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1620 Nació John Graunt, estadista, fundador de la ciencia de la demografía
1581 Nació San Vicente de Paúl, sacerdote francés.
2001 Fallece Al Hibbler, cantante, Unchained Melody, Muere a los 85.
1980 Fallece Alejo Carpentier, escritor y musicólogo cubano.
1479 Fallece Jorge Manrique, poeta castellano.
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1962 El MIT envía por primera vez una señal de TV por satélite.
1898 España declara la guerra a los EE.UU. Perdería Cuba, Puerto Rico, las Filipinas y Guam entre otras posesiones.
1870 El Concilio Vaticano I publica la Constitución dogmatica "Dei filius".
1867 El Ku Klux Klan celebra su primera asamblea en Nashville, EE.UU.
1817 El barón Carlos Federico von Drais presenta en Alemania el primer prototipo de lo que hoy es la bicicleta, que todavía no tenía pedales.
1800 Se funda la Biblioteca del Congreso de los EE.UU., la más grande del mundo.
1799 La Asamblea Nacional Francesa encarga al ingeniero Etienne Lenoir la construcción de un prototipo de platino iridiado con dos marcas paralelas, cuya distancia es el metro, unidad de longitud.
1792 En la noche de Marsella, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle compone "La Marsellesa" que será luego el himno francés.
1701 Comienza en España el reinado de la Casa de Borbón tras la llegada de Felipe V a Madrid.
1185 Batalla de Danoura: la flota de Yoshitsune Minamoto derrota la flota imperial.
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UNCHAINED MELODY AL HIBBLER 78RPM DECCA RECORDS
Albert George "Al" Hibbler (August 16, 1915 – April 24, 2001) was an American baritone vocalist who sang with Duke Ellington's orchestra before having several pop hits as a solo artist. Some of his singing is classified as rhythm and blues, but he is best classified as a bridge between R&B and traditional pop music.[1] According to one authority, "Hibbler cannot be regarded as a jazz singer but as an exceptionally good interpreter of twentieth-century popular songs who happened to work with some of the best jazz musicians of the time."[2]
Early life
Hibbler was born in Tyro, Mississippi, and was blind from birth.[1] At the age of 12 he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas where he attended Arkansas School for the Blind, joining the school choir.[3][4] Later he began working as a blues singer in local bands, failing his first audition for Duke Ellington in 1935.[5] However, after winning an amateur talent contest in Memphis, Tennessee, he joined a band led by Jay McShann in 1942, and the following year joined Ellington's orchestra, replacing Herb Jeffries.[4]
Career
He stayed with Ellington for almost eight years, and featured on a range of Ellington standards including "Do Nothin' Til You Hear From Me", the words for which were written specifically for him and which reached # 6 on the Billboard pop chart (and # 1 for eight weeks on the "Harlem Hit Parade") in 1944, "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues," and "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So." Although Hibbler's style was described as "mannered", "over-stated", and "full of idiosyncrasies" and "bizarre vocal pyrotechnics", he was also considered "undoubtedly the best" of Ellington's male vocalists.[3][4][6] Whilst with Ellington, Hibbler won the Esquire New Star Award in 1947 and the Down Beat award for Best Band Vocalist in 1949.[5]
Hibbler left Ellington's band in 1951 after a dispute over his wages. He then recorded with various bands including those of Johnny Hodges and Count Basie, and for various labels including Chess, Mercury, and Norgran, a subsidiary of Verve Records, for whom he released an LP, Al Hibbler Favorites, in 1953.[7] In 1954 he released a more successful album, Al Hibbler Sings Duke Ellington, and in 1955, he started recording with Decca Records, with immediate success. His biggest hit was "Unchained Melody", which reached # 3 on the US pop chart, and its success led to network appearances, including a live jazz club remote on NBC's Monitor. Other hits were "He," "11th Hour Melody" and "Never Turn Back" (all in 1956). "After the Lights Go Down Low" (also in 1956) was his last top ten hit.[4]
Activism
In the late 1950s and 1960s, Hibbler became a civil rights activist, marching with protestors and getting arrested in 1959 in New Jersey and in 1963 in Alabama. The notoriety of this activism discouraged major record labels from carrying his work, but Frank Sinatra supported him and signed him to a contract with his label, Reprise Records.[3] However, Hibbler made very few recordings after that, occasionally doing live appearances through the 1990s. In 1971, Hibbler sang two songs at Louis Armstrong's funeral.[8] In 1972 he made an album, A Meeting of the Times, with another fiercely independent blind musician, the multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk.[5]
Death
He died at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago in 2001, at the age of 85.[3][1]
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