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Click on an Entertainer's name in the list to view more information about that Entertainer. Click on a date in the list to view a list of other Entertainers with the same birthdate. Number of Records Matching Query: 580 | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 January 1952 | | | Description: | British sound engineer and record producer, UK | | | Summary: | Johns, the younger brother of Olympic Studios engineer Glyn Johns, attended The King's School, Gloucester, England in the mid to late 1960s. Before his nineteenth birthday, he was working as Eddie Kramer's second engineer on recordings by Jimi Hendrix. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 January 1895 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | An American songwriter, who was among the first crooners as a pioneer radio artist and a recording artist for Columbia Records. | | Date Born: | Thursday 1 January 1925 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | Pepper’s writing in his book,’ Straight Life’ accounts the struggle of the
musician and one of the great reads written about jazz.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 1 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Taylor's best known songs are "Wild Thing," which, though originally recorded in 1965 by Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones, became best known as both a 1966 hit single for The Troggs. | | Date Born: | Thursday 1 January 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | His mother, Florence McDonald, served for many years on the Berkeley city council. As of 2007, Country Joe still lives in Berkeley.
| | Date Born: | Friday 1 January 1909 | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Mississippi, the third of nine children of the Rev. Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister and his wife Annis. He is the brother of actor Steve Forrest.Dana Andrews was trained as a singer before he began his movie career, but the only time he sang in a movie, State Fair (1945), and then his voice was dubbed. | | Date Born: | Sunday 1 January 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | From the rural district of Meander in Northern Tasmania to Nashville Tennessee - the Country Music Capital of the World Jean Stafford triumphed on a remarkable journey.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 January 1929 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Epiphone has produced an edition of the Emperor line of semi-acoustic Guitar in his honour. Previously Ibanez had a Joe Pass model jazz guitar, as they continue to for influential jazz guitarists George Benson and Pat Metheny. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 1 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | On 27 August 2010, she appeared on the BBC daytime programme "Cash in the Attic" | | Date Born: | Monday 1 January 1923 | | | Description: | Vibraphone, USA | | | Summary: | One of the most influential musicians of the be bop period.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 1 January 1950 | | | Description: | Organ, UK | | | Summary: | Fisher played the organ with the soul / pop band, The Soul Survivors, who in 1967 were renamed The Love Affair. They had a number one hit in 1968 with "Everlasting Love". | | Date Born: | Sunday 1 January 1911 | | | Description: | Violinist, USA | | | Summary: | He was also awarded the gold medal at the Chopin Conservatory/Warsaw and continued his studies with Carl Flesch in Berlin, where he won the International Mendelssohn Prize in 1931. | | Date Born: | Monday 1 January 1900 | | | Description: | Violinist, Cuba | | | Summary: | Cugat was born in Girona, in Catalonia (Spain). With his family, he immigrated to Cuba when he was five. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 2 January 1929 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Prysock received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1995. NP | | Date Born: | Wednesday 2 January 1957 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Beauford was exposed to drumming at the age of three. At the time, his father had bought tickets to a Buddy Rich concert. Carter was mesmerized by Buddy Rich on stage. | | Date Born: | Friday 2 January 1942 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, UK | | | Summary: | Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he was fifteen. He became interested in blues and rock music. | | Date Born: | Thursday 2 January 1975 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | Cheney attended Jells Park Primary School in Wheelers Hill between 1981–1987 and Wheelers Hill Secondary College. | | Date Born: | Thursday 2 January 1975 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Ausstralia | | | Summary: | Cheney began his career with double bassist Scott Owen in the early 1990s, in a Melbourne cover band, The Runaway Boys, who took their name from a Stray Cats song of the same name. | | Date Born: | Saturday 2 January 1960 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | She played the role of Christine Daaé in the original cast of The Phantom of the Opera, as alternate Christine to Sarah Brightman | | Date Born: | Tuesday 2 January 1968 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Gooding was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of Shirley, a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has a brother, fellow actor Omar Gooding. His family moved to Los Angeles after Gooding, Sr's music group had a hit single with "Everybody Plays the Fool" in 1972 | | Date Born: | Wednesday 2 January 1952 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australian | | | Summary: | Graeme "Shirley" Strachan Born 2 January 1952. Died 29 August 2001. Was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 2 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Disc Jockey, Radio, Australia | | | Summary: | He made his name in the 1960s as a popular presenter of Melbourne radio station 3AK.
