Charles Aznavour and Jerry González, RIP -- October 1, 2018

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We lost two great men of music on the same day. French singer, songwriter and activist Charles Aznavour and trumpeter and band leader Jerry González are both gone. I've been hearing about Aznavour all my life, although his work rarely showed up on the radio in San Francisco. He wrote songs for Edith Piaf. He did much to help people in Armenia and to try to persuade people to remember the genocide. Jerry González worked with many great Latin musicians and led the Fort Apache band.

Edith Piaf 100 -- December 17, 2015

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Edith Piaf would have been 100 years old today.  She was born on 17-December-1915.  It is funny to think that she was 10 days younger than Eli Wallach, who died two years ago.  She has been gone since 1963, but she is not forgotten.  She was accused of being a collaborator during the German occupation, but was proved to have helped French soldiers escape from German camps.