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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:14 PM
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Finish This Sentence: "The Greatest Moment In Music History Was _______"
I say the day Miles Davis gave John Coltrane an old soprano sax - but that's just my opinion. It could also have been the day that Steveland Morris (Stevie Wonder) was born.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:16 PM
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1. the day WA Mozart was born -- eom
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:09 PM
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26. Hear! Hear!
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:18 PM
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2. The day Frank Zappa discovered Edgar Varese...
...and one of the premiere musical geniuses of the 20th century was born.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:26 PM
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3. when the City of New Orleans passed strict segregationist laws in
1897 creating the Storyville district and forcing all of the African musicians from Congo Square into a 38 block area of the city. Soon to be known as "the District" Storyville was an amalgamation of prostitutes, gamblers and musicians that gave rise to jazz music and ultimately all American music.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:27 PM
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4. The day Beethoven finished his 9th Symphony !!!
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PragMantisT Donating Member (893 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:36 PM
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6. or when it was first performed. May 7, 1824
Only 180 years ago.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:29 PM
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5. Ummmmm... too many
I like a lot Hendrix's way cool rendition of the SSB.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:40 PM
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7. When
19-year-old Elvis Presley, in Memphis' Sun Studios on a break between tryouts of old ballads, jokingly combined delta blues and Appalachian country on Arthur Crudup's "That's All Right" and the results caught the ear of producer Sam Phillips.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:55 PM
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11. Amen
Standing in Sun studios was so cool. I almost lost my breath. All the music that was recorded there knocks me out. They say Bob Dylan kissed the floor on his first visit.
I don't care what anybody says, Elvis changed the world and he will always be my favorite artist of all time.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:45 PM
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8. When they made the final cut for O-Town
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:47 PM
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9. Difficult sentence to complete.
Human response to "music" is too basic to allow for a "most important day". It's current status is the result of all the human days of experiences and perhaps even further back than that.
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Commendatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 12:54 PM
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10. When Buck Dharma, Eric Bloom and the Bouchards met, LOL
Well, what did you expect from me? :)
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:10 PM
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12. .....When Britney Spears....
..kissed Maddona on TV.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:15 PM
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13. March 6, 1946
David Jon Gilmour born...
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Mrs. Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:17 PM
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14. Marian Anderson's Concert In Washington, DC
"The most highly publicized racial instance involving Anderson occurred in 1939 when Hurok and officials from Howard University tried to arrange a concert for her in Constitution Hall, the largest and most appropriate indoor location in Washington, D.C. The hall's owners, the Daughters of the American Revolution, sparked national protests when they refused to allow her to sing there.

In answer to the protests, the United States Department of the Interior, with active encouragement from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, scheduled a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial fon April 9, 1939. The Easter Sunday program drew a crowd of 75,000 people and millions of radio listeners, and the entire episode caused the news media to focus greater attention on subsequent cases of discrimination involving Anderson and other African Americans."

From Afrocentric Voices In "Classical" Music

http://www.afrovoices.com/anderson.html
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:17 PM
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15. The day Billy Ray Cyrus quit touring.
What else could it be?
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:17 PM
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16. ...The Beatles' First Appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show
Edited on Mon May-17-04 01:19 PM by CO Liberal


Source: http://www.blackbird.com.
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flowomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:43 PM
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18. yeah, that's the one
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:46 PM
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20. It Was a Life-Defining Moment
Life before The Beatles, and life after.....
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:41 PM
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17. When the Sex Pistols went on the "Today Show" in Britain
And cursed like fucking sailors, resulting in mass hysteria.
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:45 PM
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19. December 3, 1965
The Beatles release "Rubber Soul".

Not a collection of covers, or hits, it's the first truly introspective collection of songs in Pop Music History.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:10 PM
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27. Great Choice!!!!
That and Abbey Road are my favorite Beatles' albums. That's a fantastic choice since, as you said, it basically changed the face of pop music. Things have never been the same, nor have the standards ever been raised so much by one single event.
The Professor
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:34 PM
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29. Thanks Professor. It was a toss-up between that............
And the gig we played at the Boulevard Cafe about a month ago when our lead singer dropped trou for the last 3 songs. :crazy:
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:36 PM
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30. That's Officially Too Much Information
Dropping trou, huh? Did we really need to know that? LOL!
The Professor
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:47 PM
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21. The day Y. Bhekhirst cut "Hot in the Airport."
Of course, nobody knows who, when, or where that happened. Can YOU solve the mystery of Y. Bhekhirst?


www.incorrectmusic.com .....check out the audio archives and download his songs; it's well worth your time.
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:48 PM
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22. the invention of the drum
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:56 PM
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23. A great day...
That would have been August 22, 4274 B.C. Good ol' Grunk L. Unt, he was a wildman, and great inventor.
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 01:58 PM
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24. When the first
musician started banging the rocks together rhythmically.
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blindpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:02 PM
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25. when Ma Raney and Beethoven unwrapped their bedroll n/t
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:18 PM
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28. When JS Bach started writing music
It pretty much flows from there....
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 02:37 PM
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31. When Louis Armstrong was arrested and thrown in jail
Edited on Mon May-17-04 02:37 PM by Independent429
where he learned to play the trumpet. IIRC it was for shooting a gun in the air in New Orleans when he was like 11.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-17-04 03:00 PM
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32. The day someone learned how to tune a tympani to something other than D.
Koolzip still hasn't figured that one out.
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