TV-radio station manager Nigel Dick recruited him as a 16-year-old in 1963 in an effort to score publicity for the station that had just been taken over by GTV-9.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 2 January 1936 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Roger Miller, the youngest of three boys, was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Laudene Holt Miller (mother) and father Jean Miller. Jean died when Roger was only a year old, and he was subsequently sent to live with his aunt and uncle, Elmer and Armelia Miller, in Erick, Oklahoma.
| | Date Born: | Monday 2 January 1967 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Model, USA | | | Summary: | Her first major break though was in the daytime soap opera General Hospital. | | Date Born: | Monday 3 January 1916 | | | Description: | Cellist, USA | | | Summary: | Bernard Greenhouse has won a reputation as one of the major interpreters of his instrument. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 3 January 1923 | | | Description: | Actor, Australia | | | Summary: | After the success of The Castle, Tingwell's career has undergone a revival during the late 1990s and early 2000s. | | Date Born: | Sunday 3 January 1932 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Coleman has been married twice.He has four children: Meghan, Kelly, Randy, and Quincy.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 3 January 1926 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Danny Overbea was based in Chicago, but in Cleveland got started in music in a big way when he formed a vocal-instrumental trio called the Three Earls. | | Date Born: | Thursday 3 January 1957 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Producer, New Zealand | | | Summary: | In the late seventies success came with the band "The Dudes" that formed in school charting with "Be Mine Tonight". | | Date Born: | Tuesday 3 January 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composers, USA | | | Summary: | His first record was released on February 1, 1958, under the name of Gene Summers & His Rebels. | | Date Born: | Sunday 3 January 1926 | | | Description: | Record Producer, Conductor, UK | | | Summary: | Martin's family acquired a piano that sparked his interest in music. At eight-years-old, Martin persuaded his parents that he should take piano lessons, but those ended after only eight lessons because of a disagreement between his mother and the teacher. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 3 January 1962 | | | Description: | Bassist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | He recently was a guest contestant on Australian music game show Spicks and Specks.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 3 January 1946 | | | Description: | Bassist UK | | | Summary: | Jones was born in Sidcup, Kent, now part of Greater London. The name John Paul Jones was suggested to him by a friend, Andrew Loog Oldham, after seeing a movie poster for the film of that name in France. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 3 January 1917 | | | Description: | Steel Guitarist | | | Summary: | He in more noted, however, for his most famous composition, "Steel Guitar Rag", and his playing, along with that of "Bob Dunn Light Crust Doughboys". | | Date Born: | Monday 3 January 1916 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Andrews Sisters became the best-selling female vocal group in the history of popular music, setting records that remain unsurpassed to this day | | Date Born: | Tuesday 3 January 1956 | | | Description: | Actor, Director, Australia-American | | | Summary: | Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children. He is the 15th son of Hutton Gibson and Irish-born Anne Reilly Gibson. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 3 January 1905 | | | Description: | Actor, Welsh | | | Summary: | An actor and director who worked primarily in the United States. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 3 January 1893 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Before 1920, the Holton Instrument Company took features from existing production model saxophones and marketed them as the "Rudy Wiedoeft Model". However, it is doubtful Wiedoeft actually performed on such instruments. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 3 January 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Stills was born in Dallas to a military family. Moving around as a child, he developed an interest in blues and folk music. He was also influenced by Latin music after spending his youth in Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, Costa Rica and the Panama Canal Zone, where he graduated from high school.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 3 January 1943 | | | Description: | Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | As a child, Parks attended the American Boychoir School. He began his career as a child actor. Between 1953 and 1958 he worked steadily in films and television, including the 1956 movie The Swan (which starred Grace Kelly). | | Date Born: | Sunday 3 January 1909 | | | Description: | Pianist, Comedian, Danish | | | Summary: | His parents, Bernhard and Frederikke Rosenbaum, were both musicians his father was a violinist in the Royal Danish Chapel, and his mother played piano. | | Date Born: | Thursday 3 January 1946 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She is the elder of two daughters born to Victor Principal and Bertha Ree Veal. Her father was a sergeant in the Air Force, Principal moved often, growing up in London, Florida, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, and Georgia . She studied at the Royal Academy of Ballet while in England. