This Day in Music reports that the first 45 RPM single was issued by RCA on this day in 1949. BBC and the video above says that the song was Texakana Baby sung...
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CNN has an interesting piece about music and the inauguration, which is set for Monday. The show should be pretty good: This year’s festivities include a...
TDMB yesterday marked the 78th birthday of Elvis Presley. Today, it turns out, is the centennial of Richard Nixon. It is fairly well known that the two icons...
Veterans Day is associated with the day of the armistice that ended World War I, the war that unfortunately failed to end all wars: Veterans Day is an...
I had no power for eight days because of the hurricane, but TDMB is back. Did anything interesting happen in the news in the meantime?
On Oct. 25, an audience at the GE Theatre in Schenectady, NY, heard a voice from close to the big bang of audio recording. The man recites Mary Had a Little...
This Day in Music and Wikipedia contribute details to the story of the birth on this day in 1902 by Orville Gibson of “The Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co...
The CD turns 30 years old today. The Next Web notes that on Oct. 1, 1982, Billy Joel’s album 52nd Street – which initially was released in four years earlier –...
Digital Dream Door is quite a site for music lovers. Here is its take on the top ten songs of 1950. Number 9, of course, is of special note because it became...
The introductory panel of Randy Newman’s song about the greatest river flood in American history says that the water breached 145 levees, flooded 17...
