Famous Musicians Birthdays Past and Present

[Chasplaya]

December 30th

1931 Mary Penick (aka Skeeter Davis, country singer: End of the World) (d 9/19/04, age 72)
1937 John Hartford (songwriter, singer and banjo player, wrote “Gentle on My Mind”) (d 6/4/01, age 63)
1939 Charles Westover (aka Del Shannon, singer: Runaway) (d 2/8/90, age 50)
1939 Agatha Natalie ‘Kim’ Weston (actress/singer)
1942 Robert Quine (guitarist: Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Matthew Sweet) (d 5/31/04, age 61)
1942 Michael Nesmith (guitarist: The Monkees) One of those underated guitarists
1945 Davy Jones (singer: The Monkees)
1947 Jeff Lynne (guitarist/singer/founder: ELO, The Traveling Wilburys)
1956 Suzy Bogguss (country singer)
1978 Tyrese Gibson

[neverfoundthetime]

1942 Michael Nesmith (guitarist: The Monkees) One of those underated guitarists
1945 Davy Jones (singer: The Monkees)

That's cool Chas, two Monkees with the same birthday.
I really liked Mike Nesmith's post Monkees, Fly Down To Rio.... don't often hear it anywhere.

[Chasplaya]

December 31st

1905 Jule Styne (composer) (d 9/20/94, age 88)
1922 Mike ‘Mr. Jelly Belly’ Gordon (singer) (d 11/17/88, age 65)
1928 Ross Barbour (singer: The Four Freshmen)
1930 Odetta (Holmes) (folk/blues singer) (d 12/2/08, age 77)
1934 Johnnie Mae Matthews (singer/songwriter)
1942 Andy Summers (guitarist: The Police)
1943 Henry John Deutschendorf (aka John Denver, singer: Thank God I’m a Country Boy, Grandma’s Featherbed) (d 10/12/97, age 53) NOt surprised he used a stage name lol
1943 Peter Quaife (bassist: The Kinks)
1946 Patti Smith (singer: Chic)
1947 Burton Cummings (singer: The Guess Who)
1948 LaDonne Adriene Gaines (aka Donna Summer, singer: Last Dance, I Feel Love, Hot Stuff)
1951 Tom Hamilton (bassist: Aerosmith)
1952 George Thorogood (guitarist/singer: The Destroyers - “Bad to the Bone”)
1953 Michael Hedges (d 11/30/97, age 43)
1959 Paul Westerberg (singer: The Replacements - Friends theme)
1963 Scott Ian Rosenfeld (singer: Anthrax)
1972 Joe McIntyre (singer: New Kids on the Block)

[Lavallee]

Always liked George Thorogood, he is such an entertainer with most of his songs sounding like the 50's rock. Not This one but it is a remake of Bo Diddley' s song (with his rectangular guitar). George is also a fingerpicker on electric guitar

[Chasplaya]

Sorry team been MIA the last couple of days with this, playing catch up now!

January 1st

1896 Estella Harris (aka Mama Yancey, blues pianist) (d 4/19/86, age 90) 1937 Fred Neil (folk singer) (d 7/7/01, age 64)
1942 ‘Country’ Joe McDonald (guitarist/singer: Country Joe and the Fish) 1957 Joe Rockman (bassist: The Jeff Healey Band)
1958 Joseph ‘Grandmaster Flash’ Saddler: Rap and Hip hop

[Chasplaya]

January 2nd a lean day maybe everybody was recovering from partying too hard lol

1936 Roger Miller (singer: King of the Road, Dang Me) (d 10/25/92, age 56) 1949 Chick Churchill (keyboardist/pianist: Ten Years After, UFO)

[Chasplaya]

January 3rd

1909 Borge Rosenbaum (aka Victor Borge, piano comedian) (d 12/23/00, age 91) 1916 Maxene Andrews (singer: The Andrews Sisters) (d 10/21/95, age 79)
1926 George Martin (Beatles producer & keyboard player)
1935 James Drayton (doo-wop singer) (d 4/17/01, age 66)
1941 Van Dyke Parks (musician, songwriter, worked with Beach Boy Brian Wilson)
1945 Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield / Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young) 1969 Nikki Nelson (guitarist/singer: Highway 101)

[Chasplaya]

January 4th

1936 Clarence Carter (singer/songwriter)
1946 Arthur Conley (1960s soul singer and protege of Otis Redding, biggest hit was “Sweet Soul Music”) (d 11/17/03, age 57)
1948 Charlie Sayles (blues harpist)
1957 Patty Lovelace (singer)
1960 Michael Stipe (singer: REM)
1965 David Glasper (singer: Breathe - “All I Need”)
1966 Deana Carter (country singer)
1967 Benjamin Darvill (harpist: Crash Test Dummies)
1971 Martin Meredith (saxophone/keyboardist: UB40)

[Chasplaya]

January 5th

1923 Sam C. Phillips (record executive, founded Sun Records in 1952, discovered Elvis, developed the [Memphis] Million Dollar Quartet: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis) (d 7/30/03, age 80) 1932 Johnny Adams (blues/gospel singer) (d 9/14/98, age 66)
1950 George Brown (drummer: Kool & the Gang)
1950 Chris Stein (guitarist: Blondie)
1951 Sam King (guitarist)
1956 Allen ‘Funky Monkey’ Szombati (drummer) (d 8/30/00, age 44)
1964 Grant Young (drummer: Soul Asylum)
1969 Robbie Crane (bassist: Ratt)
1969 Brian Warner (aka Marilyn Manson, shock rocker)
1985 Michael Cuccione (youngest member of MTV’s spoof band “2gether,” died of Hodgkins Disease) (d 1/13/01, age 16)

[Chasplaya]

January 6th

1924 Earl Scruggs (singer: Flatt & Scruggs - “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”) 1929 Wilbert Harrison (singer: Kansas City, songwriter: Let’s Work Together) (d 10/26/94, age 65)
1935 Paul Wilson (singer: The Flamingos - “I Only Have Eyes For You”) (d 5/6/88, age 53)
1935 Nino Tempo (saxophonist: Deep Purple)
1937 Doris Troy (singer: best known for the 1963 hit “Just One Look”) (d 2/16/04, age 67)
1944 Van McCoy (singer: The Hustle) (d 7/6/79, age 35)
1946 Roger ‘Syd’ Barrett (guitarist and founder: Pink Floyd) (d 7/7/06, age 60)
1951 Kim Wilson (singer/harpist: The Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1953 Malcolm Young (guitarist: AC/DC)
1959 Kathie Sledge (singer: Sister Sledge - “We Are Family”)
1962 Michael ‘Mikey’ Houser (guitarist/singer: Widespread Panic) (d 8/10/02, age 40)
1964 Mark O’Toole (bassist: Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1966 Muzz Skillings (bassist: Living Colour)