From This Day in Music for Sept. 13, 2012: 2009, Vera Lynn went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘We’ll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera...
Category - Historical
The Telegraph, a site that covers central Georgia, details a presentation on the music of the Holocaust that was made by Alfred Schneider at Georgia College...
The photos in the clip above were taken for the Farm Services Administration by John Vachon. This is Woody Guthrie’s centennial year, which is...
Yesterday, I mistakenly set out to write a post about Paul Robeson’s birthday, which isn’t for eight months. I had the good sense (if I do say so...
Many good ideas on what to post come from the “this day in music”-type sites around the Web. I was visiting one earlier today and accidentally...
On Saturday, I posted an item about the earliest sounds ever recorded. I cross-posted on DailyKos — a cultural/political site that allows this sort of...
The earliest sound recording was made in 1857 by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian. Wikipedia, as usual, offers the details on de...
…Here at The Daily Music Break. Terry Teachout, the drama critic for The Wall Street Journal, published a fabulous biography in late 2010 entitled Pops:...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Case Western Reserve University have announced that Chuck Berry will be honored as the 17th Annual American...
…Hard to believe. Here is Run DMC’s performance. The dual concerts, which were driven by The Boomtown Rats’ Bob Geldof, were held at Wembley...
