Today In Music History - February 23

[jpkansas]

Nothing really stands out other than the fact a lot of composers were born on this date.

www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/feb23.htm

[H2IZCOOL]

Feb 23, 2011 1:52:25 GMT -5 jpkansas said:

Nothing really stands out other than the fact a lot of composers were born on this date.

www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/feb23.htm

Yeah. Not that much interesting.

Well - there were two composers I never heard of both of whom were obviously named after famous Americans:

1811 - Composer George Washington Hewitt was born.

1848 - Composer Thomas Paine Westendorf was born.



Then there's this:

1963 - The Chiffons' "He's So Fine" was released.
(I wonder if George Harrison was listening.)

[m c dornan]

1999: So Plastic People of the Universe reformed! They were a Czech rock group who were banned by the government, leading to the Charter 77 dissident movement in Czechoslovakia. Put down by the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.