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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
1938 - Johnnie Allan - Cajun guitarist and singer from Rayne, Louisiana. He began playing rhythm guitar in a band at 13 years of age, then change to steel guitar and joined Lawrence Walker. He recorded the Fats Domino influenced single 'Angel Of Love' around 1959, but it didn't do well enough, so Johnnie went back to school in 1967 and got his Master's Degree. He became a cult hero in the U.K., as a result of his cover of Chuck Berry's 'Promised Land'. Age 72
1940 - Louis Moholo - A self taught drummer. His band the Cordettes took part in the 1962 Johannesburg Jazz Festival, where Moholo won first prize for drums. Age 70
1940 - Dean Torrance - Singer in the group 'Jan & Dean' - "Dead Man's Curve". Age 70
1900 - Robert 'Son Fewclothes' Lewis was born on this day. Traditional jazz bass drummer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of the great marching band bass drummers in the Crescent City. Began his marching career with the 'Tulane Brass Band', and in the twenties with Chris Kelly. In the 1930's, he was with Kid Rena. For the next 25 years he was the glue of the 'Eureka Brass Band' and was forced to retire in 1963 by a stroke. Lewis died in New Orleans on June 24, 1965.
1923 - Don Abney was born on this day. Pianist who certainly left his fingerprints all over jazz history, or at least on the ivories of various pianos used to accompany artists such as Louis Armstrong and Benny Carter or the great jazz singers Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Eartha Kitt, and Pearl Bailey. He died in 2000.
1923 - Jethro (Kenneth Burns) was born on this day. As the mandolinist in the classic country comedy duo Homer & Jethro, Kenneth Burns was one of the finest instrumentalists of his generation, yet many people never realized that fact. Behind the country hayseed garb, the hick patter, and the outrageous parodies of popular songs, "Jethro" Burns and guitarist Henry "Homer" Haynes were expert jazz musicians. He died in 1989.
1935 - "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" was recorded by Nelson Eddy for Victor Records on this day.
1962 - 'Hey! Baby' by Bruce Channel climbed to the top of the pop music charts on this day.
1976 - The Dave Brubeck Quartet celebrates the twenty-five year anniversary of their formation. The reunion was held in Michigan.
1979 - Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive' surged to the top of the Billboard charts on this day.
1976 - The Dave Brubeck Quartet celebrates the twenty-five year anniversary of their formation. The reunion was held in Michigan. ...see
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