Musical birthdays today include bluegrass musician & Nashville session player Norman Blake (76), Jan & Dean co-founder Dean Torrance (74), former Boston lead guitarist Tom Scholz (67), Jayhawks frontman Gary Louris (59), jazz & popular singer Jeanie Bryson (56), ex-Belly bassist Gail Greenwood (54), Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament (51), producer Rick Rubin (51), Neneh Cherry (50), Edie Brickell (48), Rival Schools frontman Walter Schreifels (45), Ashes of Ares lead singer Matthew Barlow (44), Breaking Benjamin frontman Benjamin Burnley (36), and Carrie Underwood (31).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Mozart opera librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, born on this day in 1749... for composer & violin virtuoso Pablo de Saraste, born in 1844... for composer Arthur Honegger, born in 1892... for jazz pioneer Bix Beiderbecke, born in 1903... for composer & pianist Muzio Clementi, who died on this date in 1832... for Andy Gibb, who passed away in 1988... for Molly Hatchet original lead singer, who died in 2005... and for operatic soprano Anna Moffo, who left us today in 2006.
Also on March 10: Mozart premieres his own Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major at the Burgtheater in Vienna (1785)... Members of the Met company perform excerpts and famous arias for a broadcast by NBC flagship station W2XBS at Rockefeller Center, the first time anywhere that opera is shown on television (1940)... RCA Records take out a half page ad in Billboard Magazine claiming that Elvis is 'The new singing rage' (1956)... A teenage duo from Queens, NY calling themselves Tom and Jerry have their first single, 'Our Song', released by Big Records. The pair will become better known in the following decade under their real names of Simon and Garfunkel (1958)... Ornette Coleman, along with Don Cherry and other sidemen, complete the recording of Tomorrow Is the Question! at Contemporary Studios in L.A. (1959)... Miles Davis finishes Sketches of Spain at Columbia's 30th St. Studios in NYC (1960)... Simon & Garfunkel record the original version of 'Sounds of Silence' accompanied only by Paul Simon's acoustic guitar (1964)... Bob Dylan wraps up the recording of Blonde in Blonde in Nashville, completing 'Obviously Five Believers', 'I Want You' and 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' ~ the latter two destined to be hit singles ~ in a marathon all-night session (1966)... At 7 AM, on an improvised trestle table set up outside Buckingham Palace, The Sex Pistols sign with A&M Records. The contract will last 6 days (1977)... The Buzzcocks release their debut studio album, Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978)... Gloria Gaynor goes to no. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic with 'I Will Survive' (1979)... Alanis Morissette takes home five Juno Awards, including Best Album of the Year for Jagged Little Pill (1996)... Chrissie Hynde is arrested at a midtown Manhattan branch of the Gap for leading a protest against the company's alleged used of 'illegally and cruelly slaughtered' cows in its leather products (2000)... Johnny Cash is admitted to Baptist Hospital in Nashville to undergo treatment for pneumonia... During a Dixie Chicks concert in London, lead singer Natalie Maines says that the band are "...ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas" (2003)... As his trial for child abuse continues, Michael Jackson arrives in court in Santa Monica, CA an hour late and dressed in hospital pyjamas after being treated for a back injury (2005)... Tickets for a one-off gig by Sir Paul McCartney in Las Vegas sell out 7 seconds after becoming available online. The former Beatle is booked to perform at the opening of the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on the 19th of April ~ tickets are $750 each (2009).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Mozart opera librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, born on this day in 1749... for composer & violin virtuoso Pablo de Saraste, born in 1844... for composer Arthur Honegger, born in 1892... for jazz pioneer Bix Beiderbecke, born in 1903... for composer & pianist Muzio Clementi, who died on this date in 1832... for Andy Gibb, who passed away in 1988... for Molly Hatchet original lead singer, who died in 2005... and for operatic soprano Anna Moffo, who left us today in 2006.
Also on March 10: Mozart premieres his own Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major at the Burgtheater in Vienna (1785)... Members of the Met company perform excerpts and famous arias for a broadcast by NBC flagship station W2XBS at Rockefeller Center, the first time anywhere that opera is shown on television (1940)... RCA Records take out a half page ad in Billboard Magazine claiming that Elvis is 'The new singing rage' (1956)... A teenage duo from Queens, NY calling themselves Tom and Jerry have their first single, 'Our Song', released by Big Records. The pair will become better known in the following decade under their real names of Simon and Garfunkel (1958)... Ornette Coleman, along with Don Cherry and other sidemen, complete the recording of Tomorrow Is the Question! at Contemporary Studios in L.A. (1959)... Miles Davis finishes Sketches of Spain at Columbia's 30th St. Studios in NYC (1960)... Simon & Garfunkel record the original version of 'Sounds of Silence' accompanied only by Paul Simon's acoustic guitar (1964)... Bob Dylan wraps up the recording of Blonde in Blonde in Nashville, completing 'Obviously Five Believers', 'I Want You' and 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' ~ the latter two destined to be hit singles ~ in a marathon all-night session (1966)... At 7 AM, on an improvised trestle table set up outside Buckingham Palace, The Sex Pistols sign with A&M Records. The contract will last 6 days (1977)... The Buzzcocks release their debut studio album, Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978)... Gloria Gaynor goes to no. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic with 'I Will Survive' (1979)... Alanis Morissette takes home five Juno Awards, including Best Album of the Year for Jagged Little Pill (1996)... Chrissie Hynde is arrested at a midtown Manhattan branch of the Gap for leading a protest against the company's alleged used of 'illegally and cruelly slaughtered' cows in its leather products (2000)... Johnny Cash is admitted to Baptist Hospital in Nashville to undergo treatment for pneumonia... During a Dixie Chicks concert in London, lead singer Natalie Maines says that the band are "...ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas" (2003)... As his trial for child abuse continues, Michael Jackson arrives in court in Santa Monica, CA an hour late and dressed in hospital pyjamas after being treated for a back injury (2005)... Tickets for a one-off gig by Sir Paul McCartney in Las Vegas sell out 7 seconds after becoming available online. The former Beatle is booked to perform at the opening of the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on the 19th of April ~ tickets are $750 each (2009).
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