The Royal Proclamation of 1763. After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
Big Ten Inch Record by Aerosmith Songfacts. 1  The first vinyl records, released around 1900, were 10-inch, 78 RPM records.  2 Big Ten Inch Record was composed by Fred Weismantel and became a big hit on the R&B charts during 1952 for tenor-sax player Bull Moose Jackson. 3  This song has been covered a number of times.
Written by Wayne Carson Thompson (not a member of the group), the song became a #1 hit. Singer Alex Chilton, who eventually moved on to lead the band Big Star, was just 16 years old when recording the song. At under 2 minutes running time, âThe Letterâ is one of the shortest songs to ever top the charts.