Category: Musicians

George Redburn Young started out as a guitarist in the Sixties with a band called the Easybeats. Chances are unless you search for it on Youtube you’ve never heard of them. He died at the age of 70 on October 22, 2017 in Singapore. But as co-producer of AC/DC’s first five albums, there he not […]

Joseph Haydn was a baroque era composer.  He was born on March 31, 1732 and died May 31, 1809. Called “Father of the String Quartet” and was instrumental to the piano trio, considered the genesis of the sonata form.  Of his 3 brothers, Michael Haydn, was also an accomplished composer & Johann Evangelist Haydn, a […]

A folk legend Trini Lopez, died of the Wuhan (Covid 19) virus in Rancho Mirage, Calif in August 16, 2020. He was 83 and working at the time for benefit on a music festival to raised food for those afflicted. Born to Mexican parents in Dallas, Texas on May 13, 1937. Trinidad Lopez III was […]

Mac Davis was a pop-country crossover musical artist in the 1970s-1980s. He died on Tuesday in Nashville at 78 years old. He wrote two big hits for Elvis Presley, most notably “In the Ghetto”, and “A little less conversation” both which gave him a big boost in his fledging career. After that he penned for […]

Maybelline wasn’t true for Chuck Berry, but then again neither was Chuck.  He died on March 18, 2017.  His obit on Billboard  gives a fair account of his life, read it here.  While the New York Post fills in the details.  We are highlighting Chuck’s 1958 publicity shot taken from Rolling Stone’s 500 Best RnR […]

Maybelline wasn’t true for Chuck Berry, but then again neither was Chuck.  He died on March 18, 2017.  His obit on Billboard  gives a fair account of his life, read it here.  While the New York Post fills in the details.  We are highlighting Chuck’s 1958 publicity shot taken from Rolling Stone’s 500 Best RnR […]

Dolly Parton has a new series on Netflix called Heartstrings.  This is just another notch in her very successful acting-music career. The starter for the series is her number #1 hit, Jolene, a country ballad of  a “hussy” trying to steal Dolly’s husband.  It debuted in 1973 and was a  surprise hit  as heavy metal […]

Louis Alter was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on June 18, 1902 at 7 o’clock in the morning. He played vaudeville as the accompanist for headliners Irène Bordoni and Nora Bayes, the latter which he worked with continuously until her death in 1928. As he had previously written some songs for Broadway shows, after Ms Bayes […]

It all began in Rio On the night of June 30, 1886, Arturo Toscanini — recently turned 19 — arrived, barely on time, at the imperial opera house in Rio de Janeiro, was to perform “Aida.” Pandemonium. The unpopular lead conductor had resigned in a huff; the audience shouted his unpopular replacement off the podium. […]

When we started this project, three years ago on August 29th, we began with mundane charts and the Invasion of Poland, September 1st, 1939. No one remembers when we changed over to mainly nativities, but by February 2017 we were back to the natals I had started as a solo project several years previous. It […]

Bobby Guy was born in Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey on March 28, 1916 as William Robert Guy. There is not much known about him before he started playing trumpet with the the legendary Kay Kyser band in 1936 just as the metal horn shook off its military heritage and became a “modern” musical instrument […]

Marc Jones wrote very little on the nodes, so last month we took a turn with several other authors and highlighted their work on the nodes. Naturally, we found some better than others like Martin Schulman, Georges Muchery and Bernice Grebner, but in all honesty we did not survey Dr. Mohan Koparkar, Haydn Paul and […]