Hello and Good Day,
Today in 1998, B.B. King recorded a live album with Raimundo Amador, Spain's premier exponent of gypsy flamenco-blues, in front of a capacity audience of 20,000 at Madrid's Las Ventas bullring. The Universal Music Hispania album, to be released in September of that year with 15 tracks, is called "Noche De Flamenco Y Blues." I just learned this today and am now going to get a copy. Should be good listening. Today is also Pi Approximation Day (22/7 is approximately equal to π). Great what you can learn. Just a couple things we found interesting. We also want to be your string supplier. Whatever you need, Banjo, Fiddle, Bass, Guitars we got 'em. We'll get them to you fast and we'll save you money. What could be better (Well, guess if we strung it for you too) but you get the point. Order up your favs - DR, Elixir, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and many more - and they`ll be on the way to you in no time. Enjoy the news of the day and All the Best.
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Today in Music History
1963 - Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"
1968 - The Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album is released.
1977 - Singer Tony Orlando announces his departure from Dawn during a concert in Cohasset, Mass.
1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Annie's Song," John Denver. Denver wrote the song in 10 minutes on a ski lift in Switzerland.
1986 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Sledgehammer," Peter Gabriel. The song is the first single from Gabriel's album "So."
Births in Music
1941 - George Clinton, Kannapolis NC, musician (Parliament-Funkadelic)
1947 - Don Henley, Linden Tx, drummer/vocalist (Eagles-Desparado)
1954 - Al Dimeola, American guitarist
1962 - Martine St. Clair, Quebec singer
1973 - Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer and musician
1597 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer
1642 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer
1651 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer
1721 - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer
1830 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer
1833 - Benjamin Hanby, composer
1853 - Victor Roger, composer
1871 - Akos Buttykai, composer
1873 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer
1879 - Gustaf Heintze, composer
1889 - Frederick Preston Search, composer
1902 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer
1907 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
1913 - Licia Albanese, Bari Italy, operatic soprano (NY Met Opera)
1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
1914 - Cecil Effinger, composer
1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)
1924 - Margaret Whiting, Detroit, singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family)
1928 - Georg Dreyfus, composer
1930 - Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer
1936 - Krasimir Kyurkchiiski, composer
1941 - Thomas Wayne, rocker (Tragedy)
1943 - Jimmy Castor, rocker
1943 - Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor
1944 - Rick Davies, London England, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Supertramp)
1944 - Estelle Bennett, NYC, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Baby)
1946 - Mirelle Mathieu, Acignon France, singer (So Ein Schaner Abend)
1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1949 - Alan Menken, American composer
1953 - Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist
1956 - Mick Pointer, rock drummer (Marillion)
1960 - Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage)
1961 - Keith Sweat, American singer
1962 - Steve Albini, writer, recording engineer and musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac)
1963 - Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls)
1967 - Pat Badger, heavy metal bassist (Extreme-More Than Words)
1969 - Despina Vandi, Greek singer
1970 - Jason Becker, American musician
1973 - Daniel Jones, Australian musician (Savage Garden)
1980 - Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High)
1980 - Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
1983 - Arsenium, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
Deaths in Music
1635 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45
1786 - Vaclav Kalous, composer, dies at 71
1794 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59
1840 - Josef Jawurek, composer, dies at 83
1848 - Karl Guhr, composer, dies at 60
1863 - Carl Schuberth, composer, dies at 52
1868 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer, dies at 51
1870 - Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42
1880 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72
1929 - Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63
1952 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer, dies at 49
1972 - Hugo Kauder, composer, dies at 84
1972 - Pavel Borkovek, composer, dies at 78
1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
1995 - Percy Humphrey, musician, dies at 90
1996 - Tamara Danz, singer, dies at 43
1996 - Rob Collins, English musician (The Charlatans) (b. 1956)
1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)
2004 - Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
2004 - Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1922)
2005 - Eugene Record, American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (b. 1940)
Today in the News
- United Progressive Alliance led government in India faces a crucial no-confidence vote based on disagreements between Indian National Congress and Left Front over the Indo-US nuclear deal (CNN)
- In an incident similar to one that occurred on July 2, a Palestinian man drives a bulldozer into two vehicles in Jerusalem, injuring 16, before being shot dead. (Guardian)
- Based on initial clinical trials, the drug abiraterone is hailed as a potentially historic advance in the treatment of prostate cancer. (BBC)
- Russia and China sign a pact demarcating their 4,300-kilometer border, bringing an end to more than 40 years of negotiations. (BBC)
- The United States Food and Drug Administration finds the same salmonella strain responsible for the 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak in Mexican-grown jalapeño peppers. (AP via Google News)
News from this Day in History
1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.
1933 - Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
Holidays and Observances
- Ratcatcher's Day, commemorates the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
- Swaziland - Birthday of former King Sobhuza II
- Abd-al-Masih, saint and martyr
- Saint Mary Magdalene [Paris, Bruges]
- Pi Approximation Day (22/7 is approximately equal to π)
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