways Flight 267, which was bringing Danish vacationers home from a holiday in Sri Lanka, crashed on its approach to the Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates. All 112 persons on board were killed.
Mar 15 The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, debuted in five cinemas in New York City, and would set a record (which stood until 1975) for the highest-grossing film in history, taking in $87,500,000 in its first release. (Academy Awards Best Picture 1973)
Mar 15 Italian multimillionaire and radical Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was found dead at the Milan suburb of Segrate, apparently the victim of his own bomb. Feltrinelli had apparently planned to destroy the pylon of a high-voltage power line in order to plunge the area into darkness, when the explosive went off prematurely. He bled to death from his injuries.
Mar 15 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
Mar 16 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are served with deportation papers
Mar 16 President Nixon addressed the nation at 10:00 pm EST to propose a moratorium on forced busing to achieve desegregation in American schools, making the issue part of his re-election campaign.
Mar 16 A 160 vehicle pileup on the M1 motorway at Luton, England, killed nine people and injured 51 others. The accident came only four months after the deaths of nine people on the same stretch of highway. In both cases, fog and industrial pollution precipitated the chain reaction
Mar 18 Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: “if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy”
Mar 19 “To Live Another Summer” closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 performances
Mar 19 India & Bangladesh sign friendship treaty
Mar 20 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan’s Mount Fuji during an avalanche
Mar 20 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded
Mar 21 US Supreme Court rules states can’t require 1-yr residency to vote
Mar 22 Musical “The Selling of the President” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 performances
Mar 22 US Congress approves the Equal Rights Amendment (still not ratified)
Mar 22 The Shafer Commission (formally the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse), a 13-member panel created by Congress, unanimously recommended the removal of federal and state restrictions against the personal possession and private use of marijuana. The Commission’s surprising conclusions were not accepted by President Nixon or by Congress.
Mar 22 The United States Supreme Court ruled, in Eisenstadt v. Baird (405 U.S. 438), that unmarried persons had the same rights to contraceptive products as married persons did, striking down a Massachusetts law, and extending the protection of the 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut
Mar 22 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar named NBA MVP
Mar 23 NY Yankees agree to continue playing ball in the Bronx
Mar 23 The first media event surrounding the recently discovered, cave-dwelling Tasaday people took place in the Philippines as reporters, scientists, and VIPs (including Charles Lindbergh) were brought in by helicopter to meet a group of people who had never made it out of the Stone Age. It was not until after the 1986 overthrow of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos that it was discovered that the 26 Tasaday “cavemen” had been ordinary people going along with a hoax. (See header image for 00’s take.)
Mar 23 Geoge Harrison and Friends’ “The Concert for Bangladesh” concert film, directed by Saul Swimmer released in the US
Mar 24 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
Mar 25 “Selling of the President” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
Mar 25 34th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida, 81-76; 6th straight title for Bruins; future Hall of Fame center Bill Walton tournament MOP
Mar 25 The 254th and last original episode of the TV series Bewitched was broadcast, ending a run that had started on September 17, 1964
Mar 25 The band America’s LP “America” goes #1
Mar 25 Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
Mar 25 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
Mar 25 17th Eurovision Song Contest: Vicky Leandros for Luxembourg wins singing “Apres toi” in Edinburgh
Mar 26 LA Lakers break NBA wins record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13), record will stand for 24 years
Mar 27 Venera 8 was launched from the Soviet Union to explore the planet Venus, where it would land on July 22.
Mar 27 President Idi Amin ordered all Israelis to leave Uganda. For the past ten years, Israel had trained Ugandan paratroopers, but Amin broke relations after forming an alliance with Libya.
Mar 27 The comic strip Funky Winkerbean made its debut, introduced by King Features Syndicate. The author was Tom Batiuk, a 24-year-old art teacher at Eastern Heights Junior High School in Elyria, Ohio . Funky (“just and average kid trying to figure out a confusing world … not to mention plane geometry”) introduced himself and his friends, Roland, Les and Lavinia in the first day’s strip.
Mar 27 M. C. Escher, 73, Dutch lithographer of “impossible objects” (e.g., “Relativity”) died
Mar 27 Wyoming officially names “Curt Gowdy State Park”, in honor of the nationally recognized broadcaster
Mar 27 Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster
Mar 28 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Mar 28 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
Mar 28 A subspecies of ocelot (Leopardus pardalis albescens), found in Mexico, Arizona and Texas, was placed on the United States Endangered Species List.
