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Todays Date 10-13-2024
Birthday Wishes
| Year | birthday |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Terry Gibbs, One of the most hyper of all jazzmen (even his ballads are taken mostly double time), he is a consistently exciting and competitive vibraphonist. (100) |
| 1926 | Ray Brown, For over the past half century he both defined and refined not only the role of the acoustic upright bass, but he also set the standards by which all other bassists are measured. He passed away in his sleep on July 2, 2002, at the age of 75. (98) |
| 1927 | Lee Konitz, He is among the last living legends from the early days of cool jazz when he was a featured soloist with Lennie Tristano and Miles Davis. Combining his Chicagoan roots with an outstanding sense for abstraction, he has long been hailed as an influential American figure in the evolution of European jazz. (97) |
| 1937 | Tony Farr, One of country music's finest steel guitar players, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He also plays piano, rhythm guitar and dobro. He's worked with some of country music's best including George Jones, George Kent, Bob Luman, Red Sovine, Rex Allen, Sr., and many others. Tony has worked the road for such artists as Jeanie C. Riley, Tommy Overstreet, Claude Gray, Jerry Wallace and others. He has worked in the studios in Nashville, Tennessee, for many artists doing recording sessions. (87) |
| 1940 | Pharoah Sanders, Born Ferrell (Pharoah) Sanders, as a saxophonist, he quickly became a fixture on the Bay Area Jazz scene, playing R&B, bebop and free Jazz, inspired by local hornmen Sonny Simmons and Dewey Redman. His own groups included pianist John Hicks (who continued playing with Sanders off and on into the 90s), bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Billy Higgins. Sanders remembers, "Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Roland Kirk and many others used to drop by the Village Gate just to check us out. (84) |
| 1941 | Paul Simon, Singer and Rock n Roll Hall of Famer (Simon and Garfunkel and solo act). (83) |
| 1944 | Robert Lamm, Singer, keyboardist for the pop and rock group "Chicago". (80) |
| 1947 | Sammy Hagar, Singer, musician solo "I can't drive 55" and with Van Halen. (77) |
| 1948 | Lacy J. Dalton, Songwriter, singer. (76) |
| 1959 | Marie Osmond, Singer in the famous Osmond family. Most well-known for the TV variety show she did with her brother Donny. (65) |
Todays_Events
| Year | Musical_Fact |
|---|---|
| 1939 | Harry James and his band recorded, "On a Little Street in Singapore" for Columbia Records. A young Frank Sinatra was the featured singer on the recording. |
| 1945 | Glynn Lea 'Red' Long, traditional jazz pianist from Houston, Texas passed away on this day. He was born in 1895, and was a rhythm man in the Halfway House Orchestra in New Orleans. |
| 1958 | The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra was conducted by Warren Covington on "Tea for Cha Cha". This would be the last of the Big Band tunes to climb the charts to #7. |
| 1960 | Cecil Taylor (Piano) and Archie Shepp (Saxophone) recorded "The World of Cecil Taylor". |
| 1963 | The Beatles made an appearance on the BBC. Thousands of fans jammed the streets and Beatlemania was upon us. |
| 1971 | Donny Osmond received a gold record for "Go Away Little Girl". |
| 1979 | Another coup for Michael Jackson as his hit "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" peaked at #1 on Billbaord on this day. |
| 1982 | 'Jethro Tull' brought their stage antics to the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans on this day. Tickets were $12.00. |
| 1984 | Stevie Wonder peaked at #1 on the Billboard To 40 charts on this day with his hit "I Just Called To Say I Love You". |
| 1990 | The Billboard Top 40 charts featured "Praying For Time" at #1 on this day. The hit was performed by George Michael. |
| 2002 | Horace Lee Logan, a radio announcer in Shreveport, Louisiana passed away on this day at the age of 86. He hit his stride in 1948 when he launched the station's "Louisiana Hayride," which he staged before a live audience in Shreveport's Municipal Auditorium. When the Opry fired troubled Hank Williams for drinking, Logan hired him. When the Opry told a teenage Elvis Presley to stick to truck-driving, Logan gave him a break. The experiences with the two stars provided Logan's title for his 1998 memoir, "Elvis, Hank and Me: Making Musical History on the 'Louisiana Hayride. The "Hayride," also gave early breaks to such country singing legends as Kitty Wells, George Jones, Faron Young, Webb Pierce, Johnny Cash, Slim Whitman, Willie Nelson and Jim Reeves. Logan first uttered the words, "Elvis has left the building." |
