+Who's Got A Birthday Today? (DEC 25)+
Roger Ford
mentioned
KID ORY (1886 Laplace La)
Pioneer jazz trombonist led band that featured the young Satchmo
HUMPHREY BOGART (1899 New York NY)
My all time favorite movie actor. Here's looking at you,kid!
CAB CALLOWAY (1907 Rochester NY)
Flamboyant jazz based jive artist famous for Minnie The Moocher etc
ALTON DELMORE (1908 Elkmont Al)
Member of the C&W Delmore Brothers rcd King Blues Stay Way From Me etc
TONY MARTIN (1912 Oakland Ca)
Pop crooner debuted in 30's biggest 50's hit I Get Ideas 1951
ERNIE ANDREWS (1927 Philadelphia Pa)
Jazz styled vocalist best known 50's record Make Me A Present Of You
BILLY HORTON (1929 Philadelphia Pa)
Lead singer The Silhouettes of Get A Job fame
CHRIS KENNER (1929 Kenner La)
First rcd Baton 1956 did orig Sick And Tired #2 I Like It Like That 61
McKINLEY MITCHELL (1934 Jackson Ms)
Soul/R&B singer first rcd 1959 best record The Town I Live In 1962
O'KELLY ISLEY (1937 Cincinatti Oh)
Member The Isley Brothers of Shout and Twist And Shout fame
........and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us this
day.........
JOHNNY ACE (1954 Houston Tx)
Top R&B star (Pledging My Love) died after playing Russian Roulette
EDDIE TAYLOR (1985 Chicago Il)
Blues vcl/gtr Jimmy Reed clone rcd for Vee Jay,Vivid etc
NAT TARNOPOL (1987 Las Vegas Nv)
Notorious CEO at Brunswick Records and long time mgr of Jackie Wilson
DEAN MARTIN (1995 Beverly Hills Ca)
Superior pop star rcd Capitol biggest 50s Memories Are Made Of This
DAMITA JO (1998 Baltimore Md)
Biggest hit I'll Be There answer record to Ben E King Stand By Me
JAMES BROWN (2007 Atlanta Ga)
Godfather Of Soul helped revolutionize R&B to evolve into soul & funk
EARTHA KITT (2008 New York City NY)
Sultry songstress rcd for RCA several 50's hits most timely Santa Baby
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
DECEMBER 25 1818
The first known Christmas carol "Silent Night" by Franz Joseph Gruber
and Joseph Mohr is sung for the first time in Austria
DECEMBER 25 1948
Spike Jones' immortal seasonal comedy hit "All I Want For Christmas
(Is My Two Front Teeth)" moves into the #1 spot on the Billboard chart
this day taking over from Dinah Shore and "Buttons And Bows"
DECEMBER 25 1950
The hero of the comics Dick Tracy marries this day.His bride? Tess
Trueheart of course!
Elsewhere NBC-TV gets Walt Disney to lend his creative genius to a
one-hour special which marks the cartoonist�s first jump into TV
DECEMBER 25 1952
In England Her Maj,Queen Elizabeth II makes the first of her
traditional once a year Christmas broadcasts.For the first five years
it appears only on radio.........
DECEMBER 25 1957
......until 1957 when Her Maj's Christmas message to the nation is
broadcast on TV for the first time
Across the Atlantic The Mike Pedicin Quartet guest on "American
Bandstand"
DECEMBER 25 1958
On this day in 1958, Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular
opens a ten-day run at the Loew's State Theater in Manhattan with
seventeen acts, including Chuck Berry,Jackie Wilson,Jimmy Clanton,The
Cadillacs,Eddie Cochran,Harvey & The Moonglows,Frankie Avalon,The
Crests,Dion & The Belmonts,the Royal Teens,Baby Washington,The Nu
Tornados----and Freed's wife Inga who the deejay is currently engaged
in trying to make into a star.The most curious aspect of the show is
Freed's incongrous choice of Johnnie Ray as headliner for the first
five days (The Everly Brothers are signed to star for the last five
days). Ray reportedly does his best but is completely out of place on
such a show and is roundly booed by a teenage audience that has come
to see rock & roll
DECEMBER 25 1959
Dick Lee (not to be confused with the later Dickey Lee) guests on
"American Bandstand"
In England one Richard Starkey recieves his first drum kit this day
DECEMBER 25 1960
Connie Francis appears on "The Perry Como Show"
DECEMBER 25 1961
The Lettermen guest on "American Bandstand"
DECEMBER 25 1962
Claude The Mechanical Man guests on "American Bandstand". So who was
this guy?
DECEMBER 25 1963
Murray the K's Christmas revue at the Brooklyn Fox Theater features
Tommy Roe.
DECEMBER 25 2009
And lastly ....wishing everyone reading this
A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A GREAT NEW YEAR!!
ROGER FORD
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Dean F.
> ........and here are some folk who said their last goodbyes to us this
> day.........
[snipped]
> JAMES BROWN (2007 Atlanta Ga)
> Godfather Of Soul helped revolutionize R&B to evolve into soul & funk
I'm pretty sure JB died in 2006.
Roger Ford
<soule...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yep 'twas 2006.
And the weird thing is that it's listed as 2006 in the database I use.
Must be a ghost in the machine???