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“If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come. If we never wonder, knowledge will never find us.”
Happy 74th Birthday "John Cougar Mellencamp"
07.10.2025 11:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Edward Ray "Eddie" Cochran (October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960)
"Three Steps To Heaven..."
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987)
"The most gifted drummer of the swing era, who backed many major artists before leading his own long-running band."
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022)
"A child prodigy on the boogie-woogie piano who became one of the greatest names in '50s rock & roll and '60s country music."
Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982)
"The "El Paso" hitmaker who was also a bewitching singer and an all-time great country entertainer."
"It takes a whole lotta lovin'
Just to keep my baby happy"
Marvin Rainwater!
"...In his short life, he became one of the musical giants of the 20th century, creating the sound and sensibility of modern country."
17.09.2025 11:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975)
"Alto saxophonist whose blues-soaked tone and swinging delivery made him one of the most successful proponents of soul-jazz."
PATSY CLINE - One of the greatest country singers of all time, emotive yet distant and cool, and an influence on countless singers after her.
08.09.2025 11:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
The single most influential creative force in early rock & roll, with a string of classics that only ended with his tragic death at 22...
The 1954 Oldsmobile F-88 was a General Motors (GM) concept car that served as a 1954 Motorama "dream car", based on the Chevrolet Corvette platform but equipped with the powerful Oldsmobile Rocket V8 engine.
04.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conway Twitty (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993)
Consummate country star whose rhinestones and sideburns provided the perfect foil for a bedroom intimacy that scored over 50 number one singles.
DICK DALE...
30.08.2025 19:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ellen Muriel Deason aka "Kitty Wells" (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012)
Country music's first major female star, who scored a long string of lovelorn hits in the 1950s.
Charles Parker Jr. (Kansas City, August 29, 1920 — New York, March 12, 1955)
"Jazz giant who changed the face of the entire form, practically inventing modern jazz and shaping the course of 20th century music."
Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.
(Eddie Cochran)
New kids...
15.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy 57th Birthday Charlie Sexton!
11.08.2025 12:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy 77th Birthday Andrew Fairweather Low!
02.08.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy 72th Birthday Robert Cray!
01.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This Rock 'n' Roll...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ION8...
Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942)
"Pioneering jazz guitarist who was an innovator on the electric guitar and developed a style that anticipated bebop."
Billy Lee Riley & Bob Dylan (1992)
24.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Link Wray is the all-time legend. (Conan O'Brien)
24.07.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buddy Wayne Knox (July 20, 1933 – February 14, 1999)
"One of the first "pop-abilly" hit-makers of the 1950s, perhaps best remembered for "Party Doll."
Happy Birthday Linda Ronstadt!!
15.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967)
"This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island...
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters
This land was made for you and me."
WILKO JOHNSON!
12.07.2025 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
