musical excerpts, fyi. randye
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* Today in Black History - July 15 *
1929 - Francis Bebey is born in Cameroon. He will become a self-taught
master guitarist, composer, and sanza player.
* Today in Black History - July 16 *
1936 - The movie "The Green Pastures" premieres in New York's Radio City
Music Hall, featuring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, the Hall Johnson
Choir, and Rex Ingram as "De Lawd." The film, a Warner Brothers
production, was William Keighley's adaptation of Marc Connelly's
Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical.
* Today in Black History - July 17 *
1935 - Carol Diahann Johnson (Diahann Carroll) is born in the Bronx,
New York. She will be better known as Diahann Carroll, star
of Broadway ("House of Flowers"), television ("Julia"), and
films including "Carmen Jones" and "Claudine", the latter
earning her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.
1959 - Billie Holiday, blues singer, joins the ancestors after succumbing
to liver failure at age 44 in New York City.
1967 - Innovative and famed jazz musician, John Coltrane joins the ancestors
after succumbing to cirrhosis of the liver.
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