APRIL 3RD was the 125th birthday of Dooley Wilson, the man who sings and plays piano in the great film Casablanca, especially, of course, playing 'As Time Goes By' at Bogart's insistence and against Ingrid Bergman's wishes. (I spoke to Ingrid Bergman once... when I was working for United Artists Records in London in 1977-79 they'd issued 'As Time Goes By' as a single, and it went silver, and I was asked to tell Ms Bergman, since she was on the sountrack of the single, that she had earned a Silver Disc. To my disappointment, though not my surprise, she was unimpressed, and therefore not especially friendly.)
APRIL 3RD was also the 10th anniversary of the death in Atlanta GA, age 63, of Gene Vincent's core guitarist Paul Peek.
Lastly, APRIL 5TH is the 105th anniversary of the birth of Lord Buckley (pictured) in Tuolumne CA.
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