SANDY KOZEL

 
William (Billy) Martin Joel is 73 years old today.      
  

Billy Joel, nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his first single and
signature song of the same name as well as the similarly named
1973 album, he has led a commercially successful career as a
solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 studio albums
from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album in 2001.

He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as 
the seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-
selling solo artist in the U.S.with over 160 million records sold
worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2,
is one of the best-selling albums in the United States.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Dick Dale (Richard Anthony Monsour)
(May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019)      
       
        
        
Dick Dale was the pioneer of surf music, drawing on
Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with
high volume reverb. Dale was known as "The King of
the Surf Guitar", which was also the title of his second
studio album.

Dick Dale’s guitar…”The Beast”.

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)

“Soul Brother #1,”The Godfather of Soul,” “Mr. Dynamite,” “Sex Machine,” “The Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk.” These
are some of the names by which the world would eventually know
James Joseph Brown, Jr., the revolutionary musical figure who was
born on May 3, 1933. The story Brown himself would often tell is
that he appeared stillborn when he first came into the world, but
that an aunt attending his birth managed to breathe life into him.

SANDY KOZEL

2014

James (Jay) Douglas Muir Leno is 72 today.

Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)

Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War leader and 18th president of the United 
States, was born on April 27, 1822.

The son of a tanner, Grant showed little enthusiasm for joining his 
father’s business, so the elder Grant enrolled his son at West Point
in 1839. Though Grant later admitted in his memoirs the he had no interest in the military apart from honing his equestrian skills, he
graduated in 1843 and went on to serve in the Mexican-American
War, though he opposed it on moral grounds. He then left his 
beloved wife and children again to fulfill a tour of duty in California
and Oregon.