Alexis korner was considered as UK's grand father of the blues.
Your post reminded me that he had a couple of hit singles with his band CCS
in the early 70s.
Usual "across the pond" question, did they register in USA?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqjITYuzdus
On Friday, 19 April 2013 16:08:56 UTC+1, Eidem wrote:
> April 19 Born –
> Don Barbour (1927) – The Four Freshmen.
> Alexis Korner (1928) – British blues musician.
> Dickie Goodman (1934) – record producer ("The Flying Saucer").
> Ruby Johnson (1936) – soul singer with Volt Records ("I'll Run Your
> Hurt Away").
> Bobby Russell (1940) – songwriter ("The Night The Lights Went Out In
> Georgia").
> Larry Ramos (aka Hilario Ramos, 1942) – guitarist for The Association.
> Alan Price (1942) – keyboardist for The Animals.
> Eve Graham (aka Evelyn Beatson, 1943) – The New Seekers.
> Bernie Worrell (1944) – keyboardist.
> Michael Stewart (1945) – guitarist for We Five.
> Tim Curry (1946) – The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
> Mark Volman (1947) – The Turtles and Flo & Eddie.
> Rod Morgenstein (1953) – drummer for Winger, Dixie Dregs and The Steve
> Morse Band.
> Gary Langan (1956) – engineer/producer, The Art Of Noise.
> Marion "Suge" Knight (1965) – founder of Death Row Records.
>
> April 19 R.I.P. –
> Willie Mabon (1985) – Age 59. R&B singer/songwriter ("I Don't Know").
> Hugh Brannum (1987) – cancer. Age 77. Actor/singer with The Fred
> Waring Orchestra as Uncle Lumpy, Mr. Green Jeans.
> Steve Douglas (1993) – heart attack in the studio. Age 54. Saxophonist
> with the Wrecking Crew.
> Conrad Leonard (2003) – Age 104. Pianist/composer/arranger ("I Heard A
> Robin Singing").
> Stan Levey (2005) – Age 79. Jazz drummer with Miles Davis and Dizzy
> Gillespie.
> Rick Lewis (2005) – multiple organ failure. Age 71. The Silhouettes.
> Ken Albers (2007) – Age 82. The Four Freshmen.
> Levon Helm (2012) – cancer. Age 71. The Band.
> Greg Ham (2012) – Age 58. Saxophonist for Men At Work
>
> April 19 album releases –
> Tony Bennett – If I Ruled The World: Songs For The Jet Set (1965)
> The Zombies – Odessey And Oracle (1968)
> Miles Davis – Big Fun (1974)
> Jethro Tull – The Broadsword And The Beast (1982) U.S.
> The Cranberries – Bury The Hatchet (1999)
> AC/DC – Iron Man 2 (2010)
>
> April 19 events –
> 1924 – Chicago radio station WLS airs National Barn Dance, the first
> country-western radio program.
> 1945 – Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel debuts on Broadway
> at the Majestic Theatre.
> 1956 – Clyde McPhatter is discharged from the Army and promptly quits
> The Drifters for a solo career.
> 1956 – Elvis Presley appears at the Municipal Auditorium in Oklahoma
> City.
> 1958 – Alan Freed's Big Beat Show plays the Kansas City Auditorium in
> Missouri, featuring Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Danny
> and The Juniors, The Pastels, Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, The
> Diamonds and others.
> 1959 – Harry Belafonte appears on the first of two nights at Carnegie
> Hall in a benefit concert. Both shows are recorded for a live album
> release.
> 1962 – Jackie Wilson makes his debut appearance at the Copacabana in
> New York.
> 1965 – The T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London under the title Teenage
> Command Performance.
> 1965 – The Beatles release their single "Ticket To Ride" b/w "Yes It
> Is" in the U.S. on Capitol Records.
> 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Walker Brothers, Engelbert
> Humperdinck, Cat Stevens, The Californians and The Quotations play two
> shows at the Odeon Cinema in Blackpool.
> 1968 – Apple Music runs their famous "This man has talent…" ad in the
> New Musical Express, looking for demo tapes, films, and anything else
> artistic the company can produce and promote.
