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On 5th of August 1941 was born very famous Brazilian jazz percussionist and singer Airto Moreira - famous also for his artistic contribution in work with Miles Davis, Weather Report, Return to Forever and so many other fellow musicians. Here is his great 1977 theme ''The Happy People'' - with luring atmosphere of carnival streets in Rio. Enjoy.

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On 5th of August 1947 was born Rick Derringer, very talented guitar player and singer with McCoys (''Hang on Sloopy'') and than with Johnny and Edgar Winter (''Frankenstein'', ''Free ride''), Ringo Starr and solo artist. Here is his version of Warren Zevon great song ''Lawyers guns and money'' from his 1978 solo album ''If I weren't so romantic, I'd shoot you''. Nice and successful cover.

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Mostly operatic composer, Antonio Cesti, was born on 5th of August 1623. He was the most celebrated Italian composer of his generation. Specially after the famous performance of his (more than 5 hours long!!!) opera ''Il pomo d'oro'' (''Golden apple''), written and performed in 1668 in Vienna during celebrations of wedding of Emperor Leopold I. Here is one, quite a short illustration from this gigantic Baroque work.

Guillaume Defay, one of the greatest composers of XV century music, was born on 5th of August 1397. From the period of his service in Savoy court here is ballad on a theme ''Se la face ay pale'' - which he later incorporated in missa of the same title. Enjoy.

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5. August - birthdays: - Guillaume Dufay (1397) - Antonio Cesti (1623) - Leonardo Leo (1694) - Ambroise Thomas (1811) - Friedrich August Kummer (1797) - Hans Gal (1890) - Erich Kleiber, conductor (1890) - Vladimir Fedoseyev, conductor (1932) - Maria Slavina, mezzo-soprano (1858) first Countess in ''Queen of Spades'' by Tchaikovskypremiere: - R. Kaiser - Die Romische Unruhe'' (1705) Hamburg

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Larry Knechtel, one of the finest (and humblest) members of session musicians LA representation The Wrecking Crew, keys, bass and guitar player and member of popular US band Bread (where he played bass parts, but also a solo guitar in ''Guitar man''), was born on 4th of August 1940. After tens of recordings for different performers in studio (Beach Boys, Monkees, Doors, The Mamas & The Papas...), Larry became real legend after recording the famous piano part for Paul Simon's top song ''Bridge over troubled water'' in 1970 - released by Simon & Gurfunkel.See this short video from his induction to a Musical Hall Of Fame. Just beautiful.

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123 years ago, on 4th of August 1901 was born one of the greatest legends of XX century music scene - jazz and popular, too, Louis Armstrong, great trumpet player and unique jazz singer.What to say - ''La vie en rose'' - I think it's enough.

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On 4th of August 1940 was born American singer Rosemary Victoria - better known as Timi Yuro, ''the little girl with big voice'' - considered as one of the first ''blue-eyed soul'' singers.Here is her first and biggest hit - ''I'm Hurt'' - from 1961. Great voice she had.

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4. August - birthdays: - Italo Montemezzi (1875) - William Schumann (1910) - Arthur Butterworth, trumpet & composer (1923) - David Bedford, conductor & composer (1937) - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (1905) - Louis Nourrit, tenore (1780) premieres of ''Fernand Cortez'' by Spontini, ''Le siege de Corinthe'' by Rossini and ''Les Abencerages'' by Cherubini - Louis Henri Obin, bass (1820) first Jean Procida in ''Les vepres siciliennes'' and King Phillip in ''Don Carlos'' by Verdi - Jess Thomas, tenore (1927) - Klaus Schulze (1947) electronic music composer

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