Today In Music History - April 23

[jpkansas]

1943: The Earl "Fatha" Hines Band, featuring then unknowns Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and a vocalist named Sarah Vaughan, begins a series of engagements at the Apollo in Harlem.

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[H2IZCOOL]

1988: During tonight's Bruce Springsteen concert at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles, CA, Roy Orbison, celebrating his 52nd birthday, is brought onstage so that fans can sing "Happy Birthday" to him.

Bruce was SUCH an Orbison fan, and appeared with him in Roy's "A Black and White Night" Sad that it was Roy's last birthday. He would die that December.