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Todays Date

Todays Date
11-20-2024

Birthday Wishes

Year	birthday
1827	Edmond Dédé, A free-born Creole composer and clarinetist, but soon switched to the violin, on which he was considered a prodigy. He was a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He moved to Europe to study in Paris in 1857 and settled in France. His compositions include Quasimodo Symphony, Le Palmier Overture, Le Sermente de L'Arabe and Patriotisme. He served for 27 years as the conductor of the orchestra at the Théatre l'Alcazar in Paris. In 1864 Dédéhe married a Frenchwoman, Sylvie Leflet, and settled in Bordeaux. They had one son, Eugene Arcade Dédé. He became a classical music composer as well. He died in 1903 in Paris. Many of his compositions have been preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. (197)
1925	June Christy, Singer with Stan Kenton. She was a warm vocalist able to stretch her voice on swing tunes and set herself apart from other vocalists. She died in 1990. (99)
1940	Tony Butala, Singer for the popular group "The Letterman". (84)
1945	Dan McBride, Singer for the popular 50's type group called "Sha Na Na". (79)
1946	Duane Allman, Guitarist for rock and blues group "The Allman Brothers Band". He went from musical unknown to become one of rock's most revered guitar virtuosos, only to die a legend, all in about 24 months. Hed died in 1971. (78)
1947	Joe Walsh, Guitarist for the mega popular group called the "Eagles". He also produced a large body of solo work. (77)

Todays_Events

Year	Musical_Fact
1925	"Music for the Theatre" by Aaron Copeland is performed in Boston.
1929	The classic "Happy Days are here Again" was recorded by Leo Reisman and his Orchestra.
1955	Achille Baquet, traditional jazz clarinetist from new Orleans, Louisiana died on this day. He played with the Reliance Brass Band and members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. He was also a member of the New Orleans Jazz Band which was stationed in New York with Jimmy Durante on piano. As with many musicians in the early days of New Orleans, he was one of a family of musicians as his father, Theogene was a cornetist and his brother, George was a clarinetist. Achille died in his hometown of New Orleans.
1959	This was the infamous day that 'Moondoggy', Alan Freed was fired from his disc jockey job at WABC Radio in New York.
1961	Singer, sonwriter and New Orleans, Louisiana native, Barbara George, hit the R&B charts on this day with the smash hit 'I Know'.
1965	'The Supremes' hit #1 on the Billboard pop charts on this day with their hit "I Hear A Symphony".
1971	Isaac Hayes reached #1 on the Billboard pop charts with his memorable hit 'Theme From Shaft" on this day.
2007	Ernest (Doc) Paulin passed away on this day at the age of 100. A trumpeter, bandleader and a native of Wallace, Louisiana in St. John the Baptist parish. His family was ver musical as his father played accordion and his uncle played trombone. he performed actively from the 1920's until the 1980's and 6 of his 13 children play music professionally. Paulin recorded in the early 1960s with Emile Barnes on Icon Records, and in 1980 his brass band made an LP released on Folkways. He also performs on the CD by his sons' 1996 Paulin Brothers Jazz Band The Tradition Continues.