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1928 Nació Big Jay McNeely
1901 Nació Hirohito, emperador japonés.
1818 Nació Alejandro II, zar de Rusia
1667 Nació John Arbuthnot, médico y escritor inglés.
1933 Fallece José Félix Uriburu, militar y político argentino.
1380 Fallece Catalina de Siena, religiosa italiana, santa católica.
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1945 Los norteamericanos liberan el campo de concentración alemán de Dachau.
1945 En su bunker de Berlín, Adolf Hitler se casa con Eva Braun y designa como su sucesor a Karl Doenitz.
1942 Encuentro de Hitler y Mussolini en el palacio de Klessheim durante la segunda guerra mundial
1862 100,000 troopas federales se preparan para adentrarse en Corinth, Mississippi.
1808 El Cabildo de Buenos Aires rechaza las pretensiones del príncipe regente de Brasil de que le prestaran obediencia, tras haber sido despojado el Rey de España de su corona.
1429 Juana de Arco dirige a los franceses en su victoria contra los ingleses en Orleans.
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Rochelle & The Candles "One Night With You"
Big Jay McNeely (born Cecil James McNeely, April 29, 1927, Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States[1]) is an American rhythm and blues saxophonist, known as the King of the Honking Tenor Sax.
Biography
Inspired by Illinois Jacquet and Lester Young, he teamed with his older brother Robert McNeely, who played baritone saxophone, and made his first recordings with drummer Johnny Otis, who ran the Barrelhouse Club that stood only a few blocks from McNeely's home.[1] Shortly after he performed on Otis's "Barrel House Stomp." Ralph Bass, A&R man for Savoy Records, promptly signed him to a recording contract. Bass's boss, Herman Lubinsky, suggested the stage name Big Jay McNeely because Cecil McNeely did not sound commercial. McNeely's first hit was "The Deacon's Hop," an instrumental which topped the Billboard R&B chart in early 1949.[1] The single was his most successful of his three chart entries.
Thanks to his flamboyant playing, called "honking," McNeely remained popular through the 1950s and into the early 1960s, recording for the Exclusive, Aladdin, Imperial, Federal, Vee-Jay, and Swingin' labels.[1] But despite a hit R&B ballad, "There Is Something on Your Mind," (1959) featuring Little Sonny Warner on vocals, and a 1963 album for Warner Bros. Records, McNeely's music career began to cool off. He quit the music industry in 1971 to become a postman.[1] However, thanks to an R&B revival in the early 1980s, McNeely left the post office and returned to touring and recording full time, usually overseas.[1] His original tenor sax is enshrined in the Experience Music Project in Seattle, and he was inducted into The Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
Tenor saxophone honkers
The honkers were known for their raucous stage antics and expressive, exhibitionist style of playing. They overblew their saxophones and often hit on the same note over and over, much like a black Southern preacher, until their audiences were mesmerized. The style began with Illinois Jacquet's lively solo on Lionel Hampton's smash 1942 hit "Flying Home." Jacquet refined the honking technique in 1944 on the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles. Among the other saxophonists who started having honking hits in the late 1940s were Hal Singer (with the number one R&B hit "Cornbread", Lynn Hope, Joe Houston, Wild Bill Moore, Freddie Mitchell, and many more.
McNeely was credited with being the most flamboyant performer. He wore bright banana- and lime-colored suits, played under blacklights that made his horn glow in the dark, used strobe lights as early as 1952 to create an "old-time-movie" effect, and sometimes walked off the stage and out the door, usually with the club patrons following along behind. At one point, in San Diego, police arrested him on the sidewalk and hauled him off to jail, while his band kept playing on the bandstand, waiting for him to return. The honking style was fading somewhat by the early 1950s, but the honkers themselves suddenly found themselves providing rousing solos for doo wop groups; an example was Sam "The Man" Taylor's eight-bar romp on The Chords' 1954 "Sh-Boom." Bill Haley also used honking sax men Joey D'Ambrosio and Rudy Pompilli on his rock and roll records, including "Rock Around the Clock." However, the rise of the electric guitar essentially ended the dominance of the tenor sax in rock and roll by 1956.
POR: EFEMERIDES.NET Y WIKIPEDIA
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