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 4 January 1927 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She began working on television in the 1950s. She later became a regular performer in TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other shows including Peyton Place and the soap opera All My Children.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 4 January 1955 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | An American session musician, musical director, guitarist and singer–songwriter. | | Date Born: | Saturday 4 January 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | On New Year's Eve, 1999, Neeson announced his departure from The Angels at the MGM Grand Darwin Millennium Concert after a major car accident | | Date Born: | Monday 4 January 1926 | | | Description: | Businessman, music manager, agent, impresario, publicist and author | | | Summary: | He was the father of Sharon Osbourne (father-in-law of Ozzy Osbourne) and David Levy, by his wife, Hope Shaw. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 4 January 1939 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She has become a born-again Christian, although she still considers herself to be of Jewish descent. | | Date Born: | Monday 4 January 1954 | | | Description: | Guitarist and banjoist. | | | Summary: | Influenced early on by the experimental stylings of Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 4 January 1922 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, Clarinetist, USA | | | Summary: | From 1953 he joined Count Basie's band, playing flute and tenor sax. He reverted to alto sax in the late '50s, and left Basie's band in 1964. | | Date Born: | Sunday 4 January 1914 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | Wyman started in show business as a radio singer and dancer, then broke into movies in the early 1930s as a Goldwyn Girl. She appeared in more than 80 films from 1932 to 1969, plus two documentaries in the 1990s. | | Date Born: | Monday 4 January 1937 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Producer, USA | | | Summary: | He was mainly known for being a guitarist and a harmony singer for country artist Conway Twitty and his bands.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 4 January 1936 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedian, Actor, UK | | | Summary: | Gorman worked as a telecommunications engineer. He was a member of The Scaffold, best known for their 1968 hit single Lily the Pink. | | Date Born: | Sunday 4 January 1942 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | He played with Miles Davis on his landmark albums In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew. | | Date Born: | Friday 4 January 1957 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | After graduation from High School in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1975 Loveless chose to travel in a small band with Terry Lovelace, whom she married in 1976. (When she began performing professionally, she changed her name from Patty Lovelace to Loveless. | | Date Born: | Thursday 4 January 1962 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, guitarist | | | Summary: | As the frontman for Type O Negative, Steele was known for his vampiric looks, rich bass-baritone vocals, and a dark, often self-deprecating sense of humor. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 4 January 1905 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | In 1991 Holloway, along with singer and actress Julie Andrews and others, was honored as a Disney legend for his contributions to the studio's creations. | | Date Born: | Monday 5 January 1931 | | | Description: | Dancer, choreographer, USA | | | Summary: | Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance. | | Date Born: | Friday 5 January 1940 | | | Description: | Bassist, Australia | | | Summary: | Athol Guy is one of the members of the Australian pop folk music group The Seekers. He was characterized by his wearing of black horn-rimmed glasses. | | Date Born: | Thursday 5 January 1922 | | | Description: | Clarinetist, USA | | | Summary: | MCA billed him as "The World's Youngest Bandleader".
| | Date Born: | Sunday 5 January 1975 | | | Description: | Actor. USA | | | Summary: | Cooper began his professional acting career on the television series Sex and the City in 1999. | | Date Born: | Saturday 5 January 1946 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Keaton is the oldest of seven children. Her mother, Dorothy was a homemaker and amateur photographer, and her father, Jack Hall 1921–1990, was a real estate broker and civil engineer. | | Date Born: | Saturday 5 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Member of U.S. group "The Frost" in the late sixties.
