70 Years Ago Today: Roy Eldridge Recorded Live at The Arcadia Ballroom

Happy Birthday, Satchmo! August 4, 1901--July 6, 1971

And to you, too, Mr. President, sir! And to Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792), Helen Kane (1903), William Schuman (1910), Frankie Ford (1939), Frank Vincent (1939), Billy Bob Thornton (1955), Roger Clemens (1962).

And R.I.P. Billy Lee Riley.