Famous Musicians Birthdays Past and Present

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Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:54 pm

March 20th

1909 Frank Edwards (Atlanta’s oldest performing bluesman when he died) (d 3/22/02, age 93)
1925 Jimmy Vaughn (blues pianist: Albert King band) (d 3/9/91, age 65)
1935 Sam Lay (drummer: Muddy Waters band)
1937 Jerry Reed (singer: When You're Hot You're Hot, I Got the Shaft) (d 9/1/08, age 71) 1947 Carl Palmer (drummer: Emerson, Lake, & Palmer)
1949 Marcia Ball (blues pianist/singer)
1951 Guy Perry (guitarist: The Motels)
1951 Jimmie Vaughan (guitarist: The Fabulous Thunderbirds 1974-1990, and solo)
1963 Paul Mirkovich (keyboardist: Nelson)
1976 Chester Bennington (singer: Linkin Park)


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Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:56 pm

March 21st

1902 Eddie James ‘Son’ House (blues guitarist) (d 10/19/88, age 86)
1923 Mort Lindsey (bandleader: Merv Griffin Show)
1930 Otis Spann (blues pianist: Muddy Waters Band) (d 4/24/70, age 40)
1935 Erich Kunzel (conductor: Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Pops since 1965, Washington DC Memorial Day concerts 1991-2009) (d 9/1/09, age 74)
1937 Robert ‘Huckleberry Hound’ Wright (blues drummer, master of the shuffle, played with many greats, including Howlin’ Wolf, Magic Sam, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Reed) (d 3/18/01, age 63)
1945 Vernon Guy (gospel singer)
1945 Rosie Stone (singer: Sly & the Family Stone)
1951 Conrad Lozano (bassist: Los Lobos)
1953 Robert ‘Shotgun’ Johnson (drummer: KC & the Sunshine Band)
1961 Jim MacDonnell (aka Slim Jim Phantom, drummer: The Stray Cats)
1967 Jonas ‘Joker’ Berggren (keyboardist: Ace of Base)
1967 Keith Palmer (aka Maxim, musician)


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Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:58 pm

March 22nd

1916 George Wyle (wrote the theme song to Gilligan's Island and directed music for singers including Andy Williams, also wrote the Christmas classic “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” and more the 400 other songs) (d 5/2/03, age 87)
1930 Stephen Sondheim (composer)
1943 Keith Relf (singer: The Yardbirds) (d 5/14/76, age 33)
1943 George Benson
1944 Jeremy Clyde (singer: Chad and Jeremy)
1947 Patrick Olive (percussionist: Hot Chocolate - “You Sexy Thing”)
1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber (composer: Cats)
1951 Andy Ellis (editor: Guitar Player magazine) 1
957 Stephanie Mills
1960 Laurie Sargent (singer: Face to Face)


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Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:53 pm

March 23rd

1917 Johnny Guarnieri (pianist: Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw) (d 1/7/85, age 67)
1923 Arthel ‘Doc’ Watson (guitarist)
1949 Ric Ocasek (rhythm guitarist/singer: The Cars)
1953 Yvette Marie Stevens (aka Chaka Khan) Now that I didn't know
1963 Susan Sulley (singer: The Human League)
1965 Kevin Griffin (country singer)
1968 Damon Albarn (keyboardist: Blur)


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Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:57 am

March 24th

1922 Dave Appell (singer/songwriter: In the Midnight Hour)
1937 Billy Stewart (R&B singer: Chess Records) (d 1/17/70, age 32)
1947 Mike Kellie (drummer: Spooky Tooth)
1947 Lee Oskar (harmonica: War - “Why Can’t We Be Friends”)
1947 Peggy Sue Webb (aka Peggy Sue, country singer, sister of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle)
1949 Steve Lang (bassist: April Wine)
1951 Dougie Thomson (bassist: Supertramp)
1967 Craig DeFalco (guitarist: Laidlaw)