He Was Rhythm Guitarist. | | Date Born: | Monday 5 January 1914 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Reeves was born George Keefer Brewer in Woolstock, Iowa, the son of Don Brewer and Helen Lescher. His death certificate erroneously lists his birthplace as Kentucky. George was born five months into their marriage. | | Date Born: | Thursday 5 January 1961 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | The youngest child of Pat DeMent and his second wife, Flora Mae. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 5 January 1926 | | | Description: | Vibraphonist | | | Summary: | Fluent with vibes and drums as well as arranging and composing, Australian. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 5 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | After establishing a musical partnership with the British blues musician Tony McPhee, Kelly appeared on two McPhee compiled albums for Liberty Records. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 5 January 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Adams was a member of "The Soul Revelers" also "Bessie Griffin & The Soul Consolatory". | | Date Born: | Sunday 5 January 1969 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | The son of Barb and Hugh Warner. His father was a Catholic and his mother Episcopalian. According to his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Warner is of German and Polish ancestry on his father's side. | | Date Born: | Sunday 5 January 1941 | | | Description: | Violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer. | | | Summary: | With 33 Grammy nominations, 14 Grammy Awards, including a Technical Grammy for his lifetime of innovative contributions to the recording industry, an Emmy, and numerous honors and accolades to his credit. | | Date Born: | Monday 5 January 1931 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Duvall was born the son of Mildred Virginia, an amateur actress and relative of American Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and William Howard Duvall, a Virginia-born U.S. | | Date Born: | Monday 5 January 1931 | | | Description: | Acting, USA | | | Summary: | A veteran actor, Duvall has starred in some of the most acclaimed and popular films and TV shows of all time, among them The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, To Kill a Mockingbird, THX 1138, Joe Kidd, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II | | Date Born: | Friday 5 January 1923 | | | Description: | Record producer | | | Summary: | In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a DJ for Muscle Shoals, Alabama radio station WLAY (AM). According to Phillips, this radio station's "open format" of broadcasting music from both white and black musicians. would later inspire his work in Memphis.
| | Date Born: | Monday 5 January 1948 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Tom Mooney the drummer for early psychedelic garage rock band from the 1960s. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 5 January 1982 | | | Description: | Singer, Sonwriter, UK | | | Summary: | After guesting on the underground R&B track "Wilder" by Stargate in 2001, which became a nightclub favourite in London, James got his first taste of celebrity. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 January 1872 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, Russian | | | Summary: | Scriabin stands as one of the most innovative and most controversial of composers. No one was more famous during his lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after his death. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 January 1948 | | | Description: | keyboardist/guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Jackson formed his first professional rock group in 1969, called Indian Summer. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 January 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | In the early 1950s, he won a talent show which led to an appearance on Paul Whiteman's television show in New York. Soon after, in 1953, Boudleaux Bryant heard one of Lord's demo tapes and passed it on to Columbia Records, who signed him. | | Date Born: | Thursday 6 January 1944 | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | Summary: | Bonnie Franklin was best known as Ann Romano, the divorced mother on One Day at a Time, a long-running comedy-drama of the 1970s and 80s. Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli played her teenaged daughters, and the series dealt with "real life" issues so often, almost every episode seemed to be a "very special episode". In One Day's nine-year run. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 January 1912 | | | Description: | Actor, Vocalist, Producer, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | Danny Thomas to Charles and Margaret Jacobs. He was of Lebanese descent. He first performed under his Anglicized birth name, Amos Jacobs, before settling on the stage name, Danny Thomas, which were the first names of two of his brothers. He lived in various cities as a child, including Toledo, Ohio, and Rochester New York.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 6 January 1972 | | | Description: | Bassist, Australia | | | Summary: | He was best known as a founding member of, and bass player for, Australian rock band, Magic Dirt.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 6 January 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | One of the most talented one-hit wonders of the rock era, Doris Troy hit the Top Ten with "Just One Look" in 1963. | | Date Born: | Sunday 6 January 1924 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Banjoist, USA | | | Summary: | Scruggs was born to Georgia Lula Ruppe and George Elam Scruggs. Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in late 1945 and his syncopated, three-finger picking style quickly became a sensation. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 January 1934 | | | Description: | Promoter and Publicist. | | | Summary: | Miller gives advice and manages all communication, negotiations and media attention surrounding an individual or company that finds themselves under intense public spotlight for example. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 January 1920 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Corden gave his voice to a number of other Hanna-Barbara productions, including The Jetsons, The Atom Ant Show, The New Tom & Jerry Show. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 6 January 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Australia | | | Summary: | Irwin Thomas was formerly known as Jack Jones, and was the lead singer in the 1990s Australian band Southern Sons.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 January 1931 | | | Description: | Trombonist, UK | | | Summary: | In 1970-71 he joined Benny Goodman on a tour of Europe.
