That's a neat story about him. I read it on facebook earlier today.
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Sat 13 Jun, 2009 05:54 pm
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
I love Brubeck. When I bought my very first stereo phonograph, Take Five was a brand new album. I bought it and also Ray's Genius + Soul = Jazz and tried to play the grooves off of them.
She did sing on My Fair Lady but the powers that be didn't think her voice was good enough,so they dubbed her.
Anyway,2 hours past the witching hour over here but you guys are just starting out on your Saturday night so,as I climb the apples,I'll start your party off with Lonnie Mack.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v5GOjGWnTU&feature=related
Whamm
Good morning everybody. Here are some of today's birthdays.
1479 - Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian poet (d. 1552)
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1820 - John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1865 - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
1877 - Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (d. 1970)
1882 - Michael Zadora, composer
1884 - John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
1895 - Cliff Edwards, Hannibal MO, singer (When You Wish Upon a Star)
1899 - Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)
1904 - Benno Ammann, composer
1907 - René Char, French poet/painter
1907 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
1908 - John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 - Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1910 - Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch
1917 - Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1918 - Carter Harman, composer
1918 - Dorothy McGuire, Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1920 - Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
1921 - Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law)
1922 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist
1923 - Theodore Bloomfield, composer
1925 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara Serna, Arg/Cuba revolutionary (Cuba)
1929 - Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1929 - Cy Coleman, American composer (d. 2004)
1931 - Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1932 - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
1936 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
1940 - John Mizelle, composer
1943 - Muff [Mervyn] Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1943 - Harold Wheeler, American composer
1945 - Rod Argent, rocker (She's Not There-Zombies, Hold Your Head Up-Argent)
1946 - Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
1947 - Barry Melton, American guitarist (Country Joe and the Fish)
1949 - Alan White, English rock drummer (Yes, Ramshackled)
1952 - Jimmy Lea, England, rock bassist (Slade)
1952 - Leon Wieseltier, American writer.
1953 - David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu)
1958 - Brian David Willis, rock drummer (Quarterflash)
1961 - "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist & druggie (Culture Club)
1963 - Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1969 - Steffi Graf, Bruhl West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam)
1976 - Alan Carr, British Stand-up comedian, Television presenter
1983 - Louis Garrel, French actor
1984 - Siobhán Donaghy, British singer (ex-Sugababes)
1988 - Kevin Michael McHale, American singer
Marnie Nixon who was probably the most famous singer dubbing for the big stars in musicals -- she was the voice behind Hepburn in "My Fair Lady," Debrah Kerr in "The King and I," and Natalie Wood in "West Side Story." Her real talent was that she could intone the actor's speaking voice as if they were actually singing the role.
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus or Giraldus) (June 14, 1479-February, 1552) was an Italian scholar and poet.
He was born at Ferrara, where he early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements.
On the completion of his literary course he removed to Naples, where he lived on familiar terms with Jovianus Pontanus and Sannazaro; and subsequently to Lombardy, where he enjoyed the favour of the Mirandola family. At Milan in 1507 he studied Greek under Chalcondylas; and shortly afterwards, at Modena, he became tutor to Ercole (afterwards Cardinal) Rangone.
About the year 1514 he removed to Rome, where, under Clement VII, he held the office of apostolic protonotary; but having in the sack of that city (1527), which almost coincided with the death of his patron Cardinal Rangone, lost all his property, he returned in poverty once more to Mirandola, whence again he was driven by the troubles consequent on the assassination of the reigning prince in 1533.
The rest of his life was one long struggle with ill-health, poverty and neglect; and he is alluded to with sorrowful regret by Montaigne in one of his Essais (i.34), as having, like Sebastian Castalio, ended his days in utter destitution. He died at Ferrara in February 1552; and his epitaph makes touching and graceful allusion to the sadness of his end.
Giraldi was a man of very extensive erudition; and numerous testimonies to his profundity and accuracy have been given both by contemporary and by later scholars. His Historia de diis gentium marked a distinctly forward step in the systematic study of classical mythology; and by his treatises De annis et mensibus, and on the Calendarium Romanum et Graecum, he contributed to bring about the reform of the calendar, which was ultimately effected by Pope Gregory XIII.
His Progymnasma adversus literal et literates deserves mention at least among the curiosities of literature; and among his other works to which reference is still occasionally made are Historiae poetarum Graecorum ac Latinorum; De poetis suorum temporum; and De sepultura ac vario sepeliendi ritu. Giraldi was also an elegant Latin poet.
