Music Monday - Not very busy

Birthdays today include: 1620 - Isabella Leonarda, composer 1627 - Pierre Verdier, composer 1633 - Sebastian Knupfer, composer 1644 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer 1648 - Johann Schelle, composer 1702 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer 1815 - Karol Katski, composer 1819 - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer 1855 - Ferdinand B Hummel, composer 1869 - Walford Davies, composer 1877 - Petar Stojanovic, composer 1882 - John Powell, composer 1884 - Emerson Whithorne, composer 1890 - Manfred Gurlitt, composer 1896 - Frutuoso de Lima Viana, composer 1896 - Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov, composer 1903 - P l Kadosa, Hungarian composer/pianist 1904 - Lyubomir Pipkov, composer 1908 - Paul Lavalle, Beacon NY, bandleader (Cities Service Band of America) 1912 - Wayne Barlow, composer 1923 - William Kraft, Chicago, Ill, composer/percussionist 1925 - Jimmy Reed, Mississippi, blues singer (Soulin', Big Boss Man) 1926 - Arthur William Oldham, composer 1927 - Keith Humble, composer 1929 - Tsang-houe' Hsu, composer 1932 - Gilles Tremblay, composer 1938 - Joan Tower, New Rochelle NY, composer (Breakfast Rhythms) 1939 - David Allan Coe, country musician (Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy) 1940 - Jackie Trent, singer 1942 - Dave Bargeron, NYC, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears) 1942 - Harry Jack Max, rocker 1942 - Mel McDaniel, Checotah Okla, singer (Baby's got her Blue Jeans On) 1944 - Roger Waters, Cambridge England, rock bassist (Pink Floyd-Wall) 1946 - Buizen Beernd, [Bennie Jolink], singer/guitarist/pianist (Normal) 1947 - Sylvester, rocker (Do Ya Wanna Funk) 1948 - Charles "Claydes" Smith, Jersey City NJ, guitarist (Kool and The Gang) 1949 - Jimmy Litherland, rocker (Mitarbeit) 1954 - Banner Thomas, rocker (Molly Hatchet) 1954 - Patrick O'Hearn, rock bassist (Missing Persons) 1957 - "Curley" Joe Smyth, Westbrook Me, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad) 1961 - P i Waaktaar, rocker (Aha-Take on Me) 1963 - Mark Chesnutt, Beaumont Tx, country singer (Too Cold at Home) 1969 - Cece Peniston, Phoenix AZ, Miss Black AZ/singer (Finally) 1971 - Kathy Wolfgramm, rocker (Jets)

First Time Today: 1939 - 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio (Accounts of this vary widely over a four year span but I thought I would mention it here anyway.) 1965 – Beatles release "Help" album in UK 1937 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "Sugar Foot Stomp." 1961 - Bob Dylan debuted at the Gaslight Cafe in New York City. 1974 - "The Place I Love" by Splinter was released on the Dark Horse label. It was the first release for the George Harrison label. 1982 - Paul McCartney released "Tug Of War."

In other news: 1958 - Georgia Gibbs sang "The Hula-Hoop Song" on "The Ed Sullivan Show." 1963 - Jerry Lee Lewis' contract with Sun Records expired. 1968 - Eric Clapton recorded his guitar solo on The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." 1969 - After a show in the Memphis Mid-Southern Coliseum, James Brown announced his retirement from live performance after July 4, 1970. 1972 - John and Yoko appeared on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon 1989 - The Pittsburgh Steelers were banned from practicing on their own field, Three Rivers Stadium, because The Rolling Stones were rehearsing for their upcoming concert 1993 - Don Henley, Jimmy Buffett, Elton John, Sting and Aerosmith performed at a benefit concert in Boston for Walden Woods. 1995 - Bruce Hornsby and Branford Marsalis performed the National Anthem in Baltimore's Camden Yards before Cal Ripken Jr. set baseball's all-time consecutive games played record.

From the police blotter: 2000 - U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that MP3.com had willfully violated copyrights and awarded Universal Music $118-250 million in damages. And a few obits: 1811 - Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer, dies at 77 1819 - Georg Druschetzky, composer, dies at 74 1831 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer, dies at 49 1937 - Henry Kimball Hadley, composer, dies at 65 1952 - Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer, dies at 54 1956 - Felix Borowski, composer, dies at 84 1962 - Hanns Eisler, composer (N Vietnam/E German Natl Anthem), dies at 64 1965 - Konstantin Mostras, composer, dies at 79 1966 - Luigi Perrachio, composer, dies at 83 1968 - Karl Ranki, composer, dies at 69 1973 - William H Harris, composer, dies at 90 1977 - Guido Pannain, composer, dies at 85 1977 - Paul Burkhard, composer, dies at 65 1979 - Ronald Binge, composer, dies at 69 1981 - Joseph Yasser, composer, dies at 88 1984 - Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70 1985 - Leon Orthel, composer, dies at 79 1985 - Johnny Desmond, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies of cancer at 65 1994 - Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85 1994 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Rolling Stones), dies at 50 1995 - Joanne Gail Abbott, exec (MTV), dies at 36

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