Good Friday Morning,
It's a beautiful day here in Southern Ontario. Thanks for dropping by. Hope you get a lot of playing in today, or at least coming up on the weekend. Special Happy B-Day for Kim Mitchell and Ric Emmett today. Both staples on the Toronto (and Canadian) music scene. When it comes to playing, You know you need good strings on your fav instruments so don't forget to use globalstrings for all your string purchases. Order up a few packs in order to always have them available plus you save on shipping that way. Check out the brain picks and stringwinders as well. Thanks for using globalstrings as your Canadian string supplier, just as Randy Bachman does. Enjoy and have a great Day. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1965 - Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 - Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1992 - SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
1994 - Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian weds Debbie Leavitt
Births in Music
1947 - Arlo Guthrie, Bkln, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1952 - Kim Mitchell, Canadian guitarist/singer
1953 - Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, guitarist/vocalist (Triumph)
1958 - Béla Fleck, American musician
1697 - Francois Hanot, composer
1759 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer
1778 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
1779 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer
1826 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)
1858 - Karl Flodin, composer
1882 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer
1887 - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer
1890 - Andre Souris, composer
1894 - Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer
1895 - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)
1904 - Isa Krejci, composer
1913 - Ljuba Welitsch, Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)
1916 - Dick Cary, jazz Musician
1919 - Rusty Gill, St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1921 - Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, composer
1930 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist
1933 - Jerry Herman, Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1936 - Jan Wincenty Hawel, composer
1937 - Sandy Stewart, Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1940 - Helen Donath, American soprano
1941 - Ian Whitcomb, England, songwriter, entertainer and producer (You Turn Me On)
1943 - Jerry Miller, Tacoma Wa, rock guitarist (Moby Grape)
1944 - Beaky, rocker
1945 - Peter Michalica, Slovak violinist
1947 - Jeff Hanna, Detroit, country singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) [or 8/11]
1949 - Wally Bryson, NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Raspberries)
1949 - Ronnie James Dio, singer (Dio-Holy Diver, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath)
1949 - Dave Smally, rocker (Raspberries)
1949 - Greg Kihn, U.S. pop musician & radio personality.
1949 - John Whitehead, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
1950 - Willie Ford, US RandB-singer (Dramatics-Me and Mrs Jones)
1951 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
1954 - Gene Holder, rocker
1954 - Neil Francis Tennant, British musician (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices)
1960 - Rob de Weerd, Dutch rock guitarist (Treckener Kecks)
1961 - Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
1965 - Ken Mellons, American singer
1970 - Helen Sjöholm, Swedish singer and actress
1970 - Gary LeVox, American singer (Rascal Flatts)
1970 - Jason Orange, UK pop singer and dancer (Take That)
1972 - Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa)
1976 - Elijah Blue Allman, American musician (Deadsy)
1978 - Jesse Lacey, American musician (Brand New)
1980 - Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer and songwriter
1980 - Jessica Simpson, Dallas, Texas, singer and popstar
1982 - Alex Arrowsmith, American musician
1983 - Kim Heechul, Korean Singer
Deaths in Music
1594 - Paulo Bellasio, Italian composer, dies at 40
1668 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, dies at 45
1690 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39
1839 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer, dies at 61
1868 - Carlo Conti, composer, dies at 71
1888 - Rafael Hernando, composer, dies at 66
1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)
1937 - Attilio Brugnoli, composer, dies at 56
1940 - Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64
1941 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56
1943 - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72
1952 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer, dies at 58
1953 - Sidney Homer, composer, dies at 88
1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)
1977 - Norman Paris, orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
1978 - Michel Gusikoff, composer, dies at 85
1979 - Arthur Fiedler, orch leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
1982 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies
1983 - Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82
1987 - John Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76
Today in the News
- The United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warns Iran that it should have no doubt that the United States will defend its allies including Israel. (Reuters)
- French petroleum company Total S.A. refuses to invest in Iran because it is "too politically risky". (BBC)
- Iran claims to have tested more medium and long range missiles a day after test firing the Shahab-3. (Iran)
- India formally submits the nuclear safeguards agreement to IAEA to implement the United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act.
- The Senate of the United States approves legislation overhauling the rules for eavesdropping and offering immunity to telecom companies who may have violated wiretapping and privacy laws after the September 11, 2001 attacks. (AP via The New York Times)
- Five peacekeepers are killed and another 17 missing following an ambush on a patrol by the joint United Nations/African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur. (AP via Google News)
- Three members of the Turkish police force are killed during an armed attack on the United States consulate in Istanbul with three attackers also dead. The US ambassador states that it is an "obvious case of terrorism". (Hurriyet) (CNN)
- A road crash near Potosí in southern Bolivia leaves at least 47 dead. It is unclear if the vehicle was a bus or a truck. (BBC News) (ABC News)
- Tillman Thomas succeeds Keith Mitchell as the new Prime Minister of Grenada following the general elections.(The Nation)
News from this Day in History
988 - The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
1925 - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union, is established.
1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a state law against it.
1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1978 - World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1985 - Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
1991 - South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
1992 - In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
Holidays and Observances
- Bahamas - Independence Day.
- Silence Day - celebrated by followers of Meher Baba.
- Mauritania - Armed Forces Day.
- Ancient Latvia - Septinu Bralu Diena observed.
- Saint Kanute IV, King of Denmark, martyr
- Translation of Saint Maclovius, bishop of Saint-Malo, confessor
- The Seven Brothers (Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis), martyrs
- Saint Amalberga, virgin (d. 690)
- Saint Felicitas of Rome, martyr
- Saints Rufina and Secunda, martyrs
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