March 14
We remember music's greatest architect Quincy Jones on his birthday today in 1933, "Q" the producer-arranger-composer whose seven-decade career spanning jazz, film scores, and producing Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' made him arguably the most successful and influential figure in popular music before his death in 2024… Songwriting lost one of its greatest craftsmen on this day in 1991 when Doc Pomus died at 65, ending the career of the wheelchair-bound lyricist whose "Save the Last Dance for Me" and countless other hits for the Drifters proved that physical disability couldn't limit emotional expression… The Atlanta Rhythm Section mourned their smooth frontman on this day in 2011 when Ronnie Hammond died at 60 from heart failure, ending the life of the vocalist whose Southern soul delivery on "So Into You" and "Imaginary Lover" helped define the band's sophisticated rock sound… Country's cosmic cowboy M...
