December 10 Casey Bill Weldon (December 10, 1909 – circa - TopicsExpress

December 10 Casey Bill Weldon (December 10, 1909 – circa 1970?)born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas who later lived and worked in Chicago was known as one of the great early pioneers of the slide guitar. He played upbeat, hokum and country blues tunes, both as a solo artist and as a member of the Memphis Jug Band.He was married to singer and guitarist Memphis Minnie in the 20s. Weldon played in medicine shows before beginning his recording career in 1927 for Victor. 1919 - Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, composer 1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008) 1922 - Allen Dwight Sapp, composer 1923 - Abelardo Quinteros, composer 1926 - Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, composer 1926 – Born on this day Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones, New Orleans blues guitar player from the 1940s and 1950s best known for the million-selling song ‘The Things That I Used to Do’, a song that is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Melbourne R. Bob Cranshaw (born December 10, 1932, in Evanston, Illinois) is an American jazz bassist. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw has been in Rollinss working band on and off for over five decades, starting with the 1962 album The Bridge. 1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor 1942 - Bear Bossu, [Berend F Gertenbach], actor/vocalist (Pub Chantant) 1945 - Eric Boom, Dutch guitarist/producer 1946 – The Move’s guitarist Ace Keffordis, born in West Moseley, England. rocker, improbably described by one writer as “the group’s pouting glamour-man,” 1946 - Gloria Loring, born in New York, who co-wrote the themes to Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, actress/singer (Days of our Life) 1946 - Walter Clyde Orange, Florida, pop (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot) Jessica Cleaves (December 10, 1948 – May 2, 2014) was an American singer and songwriter. acts 1960s The Friends of Distinction, Earth, Wind & Fire, George Clinton, Parliament-Funkadelic rock acid funk fussion. 1948 - Brendan Harkin, Hard rock, heavy metal, power pop Looking Glass (band), Starz (band) 1948 - Ralph Vierra Tavares, is born in the Cape Verde Islands.of the singing brood who scored a hit with “It Only Takes a Minute,” pop 1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer Diane Schuur (born December 10, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed Deedles, she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the worlds most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Charles, Joe Williams and Stevie Wonder. Like Stevie Wonder, Schuur was blinded at birth due to retinopathy of prematurity. 1954 - Jack Hues, English Pop musician (Wang Chung beggining 1979) Duane M. Carter b. 1954 trumpet. Jazz man Billie Davies (born Billie Goegebeur, December 10, 1955, in Bruges) is an American female jazz drummer and composer best known for her avant garde and avant-garde jazz compositions since the mid-1990s, and her improvisational drumming techniques she has performed in Europe and in the United States. 1958 - Paul Hardcastle,is born in London, Synthesizer, keyboards, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, programming Genres: Synthpop, freestyle, electronica, ambient, electro house, breakstep, smooth jazz 1965 - J Mascis, Amherst, Massachusetts, American musician Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis + The Fog, Witch 1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo) DIES 1938 - Mario Pilati, composer, dies at 35 1939 - Wilhelm Grosz, composer, dies at 45 1965 - Henry (Dixon) Cowell, US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68 1966 - Boris Koutzen, composer, dies at 65 1967 - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer, dies at 71 Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 Dawson, Georgia,USA – December 10, 1967 Lago Monona, Waterford, Wisconsin ) - Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26 1967 - Carl Cunningham, rocker (Bar-kays American soul, R&B, and funk group formed in 1966), killed in a plane crash 1967 - Jimmy King, rocker (Bar-kays American soul, R&B, and funk group formed in 1966), dies in a plane crash 1967 - Phalin Jones, rocker (Bar-kays American soul, R&B, and funk group formed in 1966), dies in plane crash 1967 - Ron Caldwell, rocker (Bar-kays American soul, R&B, and funk group formed in 1966), dies in a plane crash 1995 - Darren Robinson, singer, dies at 28 1996 - Faron Young, country singer/actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide at 34 1996 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62 1997 - Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97 Richard Clare Rick Danko (December 29, 1942 – December 10, 1999) - Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942) 2008 - Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948) 2013 - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist, dies at 83