Previous posts for May 23rd may be found here: Robert Moog (2019), Artie Shaw (2020), Alicia de Larrocha; Johann Bernhard Bach (2022), Rosemary Clooney (2022), and Jean Françaix (2023)
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Helen O'Connell (23 May 1920 – 9 September 1993) was an American Big Band singer and actress.
Rosemary Clooney (23 May 1928 – 29 June 2002) was an American singer and actress.
Welcome to the Stage
Helen O’Connell and Rosemary Clooney
Were singers of note in the Big Band Age.
Long before singing had got auto-tuney,
When voices were honest there up on the stage.
What a coincidence! isn’t it looney? —
Sharing their birthday verse here on this page.
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Johann Caspar Vogler (23 May 1696 – 3 June 1763) was a German organist and composer, and student of J. S. Bach.
Also Ran
He failed in two applications in 1729 for organ posts in Leipzig and Görlitz. The Leipzig judges remarked that he 'played too fast and confused the congregation'; this did not deter him from boasting of his 'swiftness of hand and feet' in the second application. – abridged from Wikipedia
Johann Casper Vogler touted
The swiftness of his hands and feet,
But church committee elders doubted
Whether they could hear his beat.
On rejection, J.C. pouted,
“But my training was elite!”
Though he may have fumed and shouted,
He never got that organ seat.
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