> 1968 – Pink Floyd releases their single, “It Would Be So Nice” b/w
> “Julia Dream.”
> 1969 – Smile, featuring Brian May and Roger Taylor, appear at the
> Revolution Club in London.
> 1970 – Paul McCartney appears on film, performing “Maybe I’m Amazed”
> on The Ed Sullivan Show. Live musical guests include Bill Medley,
> Peter Nero, Jan Peerce, The Kessler Twins, Geri Granger, and The
> Osipov Balalaika Orchestra.
> 1972 – Elvis Presley plays the final night of his tour at the Tingley
> Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Elvis flies home to Memphis
> immediately after the concert.
> 1974 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band appear at the State
> Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in an unadvertised gig - the
> promoter gambling that word-of-mouth would be enough to fill the 550-
> seat venue. Only 250 people attend.
> 1975 – Pink Floyd appears at the Tucson Community Center Arena in
> Arizona on their Wish You Were Here tour.
> 1978 – The Patti Smith Group releases their single, "Because The
> Night" b/w "God Speed."
> 1980 – Geordie vocalist Brian Johnson joins AC/DC as their new singer.
> 1980 – For the first time ever, the Country Music chart’s Top 5 are
> all held by women: Crystal Gayle, Dottie West, Debbie Boone, Emmylou
> Harris and Tammy Wynette.
> 1980 – R.E.M. plays their first gig at the 11:11 Club in Athens,
> Georgia.
> 1988 – Sonny Bono is sworn in as Mayor of Palm Springs.
> 1990 – Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Gary Moore, Lemmy Kilmister,
> Kirsty MacColl and Level 42's Mark King all appear as themselves in
> the "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" episode of BBC's sketch comedy show,
> French & Saunders.
> 1995 – The Stone Roses play their first gig in five years, appearing
> at the Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo, Norway.
> 1997 – Michael Jackson attends an unveiling of a wax statue of himself
> at the Grevin Museum of Wax in Paris, France. Jackson provided one of
> his own outfits to dress the figure.
> 1998 – Andrea Bocelli performs at the Kennedy Center for the
> Performing Arts in Washington D.C. for President and Mrs. Clinton.
> 2000 – Phil Collins wins his High Court lawsuit concerning the
> overpayment of royalties to two former members of Earth, Wind & Fire.
> Despite the court win, the judge reduces Collins’ award of £250,000 to
> £192,000, then rules that the musicians had been overpaid in error and
> would not have to pay it back.
> 2003 – Loretta Lynn opens for The White Stripes at the Hammerstein
> Ballroom in New York City.
> 2003 – Britain's oldest working musician, Conrad Leonard, passes away
> at 104 years old. At 99 years of age, Leonard cut his engagements to
> 75 a year, and in his 100s, he began playing piano every Thursday at
> the Plantation Café at Squire's Garden Centre in Twickenham until
> shortly before his death.
> 2004 – Jailhouse Rock: The Musical opens at the Piccadilly Theatre in
> London.
> 2005 – Elvis Presley Enterprises announces they will begin airing
> commercials to lure people to Graceland.
> 2006 – The UK television special, The McCartneys V. The Fur Trade,
> airs on BBC1.
> 2009 – Country music star Ferlin Husky is hospitalized with congestive
> heart failure and pneumonia.
> 2010 – Commenting on the Vatican's recent embrace and "forgiving" of
> The Beatles, Ringo Starr blows it off, stating, "The Vatican has more
> to talk about than The Beatles."
> 2011 – The Estate of Michael Jackson settles its 18-month lawsuit
> against the Heal The World Foundation for using Jackson’s name to
> solicit funds.
> 2012 – Leonard Cohen's former manager Kelley Lynch is found guilty in
> a Los Angeles courtroom for harassing the singer/songwriter with a
> torrent of expletive-strewn emails and letters to the star, and is
> sentenced to 18 months in jail, five months probation, and ordered to
> attend anger-management courses. Cohen thanked the court for the "even-
> handed and elegant manner in which these proceedings have unfolded.”
>
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