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November 10, 1938 On her radio show, Kate Smith sings the Irving Berlin song "God Bless America" for the first time, introducing it to the country. Berlin composed the song for a 1918 musical he wrote, but decided not to use it.More
September 27, 1938 Comedian Bob Hope premieres a new song, "Thanks For The Memory," on his eponymous NBC radio show.
November 30, 1937 Country singer Frank Ifield is born in Coundon, Warwickshire, England to Australian parents. Known for a string of '60s hits, including "I Remember You" and "Lovesick Blues."
November 19, 1937 Geoff Goddard (keyboardist on The Tornados' "Telstar") is born in Reading, Berkshire, England. Wrote John Leyton's hit UK single "Johnny Remember Me" (1961).
July 11, 1937 Composer George Gershwin dies at 37 following surgery to remove a brain tumor.
July 15, 1936 H. B. Barnum is born in Houston, Texas. A child star, he makes his foray into music as "Pee Wee Barnum" and later becomes a sought-after arranger for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and The Supremes.
April 23, 1936 Roy Orbison is born in Vernon, Texas. He has a run of hits in the early '60s that include "Crying," "In Dreams" and "(Oh) Pretty Woman," and in the '80s he makes a remarkable comeback when he's championed by the likes of George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
January 29, 1936 James Jamerson, the bass player in Motown's house band The Funk Brothers, is born in South Carolina. His distinctive grooves form the bedrock of many hits released on the label; good examples of his work are "My Girl" by The Temptations and "Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes.
August 15, 1933 Country singer Bobby Helms is born in Bloomington, Indiana. He scores two #1 hits on the Country chart, but is best remembered for the holiday favorite "Jingle Bell Rock."
March 14, 1933 Quincy Jones is born in Chicago, Illinois. After studying music composition in France, he becomes an acclaimed arranger and conductor before moving into production, most famously for Michael Jackson, whose Jones-produced Thriller remains the best-selling album of all-time.
February 23, 1933 Daisy Canfield Danziger, oil heiress and estranged wife of silent screen star Antonio Moreno, dies on the way home from a party when her car careens off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. The music connection? Daisy allegedly haunts her former home, The Paramour Mansion, which has been the site of many album recording sessions, from My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade to Papa Roach's The Paramour Sessions.More
November 29, 1932 The Broadway musical The Gay Divorce, featuring Cole Porter's classic "Night And Day," premieres in New York. Two years later, it reaches the big screen as The Gay Divorcee, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
May 12, 1929 Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri.More
December 15, 1928 Ernest Ashworth is born in Huntsville, Alabama. Known for the 1963 chart-topping country hit "Talk Back Trembling Lips."
December 13, 1928 An American in Paris, a musical by George Gershwin, premieres in New York City. In 1951, it's turned into a movie starring Gene Kelly.
November 22, 1928 Maurice Ravel's one-movement rhythmic orchestral work Boléro premieres at the Paris Opera.
January 18, 1928 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose premieres at the Maliy Opera Theatre in Leningrad.
November 8, 1927 Patti Page is born in Claremore, Oklahoma.
November 15, 1926 The first network radio broadcast, four-and-a-half hours of varied performances from New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel and other remotes around the country, airs on the new National Broadcasting Company (soon to be known as NBC).
January 4, 1926 Songwriter Irving Berlin marries Ellin Mackay, heiress to the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. They remain married until her death in 1988.
December 3, 1925 George Gershwin premieres his "Concerto In F," the first jazz concerto for piano and orchestra, at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Gershwin is also the featured soloist on flugelhorn.
July 21, 1920 Isaac Stern, violinist and conductor, is born in Kremenets, Ukraine.
July 14, 1912 Woody Guthrie is born in Okemah, Oklahoma. He writes thousands of songs, many that remain unrecorded as lyric sheets in the Guthrie Archives.
January 25, 1909 The opera Elektra by Richard Strauss premieres at the Dresden Hofoper.
October 15, 1905 Claude Debussy's symphonic suite "La Mer" is premiered by the Lamoureux Orchestra under the baton of Camille Chevillard in Paris. The piece was initially not well received, but soon became one of the French composer's most admired and frequently performed orchestral works.
February 2, 1900 The opera Louise by Gustave Charpentiers (his most famous composition) premieres in Paris.
December 20, 1898 Actress and singer Irene Dunne is born in Louisville, Kentucky. Known for her Academy Award-nominated performances in the '30s and '40s, including Cimarron, Theodora Goes Wild, The Awful Truth, Love Affair and I Remember Mama.
August 15, 1896 Leon Theremin - inventor of the theremin, one of the first electronic instruments - is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
June 15, 1889 John Philip Sousa leads the Marine Corps Band in a performance of "The Washington Post" at an awards ceremony held by the eponymous newspaper. The march, written especially for the occasion, becomes a worldwide sensation and earns Sousa the title of March King.
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April 3, 1869 Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino Theater.
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