1942 - Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and a few other jazz greats were asked who had the best overall trumpet technique, and without hesitation, they all said, Harry James. Harry always pulled off a technical gem or two at his concerts; for instance he used a very shallow Parduba mouthpiece, and was using zero pressure long before most players had heard of the non-pressure system. Harry James and his band recorded I've Heard that Song Before, today, with Helen Forrest singing, so we welcome you to today's look at our musical past, today with Harry James, and from the same year, here he is with his Concerto For Trumpet, in which the man demonstrates clearly why he has remained one of the prime movers of the swing era.
1964 - Jim Reeves died when his single-engine Beechcraft crashed near Nashville, TN. This, then, is his biggest hit, He'll Have To Go, followed by This little doozy, in Norway...no fog machines, no laser show, no fireworks...just Jim and his band.
1969 - A Moscow police chief reported that thousands of Moscow telephone booths had been made inoperable by thieves who had stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric. Two years later, on the same day, a security guard was stabbed to death at New York's Forest Hills Stadium, during the second night of the Who's American tour. In 1976, on July 31, Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper was released. Blue Öyster Cult, is an American rock band, most of whose members first came together in New York in 1967 as the band Soft White Underbelly. The group is well known for songs including (Don't Fear) The Reaper, Burnin' for You, Godzilla, Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll, and Veteran of the Psychic Wars. The band has sold more than 24 million albums worldwide.
1979 - The global village of New York is always about helping itself, and never an example more true than when the multi-cultural city organised a free concert in New York's Central Park to help the city's campaign to restore the park's famous Sheep Meadow. One of the key acts on that concert was the great sing song writer, and Manhattan resident, James Taylor. Here he is, on this day, doing one of his greatest hits, How Sweet It Is.
1981 - With Blondie soaring high on world wide charts, the band's singer, Deborah Harry thought she'd release a solo album, entitled Koo Koo. She tried something new - almost Chic-like funk, which was very New York in 1981. I like Debs, but unfortunately her Blondie fame did not transfer to a solo career - as is often the case with grow singers. Mick Jagger, for instance, ha d a solo career that has failed a couple times, now. sadly, this album only had a couple of half-decenbt songs on it, and that was it, and this is probably the best.
1964 - Jim Reeves died when his single-engine Beechcraft crashed near Nashville, TN. This, then, is his biggest hit, He'll Have To Go, followed by This little doozy, in Norway...no fog machines, no laser show, no fireworks...just Jim and his band.
1969 - A Moscow police chief reported that thousands of Moscow telephone booths had been made inoperable by thieves who had stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric. Two years later, on the same day, a security guard was stabbed to death at New York's Forest Hills Stadium, during the second night of the Who's American tour. In 1976, on July 31, Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper was released. Blue Öyster Cult, is an American rock band, most of whose members first came together in New York in 1967 as the band Soft White Underbelly. The group is well known for songs including (Don't Fear) The Reaper, Burnin' for You, Godzilla, Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll, and Veteran of the Psychic Wars. The band has sold more than 24 million albums worldwide.
1979 - The global village of New York is always about helping itself, and never an example more true than when the multi-cultural city organised a free concert in New York's Central Park to help the city's campaign to restore the park's famous Sheep Meadow. One of the key acts on that concert was the great sing song writer, and Manhattan resident, James Taylor. Here he is, on this day, doing one of his greatest hits, How Sweet It Is.
1981 - With Blondie soaring high on world wide charts, the band's singer, Deborah Harry thought she'd release a solo album, entitled Koo Koo. She tried something new - almost Chic-like funk, which was very New York in 1981. I like Debs, but unfortunately her Blondie fame did not transfer to a solo career - as is often the case with grow singers. Mick Jagger, for instance, ha d a solo career that has failed a couple times, now. sadly, this album only had a couple of half-decenbt songs on it, and that was it, and this is probably the best.
