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• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Wed, Mar 26 2014 7:52 AM

  26 March

  Notables ...

   

  • Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) is 66 today
  • Kenny Chesney is 46 today
  • Diana Ross is 70
  • Teddy Pendergrass (1950 - 2010)
  • NBA Point Guard Johnny Stockton is 52
  • NFL Runningback Marcus Allen is 54
  • Playright Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)

   

  Actors/Actresses ...

   

  • Leonard Nimoy (Spock) is 83
  • Keira Knightley is 29
  • Martin Short is 64
  • Amy Smart is 38
  • Vicki Lawrence is 65
  • James Caan is 74 
  • Alan Arkin is 80
  • Bianca Kajlich is 37
  • Natalia Livingston is 38

   

  and on this date in 1885 - Eastman Film Company manufacturers the first commercial motion picture film.

   

  I so love the two singers listed above ... Steven Tyler and Kenny Chesney ... both have tunes on my IPod "Top 50" list.  And Spock ... Leonard Nimoy  .... you made me a treckie!  

  Here's the two songs I have on my "Top 50" list ... starting with "age" (before beauty) ...

  (not saying you're not beautiful, Steven ... just old!)

  and now for one of the best "performers" on stage today ... this is one of my favorites ...

   

  Have an awesome day, everyone!

• SPINO1 5,394 Posts

  Wed, Mar 26 2014 3:07 PM

  Damn...you missed me off the notables Kat  !!!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Mar 27 2014 7:32 AM

  Kat? That is so very cool ! It is a sweet touch to provide music to this thread...awesome...and yes "age" can look pretty grim...I never took to Aerosmith and Tyler is just plain "dirty lookin" trash in my eyes....looks like he's been using Joan Rivers doctor...lol

  March 27

  972 - King Robert II of France

  1627 - Stephen Fox, English politician

  1676 - Francis II Rakoczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg

  1696 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot Minister

  1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney / father of Napoleon

  1746 - Michael Bruce, Scottish Poet

  1785 - Louis XVII Charles, King of France for two years 1793/1795

  1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer...half of Currier & Ives

  1845 - Wilhelm Rontgen, discovered X-Rays

  1859 - George Giffer, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)

  1863 - Henry Royce, Automobile founder of Rolls-Royce

  1899 - Gloria Swanson, actress

  and...

  in 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted present-day Florida

  in 1625, Charles I acceded to the English throne upon the death of James I

  in 1794 Congress approved "An Act to provide a Naval Armament" of six armed ships

  Oh...on this day in 1914, Snooky Lanson was born...who was he? 

   

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Mar 27 2014 9:08 AM

  SweetiePie:

  Oh...on this day in 1914, Snooky Lanson was born...who was he? 

  Are we talking about Roy Landman?  lol.

  Edit:  Here's a hint

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Thu, Mar 27 2014 9:59 AM

  27 March,

  Notables:

   

  • Director Quentin Tarantino is 51
  • Race car driver Cale Yarborough is 75
  • Cartoonist Carl Barks (Disney Ducks) (1901 - 2000)
  • Singer Mariah Carey is 44
  • Singer Sarah Vaughan (1924 - 1990) ... video below
  • Jazz Saxophonist Dave Koz is 51 ... I so love Dave Koz ... not so popular that he won't take the time to meet with his fans!  Going to share one of my favorite tunes performed by him ... I wonder how many others love that song ... or is it just me?

   

  Actors/Actresses:

   

  • Nathan Fillian (Serenity, Firefly and now Castle) is 43 
  • Pauley Perrette is 45
  • Elizabeth Mitchell is 44
  • David Janssen (1931 - 1980)
  • Art Evans is 72
  • Michael York is 72

   

  Today, I'd like to pay tribute to two Jazz performers ... (Sorry Mariah ... just not my style)

  To begin, singer Sarah Vaughan ... what a great set of pipes ...

  and now ... my all time favorite song, performed by my all-time favorite saxophonist, Dave Koz ...

  Have an awesome day, everyone!

