Tuesday, May 23, 2006
This Day in American History
On this day in 1910, Artie Shaw (Arthur Arschawsky) was born--a musician on the clarinet and a big bandleader, he recorded Begin The Beguine, Indian Love Call, Frenesi, Summit Ridge Drive, My Little Nest of Heavenly Blue, Back Bay Shuffle, Traffic Jam, Nightmare, The Blues, They Say, Thanks for Ev'rything, Stardust, Dancing in the Dark, Concerto for Clarinet, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, and Any Old Time. He married 8 times and had Ava Gardner and Lana Turner in their primes. He broke the color barrier and hired a black singer, Billie Holiday. He quit his very lucrative job to join the Navy after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but they only let him play in a band. He toured the Pacific as Glenn Miller toured the European front. He wrote, ran a dairy farm, and quit the music business pretty early on. He died Dec 30, 2004.
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