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This is the week that was in matters musical …CBGB founder Hilly Kristal died this week, who didn’t exactly like the bands he helped get a foot in and the scene created.Kristal opened CBGB in 1973 on...
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This is the week that was in matters musical …1906, the first Victrola phonograph, with wind-up drive and its own horn, is marketed by Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey, for $200...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1900, Len Spencer, believed to be the first nationally-known recording star, watches his biggest hit “Arkansas Traveler” enter the U.S. charts … his other...
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This is the week that was in matters musical…1928, a candle starts a fire at a Gypsy caravan in France … the left hand of 18-year-old guitarist Django Reinhardt is badly burned, rendering two fingers...
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