Saturday, April 15, 2006

APRIL 15

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THESE PAST AND PRESENT CAPITOL ARTISTS

1933 - Roy Clark celebrates his 73rd birthday.
1968 - Radiohead's Ed O’Brien celebrates his 38th birthday.

ALSO BORN THIS DAY
1909 - Vern Yocum, music preparer and copyist for Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee, Keely Smith, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Axel Stordahl, Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Frank Duval and Nelson Riddle and many others. He also helped organize The Musician's Guild with trumpeter Cecil Reed in 1955.

REMEMBERING ROSE MADDOX

Country Music legend, and Capitol Records artist, Rose Maddox died on April 15, 1998 in Ashland, OR.
A touching remembrance and biography can be found at this Japanese web site.

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