11-06b: Varèse Déserts etc Simonovitch 1971 - Hank Thompson Dance Ranch 1958 - Berlioz Harold in Italy : Primrose / Munch 1958

1965 – Edgard Varèse (French composer, active largely in the United States)
1965 – Clarence Williams (American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, singer, theater producer & publisher)
1968 – Charles Munch (Alsatian conductor & violinist)
1970 – Agustín Lara (Mexican composer, pianist & poet)
1986 – Elisabeth Grümmer (Alsatian lyric soprano)
1987 – Zohar Argov [זוהר ארגוב] (Israeli Mizrahi singer)
1989 – Dickie Goodman (American entertainer & record producer, "Mr. Jaws")
2005 – Minako Honda [本田 美奈子] (Japanese pop singer & stage actress)
2005 – Miguel Aceves Mejía (Mexican actor, composer & singer)
2007 – George Osmond (American patriarch of the Osmond family)
2007 – Hank Thompson (American country singer, songwriter & guitarist)

One of these days I shall have to recount to you a quite hilarious online encounter which took place between myself and a grand-niece of the great Charles Munch, who conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra during that wonderful heyday of the early stereo LP period. But it won't be today...

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