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Todays Date 04-20-2024
Birthday Wishes
| Year | birthday |
|---|---|
| 1895 | Emile Christian, Traditional jazz trombonist, String bassist and trumpeter from New Orleans, Louisiana. Emile was the member of a musical family that included his two brothers Frank and Charles. He played with the Reliance Brass Band and replaced Daddy Edwards in the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. He also played with the top dixieland groups of Sharkey Bonano and Santo Pecora. Emile died in New Orleans in December, 1973. (129) |
| 1923 | Tito Puente, Jazz musician and bandleader. He is probably the most beloved symbol of Latin jazz. But more than that, Puente managed to keep his music remarkably fresh over the years. He died in 2000. (101) |
| 1925 | Henri Renaud, Pianist. He started on the violin when he was five, switching to piano three years later. After moving to Paris in 1946, Renaud played with tenor-saxophonist Jean-Claude Fohrenbach's group, accompanying such players as Don Byas, James Moody and Roy Eldridge during 1949-50. He passed away in 2002. (99) |
| 1929 | Bob Braun, Singer who was best known for The Bob Braun Show, which he hosted from 1967 to 1984. The show was the top-rated live entertainment and information program in the Midwest. Originating at WLWT, the daily 90-minute show was syndicated throughout the heartland of America, and featured a live band, singers, and special guests including Bob Hope (a frequent guest), Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Red Skelton, Phyllis Diller and Dick Clark. Politicians including Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, John Glenn, and Ted Kennedy were also guests - "Till Death Do Us Part". He died in 2001. (95) |
| 1929 | Johnny Fuller, West Coast blues singer who was a native of Mossissippi. He mostly recorded sides in the 1950's for the Heritage, Aladdin, Specialty, Flair, Checker, and Hollywood labels, which included sessions with Dave Bartholomew in New Orleans at Cossimo Matassa's studio. His two biggest hits, "All Night Long" and the original version of "The Haunted House". Other than that output he recorded one excellent album in 1974. Johnny passed away in 1985. (95) |
| 1935 | Ran Blake, Pianist who's recorded a number of unique, often solo, jazz albums since the early '60s that showcase his dramatic contrasts of silence and "outbursts" and new versions of older standards. (89) |
| 1936 | Beaver Harris, Drummer who co-led 360 Degree Music Experience. He was one of the avant-garde's most well-rounded musicians. He was accomplished in any and all jazz styles, yet as a bandleader favored the more progressive facets of the music. He died in 1991. (88) |
| 1939 | Johnny Tillotson, Singer - "Poetry In Motion". A second-tier teen idol in the late '50s and early '60s, he was unusual for the genre in that he wrote a few of his hits and displayed a strong inclination toward straight country material. (85) |
| 1948 | Craig Frost, Keyboardist for the rock and pop group the 'Grand Funk Railroad'. (76) |
| 1948 | Joe Bonner, Pianist and composer. He was originally influenced by McCoy Tyner and he is an excellent interpreter of modal-based music and advanced hard bop. (76) |
| 1951 | Luther Vandross, He ranked with Prince, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson as one of the most successful singer, songwriters and producers of the '80s. Amazingly, unlike those peers, for the most part he did not cross over to widespread pop appeal, a situation that finally began to change at the end of the '80s - "Never Too Much". He died in 2005. (73) |
Todays_Events
| Year | Musical_Fact |
|---|---|
| 1921 | Tony Jackson, traditional jazz pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana passed away on this day. He is said to be the unrivaled king of the Storyville 'Piano Professors' and a musical genius. He worked the bordello's of Storyville until 1904, primarily at Gipsy Shaefer's, Hilma Burt's, Lulu White's and Countess Willie Piazza's. He returned to New Orleans in 1911 and worked at Early's. Jackson composed hundreds of popular songs and typically sold them for $5 to $10. He did keep ownership of 'Pretty Baby' and 'Some Sweet Day'. Tony died in Chicago, before he had a chance to record. |
| 1926 | New Orleans, Louisiana native, Jelly Roll Morton, recorded for Vocalion Records in Chicago on this day. The songs were King Porter Stomp, Sweetheart Of Mine and Fat Meat And Greens. |
| 1931 | "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" was recorded by Louis Armstrong for Okeh Records on this day. |
| 1939 | "Strange Fruit", an anti racist song, was recorded by Billie Holliday. Because of it's graphic descriptions of lynchings, it was banned by several radio stations. |
| 1963 | Shreveport, Louisiana native and singer, Theola Kilgore, entered the Billboard R&B charts on this day with the song 'The Love Of My Man'. |
| 1974 | MFSB with The Three Degrees were at the top of the pop charts on this day with 'TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)'. |
| 1977 | Blanche Thomas, traditional jazz and blues vocalist from New Orleans, Louisiana died on this day. She was born in 1918, and was a rare singer of authentic blues. She began singing on Bourbon Street in 1944, and was featured in the 1960's at Dixieland Hall. In the 1970's she was featured at Heritage Hall. She also appeared in the film 'Jazz Age To Space Age' and recorded on the Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry's series 'All That Jazz'. Blanche died in New Orleans. |
| 1985 | 'Wham!', which featured George Micheal, released cassettes in China on this day, becoming the first to do so. |
| 1991 | The short-lived band 'Wilson Phillips', made up of the kids of rock legends, made it to the top of the pop charts on this day with 'You're In Love'. |
| 1994 | Delton Broussard, a button accordionist and a native of Lawtell, Louisiana passed away on this day at the age of 66. He is best known as the long-time leader of The Lawtell Playboys. During his time as leader, he performed with Cajun music royalty that included the Carriere brothers. |
