Dear darlene4-ga;
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting question.
Here are more biblical references to the number 70 than you probably
care to know. Here are only a few examples:
Seventy years, the duration of days of a king. (Is 23,15)
The 70 weeks prophecy of the book of Daniel. (Dn 9,24)
The 70 years of captivity of Babylonian of two of the twelve tributes
of Israel. (2 Ch 36,21)
Ezekiel sees 70 ancients adoring the idols. (Ezk 8,11)
The 70 palm trees of Elim. (Ex 15,27)
Jacob has fathered 70 children. (Ex 1,5)
One gave 70 money weight to Abimelech. (Jg 9,4)
Abdon had 70 sons and nephews.
The psalmist establishes the ordinary course of the human life at 70
years. (Ps 90,10)
The 70 peoples of the earth dispersed after the sacrilegious
construction of the tower of Babel, fault that falls down on the whole
humanity. (Gn 10)
Age of Kenan when he fathered Mahalalel. (Gn 5,12)
The 70 Hebrews who entered with Jacob in Egypt. (Gn 46,27)
Egyptians cried the death of Jacob during 70 days. (Gn 50,3)
The law required that mothers went to the temple of Jerusalem, 70 days
after the arrival of a girl, to offer a lamb of one year and a
turtledove or a young pigeon.
Many more can be found here:
PROPERTIES OF THE NUMBER 70
http://pages.globetrotter.net/sdesr/nu70.htm
And here:
THE NUMBER 70 AND THE END OF THE JUBILEE CYCLES
http://www.danielrevelation.com/topical/70.html
?Septuagint: An ancient translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into
Greek. This was the Bible of the characters who people the New
Testament. Translated by Jewish scholars of the 2nd and 3rd centuries
to meet the needs of Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt and other parts of
the Mediterranean world, tradition says that 70 scholars (some say 72)
took part in the translation process in Alexandria; thus, the name of
the translation is derived from the word for "seventy" and is
consistently abbreviated with the Roman numeral LXX.?
JOURNALIST?S ONLINE HANDBOOK OF RELIGION
http://www.toad.net/~andrews/jhandbook2.html
Regarding music, well, let?s see what we can find:
?Folk harps range from lap harps to six feet tall, from 19 strings or
less to 70 strings or more?
HARP SPECTRUM
http://www.harpspectrum.org/glossary/glossary.shtml
Janice Joplin and Jimi Hendrix both died in 1970.
The following notable music personalities died at the age of 70:
Jazz and blues singer Nina Simone
Jazz musician and broadcaster Benny Green
Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninov
Blues performer Screamin? Jay Hawkins
Actor and singer Don Estelle
Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane
?The King of Western Swing?, Bob Wills
Country music legend, Ernest Tubb
Bill Mack, inducted to the DJ Hall of Fame in 1982, received more than
70 awards and citations for his contributions to the industry.
CRB
http://www.crb.org/awards/djhf/mack.html
The Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, which met in hiding to play its
music during the regime of Saddam Hussein, was once a 70-piece world
class orchestra.
IRAQI NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
http://www.endthewar.org/frontps/insos/inso13.htm
The rock and roll group, KISS, once toured with a 70-piece orchestra
PAUL STANLEY
http://www.theywillrockyou.com/interview/Paul_Stanley.html
Popular musical catchwords, names and phrases from 70 years ago:
The Cotton Club
Creole Music
Cole Porter
The Great Waltz
Babes in Toyland
Hit Music from 70 years ago:
ENCYCLOPEDIA: 1934 IN MUSIC
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/1934-in-music
Popular musical personalities born 70 years ago:
January 26 - Huey Piano Smith
February 1 - Bob Shane, The Kingston Trio
February 2 - Skip Battin, The Byrds, The New Riders
February 7 - King Curtis
March 25 - Johnny Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (+ 1964)
April 1 - Jim Ed Brown, The Browns
April 17 - Don Kirschner
April 19 - Dickie Goodman, Buchanan & Goodman
June 1 - Pat Boone
June 9 - Jackie Wilson
June 11 - James Pookie Hudson, The Spaniels
July 4 - Gilbert Lopez, Tune Weavers
September 3 - Freddie King,
September 7 - Little Milton,
September 19 - Brian Epstein, manager for The Beatles
September 21 - Leonard Cohen
October 8 - Doc Green, The Drifters
November 19 - Dave Guard, The Kingston Trio
December 1 - Billy Paul
December 30 - Del Shannon
WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_in_music#Births
Vocalist Kathi McDonald has performed on 70 different gold records.
KATHI MCDONALD
http://www.nybluesandjazz.org/reviews/Reviews11.htm
Composer Helmut Lotti, pop singer Luis Miguel, and world famous
pianist Richard Clayderman each have 70 platinum records to their
credit.
Coincidentally, in the last 70 years the film score writing Newman
family (of patriarch Alfred Newman) has been nominated for more than
70 Academy Awards for their musical scores.
FOX MUSIC
http://www.foxmusic.com/history.asp
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