This day in History: January 9th, 2008

Famous Music Events from past:

1922 - KQV-AM in Pittsburgh PA begins radio transmissions

1929 - KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions

1965 - "Beatles’ ‘65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks

1976 - CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts

1984 - EAA moves operations to Oshkosh

1984 - John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"

2002 - Michael Jackson receives the Artist of the Century award at the American music awards

Famous Musician born on 9th January

1574 - Christoph Buel, composer

1620 - Johann Weichmann, composer

1748 - Stefan Paluselli, composer

1815 - William Jackson, composer

1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer

1839 - John Knowles Paine, Portland Maine, composer

1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, Cura‡ao, composer (waltzes/tumbas)

1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer

1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer

1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth)

1897 - Luis Gianneo, composer

1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer

1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (NY Metropolitan Opera)

1904 - George Balanchine, dancer/choreographer/ballet producer [NS=Jan 22]

1909 - Herva Nelli, soprano

1910 - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader

1913 - Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst, vocal/piano

1914 - Kenny [Klook] Clarke, Pittsburgh, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)

1915 - Les Paul, guitarist inventor (Les Paul)

1916 - Vic Mizzy, Bkln NY, orch leader (Don Rickles Show)

1921 - Seymour Barab, composer

1924 - Juli n B Coco, Cura‡ao guitarist/bassist (Utrecht Symphony Orch)

1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italy, rocker (Polignano A Mare)

1934 - Julian B Coco, Antilles, guitarist/tutor (Princess Christina)

1935 - Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer

1940 - Barbara Buczek, composer

1941 - Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate

1943 - Dick Yount, rocker (Harpers Bizarre)

1943 - Kenneth Kelley, US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)

1943 - Rob Hoeke, Dutch pianist/singer (Drinking on My Bed)

1944 - Scott Engel, vocalist (Walker Brothers-Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore)

1944 - Jimmy Page, London, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)

1948 - Bill Cowsill, Newport RI, rock guitarist/vocals (Cowsills-We Can Fly)

1948 - Paul King, rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)

1950 - David Johansen, [Buster Poindexter], NY, singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)

1950 - Rio Reiser, rock singer

1951 - Rosalyn Kind, Bkln, singer (« sister of Barbra Streisand)

1951 - Crystal Gayle, Ky, country singer (Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue)

1954 - Lance Hoppens, rocker (Orleans-Still the One, Dance With Me)

1962 - Phil Lewis, London England, rock vocalist (LA Guns-It’s Over Now)

1967 - Dave Matthews, singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)

Famous Musician who died on 9th January

1679 - Werner Fabricius, composer, dies at 45

1854 - Filippo Traetta, [Philip Trajetta], Ital composer, dies at 77

1863 - Ferdinand Huber, composer, dies at 71

1886 - Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer, dies at 73

1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer, dies at 57

1949 - Amilcare Zanella, composer, dies at 75

1957 - Mary Carr Moore, composer, dies at 83

1959 - Paul Malengreau, composer, dies at 71

1962 - LeRoy B Shield, US pianist/composer (Union Pacific Suite), dies at 68

1966 - Haro Levoni Step’anyan, composer, dies at 68

1968 - Louis-Fran‡ois-Marie Aubert, French composer (Habanera), dies at 90

1969 - Ladislav Vycpalek, composer, dies at 86

1972 - Ted Shawn, US dancer, dies at 80

1977 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer, dies at 71

1979 - Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80

1979 - Sara Carter, vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80

1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, composer, dies at 58

1994 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82

1998 - Michael Tippett, British composer (Royal Col of Music), dies at 93

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