Birthdays (April)

[Charlie]

Thanks so much, Yves, a wonderful range of genres as ever

[uiwangmike]

Wow! Two ABBA birthdays in the same month. This thread does throw up some intriguing facts. And about my occasional birthday listings,

You do this sometimes via the back door of a YouTube recommendation, which does work most of the time.

. . . which reminded me of
JL Menard, April 14 1932, Erath, Louisiana

[Charlie]

JL Menard, April 14 1932, Erath, Louisiana

Many thanks Mike

Would you mind following the format of the list, so that all I have to do is copy and paste:

14: 1932 - J.L.Menard (Erath, Louisiana)

[Charlie]

Wow! Two ABBA birthdays in the same month. This thread does throw up some intriguing facts.

A Drifter, a Coaster and their Svengali Jerry Leiber; two from Creedence, at least two from Fairport (was Danny Thompson a member too?); and how about that clutch of Hi people: the label's two best singers Al Green and Ann Peebles as well as song writer Don Bryant.

[uiwangmike]

Recent postings about songs that use the Bo Diddley beat pointed me eventually to Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride, which prompted me to check out
12: 1944 - Joachim Fritz Krauledat pka John Kay (Tilsit, East Germany)

I read somewhere that he coined the term “heavy metalâ€

[judith]

April

13: 1976 - Chiwoniso Maraire (Olympia, Washington)

[judith]

26: 1938 - Maurice Williams (Lancaster, North Carolina) Zodiacs

[Charlie]

Birthdays in April (not enough youngsters):

Chavela Vargas (90), Ravi Shankar (89), Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith (88), Doris Day (85), Cosimo Matassa (83), Tom Lehrer (81), Monty Sunshine (81), Chris Barber (79), Jack Clement (78), Jerry Leiber (76), Don Kirshner (75), Merle Haggard (72), Jeff Barry (71), Duane Eddy (71), Freddie Hubbard (71), Maurice Williams (71), Rudolph Isley (70), Hugh Masekela (70), Danny Thompson (70), Marty Wilde (70), Herbie Hancock (69), Giorgio Moroder (69), Leon Huff (67), Alan Price (67), Billy Joe Royal (67), Willie Nelson (66), Dave Edmunds (65), Loretta Lynn (65), Björn Olvaeus (64), Al Green (63), Emmylou Harris (62), Robin Scott pka "M" (62), Ann Peebles (62), Iggy Pop (62), Jimmy Cliff (61), Big Youth (60), Gil Scott Heron (60), Richard Thompson (60), Agnetha Fältskog (59), Janis Ian (58), Gerry Rafferty (57), Geoffrey Oryema (56), Nick Hornby (52), Mariam Doumbia (51), Eduardo Makaroff (55), Lokua Kanza (51), Benjamin Zephaniah (51), Robert Smith (50), Barrington Levy (45), Daby Balde (40), Chiwoniso Maraire (33), Abdul Bello pka 'JJC' (32)

[judith]

I was looking for some youngsters for the list. Couldn't come up with any. The thread about the wire brought up Clifford Smith's name (he plays Melvin "Cheese" Wagstaff)

01: 1971 - Clifford Smith pka Method Man (Staten Island, New York)

[Adam Blake]

two from Fairport (was Danny Thompson a member too?);

No, he was a Pentangle.

[Rob Hall]

[quote="uiwangmike"]Recent postings about songs that use the Bo Diddley beat pointed me eventually to Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride, which prompted me to check out
12: 1944 - Joachim Fritz Krauledat pka John Kay (Tilsit, East Germany)

I read somewhere that he coined the term “heavy metalâ€

[John Crosby]

Recent postings about songs that use the Bo Diddley beat pointed me eventually to Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride, which prompted me to check out
12: 1944 - Joachim Fritz Krauledat pka John Kay (Tilsit, East Germany)

I read somewhere that he coined the term “heavy metal”. Can anyone confirm?

