Paul Robeson
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism.
Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was also a star athlete in his youth.
He also studied Swahili and linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London in 1934.
His political activities began with his involvement with unemployed workers and anti-imperialist students whom he met in Britain and continued with support for the Loyalist cause in the Spanish Civil War and his opposition to fascism.
In the United States he also became active in the Civil Rights Movement and other social justice campaigns.
His sympathies for the Soviet Union and for communism, and his criticism of the United States government and its foreign policies, caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
In 1915, Robeson won an academic scholarship to Rutgers College, where he was twice named a consensus All-American in football, and was the class valedictorian.
Almost 80 years later, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
He received his LL.B. from Columbia Law School, while playing in the National Football League (NFL).
At Columbia, he sang and acted in off-campus productions.
After graduating, he became a figure in the Harlem Renaissance with performances in "The Emperor Jones" and "All God's Chillun Got Wings".
Between 1925 and 1961, Robeson recorded and released some 276 distinct songs, many of which were recorded several times.
The first of these were the spirituals "Steal Away" backed with "Were You There" in 1925.
Robeson's recorded repertoire spanned many styles, including Americana, popular standards, classical music, European folk songs, political songs, poetry and spoken excerpts from plays.
Robeson performed in Britain in a touring melodrama, "Voodoo", in 1922, and in "Emperor Jones" in 1925, and scored a major success in the London premiere of "Show Boat" in 1928, settling in London for several years with his wife Eslanda.
While continuing to establish himself as a concert artist, Robeson also starred in a London production of "Othello", the first of three productions of the play over the course of his career.
He also gained attention in the film production of "Show Boat" (1936) and other films such as "Sanders of the River" (1935) and "The Proud Valley" (1940).
During this period, Robeson became increasingly attuned to the sufferings of people of other cultures, notably the British working class and the colonized peoples of the British Empire.
He advocated for Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War and became active in the Council on African Affairs (CAA).
Returning to the United States in 1939, during World War II Robeson supported the American and Allied war efforts.
However, his history of supporting civil rights causes and pro-Soviet policies brought scrutiny from the FBI.
After the war ended, the CAA was placed on the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations and Robeson was investigated during the age of McCarthyism.
Due to his decision not to recant his public advocacy, he was denied a passport by the U.S. State Department, and his income, consequently, plummeted.
He moved to Harlem and from 1950 to 1955 published a periodical called "Freedom" which was critical of United States policies.
His right to travel was eventually restored as a result of the 1958 United States Supreme Court decision, "Kent v. Dulles".
In the early 1960s he retired and lived the remaining years of his life privately in Philadelphia.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Minetta Jacobs- Bond( August 11, 1862 – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular music from the 1890s through the early 1940s.
She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song" I Love You Truly", becoming the first woman to sell one million copies of a song.
The song first appeared in her 1901 collection" Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose", along with" Just Awearyin' for You", which was also widely recorded.
Jacobs- Bond's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was" A Perfect Day" in 1910.
A 2009 August 29 NPR documentary on Jacobs- Bond emphasized" I Love You Truly" together with" Just Awearyin' for You" and" A Perfect Day" as her three great hits.
Jacobs- Bond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Brian Saunders (weightlifter)
Brian Saunders( date of birth and death unknown) was a male weightlifter who competed for England.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carrie Minetta Jacobs- Bond( August 11, 1862 – December 28, 1946) was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular music from the 1890s through the early 1940s.
She is perhaps best remembered for writing the parlor song" I Love You Truly", becoming the first woman to sell one million copies of a song.
The song first appeared in her 1901 collection" Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose", along with" Just Awearyin' for You", which was also widely recorded.
Jacobs- Bond's song with the highest number of sales immediately after release was" A Perfect Day" in 1910.
A 2009 August 29 NPR documentary on Jacobs- Bond emphasized" I Love You Truly" together with" Just Awearyin' for You" and" A Perfect Day" as her three great hits.
Jacobs- Bond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Just Awearyin' for You
"Just Awearyin' for You" is a parlor song, one of that genre's all-time hits.
The lyrics were written by Frank Lebby Stanton and published in his "Songs of the Soil" (1894).
The tune was composed by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and published as part of "Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose" in 1901.
Harry T. Burleigh also composed a tune (copyrighted in 1906), but it never approached the popularity of the Jacobs-Bond tune.
Although Stanton originally wrote the lyrics in dialect ("Jes' a-wearyin' fer you") for a column in the "Atlanta Constitution", the song has generally circulated with the more mainstreamed diction of the Jacobs-Bond version.
Sentimental yet artful, "Just Awearyin' for You" has been recorded by numerous performers, including Elizabeth Spencer (see inset), Evan Williams (see inset), Anna Case, Sophie Braslau, Eleanor Steber, Gladys Swarthout, Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau (piano), Johnny Hartman, John Arwyn Davies, Jane Morgan, Peggy Balensuela (mezzo soprano) and William Hughes (piano), Bing Crosby (1934 and 1945) and, perhaps most famously, Paul Robeson.
In 1934 Jay Wilbur and his band did a foxtrot rendition.
The QRS Records company produced a "Just Awearyin' for You" piano roll for Heintzman player piano.
Set to the key of C, "Just Awearyin' for You" appears in Mel Bay's "Modern Guitar Method Grade 6".
Along with "I Love You Truly" and "A Perfect DayJust Awearyin' for You" forms the triumvirate of works for which Jacobs-Bond is remembered.
A dedicatory phrase "To F. B." atop the musical score (on p. 3 of the sheet music) refers to her second husband, Frederic Bond.
Prior to publication with her tune, Jacobs-Bond was unaware that the lyrics were written by Stanton; she thought them anonymous as indicated in the Chicago newspaper from which she took them.
Once the oversight became apparent, Jacobs-Bond resolved the situation amicably with D. Appleton & Company, which had published Stanton's "Songs of the Soil", thus providing Stanton with a royalty stream that by his own admission brought him more revenue than everything else in "Songs of the Soil" combined. "
Linger Not" and "Until God's Day" are two other songs on which Stanton and Jacobs-Bond collaborated.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.

Question: When was the performer of song Just Awearyin' For You born?
Answer: April 9, 1898