Happy Birthday...

[bayoubill]

King Oliver, Fritz Reiner, Little Jimmy Dickens, Phil Ochs, Alvin Lee, Zal Yanovsky, Marianne Faithfull...

 

[bayoubill]

King Oliver...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_WbQYdQty0]Riverside Blues -- King Oliver 1923 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Fritz Reiner...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhMcZlzdCbU]Fritz Reiner conducts Mozart (vaimusic.com) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Li'l Jimmy Dickens... love this guy...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBS3zvxBfWM]Jimmy Dickens - "Mountain Dew" Live at the Grand Ole Opry - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Phil Ochs...

fer all my lib friends... an' my conservative ones too...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52Oz-54VYw]Phil Ochs -- Love me, I'm a liberal - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Alvin Lee...

fuckin' burned the house down when I saw him back in the late 60's...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7csw8Pw804]In Memory of ALVIN LEE - I'm Going Home - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Zally...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNAMlAL4YA]ZAL YANOVSKY - YOU TALK TOO MUCH - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bayoubill]

Marianne Faithful...

an extreme lesson in pretty-much completely talentless people with the right connections being in the right place at the right time...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHUQuD7ZzYg]Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Pogo]

I'm afraid you jumpeded the gun on Marianne Faithfull boss -- I know that because she shares my birthday which is the 29th...

But here's one you left out, and worse, he's from Louisiana...

Henry Roeland Byrd a/k/a Roy Byrd a/k/a Professor Longhair Born December 19, 1918 in Bogalusa Louisiana

He started out a common street hustler and boxer; his distinctive rhumba-rhythm piano style started in the 1940s when he taught himself on a junker piano. His "break" came when he "cut" a pianist on stage (challenged him, walked onstage and outplayed the main act). Longhair recorded throughout the '50s but was mainly constrained to the black R&B market. By the 1960s his star had descended and he found himself working as a janitor and gamblling.

"Rediscovered" at the beginning of the '70s he was reintroduced and highlighted at the 1971 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, followed by other festivals, a recording at the invitation of Paul McCartney on the Queen Mary and appearances with admirers such as the Meters, Earl King and Dr. John. With the attention of the general (white and black) public now building, he never had to work as a janitor again. He died in 1980 at the age of 61 but left deep inspiration and a distinctive stamp on New Orleans music. And there may yet be a few junker pianos left in New Orleans sporting a hole bashed into the lower front where Longhair would kick for his rhythm, so it can be said he "left his mark" in more ways than the metaphorical.


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYyFnFPhBg"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYyFnFPhBg[/ame]

 

[Moonglow]

Happy Birthday to my sis. She was born on dec 25th.RIP.