Good Thursday Morning Everyone,
We haven't been here in ages. WOW! We've been busy moving from Ontario to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia and the views are spectacular. What a place. This is the oldest known European settlement in Canada. Around 1605. We are actually going to open a brick & mortar store here to serve you all better. We'll be carrying more strings, picks, books and hopefully custom pick printing in the future. It's going to be fun so stay tuned and keep on pickin'. We will be posting pictures very soon.
We've got lots of sunshine, our health and playing music. What more could we want besides lots and lots of money. One way to have lots of money is to save it and that's what you do when you order your instrument strings from www.globalstrings.com. Every order is shipped out immediately and arrives in your mailbox in a couple of days. It's less expensive then a retail store and you don't have to go anywhere. We also carry a huge selection like DR, Elixir, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and more that grows constantly. Get in with globalstrings. You and your instruments will be very happy. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1956 - Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1
1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu),'' Domenico Modugno. It is the only chart-topping record to originate in Italy.
1960 - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)
1962 - Ringo Starr joins the Beatles as drummer after Pete Best is fired.
1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Where Did Our Love Go,'' The Supremes. It is the group's first hit.
1964 - Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd US visit
1967 - Rolling Stones release "We Love You"
1969 - Jimi Hendrix plays the unofficial last day of Woodstock.
1970 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Make It with You,'' Bread.
1977 - The Police Play their first gig without original guitarist Henri Padovani at Rebecca's Club in Birmingham, England. The Police were originally formed by Sting (Gordon Sumner), Stewart Copeland, and Henri Padovani. A fourth member, Andy Summers, joined later as a second guitarist. Padovani left the band soon thereafter, leaving the Police, once again, a trio. It is this trio which delivered such pop hits as "Every Breath You Take," "Can't Stand Losing You," and "Roxanne."
1977 - Elvis Presley's funeral is held at his Graceland estate in Memphis. More than 75,000 fans gather outside.
1979 - Singers Nick Lowe and Carlene Carter marry in Los Angeles. She is Johnny Cash's stepdaughter.
1984 - Motley Crue gives its performance debut at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, England.
1992 - Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Courtney Love of Hole have their first child. Daughter Frances Bean is born in Los Angeles.
1995 - Security guards carry a sobbing Courtney Love offstage after she begins fighting with Hole fans because they aren't cheering loudly enough during the last night of the Lollapalooza tour in Mountain View, Calif.
1997 - Joe Diffie joins with Tower Records and America Online for the first "virtual in-store." Diffie chats and holds a "virtual autograph session" during which fans can receive a virtual autograph via Diffie's electronic writing pad.
1999 - DMX and Lauryn Hill are the big winners at the 1999 Source Hip-Hop Awards at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. DMX goes home with artist and live performer of the year, while Hill takes album of the year and new artist, solo.
1999 - It is announced that Spin Doctors' lead singer Chris Barron has been diagnosed with a rare paralysis of his vocal chords. Doctors indicate that he may never regain the full use of his voice.
2000 - Chicago bluesman and APO Records artist Jimmie Lee Robinson starts a "hunger fast" in an effort to stop the University Of Illinois At Chicago's (UIC) south campus expansion plans in the city's Maxwell Street district, often cited as the birthplace of Chicago blues.
