MOUSIKO EXPRESS … On This Day in Music for March 14

Events in Music

TV Show Appearance

1971 Barbra Streisand appears on “The Burt Bacharach Special” on CBS TV

Singer-songwriter & Actress Barbra Streisand — Singer-songwriter & Actress
Barbra Streisand

1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay

Music Awards

1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson win

Singer Janet Jackson — Singer
Janet Jackson

1991 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1993 “Conversations with My Father” closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances
1993 “Face Value” closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
1993 “Saint Joan” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances

Birthdays in Music

1623 Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, late baroque composer, born in Magdeburg, Germany
1726 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
1795 Robert Lucas Pearsall, composer, born in Bristol, England
1804 Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849)
1815 Josephine Lang, composer
1826 William Fisk Sherwin, composer
1831 Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
1835 Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer
1875 Norman Houstoun O’Neill, composer
1883 Juan Manén, Spanish composer and violinist, born in Barcelona (d. 1971)
1884 Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1887 Lawrence Collingwood, composer
1894 Josef Schelb, composer
1906 Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
1908 Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1912 Les Brown, Reinerton Pa, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1913 Witold Rudzinski, composer
1914 Jiri Reinberger, composer
1914 Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (d. 1981)
1915 Alexander Brott, composer
1915 Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
1919 Luther Henderson Jr, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show), born in Kansas City, Missouri
1922 Les Baxter, US, singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again)
1926 Francois d’Assise Morel, composer
1926 Lita Roza, English singer (“How Much is That Doggie in the Window”), born in Liverpool (d. 2008)
1930 Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
1931 Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)

Person of Interest

1933 Quincy Jones Jr, composer/singer (We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois

Composer & Singer Quincy Jones Jr — Composer & Singer
Quincy Jones Jr

1934 Shirley Scott, swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1935 Jo van den Booren, composer
1939 Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
1943 Jim Pons, bassist (Turtles, Mothers of Invention), born in Santa Monica, California
1945 Herman[us J] van Veen, Neth, cabaretier/singer/composer/writer
1945 Michael Martin Murphey, country singer (Wildfire), born in Dallas, Texas
1945 Walt Parazaider, rock saxophonist (Chicago), born in Chicago, Illinois
1947 Jimmy O’Rourke, rocker
1954 Adrian Zmed, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever), born in Chicago, Illinois
1954 Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 Boon Gould, rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 Patrick Dupond, dancer (La Bayadere), born in Paris, France
1981 Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
1983 Jordan Taylor Hanson, American pop singer (Hanson-MMMMbop), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1985 Idaira, Spanish singer

Weddings in Music

2006 Comedian and actor Jack Black (36) weds musician and animator Tanya Haden (34) in Big Sur, California

Wedding of Interest

2009 Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt (36) weds Brittney Cade at a private ceremony in Ojai, California

Bassist Rocker Mike Dirnt — Bassist Rocker
Mike Dirnt

Deaths in Music

1760 Anton Filtz [Fils], German composer, dies at 26
1768 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, Italian composer, dies at 58
1801 Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63
1861 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
1944 Pavel Grigor’yevich, composer, dies at 66
1954 Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72
1958 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1973 Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1977 Gyula David, Hungarian composer (Viola Concerto) and violinist, dies at 63
1982 Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59
1986 Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81
1986 Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
1991 Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1991 Jerome “Doc” Pomus, American blues singer-songwriter (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
1995 Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73
2009 Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947)
2013 Jack Greene, American country artist, dies from complications from Alzheimer’s disease at 83
2016 Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer (Prolation, Taverner), dies at 81