Hello Everybody,
Here's our writings from two years ago today. WOW. time goes way too fast.
We were very shocked last night to learn of the death of Jeff Healey. He was only 41 years old and left his wife and two kids. We had the opportunity to see him last at Massey Hall in Toronto where he played with Randy Bachman. He was absolutely sensational that night and we were lucky enough to have a little chat with him backstage. He was truly a down to earth, humble and gracious man with a tremendous amount of talent. He had just finished his new album of blues that will be released shortly. He is going to be greatly missed. We are praying and sending best wishes to his family.
We miss Jeff and wish he was still around and playing but we are truly grateful for his time here and the great music he left.
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Here's the news of the day.
Today in Music History
1875 - Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
1931 - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
1931 - Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
1957 - Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
1966 - Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
Births in Music
1923 - Doc Watson, American musician
1942 - Mike Pender, Liverpool, vocalist/guitarist (Searchers-Needles and Pins)
1948 - Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)
1705 - Michael Schevenstuhl, composer
1814 - Charles Kensington Salaman, composer
1828 - Karl Collan, composer
1857 - Alfred Bruneau, composer
1865 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer
1867 - Gustav Strube, composer
1886 - James Friskin, composer
1886 - Reginald Owen Morris, composer
1889 - Fritz Behrend, composer
1891 - Federico Moreno Torroba, composer
1892 - Rui Coelho, composer
1895 - Alex[ander] Nearmolen, composer
1895 - Alexander Nicholas Voormolen, Dutch composer
1897 - Jose Moreno Gans, composer
1908 - Riccardo Nielsen, composer
1911 - Francesco Siciliani, opera composer
1913 - Margaret AR Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger
1918 - Frank Wigglesworth, composer
1922 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer
1925 - Enzo Stuarti, Italy, singer (Yesterday)
1926 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer
1927 - [Herman] Junior Parker, rocker (Driving Wheel, In the Dark)
1928 - Dave Dudley, singer (Six Days on the Road)
1929 - Nicos Mamangakis, composer
1933 - Marco Antonio Muchoz, Mexico, spanish singer (Murmullos)
1938 - Douglas Leedy, composer
1938 - Lew De Witt, singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1938 - Willie Chambers, guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1944 - Janice Garfat, rocker (Dr Hook)
1947 - Dave Mount, rocker
1947 - Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter
1950 - Re Styles, rock vocalist (Tubes)
1951 - Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)
1952 - Robyn Hitchcock, British musician (Moss Elixir)
1953 - Dave Amato, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Can't Fight this Feeling)
1954 - Merrick, [Chris Hughes] rock drummer (Adam and The Ants)
1964 - Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)
1966 - Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)
1966 - Tone-Loc, [Anthony Terrell Smith], LA Calif, rocker (Let's Do It)
1975 - Albert Fields, Gary Indiana, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1977 - Ronan Keating, Bayside, Dublin, Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1978 - Douglas Osmond, Provo Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 - Seomoon Tak, Korean singer
1981 - Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress
1981 - Lil' Flip, American rapper
1981 - Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress
1986 - Stacie Orrico, American singer
1992 - Madison Cross, American singer and actress
Deaths in Music
1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German organist/composer (Sterbens-Gedancken), dies at 52
1766 - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73
1768 - Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer, dies at 81
1800 - Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer, dies at 64
1822 - Franz Adam Veichtner, composer, dies at 81
1824 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
1889 - Edward Sydney Smith, composer, dies at 49
1926 - Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer, dies at 58
1932 - Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, German composer, dies at 67
1934 - Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer, dies at 58
1945 - Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
1961 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
1965 - Carlo Gatti, composer, dies at 88
1967 - Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66
1976 - Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92
1987 - Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913)
1993 - Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
1993 - Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
1994 - Karel Kryl, folk singer, dies at 49
2000 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
2002 - Harlan Howard, American musician (b. 1927)
2003 - Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (b. 1904)
2008 - Jeff Healey, Canadian Jazz and Blues-Rock guitarist (b. 1966)
Todays News
- President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez orders the closure of the Venezuelan embassy in Colombia and moves ten battalions to the Colombian-Venezuelan border in response to the killing of FARC leader Raúl Reyes in Ecuador by Colombian armed forces the previous day. Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador, orders troops to the Colombian border. The Colombian government accuses Correa of having "a relationship and commitments" with FARC. (AP via Google News)
- Two bombings in quick succession hit a Russian police convoy in the town of Khasavyurt in the Republic of Dagestan. (AP via Fox News)
- Eight people are killed in violent protests in Yerevan, Armenia, following protests over the outcome of the latest presidential election. (Reuters via The Sydney Morning Herald)
- President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrives in Baghdad for the first state visit to Iraq by an Iranian president since the Iran-Iraq War. (AP via The Hindu)
- Russian voters go to the polls to decide the country's next president. Dmitry Medvedev of the United Russia wins the election and is expected to succeed Vladimir Putin as the President of Russia. (The Independent).
- A wind storm in Europe kills four people in Austria, two people in Germany, and two people in the Czech Republic. (AFP)
Other bits of news in history
1585 - The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1875 - The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette.
1910 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
1915 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA founded.
1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1974 - Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials reach an agreement for eventual reconciliation into one communion, marking the first agreement between the two churches since the Reformation.
1997 - The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2004 - Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed InBev, the world's largest brewer.
2005 - Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
Holidays and Observances
Hinamatsuri - Japanese celebration day for girls.
Bulgaria - Liberation Day.
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