Births in Music
1893 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian musician (d. 1973)
1957 - Ron Strykert, Australia, rock guitarist (Men At Work-Who Can it Be)
1977 - Régine Chassagne, Canadian musician (Arcade Fire)
1745 - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer
1750 - Antonio Salieri, Italy, composer (Tatare)
1769 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer
1849 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer
1856 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer
1856 - Jan Karol Gali, composer
1878 - Fritz Brun, composer
1881 - Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher, composer
1882 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer
1902 - Julius Kalas, composer
1903 - Ake Olof Sebastian Udden, composer
1903 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1905 - Peter Paul Kreuder, composer
1907 - Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith)
1907 - Howard Swanson, composer
1907 - Otto Mortensen, composer
1908 - Milan Ristic, composer
1910 - Herman Berlinski, composer
1916 - Dame Moura Lympany, Saltash England, pianist (OBE-1979)
1918 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (d. 1961)
1925 - Tonny Til, rocker
1929 - Hugues Aufray, French singer
1930 - Johnny Preston, Port Arthur, Tx, rocker (Feel So Fine)
1934 - Ronnie Carroll, British singer
1935 - Lajos Papp, composer
1939 - Johnny Preston, American singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love)
1940 - Frankie Avalon, rocker (Venus, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1943 - Sarah Dash, Trenton NJ, rock vocalist (Patti LaBelle and Bluebirds)
1943 - Carl Wayne, English singer (Move) (d. 2004)
1945 - Barbara Harris, American singer (Toys)
1945 - Nona Hendryx, Trenton NJ, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1949 - Nigel Griggs, rocker (Split Enz)
1950 - Dennis Elliot, London, rock drummer (Foreigner)
1956 - John Debney, American composer
1956 - Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, American musician
1964 - Edith Frost, American singer/songwriter
1965 - Koji Kikkawa, Japanese singer
1967 - Blas Elias Gomez, Kennedy TX, rock drummer (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 - Tracy Tracy, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
1967 - Daler Mehndi, Indian bhangra/pop singer
1968 - Dan Peters, American musician
1969 - Masta Killa, American rapper
1969 - Everlast, American musician
1971 - Richard D James, Irish-born musician (Aphex Twin)
1972 - Keiko Yamada, Japanese singer
1972 - Leo Ku, Hong Kong singer
1981 - Jonathan Schneck, American musician (Relient K)
1983 - Mica Penniman (Mika), Lebanese-born musician
1983 - Daniel Keith Swain (Danny!), American record producer/hip-hop artist
Deaths in Music
1613 - Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer
1811 - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78
1853 - Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
1894 - William Charles Levey, composer, dies at 57
1896 - Frederick Nichols Crouch, composer, dies at 88
1901 - Richard Kleinmichel, composer, dies at 54
1942 - Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48
1944 - Cecile Chaminade, composer, dies at 87
1949 - Paul J Mares, US jazz trumpetist/composer (Tin Roof Blues), dies at 49
1957 - Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer, dies at 41
1968 - Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52
1969 - Laci Boldemann, composer, dies at 48
1980 - Norman Cazden, composer, dies at 65
1990 - Grethe Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1938)
1994 - Gottlob Frick, singer, dies at 88
2003 - Tony Jackson, English musician (The Searchers) (b. 1938)
2004 - Elmer Bernstein, American composer (b. 1922)
2006 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1934)
Whats going on in the News Today from One Year ago
- Yelena Isinbayeva sets a new world record of 5.05 m outdoors in the womens pole vault at the Summer Olympics Games in Beijing.(AP via Yahoo! News)
- Swedish Prime Minster Fredrik Reinfeldt cancels all exercises and military ties between Sweden and Russia, saying that "the Russian invasion of Georgia is unacceptable and a crime against international law. The Russian action has changed [our view] of Russia as an international partner." (Prime Minister's Office) (Dagens Nyheter) (AP via The Hindu)
- Russia has started to withdraw troops from Georgia, Moscow's general staff says, following a pledge by President Dmitry Medvedev. But Russian troops remain stationed near the Georgian capital Tbilisi (BBC).
- Facing impeachment, Pervez Musharraf announces his resignation as President of Pakistan. Indirect presidential elections will be held within 30 days. (BBC News)
- Fifty people were killed in Haiti when a bus trying to cross a river was flooded. (New York Times)
- American swimmer Michael Phelps wins gold as the butterfly leg of the winning Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay team. With the relay victory, Phelps earns his eighth gold medal (5 individual, 3 relay), setting a record for most golds at an Olympic games, beating Mark Spitz's previous record of 7 set in 1972. (Bloomberg)
News from this Day in History
293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica.
1572 - Marriage in Paris of the future Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Marguerite de Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.
1868 - French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovers helium.
1903 - German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1938 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York State, United States with Ontario, Canada over the St. Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1977 - Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He would later die of the injuries sustained during this arrest bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
Hoildays and Observances
- International Lighthouse Day
- Australia - Long Tan Day (also called Vietnam Veterans' Day) named after the Battle of Long Tan
- Roman Catholic Saints - Saint Helena of Constantinople, and Saint Alberto Hurtado
- Buhe in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
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