Musical birthdays today include jazz singer Norma Winstone (72), Julio Iglesias (70), Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy (68), original Alice Cooper drummer Neal Smith (66), Bruce Springsteen (64), former Lemon Kitten and experimental musician Danielle Dax (55), session bassist and songwriter Martin Page (54), industrial metal rocker Lucia Cifarelli (43), Ani DiFranco (43), and rapper Layzie Bone (38).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for folk song collector and ethnomusicologist John Lomax, born on this day in 1870... for early R&B singer Tiny Bradshaw, born on this day in 1907... for John Coltrane, who would have been 87 today... for bluesman Mighty Joe Young, who would have been 86... for Ray Charles, who would have been 83... for choreographer Bob Fosse, who died today in 1987... and for blueswoman Etta Baker, who left us today in 2006.
Also on September 23: Wagner's opera Das Rheingold has its world premiere in Frankfurt (1869)... Buddy Holly & the Crickets hit no.1 in the US with 'That'll Be the Day' (1957)... The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in NYC (1962)... The Beatles record 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' at Abbey Road. John Lennon took the title for the song from an American gun magazine that George Martin showed him. Jim Morrison drops by the studio and watches the Fab Four at work for just over an hour (1968)... Mick Jagger meets Bianca Macias for the first time, backstage after a Stones concert at L'Olympia in Paris (1970)... Against his doctors' advice, Bob Marley goes on with a scheduled concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh two days after collapsing in Central Park in NYC. The singer passes out in mid-performance and is rushed to the University of Pittsburgh Hospital. It is Marley's last public show before his death from cancer the following May (1980)... Neil Young is named artist of the year at the annual Americana Honors and Awards in Nashville (2006).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for folk song collector and ethnomusicologist John Lomax, born on this day in 1870... for early R&B singer Tiny Bradshaw, born on this day in 1907... for John Coltrane, who would have been 87 today... for bluesman Mighty Joe Young, who would have been 86... for Ray Charles, who would have been 83... for choreographer Bob Fosse, who died today in 1987... and for blueswoman Etta Baker, who left us today in 2006.
Also on September 23: Wagner's opera Das Rheingold has its world premiere in Frankfurt (1869)... Buddy Holly & the Crickets hit no.1 in the US with 'That'll Be the Day' (1957)... The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in NYC (1962)... The Beatles record 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' at Abbey Road. John Lennon took the title for the song from an American gun magazine that George Martin showed him. Jim Morrison drops by the studio and watches the Fab Four at work for just over an hour (1968)... Mick Jagger meets Bianca Macias for the first time, backstage after a Stones concert at L'Olympia in Paris (1970)... Against his doctors' advice, Bob Marley goes on with a scheduled concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh two days after collapsing in Central Park in NYC. The singer passes out in mid-performance and is rushed to the University of Pittsburgh Hospital. It is Marley's last public show before his death from cancer the following May (1980)... Neil Young is named artist of the year at the annual Americana Honors and Awards in Nashville (2006).
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