The Mason Williams Phonograph Record is a solo album by guitarist and composer Mason Williams released in 1968.
 The album is Williams most successful and most recognized album, and contains the track "Classical Gas," his best known song.
 Mason Williams won two Grammy awards, for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Theme, and Mike Post won Best Instrumental Arrangement on the song.
Mason Douglas Williams (born August 24, 1938) is an American classical guitarist, composer, writer, comedian and poet.
 He is best known for his 1968 instrumental "Classical Gas" and for his work as a comedy writer on "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour", "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour", and "Saturday Night Live".
Jason Vieaux (born July 17, 1973, in Buffalo, New York) is an American classical guitarist.
 He began his musical training in Buffalo, New York at the age of eight, after which he continued his studies in the Cleveland Institute of Music.
 NPR describes him as, "perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation," and "Gramophone" magazine puts him "among the elite of today's classical guitarists."
 His album "Play" won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo.
 In June 2014, NPR named "Zapateado" from the album as one of its "50 Favorite Songs of 2014 (So Far)."
"Classical Gas" is a 1968 instrumental by Mason Williams.
Michael Nicolella (born December 31, 1963 in Providence, RI) is an American classical guitarist and composer.
 Described as an iconoclast, he is known for his versatile, adventurous and eclectic approach to repertoire, including the incorporation of electric guitar into his concert programs and recordings.
 Nicolella's repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the present.
 His most recent recording is his own arrangement of the complete cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach; while his past four recordings focused on contemporary music, including his own compositions, alongside those of Toru Takemitsu, Elliott Carter, Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze and Steve Reich.
 He has championed music by such emerging composers as Laurence Crane and Jacob ter Veldhuis and has premiered many works written for him by other composers, including: Joshua Kohl, (of the Degenerate Art Ensemble), David Mesler, Christopher DeLaurenti and John Fitz Rogers, who in 2001 wrote the forty-five-minute piece "Transit" for Nicolella, scored for electric guitar and computer generated sound.
 His own compositions include works for solo guitar, chamber music with guitar, a classical guitar concerto ("Guitar Concerto"), and an electric guitar concerto ("Ten Years Passed").
 His most recent major composition for soprano, guitar (electric and classical) and orchestra, "The Flame of the Blue Star of Twilight", was premiered by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra and soprano Alexandra Picard in April 2012.
 He has performed and collaborated with a wide range of groups and artists including: violinist Gil Shaham, rock singer Jon Anderson, best known for his work as lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes, broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Seattle Guitar Trio, jazz singer Johnaye Kendrick, classical music comedians Igudesman and Joo and is a frequent guest with the Seattle Symphony.
 Nicolella is a graduate of Yale University, Berklee College of Music and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.
 He is currently based in Seattle, where he serves on the music faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.
 He is married to the painter Ann Gale.
Grete Franke Dollitz (June 12, 1924 – May 9, 2013) was an American classical music radio presenter, classical guitarist, and guitar teacher in Richmond, Virginia.
 She was born in Germany, and immigrated to the United States with her mother and younger brother in 1935 to reunite with her father, who immigrated five years earlier.
 As a radio presenter, she had a deep voice, and used the phrase "Won't you join me?"
 at the end of her promos.
Raphaël Faÿs is a French jazz, gypsy jazz and classical guitarist and composer born in Paris on 10 December 1959.
John Y. Hill (August 14, 1799 - August 2, 1859) was an American builder, tailor, bricklayer, cattle herder, hotel operator, and state legislator in Kentucky.
 He was born in Shepherds Town, Virginia in 1799 and moved to Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky, in approximately 1818.
 He worked as a tailor from approximately 1818 and into the 1830s.
 He also worked as a bricklayer and builder from 1825 and into the 1840s.
 He also served in the Kentucky House of Representatives.
 In approximately 1825, he built the Hill House (later known as Brown Pusey House), a Federal-style building in Elizabethtown.
 In the 1840s, he began operating Hill House as a boarding house.
 Hill died of pneumonia in August 1859.
 His second wife, Rebecca Davis Stone Hill, continued to operate Hill House (sometimes referred to during her operation as "Aunt Beck Hill's Boarding House") until she died in 1882.
 General George Armstrong Custer lived at the house from 1871 to 1873.
Christopher Parkening (born December 14, 1947) is an American classical guitarist.
 He holds the Chair of Classical Guitar at Pepperdine University under the title Distinguished Professor of Music.
The Boarding House was a music and comedy nightclub located at 960 Bush Street in San Francisco, California, opened by David Allen in 1971.
 Robin Williams launched his career there and Steve Martin's first three albums, "Let's Get Small", "A Wild and Crazy Guy", and "Comedy Is Not Pretty" were recorded there, in whole or in part.
 The club was also host to a multitude of musical acts, such as Dolly Parton, Patti Smith, Neil Young, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Bob Marley, Mason Williams, The Tubes, Talking Heads, Old and in the Way, Randy Newman, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Jim Croce, Harry Chapin and Tom Waits.
 British progressive rock group Camel played there on 6/26/76 in a performance that was broadcast on KSAN-FM, and cult favorites The Residents also first played there.
 Ellen DeGeneres and Jay Leno have said they first met at The Boarding House.

Question: When does the American classical guitarist and composer born who  is best known for his 1968 instrumental "Classical Gas" and also hosed by The Boarding House?
Answer: August 24, 1938