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Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:00 am

March 25th

1915 Dorothy Squires (singer) (d 4/14/98, age 83)
1934 Johnny Burnette (guitarist/singer: Johnny Burnette Trio) (d 8/1/64, age 30)
1938 Hoyt Axton (d 10/26/99, age 61)
1940 Anita Bryant
1942 Aretha Franklin (singer: Respect, Chain of Fools)
1947 Reginald Kenneth Dwight (aka Elton John)
1949 Nick Lowe (singer: Cruel to be Kind, I Knew the Bride, and was the bassist and singer with Rockpile)
1960 Steve Norman (saxophonist: Spandau Ballet)
1966 Jeff Healey (singer/guitarist) (d 3/2/08, age 41)


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Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:02 am

March 26th

1917 Rufus Thomas (singer: best known for novelty dance recordings like Walking the Dog; in 1953, he recorded Bear Cat, an answer to Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog, and it became Sun Records’ first hit) (d 12/15/01, age 84)
1928 Carole Carr (actress/singer) (d 1/8/97, age 68)
1944 Diana Ross (singer: The Supremes)
1948 Richard Tandy (keyboardist: ELO)
1948 Steven Tyler (singer: Aerosmith)
1949 Fran Sheehan (bassist: Boston)
1950 Teddy Pendergrass (singer) (d 1/13/10, age 59)
1968 James Iha (guitarist: Smashing Pumpkins)


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Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:49 pm

March 27th

1914 Roy Landman (aka Snooky Lanson, singer: By the Light of the Silvery Moon) (d 7/2/90, age 76)
1915 Robert Junior Lockwood (blues guitarist/singer, stepson of Robert Johnson) (d 11/21/06, age 91)
1924 Sarah Vaughan (jazz singer) (d 4/3/90, age 66)
1932 Herman ‘Junior’ Parker (blues harpist, guitarist, singer - “Mystery Train”) (d 11/18/71, age 39) 1
937 Johnny Clyde Copeland (blues guitarist, father of Shemekia Copeland) (d 7/3/97, age 60)
1947 Andy Bown (keyboardist/guitarist/bassist/harpist: Status Quo)
1950 Tony Banks (keyboardist: Genesis)
1959 Andrew Farriss (guitarist/keyboardist: INXS)
1963 Dave Koz (jazz saxophonist)
1970 Mariah Carey
1970 Brendan Hill (drummer: Blues Traveler)
1975 Stacy Ann Ferguson (aka Fergie, singer)


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Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:51 pm

March 28th

1915 Jay Livingston (composer: Mr. Ed theme) (d 10/17/01, age 86)
1941 Charlie McCoy (harmonica player: Hee Haw)
1948 Milan B. Williams (trumpeter/keyboardist/trombonist/drummer: The Commodores, founding member, also wrote their first hit “Machine Gun”) (d 7/9/06, age 58)
1948 John Evans (drummer: Jethro Tull)
1955 Reba McEntire
1969 Cheryl ‘Salt’ James (singer: Salt-n-Pepa)


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Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:53 pm

March 29th

1918 Pearl Bailey (broadway actress, jazz singer) (d 8/17/90, age 72)
1943 Evangelos Papathanassiou (aka Vangelis, composer: Charriots of Fire)
1947 Bobby Kimball (singer: Toto) (1949 Michael Brecker (tenor saxophonist, played with Herbie Hancock, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell) (d 1/13/07, age 57)
1951 William Clarke (blues harpist/singer) (d 11/4/96, age 45)
1959 Perry Farrell (singer: Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros)
1967 John Popper (singer/harpist: Blues Traveler)
1968 Sue Foley (blues guitarist/singer)
1968 Lucy Lawless (actress: Xena Warrior Princess)Yes she is also a singer!
1969 James Atkin (singer/guitarist: EMF)
1971 Ryan Mark Lambert (actor/singer)


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