musical excerpts, fyi (sorry to be sending this so late, but there are
several events that i thought would be of interest). randye
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* Today in Black History - October 21 *
1917 - John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie is born in Cheraw, South Carolina.
He will, with Charlie Parker and Theolonious Monk, be the founder
of the revolutionary bebop movement in the very early 1940's.
His music accomplishments will include formation of the Dee Gee
and Verve labels. He will perform in clubs and concert halls in
Harlem, Canada and Europe. His music will earn him a Grammy
Award in 1974 and 1980.
* Today in Black History - October 22 *
1854 - James Bland is born in Flushing, New York. He will write over
700 songs including "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" and "Carry Me
Back to Old Virginny." The latter song will be selected in
1940 as the state song of Virginia, the state's legislators
little knowing the identity and race of its composer. Virginia
will decide to change their state song in the late 1990s due to
protest from civil rights activists who say that the song
glorifies slavery and is inappropriate.
* Today in Black History - October 23 *
1951 - The NAACP pickets the Stork Club in support of Josephine Baker,
who had been refused admission to the club a week earlier.
After a city-convened special committee calls Baker's charges
unfounded, Thurgood Marshall will call the findings a "complete
and shameless whitewash of the long-established and well-known
discriminatory policies of the Stork Club."
1966 - "Supremes" Album Tops U.S. Charts. The record "Supremes A Go Go"
becomes the top-selling LP album in the U.S. It is the first
album by an all-female group to reach that position. One of the
most successful groups of its kind, the Supremes, fronted by
Diana Ross, will have seven albums reach the top 10 during the
1960s.
* Today in Black History - October 24 *
1936 - The Boston Chronicle blasts the soon-to-be-released movie
"The Big Broadcast" of 1937 for featuring a white pianist
who appears in the movie while Teddy Wilson actually plays
the music: "The form of racial discrimination and
falsification of acts...is frequently duplicated by many
whites in their daily dealings with Negroes...Negro farm
hands and laborers in other fields of industry produce
billions of dollars of wealth, but the white landowners and
sweat shop operators get all the profit."
1942 - In recognition of the influence of so-called race music,
Billboard magazine creates its first ratings chart devoted
to African American music, The Harlem Hit Parade. The
number-one record is "Take It & Git" by Andy Kirk and His
Twelve Clouds of Joy, featuring Mary Lou Williams on piano.
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