"this day in mandolin history"....wow!

[jjboone101]

Great job Scott and all the other contributors for the new "Day in Mandolin History" page...this is an amazing resource and very entertaining to boot! #

I'm sure this was a massive effort, so thanks to all who participated.

http://www.mandolincafe.com/archives/thisday/

[MikeEdgerton]

That is pretty neat.

[mandocrucian]

Somebody needs to add this:

Dave Swarbrick — Date of Birth: 5 April 1941

[Susan H.]

Thanks Scott for all the hard work that went into this. It's interesting and I really enjoy it.

[JeffD]

I think its really cool. I haven't yet explored all the dates. I will when those dates arrive. (I never turn a calander ahead to see the next picture.)

[jjboone101]

I host a bluegrass show on our local community radio station and this is a great resource. I played Flatt & Scruggs "Cabin Home on the Hill" today on the show, as it was recorded this day in 1959 on Columbia Records. Wouldn't have known that without this cool tool!

[MLT]

This is a great addition. Thanks Scott.

I found that I share a birthday with Raffaele Calace. Maybe there is a glimmer of hope yet with my mandolin edeavors. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[Plamen Ivanov]

Yes, absolutely great! I can imagine that it was a hard, time consuming work. Thank you!

I was happy to find out that one of my favourite mandolin players with an extremely nice personality - Don Stiernberg was born on the same date, when i was born, but 20 years earlier. Unfortunately on the same date in 1911 one of the most significant persons in the classical mandolin world - Carlo Munier passed away.

Best,
Plamen

[Ivan Kelsall]

I'd go with mandocrucian & ask that Dave Swarbrick's name be added. In the Folk boom of the early 60's,Swarby was one of the very few(maybe the ONLY)well known folk musicians that people could hear playing the Mandolin & he's good. There are a few YouTube clips of him playing fiddle both with his long standing folk partner,Martin Carthy & with Fairport Convention but unfortunately no Mandolin clips,but he played(s)Mandolin with equal skill to his fiddle playing,
Saska http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[jim_n_virginia]

ALRIGHT who has already looked up what happened on their birthday! #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Bill Monroe released "Blue Moon of Kentucky" on my birthday that's pretty cool. I'll probably remember that for the rest of my life!

I can see it now... on my next birthday I'm asking my family "Guess what today is?"

sighhhhhhh "We know it's your birthday"

"NO! Bill Monroe released Blue Moon of Kentucky today!"

"Blue Moon of what?"
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[MML]

Wow pretty cool, and of course whats the first date people search, why their birthday. Rhonda Vincent and myself share the same day, one year apart however, I'm not saying whos older. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[DryBones]

all I get on my birthday is Rigel announcing their closure http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[Ken Olmstead]

all I get on my birthday is Rigel announcing their closure http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
What a bummer. That is like something that would happen to Charlie Brown!

I share a birthday with Herschel Sizemore. Not bad! Mine was 31 years later though!

[Brandon Flynn]

all I get on my birthday is Rigel announcing their closure http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif
All I get is that Vassar Clements died on my birthday.

[JEStanek]

I share a birthday with hurricane Camile, (Sunburst- where you in Lovingston then?), My birthday is the same as Scott Joplin's, and Marvin Gaye's death date.

I share birthdays with some interesting, Rachmaninoff, Otto von Bismark(!!!), and Toshiro Mifune (starred in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (a favorite film).

Mando-wise the only thing of note for my birthday is the first live broadcast of WWVA Jamboree, Wheeling, West Virginia.

Jamie

[mandroid]

So if Mike Compton was born on Feb 29th, '56 he has only had 13 birthdays.

Ah trivia..

[pasturepicker]

Wow pretty cool, and of course whats the first date people search, why their birthday. Rhonda Vincent and myself share the same day, one year apart however, I'm not saying whos older. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
I share that day too. Only I'm 7 years older than Rhonda.

[Jim MacDaniel]

Here is a potential additions to the db for October 29:

The two act opera, Don Giovanni, enjoyed its world premier in Prague at the Estates Theatre in Prague on October 29, 1787. In Act II, Don Giovanni serenades a pretty maid with the aria Deh, vieni alla finestra, accompanied by mandolin.