Charlie Shavers would have turned 95 years old today. Shavers, a jazz trumpet player who performed with all of the greats of his era, died at the young age of...
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Rudy Vallee would have turned 115 years old today. Wikipedia says that Vallee — Hubert Prior Vallée — “…was one of the first modern pop...
Howard Hoagland “Hoagy” Carmichael was born at the tail end of the 19th century—November 22, 1899—and wrote some of the most important songs of the next one...
This Day in Music notes that on July 20, 1940, Billboard magazine premiered the modern version of its charts. Previously, according to the site, best seller...
“Comin’ In On A Wing and a Prayer” was the number one song on this day in 1943. It was performed by The Song Spinners. The slide show is of...
H/T: Cousin Ed Lindsey Stirling takes the violin in unique directions. Stirling — who also is a performance artist, composer and dancer, according to...
The great Lena Horne would have turned 98 years old today. Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a section of Brooklyn, NY, on June 30th 1917...
Chick Corea – Amando Anthony Corea, to be precise – was born in Chelsea, MA in 1941. He is of southern Italian and Spanish descent. Corea is considered one of...
The popular saxophonist Kenny G — Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (bet you didn’t know that) — was born on this day in 1956. Here is more about the...
This Day in Music notes that today would have been Peggy Lee’s 95th birthday. Wikipedia says that Lee — Norma Deloris Egstrom – was a singer...
