July 10
SATISFACTION DAY
It was on this day in 1965 that The Rolling Stones, who took their name from a Muddy Waters song, hit the top spot on the Billboard chart. It was their first time at the top. The hit, (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, stayed at number one for 4 weeks.
And as fate would have it, Betty Brenneman, music director at 93/KHJ, Los Angeles in 1965, had assigned the number ‘440’ to the KHJ control room copy of the single, Satisfaction. Just think ... our DJ database site, 440: Satisfaction, could have been named, 216: Satisfaction, had that number been next in line. It just wouldn’t have had the same ring to it, would it?
The Stones recorded a total of 41 hits over the next 13 years, with seven more making the number one spot: Ruby Tuesday, Honky Tonk Women, Angie, Miss You, Paint it, Black, Get Off of My Cloud, and Brown Sugar.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor and Ron Wood were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1986. The group, founded in 1964, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
Considered by many to be the greatest rock band in the world, Satisfaction remains the Stones’ signature.
Those Were the Days, the Today in History service from 440 International
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