We remember Duke Ellington who was born in Washington DC on this day in 1899. He died in 1974. Duke was a jazz giant. However, I first heard of him many years ago when my father used to listen to The Voice of America in Cuba. Duke’s “Take the A train” was the intro-music for Willis Conover’s jazz show broadcast to the world on short wave.
We say happy # 89 to Luis Aparicio who was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on this day in 1934. Aparicio was inducted to The Hall of Fame in 1984.
Aretha Franklin's "Respect" was released on this day in 1967 and hit # 1 by mid-June. The story of "Respect" is rather interesting. It was ranked # 5 in Rolling Stone's Top 500 all time songs.
We remember "Hair", the musical that opened in Broadway on this day in 1968. The music was good but everything else did not matter to me.
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