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Category Archives: On This Day In Music History
On This Day In Music History: John Lennon
The room where I teach is high ceilinged, so there is plenty of room for the large, framed picture of the Beatles that hangs on the wall over the blackboard. The picture is actually a print of a black & white … Continue reading
On This Day In Music History: ???
Greetings, Readers. It’s quiz time again! What Rock trio featuring an American singer/guitarist, a British drummer and a British guitarist-turned-bass-guitarist/singer was formed on this day, October 6, in 1966, in London, England? Click on “leave a comment” below to post … Continue reading
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On This Day In Music History: Gillian Welch
Today is Gillian Welch’s birthday. Born in New York City, October 2, 1967, she grew up in Los Angeles, CA, thanks to her adoptive parents, Ken and Mitzie Welch. Thanks to an elementary school music teacher, she heard the music … Continue reading
On This Day In Music History: Bruce Springsteen
Today is Bruce Springsteen’s birthday. He was born on September 23, 1949 in Freehold, NJ, the first child and only son of Douglas and Adele Springsteen. At the age of 13, he bought his first guitar at a pawnshop for … Continue reading
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On This Day In Music History: “Rising Sun Blues” Again
In 1937, Georgia Turner was 16 years old, a “thin, pretty, yellow-headed miner’s daughter,” living in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Around her neighborhood, Georgia was known for her singing and, more specifically, for singing a song about a house in New Orleans … Continue reading
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Summer’s Over (“Call It Stormy Monday”)
Even when the first day of Fall is many days away, for a teacher (like me), once the new school year has started and you’re back to work, that’s it: Summer’s over. So, how appropriate that today, my first day … Continue reading
On This Day In Music History: A Triple Header
As my father would say: “Age before beauty.” On September 11, 1847, the song “Oh! Susanna,” by Stephen Foster, was given its first public performance. It happened in Pittsburgh, PA, at The Eagle Ice Cream Saloon. The performers were a … Continue reading
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On This Day In Music History: Buddy Holly
As a teenager, I knew that the Rolling Stones had an early hit with their great cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away.” I may have also noticed that there was a cover of Buddy’s song “Words of Love” by the Beatles … Continue reading
On This Day In Music History: “Rising Sun Blues”
On September 6, 1933, singer/guitarist Clarence Ashley and harmonica player Gwen (or Gwin) Foster recorded “Rising Sun Blues” for Vocalion Records in New York, NY. This would be the first recording of the song that we now know as “The House of the Rising Sun.” … Continue reading
On This Day In Music History: The Audition
When John Hammond (Columbia Records producer and talent scout extraordinaire) called Benny Goodman (Jazz clarinetist, band leader, Top Ten recording artist and “King of Swing”) in California one day in early August, 1939, to tell him that he’d just found a great young electric guitar … Continue reading
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