Steppenwolf's 'Born To Be Wild' was the first time I heard the term used (outside of a chemistry class). The second verse of the song begins:

'I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind'

Words and music were written by Mars Bonfire (real name Dennis Edmonton) and, like his fellow Steppenwolfers, Mars was a Canadian (what a lot of great American music has been created by Canadians -- Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, The Band (except Levon Helm), Ian & Sylvia, Neil Young, and many more).

[uiwangmike]

Some late additions:

1: 1934 - Jim Ed Brown (Sparkman, Arkansas) The Browns
2: 1935 - Warner MacPherson pka Warner Mack (Nashville, Tennessee)
5: 1944 - Robert Lee McDill pka Bob McDill (Beaumont, Texas)
9: 1953 - Hal Ketchum (Greenwich, New York)
12: 1925 - Ned Miller (Raines, Utah)
13: 1952 - Sam Bush (Bowling Green, Kentucky) New Grass Revival
15: 1933 - Roy Clark (Meherrin, Virginia)
21: 1939 - Johnny Tillotson (Jacksonville, Florida)
23: 1938 - Roland White (Madawaska, Maine) Nashville Bluegrass Band

27: 1931 - Maxine Brown (Campti, Louisiana) 2nd member of The Browns this month
27: 1944 - Herb Pedersen (Berkley, California) Dillards, Desert Rose Band
27: 1929 - Billy Mize (Arkansas City, Kansas) singer, songwriter, steel guitarist

There are a few good songwriters in this list, one of whom, Bob McDill (5th) is memorably quoted as saying, "You can't write country music by looking down your nose at it." I seem to remember seeing Sam Bush (13th) and Roland White (23rd) together in London in the early 70s in a band called Country Gazette, on one occasion with Roland’s brother, Clarence.

I commented last month on how often the city of Shreveport, Louisiana seems to turn up in the birthday lists, and in a way, it figures again in April. The Louisiana Hayride debuted on station KWKH in Shreveport on April 3 1948 and continued either on radio or TV until 1960.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Hayride
It tends to get thought of as a poor relation of the Grand Ole Opry, but I feel that if I had been condemned to spend my every Saturday night at one or the other, I would have plumped for the Hayride. One singer who stuck with the Hayride and turned down invitations to join the Opry was Johnny Horton (April 6 1925 - November 5 1960), which is possibly the reason why he has never been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame despite his enormous popularity in his lifetime.
Top of the bill on the opening night were a family gospel act, the Bailes Brothers. One of their best-known songs, performed by Walter Bailes and Norma Jean, apparently filmed from a TV screen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Elxlxi ... re=related

[judith]

I commented last month, on how often the city of Shreveport, Louisiana seems to turn up in the birthday lists, and in a way, it appears again in April.

Shreveport, once the capital of Louisiana and one of its largest cities, is up near the Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas border and sort of a center for that area and has 'government' offices as well so lots of people would travel there for work, business, court cases, medical care, groceries, entertainment. It's also possible that some of those babies were born where there weren't hospitals and the births were registered in Shreveport or that their parents traveled to the nearest hospital which would have been in Shreveport. This happens in the regions of this country where the distances between metropolitan areas are more than several hundred miles - such as where I live in Northern California. Does it occur in the UK as well?

list of famous people from Shreveport
http://tinyurl.com/cl3b6s

(I think I would have preferred the Louisiana Hayride too - Hank Williams Sr., Elvis for starts.)

[Charlie]

It's also possible that some of those babies were born where there weren't hospitals and the births were registered in Shreveport or that their parents traveled to the nearest hospital which would have been in Shreveport. This happens in the regions of this country where the distances between metropolitan areas are more than several hundred miles - such as where I live in Northern California. Does it occur in the UK as well?

Yes it does, and the point is very valid.

There is similar confusion with Mayra Andrade whose pregnant mother flew specially from Cape Verde to take advantage of the famous medical care in Cuba, leading to the occasional mistaken reference to Mayra being 'Cuban'.