1950 in music

Events

March 15th: the Brothers Jacques receive the Grand Prix of the disc and the song.
November 7th: Launching of the long-playing records in Europe.
December 4th: Juliette Greco, Grand Prix of SACEM for I hate Sundays .

the French type-setter Henry Barraud presents his lyric tragedy Numance .
Western Africa: Success of E.T. Mensah, “king of the Highlife” during the years 1950 and 1960.
First industrial production of electric guitar: the Fender Broadcaster.
Georges Guétary is devoted better singer of operetta to Broadway for its interpretation in Arms and the girl .
Line Renaud wife Gasté Spitz.

Principal albums of the year

Birth off the cool , of Miles Davis
June 6th: single recording joining together Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.

Principal individual of the year

January: Rag Mop , of Johnny Lee Wills, taken again by The Hearts Brothers, Lionel Hampton, etc
February: Rockin' The Blues , of Pee Wee Crayton
March: Birmingham Bounce , of Hardrock Gunter & The Peebles
March: Tears One My Tie , of Louis Preceded and Kelly Smith
April: My Baby' S Gone of Charles Brown
April: Hardware Luck Blues of Roy Brown
May 2nd: Nat King Cole records the title Mona LISA
July: Goodnight Irene , of the Weavers with Gordon Jenkins
July: Rock'n'roll Little Baby , of Cecil Glove
July: Lucille , of Big Joe Turner
August: Rock'n'roll Mr. Blues , of Wynonie Harris
September: Rockin' With Red , of Piano Red
September: Ain' T Nobody' S Business , of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan
October: Bad, Bad Whiskey , of Amos Milburn
October: Milkcow Blues Boogie , of Ming & Ling
November: Life Is So Peculiar , of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan
December: Tennessee Waltz , of Patty Page

Success of the year in France

May 2nd: Edith Piaf records the Hymne with the love in homage to Marcel Cerdan

Yves Montand interprets the dead Sheets in the film the Doors of the night
Maurice Chevalier: My Apple
Felix Leclerc: P' tit happiness

For Gift Carlos , operetta of Francis Lopez, with Georges Guétary.

Births

January 5th: Chris Stein, guitarist and founder of the American group Bleached
January 9th: David Johansen, singer of the group of " glam-punk" American The New York Frauds
January 10th: Sapho, singer free-Morrocan woman
January 21st: Billy Ocean, singer of Trinidad
January 24th: Mory Kanté, singer and Guinean musician
February 6th: Natalie Sticks, singer of jazz American
February 12th: Steve Hackett, guitarist of the English group Genesis
February 13rd: Peter Gabriel, British singer and member of the rock group Genesis
March 2nd: Karen Carpenter, singer of the American duet The Carpenters
March 21st: Roger Hodgson, singer and musician of the English group Supertramp
March 2nd: Goran Bregović, musician and Bosnian type-setter of film musics
March 27th: Tony Banks, clavierist of the rock group Genesis
April 5th: Agnetha Fältskog, one of the singer and compositrice of the Swedish group ABBA
April 22nd: Peter Frampton, singer and guitarite of English rock'n'roll
May 13rd: Stevie Wonder, singer and American musician of drunk person music
May 22nd: Bernie Taupin, British lyric writer
May 27th: Dee Dee Bridgewater, American singer of jazz
June 3rd: Suzi Quatro, American singer of glam-rock'n'roll
June 3rd: Frederic François, Italian singer of varieties
June 5th: Laurie Anderson, artist of American experimental music
June 21st: Joey Kramer, beater of the group of American Hard rock Aerosmith
July 12th: Eric Carr, American beater of the group of hard rock KIS
August 12th: Creole Kid, American cantor, leader of the group The Coconuts
August 21st: Patrick Juvet, singer and Swiss type-setter of varieties
September 10th: Joe Perry, guitarist of the group of American Hard rock Aerosmith
September 14th: Paul Kossoff, guitarist of the British rock group Free
October 1st: Jeanne Manson, American singer of French varieties
October 2nd: Mike Rutherford, British musician of the group Genesis
October 20th: Tom Petty, singer and guitarist of American rock'n'roll
November 11th: Steven Van Zandt, musician, singer, actor and American radio presenter, member of the E-Street Band
November 18th: Graham Parker, britannque singer of rock'n'roll
November 22nd: Tina Weymouth pine, American musician of the groups Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club
December 9th: Joan Armatrading, singer and guitarist of pop British
December 28th: Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist of the American rock groups The Box Signals and Big Star

Principal deaths

January 28th: Kansas Joe McCoy, American musician of blues.
April 4th: Kurt Weill, German type-setter.
April 8th, London: Vaslav Nijinski, dancer and Russian choreographer.
October 23rd: Al Jolson, American singer of Jazz.

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