Goood Wednesday Morning,
Hope your all having a good week and are ready to order yourselves some new strings and get your instruments ready for the next big jam. All the Best. Just to let you know that ALL ELIXIR STRINGS ARE $2.00 OFF EACH SET THIS WEEK. That's a heck of a bargain and will only last until the end of July so get 'em now while you can and the price is low. Also, don't forget to check out www.globalstrings.com for tons of other brands of strings by the world's best manufacturers - DR, Ernie Ball, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and the newly added D'Aquisto and Curt Mangan guitar strings and get yourself a stringwinder and of course, some Brain picks with the cat's tongue grip. Have a great day and once again. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1956 - Johnny Cash goes to No. 1 on the country chart with "I Walk the Line."
1969 - To celebrate Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20, Duke Ellington performs his specially commissioned composition "Moon Maiden" on ABC.
1973 - The city of Detroit declares today "Mary Wilson & the Supremes Day."
1987 - Paul McCartney finishes recording Russian-language versions of rock 'n' roll songs for his Soviet Union-only release Choba B CCCP.
2005 - British blues legend Long John Baldry of Blues Incorporated dies in Canada, aged 64. He is credited with discovering Rod Stewart and Elton John, who both played in his bands.
Births in Music
1915 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist
1920 - Isaac Stern, Kreminiecz Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph)
1938 - Anton Emil Kuerti, Canadian pianist, composer and conductor
1947 - Cat Stevens, [Yusaf Islam], Musician and singer (Peace Train, Wild World)
1961 - Jim Martin, Oakland CA, rock guitarist (Faith No More-Real Thing)
1748 - Louis-Henry Paisible, composer
1779 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer
1797 - Franz Schoberlechner, composer
1822 - Ludwig Theodore Gouvy, composer
1865 - Robert Kahn, composer
1896 - Jean Rivier, Villemomble France, composer (Venitienne)
1898 - Sara Carter, Virginia, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family)
1898 - Ernest Willem Mulder, composer
1903 - Theodore Karyotakis, composer
1906 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer
1920 - Manuel Valls Gorina, composer
1921 - Billy Taylor, Greenville NC, orch leader (David Frost Show)
1922 - Kay Starr, Dougherty Okla, singer (Rock and Roll Waltz, Club Oasis)
1925 - Lovro Zupanovic, composer
1927 - Stefan Niculescu, composer
1931 - Leon Schidlowsky, composer
1935 - Kaye Stevens, Pitts, singer/comedienne (Jerry Lewis Show)
1946 - Barry "Bean" Whitwam, British musician (Herman's Hermits)
1950 - Larry Tolbert, rock drummer (Raydio)
1955 - Henry Preistman, rocker (Christians-Harvest the World)
1955 - Howie Epstein, American musician (d. 2003)
1955 - Tacho Ocheriski, Indonesian singer (Putting on the Ritz)
1957 - George Landress, American songwriter and music producer
1961 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer
1969 - Emerson Hart, American musician (Tonic)
1978 - Damian Marley, Jamaican musician
1981 - Blake Lewis, American Idol finalist
1983 - Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer
Deaths in Music
1782 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer, dies at 63
1870 - Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
1891 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
1910 - Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
1948 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer, dies at 58
1950 - Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71
1984 - Michael Osborne, rock guitarist/vocalist (Axe), dies at 34
1994 - Dorothy Collins, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 67
1994 - Marjorie Dorothy Chandler Collins, jazz singer, dies at 67
1995 - Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65
2004 - Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (b. 1929)
2005 - Long John Baldry, British blues musician (b. 1941)
News from this Day in History
356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
1831 - Inauguration of Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians.
1873 - At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American West.
1969 - Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission.
1983 - The world's lowest temperature is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−129°F).
2007 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released at 00:01 worldwide, the book broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever, selling more than 11 million copies in the first twenty-four hours following its release.
Holidays and Observances
- Belgium: National holiday (1831 - inauguration of Léopold I, first king of the Belgians)
- Guam: Liberation Day (1944)
- Russia: summer Kazanskaya
- Singapore: Racial Harmony Day
Roman Catholic
- Saint Arbogastus, bishop of Strasburg, confessor [Basel, Constance, Strassburg]
- Saint Daniel
- Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, priest, Doctor of the Church
- Saint Praxedes (Praxidis)
- Saint Victor of Marseilles, and companions, martyrs [Trier, southern France; Paris] |
