Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, December 14th, 1899: DeFord Bailey, b. Smith County, TN.

An African-American descendant of slaves, deformed by polio, Bailey went on to become the very first performer on the very first radio broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry, and he also laid down the very first professional recordings in Nashville's history. 

Bailey appeared on the Opry more times than any other performer in it's history - 49 of the first 52 episodes alone, and remained a fixture on the show for the next 15 years. (He outlived the radio show itself by four years.) No other artist comes close to Bailey's number of performances on the Opry - Yet, due to institutional (and Roy Acuff's) racism, he was largely unknown and forgotten. But, in early 2005, Nashville Public Television made a documentary about him, and PBS broadcast it nationally, generating considerable interest in him. Later in the year, he was finally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

His signature tune, which he wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeFord_Bailey

[Snagg]

Joseph Byrd, leader of the '60's psychedelic band, the United States Of America, b, 12/13/1937, d. 11/2/2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Byrd

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:

"Take Five" (Paul Desmond), released on "Time Out", 12/14/1959, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet - which went on to become the first jazz album to sell a million copies, in no small part because "Take Five" hit No.6 on the "Adult Contemporary" charts two years later; Still the biggest-selling jazz single of all time.

King Tubby's version comes from his 1995 album, "Bionic Dub"

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[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, December 15th, 1910: Either the best, or the luckiest (or both), talent scout in modern history, John Henry Hammond b. NYC, NY
 

"Best" is probably right; "Lucky" might get you bragging rights for discovering Elvis, or the Beatles - But Hammond's antennae were unusually sensitive, and accurate. He discovered and brought to the world's attention, to name just a few: Aretha Franklin, Benny Goodman, Bob Dylan, Big Joe Turner, Count Basie, Bruce Springsteen, Harry James, Mike Bloomfield, Pete Seeger, Billie Holiday, Charlie Christian, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and George Benson. He was a prime mover in rescuing Robert Johnson's meager oeuvre from obscurity, And he was a crucially important civil rights activist. doing as much to promote and introduce integration in the music and recording industry as anybody.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Hammond

[Angharad]

That was a career that meant something.

[Snagg]

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"Young Frankenstein" debuts on this date, 12/15/1974; John Morris wrote the theme and score.

Madeira's version comes from a various-artists Halloween compilation, "Monster Party 2000"

Steven Tyler claims that Aerosmith, taking a break fron recording "Toys IN The Attic", went to the movies and saw "Young Frankenstein" - 

And Igor's "Walk This Way" joke set off a lyric lightbulb in Tyler's head.

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[DeeBeeCreative]

White Christmas--I was watching the movie, which I hadn't seen in a number of years.

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Today, in Musical History, December 16th, 1873: Dvorak's "New World Symphony" makes it's world debut, at Carnegie Hall, in NYC