| | Date Born: | Monday 6 January 1913 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Young she took the name Michaela at confirmation she moved with her family to Hollywood when she was three years old. Loretta and her sisters Polly Ann Young and Elizabeth Jane Young screen name Sally Blane worked as child actresses, of whom Loretta was the most successful. | | Date Born: | Monday 6 January 1975 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, USA | | | Summary: | She had a regular role in the 2002 TV series The Court and appeared in CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Dragnet, The Practice, and Monk.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 January 1959 | | | Description: | Drummer, Australia | | | Summary: | An Australian musician and television personality; he was the drummer for the related bands, Split Enz and Crowded House.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 6 January 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Paul Wison was a founding member of "The Flamingos" a doo wop group from the United States, most popular in the mid to late 1950s.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 6 January 1955 | | | Description: | Actor, comedian, UK | | | Summary: | Atkinson was born in County Durham in 1955. His parents were Eric Atkinson, a farmer and company director, and his wife Ella May, who had married on 29 June 1945. | | Date Born: | Monday 6 January 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, known as Sandy, was born at Nelson Hospital, Kingston Road, Merton Park, and studied classical piano as a child. Her Scottish grandmother was a singer of traditional songs. In 1968, Denny became the lead vocalist for Fairport Convention (replacing Judy Dyble), | | Date Born: | Sunday 6 January 1946 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Barrett was born to a middle-class family. His father, Arthur Max Barrett, was a prominent pathologist, and both he and his wife, Winifred, encouraged the young Roger in his music. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 6 January 1880 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Mix was born into a relatively poor logging family in Mix Run, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles north of State College, Pennsylvania. He spent his childhood growing up in nearby Dubois, Pennsylvania learning to ride horses. | | Date Born: | Saturday 6 January 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Van's musical career started when his brother, Norman, Jr. and a few high school buddies formed a street corner singing group called the Starlighters. Van became the lead singer, writer, and music director for the group. | | Date Born: | Friday 7 January 1898 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | A popular Jazz guitarist, singer, and crooner in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 7 January 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | In the early 1990s he recorded for the Prestige record label and subsequently starred in a Nat "King" Cole tribute show which made several British tours. | | Date Born: | Friday 7 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | Irene Petrie began her career over 35 years ago with her erliest recordings in early begining in the mid sixties. | | Date Born: | Monday 7 January 1946 | | | Description: | Co- founder and publisher of the music magazine - "Rolling Stone" | | | Summary: | Wenner has been involved in conducting and writing of many of the magazine's famous Rolling Stone Interviews. | | Date Born: | Saturday 7 January 1922 | | | Description: | Flautist, French | | | Summary: | Rampal is best known for popularising the flute in the post–World War II years, recovering a vast number of flute compositions from the Baroque era. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 7 January 1959 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | Kathy Valentine, born Austin, Texas is the bassist for the all-girl punk-pop band, The Go-Go's. | | Date Born: | Monday 7 January 1957 | | | Description: | Talk show host, Actress, Television journalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Today Show Anchor and Co-Host (1991–2006)
CBS Evening News Anchor (2006–present) | | Date Born: | Monday 7 January 1935 | | | Description: | Clarinetist, US | | | Summary: | In the late 1980s, the New York Times hailed him as "the finest jazz clarinetist playing today". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 7 January 1948 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist,Composer, USA | | | Summary: | His early 20s found him in the band Gator Creek with Mike Deasy. An early version of "Danny's Song" (later recorded by Loggins and Messina) was included on an effort on Mercury Records. | | Date Born: | Friday 7 January 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer , USA | | | Summary: | Her memoir, published in 2003, titled "Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller", has received critical acclaim in the music press.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 7 January 1986 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | Megan Washington is an Australian musician and songwriter who records and performs under the single moniker Washington. She sings and plays piano and guitar.