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Fri, Mar 28 2014 7:01 AM

  Nice clip Kat! Snooky looks stoned, as do all of them. WOW wotta smoke-fest. Gotta sell those cigarstoops. Funny

  March 28

  1468 - Charles I, Duke of Savoy

  1472 - Fra Bartolomeo, Florentine Renaissance Painter

  1483 - Raphael, Painter of some of the most precious work we have in oils

  1510 - Theresa of Avila, Saint

  1522 - Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth

  1868 - Maxim Gorky, Russian playwright & author

  1890 - Paul Whiteman, Orchestra Leader

  1892 - Tom McGuire, Irish Republican

  1899 - August Anheuser Busch Jr., Beer magnate. A giant, long running, successful beer that is awful...all of it...grim flavor, even when ice cold, very little alcohol...I won't touch the crap...just a headache in a can or convenient 30-pak. Only slighty better than Miller. Old P.T. was right.

  I'm guessing that Miss Kat will lay down some BD spackle for LGG...

  do you like the bracket games?

• overtheedge 5,881 Posts

  Fri, Mar 28 2014 10:21 AM

  DaddysKat:

  Have an awesome day, everyone!

  Here is an EC version . I saw him do this song in Toronto. Amazing is the only word that comes to mind. I think you will agree. Enjoy.

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Fri, Mar 28 2014 11:20 AM

  28 March

  Notables:

   

  • C&W Singer Reba McEntire is 59
  • C&W Singer Rodney Atkins is 45
  • Singer Lady Gaga is 28
  • NBA Basketball great Rick Barry is 70
  • NBA shooting guard (retired) and coach Byron Scott is 53
  • NBA Head Coach Jerry Sloan is 74
  • Cricket player Nasser Hussain is 46
  • 1881 - PT Barnum and James A Bailey form "The Greatest Show on Earth"
  • 1885 - The Salvation Army is officially organized

   

  Actors/Actresses:

   

  • Vince Vaughn is 44
  • Nick Frost is 42
  • Julia Stiles is 33
  • Dianne Wiest is 66
  • Shanna Moakler is 39
  • Ken Howard is 70

   

  My tribute today goes to Reba McEntire ... one of the great C&W singers ...

  and for all you extremely busy folks, here's an idea from Rodney Atkins

  Sorry Lady Gaga ... IMO you suck!

• DaddysKat 3,554 Posts

  Sat, Mar 29 2014 7:36 AM

  29 March

  Birthday Tribute today goes to Eric Idle, one of the great Monty Python Actors and comedians.  Eric is 71 today ... see clip below ... it's a song from "Life of Brian" ... and something we should all remember to practice!

  Notables:

   

  • NFL Runningback Earl Campbell is 59
  • Rugby player Chris Ashton is 27
  • Broadway Actress Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
  • Tennis player Jennifer Capriati is 38

   

  Actors/Actresses:

   

  • Scott Wilson is 72
  • Lucy Lawless is 46
  • Marina Sirtis is 59 (Star Trek TNG)
  • Brendan Gleeson is 59
  • Christopher Lambert is 57
  • Philip Ahn (1905 - 1978)
  • Hideaki Takizawa is 32

   

  Today's tribute:

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Mar 29 2014 7:44 AM

  I have yet to spend a dime on gaga, neverthess, she is a masteress of how to make them.

  March 29

  1561 - Santorio Sanctorius, HERETIC...burned at the stake

  1790 - John Tyler, 10th American President

  1819 - Edwin Drake, drilled the first productive American oil well

  1867 - Cy Young, "The" pitcher of the baseball

  1871 - Tom Hayward, Great cricketer batsman of the golden age

  1875 - Lou Hoover, 1st Lady

  1888 - James Casey, Founder of UPS

  1917 - Man o' War, Thoroughbred of all Thoroughbreds

  and

  in 1638, Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware

  in 1812, the first White House wedding took place as Lucy Payne Washington, sister of the first lady Dolly Madison, married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd

  in 1882, the Knights of Columbus was chartered in Connecticut

  ah yes...in 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and executed in june 1953

  bye