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Today In Music History: The Poet Laureaute Of the Blues
Posted at 6:20 AM on July 1, 2009
by Steve Seel
Birthdays:
Deborah Harry is 64.
Fred Schneider, (vocals The B-52's) is 58.
1969 - John Lennon, Yoko Ono and family were involved in a car accident in Golspie, Scotland. Both John and Yoko needed hospital treatment. Lennon later had the car crushed into a cube and exhibited it on his lawn at Tittenhurst Park.
1983 - A New Jersey based quintet calling themselves Bon Jovi signed to Mercury records.
1995 - DJ Wolfman Jack died of a heart attack. Was the master of ceremonies for the rock 'n' roll generation of the '60s on radio, and later on television during the '70s on NBC's The Midnight Special.
Today in 1915, blues singer and guitarist Willie Dixon "the poet laureate of the blues" was born. Credited with writing more than 500 songs by the end of his life, he wrote classics including "I'm Ready", "You Shook Me", "I Can't Quit You Baby" and many others. A major influence on The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, Dixon died on 29th January 1992. We played a favorite, "Hoochie Coochie Man."
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