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Well Good Morning
We've just received a new shipment of DR strings and we're very excited. It's just a small order to get feedback and see how much you all like the strings but their here and up on the site. We have added a couple bass strings, the BKBT-50 Black Beauties w/ Heavy Taper and the fairly new Flatwounds FL-45 and for 5 stringers FL5-45. These flats are the best I've ever played, They feel sensational. Best prices in Canada and as always, low priced, fast shipping. We'll also be updating the specials soon so keep your eyes peeled and check back often. Have a great day, enjoy the site, order tons of strings, play a lot and enjoy the news of the day. All the Best.
Happy Birthday Jeff Healey
Today in Music History
1943 - Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiere on radio
1966 - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled
1974 - Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
Births in Music
1934 - Johnny Burnette, Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16)
1942 - Aretha Franklin, Memphis, Tenn, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
1947 - Elton John, [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer,pianist,composer (Rocketman)
1966 - Jeff Healey, Toronto, Canada, blind rock/blues guitarist, trumpeter (See the Light)
1495 - Leonhard Paminger, composer
1532 - Pietro Pontio, composer
1688 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer
1699 - Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer
1702 - Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
1713 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer
1745 - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
1762 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
1769 - Salvatore Vigano, composer
1770 - Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
1784 - Francis-Joseph Fetis, Belgian musicology/composer
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, (d. 1957)
1873 - Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
1878 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
1879 - Otakar Zich, composer
1881 - Bela Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
1882 - Haydn Wood, composer
1894 - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
1902 - Sten Broman, composer
1903 - Frankie Carle, Providence RI, orch leader (Golden Touch)
1906 - Jean Sablon, French singer (d. 1994)
1910 - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1910 - Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, composer
1923 - Bonnie Guitar, American singer
1924 - Julia Perry, Lexington, Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
1930 - David Russell Burge, composer
1931 - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
1934 - Johnny Burnette, American singer (d. 1964)
1936 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist
1938 - Hoyt Axton, American actor and country music singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
1940 - Anita Bryant, Barnsdall Okla, homophobe/singer (George Gobel Show)
1943 - Ronald Jeffers, composer
1948 - Michael Stanley, Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
1949 - Neil Jones, musician (Bend Me Shape Me)
1949 - Nick Lowe, England, rock vocalist (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
1950 - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
1951 - Bob Pelander, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band)
1951 - Maisie Williams, Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1960 - Steve Norman, British saxophonist (Spandau Ballet)
1969 - Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
1973 - Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
1975 - Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
1976 - Juvenile, American rapper
1976 - Gigi Leung, Hong Kong singer/actress
1978 - Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
1979 - Gorilla Zoe, rapper
1982 - Sergey Yakovlev, russian musical artist and painter.
1984 - Katharine McPhee, American Idol contestant.
1987 - Jason Castro, American Idol contestant
1989 - Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
Deaths in Music
1620 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
1738 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1766 - Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
1799 - Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 60
1823 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75
1852 - Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
1880 - Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
1918 - Claude A. Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1940 - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
1956 - George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
1957 - Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
1958 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1958 - Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
1959 - Billy Mayerl, composer, dies at 56
1965 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72
1967 - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1969 - Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1979 - Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1980 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1991 - Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
1991 - Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1992 - Noemie Perugia, French mezzo soprano
2006 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
Today in the News
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he might boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if China continues its crackdown in Tibet. (Reuters)
Adam Air Flight 574: A final report finds the 102 on board died when pilots preocupied with an instrument failure did not realise the 737 was descending out of control. (Xinhua)
Iraq War: Heavy fighting rages in Basra as thousands of Iraqi troops battle Shia militants. (BBC News)
The Comoros army supported by African Union troops invade Anjouan. (BBC News)
The Tibetan government in exile estimates that the death toll in the 2008 unrest in Tibet is approximately 140. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
The United States Department of Justice approves the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio (The Wall street journal).
leen Veldhuis of the Netherlands and Federica Pellegrini of Italy break world records at the final day of the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands. (CNN)
The Olympic Flame of the 2008 Summer Olympics is lit in Olympia, despite disruption by three protesters from Reporters Without Borders, among whom was Robert Ménard. (CNN)
Other Bits of News on this Day in History
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1807 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1807 - The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, became the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1955 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
1958 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
1965 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery.
1969 - During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
Holidays and Observances
In Christianity, March 25 is typically celebrated as the day of the Annunciation so long as it does not fall on a Sunday or during Holy Week or Easter Week.
Hilaria, day of resurrection of Attis, a Phrygian deity
Historic start of the new year (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.)
As the day falls close to the vernal equinox, similar to the way Christmas falls near the December solstice, both days are regarded as one of the Quarter Days to Christians in the British Isles.
Maryland Day;
Greek Independence Day;
Freedom Day in Belarus;
Mother's Day in Slovenia.
One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish calendar.
- Saint Dysmas, the 'Good Thief'
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