Mar 28 Barbara Jordan was elected president pro tempore of the Texas State Senate, making her the first black woman to preside over a legislative body. As third in line for succession, she served as acting governor on June 10, 1972, when the Governor and Lieutenant Governor were out of the state
Mar 28 Elvis Presley records his final Top Ten hit, a cover of “Burning Love”, written by Dennis Linde and first recorded by Arthur Alexander
Mar 30 “Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 performances
Mar 30 North Vietnam launches a major conventional offensive against South Vietnam
Mar 30 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Mar 30 North Vietnam launched the Nguyen Hue Offensive (referred to in the United States as the Easter Offensive), with 30,000 troops and 200 armored vehicles invading South Vietnam, with the objective of capturing the Quang Tri province. With American air support, the South Vietnamese army drove out the invaders. By the time the offensive ended in October, more than 40,000 soldiers from the North, and 10,000 from the South, had been killed
Mar 30 Northern Ireland’s Government and Parliament dissolved by the British Government and ‘direct rule’ from Westminster is introduced
Mar 31 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
Mar 31 Final day of the rum ration in the Royal Canadian Navy
Mar 31 A team of investigators from the Flamingo Park Zoo in Scarborough found a mysterious carcass floating in Scotland’s Loch Ness, while searching for proof of the existence of the legendary Loch Ness Monster, and loaded it into their truck. They were stopped by Fife police under a 1933 law prohibiting the removal of “unidentified creatures” from the Loch, and the incident made headlines worldwide. An examination determined that the body was that of an elephant seal, which had died the week before at Flamingo Park. John Shields, a Zoo employee, had intended only to play a joke on his colleagues, and hadn’t counted on police or press attention
March 1972 Album Releases:
Albums in bold were/are 00 faves.
3 Black Magic – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Glitter – Gary Glitter
Music of My Mind – Stevie Wonder
10 Shades of a Blue Orphanage – Thin Lizzy
Thick as a Brick – Jethro Tull
Touch Your Woman – Dolly Parton
11 Heads & Tales – Harry Chapin
21 Love Theme from “The Godfather” – Andy Williams
24 Slade Alive! – Slade Live
Striking It Rich – Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
25 The Kink Kronikles – The Kinks US; Compilation
Machine Head – Deep Purple
26 Just Another Band from L.A. – Frank Zappa and The Mothers Live
27 Seven Separate Fools – Three Dog Night
– Alvin Lee and Company – Ten Years After Compilation
The Ballad of Calico – Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
Bare Trees – Fleetwood Mac
Bobby Whitlock – Bobby Whitlock
Cold Blue Excursion – Ray Dorset
D&B Together Delaney and Bonnie
Drowning in the Sea of Love – Joe Simon
Ennea – Chase
Feedback – Spirit
Garden Party – Ricky Nelson
The Killer Rocks On – Jerry Lee Lewis
Live Cream Volume II – Cream Live 1968
Powerglide – New Riders of the Purple Sage
Pure Prairie League – Pure Prairie League
Recall the Beginning…A Journey from Eden – Steve Miller Band
Roadwork – Edgar Winter’s White Trash
Shopping Bag – The Partridge Family
Smokin’ – Humble Pie
Space and First Takes – Lee Michaels
Stories We Could Tell – The Everly Brothers
Styx – Styx
What a Bloody Long Day It’s Been – Ashton, Gardner and Dyke
March 1972 US Top 20 Singles Week Ending 17th:
1 HEART OF GOLD – Neil Young (Reprise)
2 A HORSE WITH NO NAME – America (Warner Brothers)
3 THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (Wimoweh) – Robert John (Atlantic)
4 WITHOUT YOU – Nilsson (RCA)
5 EVERYTHING I OWN – Bread (Elektra)
6 MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION – Paul Simon (Columbia)
7 PRECIOUS AND FEW – Climax (Carousel / Rocky Road)
8 THE WAY OF LOVE – Cher (Kapp)
9 PUPPY LOVE – Donny Osmond (MGM)
10 DOWN BY THE LAZY RIVER – The Osmonds (MGM)
11 JUNGLE FEVER – The Chakachas (Polydor)
12 HURTING EACH OTHER – The Carpenters (A&M)
13 BANG A GONG (Get It On) – T. Rex (Reprise)
14 I GOTCHA / A MOTHER’S PRAYER – Joe Tex (Dial)
15 JOY – Apollo 100 (Mega)
16 SWEET SEASONS – Carole King (Ode)
17 IN THE RAIN – The Dramatics (Volt)
18 ROCK AND ROLL LULLABY – B.J. Thomas (Scepter)
19 DON’T SAY YOU DON’T REMEMBER – Beverly Bremers (Scepter)
20 AMERICAN PIE (Parts 1 and 2) – Don McLean (United Artists)
March 1972 Movie Releases:
Here is the control room from the Psychedelic Train’s City’s Edge Headquarters:
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To honor those truly innocent and playful issues filled with artists like: Robert Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Will Elder, Jules Feiffer, Jerry King, Kliban, Harvey Kurtzman, Bobby London, Roy Raymonde, Charles Rodrigues, Alberto Vargas, Shel Silverstein, Gahan Wilson, Rowland B. Wilson, and Dean Yeagle, 00individual features his own lovingly innocent but sexy “comic illustration” of an alluring female to present each month’s 50th anniversary highlights.
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