Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar
(September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014)
Harry Haag James (March 15, 1916 – July 5, 1983).
Harry James recorded Misirlou, a traditional song from the Eastern
Mediterranean region. It peaked at #22 on the popularity chart.
The song "You Send Me" by Sam Cooke is the A-side to "Summertime". It
was Cooke’s debut single and was a huge success, becoming a number-
one hit on both Billboard‘s Rhythm & Blues Records chart and the Billboard
Hot 100. The song was named as one of the 500 most important rock and
roll recordings by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In April 2010, the song
ranked #115 in Rolling Stone magazine’s The 500 Greatest Songs of All
Time.
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
Buddy Holly won a talent contest when he was five years old for singing
"Have You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River of Memories)." Rolling
Stone ranked him as the thirteenth "Greatest Artist of All Time."
The 8 .5-foot-tall bronze statue of the rock ‘n roll legend in Lubbock,
Texas.
George Roger Waters is 73 years old today.
Roger Waters was a bass player, composer, vocalist, front man and co-founder
of the English rock band, Pink Floyd. The group is known for songs like "Shine
On You Crazy Diamond." He was once the chairman of the Cambridge Youth
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at age fifteen. His first solo album was
called The Body. Pink Floyd were inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1996.
1973