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Good Morning all string players in cyberspace,
Happy Halloween!!!
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1968 - after Beatles fan Raymond Jones asked for The Beatles' German single ‘My Bonnie’ (recorded with Tony Sheridan) at Brian Epstein's NEMS record store in Liverpool, two girls asked for the same record. Epstein's difficulty in locating the record was due to him not knowing that the record was released, not by The Beatles, but by Tony Sheridan and 'The Beat Brothers' ('Beatles' resembles a vulgar slang word in German, so The Beatles' name was changed for this single).
1970 - Jim Morrison of The Doors was fined and sentenced to six months in jail after being found guilty of exposing himself during a gig in Miami.
1998 - all four original members of Black Sabbath reunited momentarily to play ‘Paranoid’ on US TV’s David Letterman Show.
Births in Music
1939 - Norman West, US singer (Soul Children, Hearsay, Give 'em Love)
1939 - Edward Holland, Jr., American singer
1941- Otis Williams, [Otis Miles], TX, rock vocalist (Temptations)
1947 - Timothy B Schmidt, Oakland CA, bassist, singer,songwriter (Eagles)
1975 - Ian D'Sa, Guitarist/Vocalist for Canadian rock band Billy Talent
1620 - Michael de Ronghe, composer
1735 - Edward Miller, composer
1787 - Karl Guhr, composer
1790 - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer
1821 - Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer
1840 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano
1845 - Gustav Weber, composer
1864 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer
1894 - Peter Warlock, composer
1896 - Anatoly Grigor'yevich Novikov, composer
1900 - Augustin Lara, composer
1902 - Armin Kaufmann, composer
1903 - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer
1904 - Alfred Gradstein, composer
1905 - Christian Darnton, composer
1907 - Gy”rgy R nki, Budapest Hungary, composer (H¢emberek)
1908 - Stuart Hamblen, Texas, singer/composer (This Old House)
1908 - Franco Margola, composer
1908 - Patsy Montana Ruby Blevins, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
1914 - Richard E Holz, American composer (d. 1986)
1915 - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer (Capitaine Bruno)
1919 - Jane Randolph, singer, backup for Tony Orlando (Dawn)
1925 - Teo Macero, composer
1930 - Clifford Brown, [Brownie], US jazz trumpeter/composer
1934 - Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician
1939 - Grace Slick, Chicago, rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane)
1942 - Sven-David Sandstrom, composer
1946 - Chris Slade, rocker (AC/DC)
1949 - David Green, Melbourne Australia, rock bassist (Air Supply)
1954 - T Graham Brown, Arabi Ga, country singer (Come as you Were)
1963 - Jerry de Borg, English pop guitarist (Jesus Jones-Real, Real, Real)
1967 - Gavin Rossdale, English musician
1969 - Masanori Hikichi, Japanese composer
1970 - Maja Tatic, Bosnia singer
Deaths in Music
1522 - Jean Mouton, French composer
1667 - Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer, dies at 54
1853 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66
1883 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (b. 1815)
1883 - Johann Vesque von Puttlingen, composer, dies at 80
1885 - Gustav Adolf Merkel, composer, dies at 57
1912 - Jan Karol Gali, composer, dies at 56
1916 - Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer, dies at 70
1928 - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer, dies at 55
1944 - Paul Emile Ladmirault, composer, dies at 66
1953 - Emmerich K lm n, Hungarian composer (Die Zirkusprinzessin), dies at 71
1960 - Alfred Hill, composer, dies at 89
1969 - Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892)
1971 - Osvald Chlubna, composer, dies at 78
1972 - Alan Roth, orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68
1973 - Ernst-Lothar von Knorr, composer, dies at 77
1977 - Steve Gaines, rock guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in air crash
1986 - Andrzej Markowski, composer, dies at 62
1995 - Brian Easdale, composer, dies at 86
2000 - Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921)
2002 - Jam Master Jay, American rapper and musician (Run DMC) (b. 1965)
2007 - Robert Goulet, American entertainer and singer (b. 1933)
What`s in the News Today
The US Treasury Department spends US$ 125 billion of its $700 billion bailout fund on nine banks, some of whom had argued that they didn't need the money. (CNN)
India's Viswanathan Anand retains the World Chess Championship title in Bonn, Germany, by defeating Russia’s Vladimir Kramnik. (CNN-IBN)
Danish-based low-cost carrier Sterling Airways files for bankruptcy and stops all passenger flights, after its cash-strapped Icelandic investors were unable keep the company airborne.(The Guardian)
The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the 2008 World Series.
News from this Day in History
1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.
1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.
1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
World Holidays and Observances
Calendar of Saints - October 30th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
- Alonso Rodríguez
- St. Artemas
- St. Herbert
- St. Marcellus the Centurion
- St. Saturninus
- Serapion of Antioch
United States - Mischief Night in some areas (known as Devil's Night in Michigan)
International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions in post-Soviet states
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