Hello and Welcome,
Very hot and humid today and I can hear the strains of loud country music blaring from a truck at the Tim Horton's. Perfect. It all suits how the day feels. Hot, humid and country. Gotta get my guitar and get pickin'. Hope your day goes well and you get a lot of playin' time. Don't forget that when your sound starts to wain and your not feeling the joy, only hearing the pain, just order up from www.globalstrings.com and you'll sound better again. We have the strings you need, DR, Elixir, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and more, we'll get 'em out to you fast and we'll save you money in the process. Maybe get yourself some new picks, a t-shirt or a stringwinder to help with that string change. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1782 - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail,(The Abduction from the Seraglio) premieres in Vienna
Births in Music
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1936 - Buddy Merrill, Torrey Utah, guitarist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1952 - Stewart Copeland, Alexandria Egypt, drummer (Police-Roxanne)
1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1728 - Henri Moreau, composer
1822 - Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer
1834 - Carlo Angeloni, composer
1848 - Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
1855 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer
1858 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgium, violinist/conductor/composer (Pier li Houyeû)
1901 - Fritz Mahler, composer
1904 - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
1909 - John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter
1912 - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1928 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
1928 - Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1930 - Guy Béart, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter
1930 - John Everett Watts, composer
1932 - John Chilton, jazz trumpeter
1933 - Sollie McElroy, RandB singer (Flamingos-Golden Teardrops)
1938 - Thorkell Sigurbjornsson, composer
1939 - William Bell, [Yarborough], US singer (Tryin' to Love Two)
1940 - Tony Jackson, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
1941 - Mišo Kovač, Croatian musician
1947 - Tom Boggs, rock drummer (Box Tops)
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/violist (Leventritt 1967)
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
1949 - Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1949 - Ray Major, rock guitarist (British Lions)
1956 - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division-Transmission)
1960 - Eus van Someren, pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw)
1971 - Edward Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
1972 - Mindy Carson, NYC, vocalist (Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue)
1974 - Jeremy Enigk, American singer/songwriter and guitarist (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft)
1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor
Deaths in Music
1698 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer, dies at 46
1762 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer, dies at 87
1868 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer, dies at 87
1917 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1972 - Max Zehnder, composer, dies at 70
1972 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer, dies at 65
1981 - Harry Chapin, folk vocalist and guitarist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38
1984 - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
1985 - Wayne King, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1995 - Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
1996 - John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx), dies at 48
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
Today in the News
- The Sri Lankan military claims to have captured a major coastal town in the Northern district of Mannar from the Tamil Tigers. (BBC)
- Hezbollah transfers the bodies of captured Israeli Soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, in exchange for convicted Lebanese murderer Samir Kuntar and three other Hezbollah militants captured by Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War. (BBC)
- Hundreds of bishops from the worldwide Anglican Communion gather at Canterbury as the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference begins one month after the GAFCON. (BBC)
- Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is arrested over allegations he sodomised a male aide. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- General Motors announces plans to suspend its dividend, sell off assets and cut 20% off salaried costs in a response to slumping car sales. (CNNMoney)
- A videotape of an interrogation of terrorism suspect Omar Khadr by Canadian officials at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is released publicly. (The New York Times)
News from this Day in History
622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
1661 - The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in California. The mission later evolves into the city of San Diego.
1880 - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1950 - Uruguay wins the 1950 FIFA World Cup, beating host Brazil 2-1 in what is regarded as one of the biggest upsets in sporting history.
1957 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 11 is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first manned space mission to land on the moon.
1973 - Watergate Scandal: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22nd.
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
2005 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling is published, selling over 9 million copies in the first 24 hours after release.
Holidays and Observances
- Our Lady of Mount Carmel
- Saint Helier, hermit, martyr
- Saint Gondulph, bishop of Tongeren, confessors
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