Good Morning
It's a rainy, gray, wet day here in Southern Ontario. We`re just going to relax, do some playing and enjoy staying inside today since we can`t work outside. While your here, please check the specials, ALL ELIXIR STRING SETS ARE $2.00 OFF until July 31st, Enjoy and order a few packs or a box or two, look around and maybe try a new kind of strings if you like, we've got DR, Ernie Ball, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and lots more. Don`t forget a stringwinder because it makes changing strings a whole lot faster and easier on the wrist and some Brain picks with the cat`s tongue grip, they`re great. Let us know if there are particular things you like about your favourite strings or some new ones you`ve tried. We`d love to hear from you. You can also check out and join our myspace at myspace.com/globalstrings. All the Best.
Don't forget to check out the new additions to our line - D'Aquisto and Curt Mangan
Today in Music History
1951 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Come on-a My House,'' Rosemary Clooney.
1965 - Beatles "Help" is released in UK
1977 - Judas Priest begins its first U.S. tour in Oakland, Calif., as the opening act for Led Zeppelin.
1981 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The One That You Love,'' Air Supply. The group is the first from Australia to hit Billboard's Hot 100.
1982 - FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo
1988 - No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 is Richard Marx's "Hold on to the Nights." It is the fourth single from his debut album, and it remains at No. 1 for one week.
1992 - Bruce Springsteen begins a world tour
1993 - Nirvana plays a surprise show at the New Music Seminar at Roseland in New York City. The band showcases songs from its yet to be released album, "In Utero."
1999 - The family of late steel guitar great Shot Jackson donates his signature black Dobro guitar to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
1999 - Public TV performance series "Sessions At West 54th" debuts John Hiatt as its new host, replacing David Byrne.
Births in Music
1950 - Blair Thornton, Canadian guitarist (Bachman-Turner-Overdrive)
1950 - Ian Thomas, Canadian musician, singer and songwriter
1965 - Slash, [Saul Hudson], English born - American guitarist (Guns and Roses-Sweet Child)
1971 - Alison Krauss, Decatur Ill, country singer and fiddler (2 Highways)
1976 - Jonathan Gallant, Canadian musician (Billy Talent)
1981 - Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)
1734 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini, opera composer
1735 - Johannes Herbst, composer
1769 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
1773 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
1793 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
1796 - Franz Adolf Berwald, Sweden, composer
1803 - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer
1806 - Eduard Marxsen, composer
1825 - Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
1838 - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French composer/violinist
1849 - Geza Zichy, composer
1856 - Arthur H Bird, composer
1866 - Francesco Cilea, composer
1876 - William Gillies Whittaker, composer
1884 - Apolinary Szeluto, composer
1892 - Petros John Petridis, composer
1902 - Walter Burle Marx, composer
1904 - Adone Zecchi, composer
1905 - Erich Itor Kahn, composer
1916 - Ben Weber, St Louis Missouri, composer (Thorne Music Award-1965)
1920 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer (d. 1999)
1921 - Jerome Rosen, composer
1923 - Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer (d. 2001)
1928 - Leon Fleisher, SF Calif, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
1935 - Cleveland Dunkin, rocker (Penguins)
1940 - Gary Stites, rock vocalist (Lonely For You)
1942 - John de Hont, Dutch guitarist (ZZ and Masks)
1942 - Madeline Bell, US singer (Black Nativity)
1943 - Tony Joe White, American singer and songwriter
1944 - Dino Danelli, Jersey City NJ, rock drummer (Fotomaker, Young Rascals)
1948 - John Hall, American politician and former rock musician
1952 - Janis Siegel, NYC, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
1955 - Marisa DeFranco, rocker (DeFranco Family)
1961 - Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (Depeche Mode-Just Can't Get Enough)
1965 - Rob Dickinson, English musician
1968 - Nick Menza, American musician, drummer
1970 - Sam Waters, Camp Springs Md, singer (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
1971 - Dalvin DeGrate, American singer
1971 - Chris Michalek, American musician
1973 - Francis Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis)
1978 - Stefanie Sun, Singaporean singer
1980 - Michelle Williams, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1985 - Matthew Murphy, English musician (The Wombats)
Deaths in Music
1685 - Pietro Reggio, composer, dies at 53
1757 - Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71
1829 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer, dies at 72
1840 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55
1866 - Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer, dies at 83
1878 - Miguel Hilarion Eslava y Elizondo, composer, dies at 70
1909 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
1933 - Max Schillings, German composer/conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65
1973 - Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer, dies at 72
1977 - Rene de Vos, Dutch actor/composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), dies at 79
1980 - Keith Godchaux, American pianist (Grateful Dead) (b. 1948)
1983 - Georges Auric, French composer (It Always Rains on Sunday), dies at 84
1985 - Kay Kyser, bandleader (Kay Kyser's Kollege), dies at 79
1986 - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen, composer, dies at 73
1990 - Joe Turner, jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
1990 - Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
1994 - Hans J Salter, Aust/US composer (Deanna-Durbin musicals), dies at 98
1995 - Floyd McDaniel, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
2004 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese musician and composer (b. 1925)
2004 - Piero Piccioni, Italian musician, conductor and composer (b. 1921)
2004 - Serge Reggiani, French singer and actor (b. 1922)
2005 - Ted Greene, American jazz guitarist and teacher (b. 1946)
2007 - Ron Miller, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1933)
Todays News
- The European Union suspends payments to two Bulgarian agencies due to concerns over corruption and organised crime. (BBC)
- Cape Verde officially joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member. (WTO News)
- 2008 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Dolly strengthens to Hurricane Dolly in the Gulf of Mexico as it nears the coast of Texas. (Bloomberg)
- The United Progressive Alliance led government in India survives a crucial no-confidence vote based on disagreements between Indian National Congress and Left Front over the Indo-US nuclear deal (CNN), (The Times)
- In an incident similar to the 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)
News from this Day in History
1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.
1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the Typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1840 - The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1903 - Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1926 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1984 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
Holidays and Observances
- Egypt - Revolution Day (1952)
- Roman Empire - Neptunalia held in honor of Neptune
- Rastafari movement - Celebration of the birthday of Haile Selassie
Roman Catholic
- Saint Liborius, bishop of Le Mans, confessor [northern Germany]
- Saint Bridget of Sweden, widow [Bamberg, Mainz, Münster, Riga]
Eastern Orthodox
- St. Ezekiel the Prophet
- Heiromartyr Phocas
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