musical excerpts, fyi. randye
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:12:24 -0400
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Subject: 0626 - Today in Black History - June 26
1893 - William Lee Conley "Big Bill" Broonzy, blues singer, is born in
Scott, Mississippi.
1938 - James Weldon Johnson, joins the ancestors after succumbing to
injuries received in an automobile accident near his summer home
in Wiscosset, Maine.
1940 - Billy Davis Jr., singer with the 5th Dimension, is born in St. Louis,
Missouri.
1956 - Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown joins the ancestors after being killed
in an auto accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Founder of the
Brown-Roach Quintet with Max Roach two years earlier, Brown had
built a reputation as one of the finest jazz trumpeters of his day
as a major proponent of hard bop.
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