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Milwaukee Braves' pitcher Warren Spahn's 300th career win against the Chicago Cubs on August 11, 1961
Entertainment
Stevie Wonder performs t"Uptight" and "A Place In the Sun" in 1966
Tom Cruise presents the Cecil B. DeMille award to Dustin Hoffman - Golden Globes 1997
Michael Crawford sings Before the Parade Passes by - He reminisces about the film Hello Dolly which he starred in with Barbra Streisand as quite a youngster
Remember Muddy Waters | Live Dortmund, Germany Oct 9,1976
McKinley Morganfield April 4, 1913 — April 30, 1983, known by his stage name Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation, near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson. He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941.
In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time, professional musician. In 1946, Muddy Waters eventually recorded his first record for Columbia Records and then for Aristocrat Records, a newly formed label run by the brothers Leonard and Phil Chess.
In the early 1950s, Muddy Waters and his band Little Walter Jacobs on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Elgin Evans on drums and Otis Spann on piano recorded several blues classics, some with bassist and songwriter Willie Dixon. These songs included "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "I'm Ready". In 1958, he traveled to England, laying the foundations of the subsequent blues boom there. His performance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960 was recorded and released as his first live album, At Newport 1960.
Muddy Waters' influence is tremendous, not just on blues and rhythm and blues but on rock and roll, hard rock, folk music, jazz, and country music. His use of amplification is often cited as the link between Delta blues and rock and roll.
Doris Day
Singer, Film Star and Animal Lover… Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born on April 3rd, 1924. She would later come to be known as Doris Day, a singer and actress who won over the American public, and then the world. As a singer, Day released 29 albums, with many of the songs spending time in the Top 40 (a total for 460 weeks on the charts). Day’s singing career has earned her a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. Day had a long lasting relationship with Colombia Records from 1947-1967.
Although her musical accolades are impressive, Doris Day went on to become a darling of the silver screen with appearances in 39 films, including ‘Pillow Talk’. She is the top-ranking female box office star of all time and ranks sixth out of the top 10 performers when we include men and women. Adding to her list, Day has received a lifetime achievement award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures in 1989.
Day demonstrated her commitment to animal rights in 1971 when she co-founded ‘Actors and Others for Animals’. Years later, she started non-profit organizations called ‘The Doris Day Animal Foundation’ and ‘The Doris Day Animal League’. Today, though long retired from music and film, she continues to support animal rights. In 2004, Day was acknowledged by President George W. Bush in recognition of her distinguished service to the country with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Pink Floyd | Dark Side Of The Moon | Magnificent Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLOth-BuCNY
Louis Armstrong
Movie of the Day
Movie - Prince Valiant - starring James Mason, Janet Leigh and Robert Wagner - 1954
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