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Good Day fellow pickers and strummers,
Tomorrow is (of course) Saint Valentine's Day. Hope you've got your sweetie something special. A new song maybe? In any event, We hope you enjoy your day today and tomorrow . All the Best. Remember, if there are any strings you need, Elixir, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik just order up and we'll send them out. Get your instrument ready to play for your babe. New strings from www.globalstrings.com for your guitar, bass, mandolin or violin or whichever string instrument you play.
Today's News in Music History
1969 - Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released
1996 - Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway
Births on this day in Music
1908 - Gerald Strang, Claresholm, Canada, composer
1942 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor (The Monkees)
1950 - Peter Gabriel, English musician (Genesis, composer and humanitarian)
1955 - Scott Smith, rock bassist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
1976 - Feist, Canadian singer and songwriter
1660 - Johann Sigismund Kusser, composer
1713 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer
1721 - John Reid, British army general and composer (d. 1807)
1755 - Francois Alexander Sallantin, composer
1778 - Fernando Sor, composer
1787 - James P Carrell, composer
1820 - Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer
1837 - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer
1840 - Georg Jacobi, composer
1862 - Karel Weis, composer
1870 - Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1873 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (d. 1938)
1877 - Jazeps Medins, composer
1883 - Bainbridge Crist, composer
1914 - George Kleinsinger, San Bernardino CA, composer (Tubby the Tuba)
1919 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, American musician (d. 1991)
1919 - Joan Edwards, NYC, vocalist (Joan Edwards Show)
1920 - Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
1920 - Eileen Farrell, Willimantic Conn, opera soprano (Interrupted Melody)
1923 - Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (d. 2003)
1925 - Gene Ames, singer
1926 - Barney Childs, composer
1930 - Dotty McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
1944 - Rebop Kwaku Baah, Nigerian percussionist (d. 1983)
1945 - Keith Nichols, jazz pianist
1945 - King Floyd, American musician (d. 2006)
1945 - Roy Dyke, Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner and Dyke)
1946 - Colin Matthews, British composer
1947 - Tony Butler, rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
1951 - David Naughton, American actor and singer
1952 - Ed Gagliardi, NYC, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
1953 - Rico J. Puno, Filipino pop singer
1955 - Jan de Ligt, Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets)
1956 - Peter Hook, English rock bassist (Joy Division and New Order)
1957 - Doris King, Nashville Tenn, vocalist (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1960 - Michael Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me)
1961 - Les Warner, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
1961 - Henry Rollins, American musician
1966 - Jeff Waters, Canadian musician (Annihilator)
1970 - Karoline Krüger, Norwegian singer
1971 - Sonia, British singer
1974 - Robbie Williams, English singer
1975 - Iván González, Puerto Rican writer and musician
1976 - Dave Padden, Canadian musician (Annihilator)
1978 - Hamish Glencross, Scottish heavy metal guitarist (My Dying Bride)
Deaths in Music
1629 - Girolamo Giacobbi, composer, dies at 61
1693 - Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65
1724 - Francisco Jose Coutinho, composer, dies at 43
1741 - Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80
1814 - Augustin Holler, composer, dies at 69
1849 - Christian Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (Die WalkÂre), dies at 69 in Venice
1883 - Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69
1896 - Karl Reinthaler, composer, dies at 73
1917 - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
1952 - Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist, dies at 71
1959 - William L Axt, composer, dies at 70
1965 - Jerry Burke, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies
1968 - Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87
1975 - Eric Harding Thiman, composer, dies at 74
1976 - Lily Pons, French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
1995 - Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair, saxophonist, dies at 68
1996 - Daniel K Womack, singer/guitarist, dies at 91
2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
2008 - Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
Todays News
-An explosion in Vancouver, British Columbia destroys a Starbucks and Taco Del Mar. Police are treating the explosion as suspicious. Fire investigators have noted the possibility of a gas explosion. (CBC)
-The Swedish goverment rejects Nord Stream's application to build an underwater pipeline from Russia to Germany. (The Local)
-Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyah is killed by a bomb attack in Damascus, Syria. (Reuters)
-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Indigenous Stolen Generation on behalf of the Parliament of Australia. (ABC)
-"Ch K-Run's Park Me In First," a.k.a. "Uno" wins Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the first beagle to win the show. (ESPN)
Other News and Bits on this day in History
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1635 - The first public school in the U.S., Boston Latin School, is founded.
1866 - Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in United States history during peacetime in Liberty, Missouri.
1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
Holidays and Observances
-Saint Beatrice
-Saint Ermenildis
-Saint Fulcran
-Saint Polyeuctus
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