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Bent Fabric Dies
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, the Danish pianist, died July 28, 2020 at 96 years old. He started a jazz ensemble and a record label, Metronome Records, after World War II. He is best known for his song Alley Cat on ATCO records which hit #2 on the Adult Contemporary Chart and
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno was born in Italy in 1548 and was burned at the stake in 1600. He was educated in Naples, tutored privately at the Augustinian Monastery. At age 17 he entered the Dominican Order, finished his studies, and became an ordained priest at age 24. Bruno supported the opinion of Copernicus, that the earth went round and the heavens stood still. The earth rotated on its axis and circled the sun once a year.
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Peter Green Dies (07/25/20)
Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green has died at home in his sleep at age 73 on July 25, 2020. He played with the band from its inception in 1967 until 1970 quitting because of mental health issues.
Covers – Baby, Now That I Found You
“Baby, Now That I Found You” was written by Tony Macaulay and John MacLeod and released, as their debut, by The Foundations in 1967. It hit #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 in the UK.
Covers – Oh Well
But don’t ask me what I think of you,
I might not give the answer that you want me to
“Oh Well” is the 1969 Peter Green-written song for Fleetwood Mac. In the UK the single reached #2 and in the US, while only making it to #55, it was Fleetwood Mac’s first song on the Hot 100.
Emitt Rhodes Dies
Emitt died in his sleep, July 19, 2020, at 70 years old. He was a Power Pop genius playing in the Merry-go-round and Palace Guard in the late 60’s.
He would then release 4 great solo albums in the 70’s. He even came out with a new music release in 2016 called Rainbows End with guests such as Aimee Mann, Jon Brion, the Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs, Nels Cline, and Richard Thompson.
For more about Emitt Rhodes check out Wikipedia, Discogs, Allmusic and EmittRhodesMusic.com
Kacey Musgraves – Rainbow
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was owned by the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and was registerd in the Port of Milwaukee. She first launched in 1958, built by Great Lakes Engineering Works.
She was a lake freighter 729 feet in length, 75 feet wide, and carried taconite ore pellets from mines near Duluth, Minnesota to ports in Detroit, Toledo and others. She was the largest ship to haul iron ore on the Great Lakes.
On her final voyage the Edmund Fitzgerald left Superior, Wisconsin (Nov 9, 1975) with a full load (25,400 tons). With a seasoned crew and Captain (Ernest M. McSorley) on board, they were joined by a second freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. The weather turned bad the next day.
The Arthur M. Anderson received two messages from the Edmund Fitzgerald. The first “I have a bad list, lost both radars. And am taking heavy seas over the deck. One of the worst seas I’ve ever been in.” and the second, and last, was “We are holding our own.”
Only two empty lifeboats were found and no crew. A U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft found the sunken ship 4 days later. The Edmund Fitzgerald was broken in half and some have recently speculated that the front was on a giant wave and the rear on another tearing the hull in half.