| | Date Born: | Friday 7 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Photographer, UK | | | Summary: | Amember of the group "Scaffold" and also Paul McCartney's younger brother. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 7 January 1964 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | His father, August Floyd Coppola, is a writer and comparative literature professor, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a choreographer and ballet dancer. | | Date Born: | Sunday 7 January 1906 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | A jazz trumpeter whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 8 January 1966 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | The lead singer of the band Mother Love Bone, and earlier of Malfunkshun.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 8 January 1942 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Grammy Award winning albums "More Live" (Adelphi), "At The Vanguard" (Antilles)
| | Date Born: | Monday 8 January 1962 | | | Description: | Keyboardist , USA | | | Summary: | Better known as a member of the Australian band, Little River Band | | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 January 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist,Actor, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | In 1992 he performed his hit "Heroes" and "Under Pressure" (with Annie Lennox) at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 January 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1946, for his eleventh birthday, Presley received his first guitar. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 January 1935 | | | Description: | Actor, Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Elvis Presley made 31 films as an actor. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 January 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1973, Presley staged the first concert broadcast globally via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii, seen by approximately 1.5 billion viewers. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 January 1918 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Born in The Bronx, New York City Dall began her career in short films and in supporting roles on Broadway. | | Date Born: | Friday 8 January 1926 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | From 1957 until his retirement in 1996, McBeth taught at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 January 1941 | | | Description: | Actor ,comedian, writer | | | Summary: | After reuniting with the Pythons in 1983 for Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Chapman began a lengthy series of U.S. college tours where he would tell the audience anecdotes about Monty Python, the Dangerous Sports Club. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 January 2019 | | | Description: | Pianist, UK | | | Summary: | Born in Prestwick, Scotland, Bargh established himself by the age of 17 as a classical pianist that played with jazz ensembles in the U.K. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 January 1964 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | An Australian country music singer. Blundell's first album, in 1989, was a self-titled effort, followed up by "Hand It Down", which was released in the United States in 1990. | | Date Born: | Thursday 8 January 1976 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Lewis went on to appear in over a dozen teen-themed movies, such as Troop Beverly Hills, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. | | Date Born: | Friday 8 January 1943 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Jerry Garcia's ancestry was Galician Spanish, Irish, and Swedish. | | Date Born: | Friday 8 January 1909 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Ferrer, who was born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1933 he graduated from Princeton University. | | Date Born: | Monday 8 January 1968 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Shares his birthdate with Elvis Presley.
| | Date Born: | Monday 8 January 1923 | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | He played a recurring role as Charlie, a drunk, on Car 54, Where Are You.
| | Date Born: | Friday 8 January 1943 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | Jackson came to prominence in the 1960s in the progressive rock group The Nice with keyboardist Keith Emerson and drummer Brian Davison. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on October 15, 2006.
The Rhythm And Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award in 1993.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 8 January 1928 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | He recorded on most of the Johnny Cash records from the mid fifties. | | Date Born: | Sunday 8 January 1893 | | | Description: | American songwriter and lyricist | | | Summary: | One of his first successes as a writer, credited as Ray Freedman, was "Sioux City Sue", a hit record for the song's co-writer Dick Thomas in 1945 | | Date Born: | Tuesday 8 January 1946 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times". | | Date Born: | Friday 8 January 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Welsh | | | Summary: | She is the only singer to have recorded more than one James Bond theme song. She performed the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger 1964, Diamonds Are Forever 1971, Moonraker 1979. | | Date Born: | Friday 8 January 1926 | | | Description: | Actor, US | | | Summary: | One of the fans of the Soupy Sales show was Frank Sinatra. When Sinatra started his own record label, Reprise Records, he signed Sales to a recording contract. Two albums were produced with Reprise. | | Date Born: | Monday 8 January 1945 | | | Description: | Vocal, Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Sylvester grew up in the Allerton, Liverpool, only a few hundred yards from his older contemporary, Paul McCartney. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 8 January 1941 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | An American actress,and now retired from movies and television.
| | Date Born: | Monday 9 January 1978 | | | Description: | Singer, songwriter, actor, USA | | | Summary: | McLean was born in West Palm Beach, Florida to Bob and Denise (née Fernandez) McLean. He is of Latino and German ancestry on his mother's side and Scottish, Irish and English on his father's side. | | Date Born: | Monday 9 January 1956 | | | Description: | TV co host, Australia | | | Summary: | She holds the distinct record as being the longest-running game show host/co-host for her 18-year run on Wheel of Fortune in Australia. | | Date Born: | Friday 9 January 1914 | | | Description: | Management, USA | | | Summary: | Al silver was the owner of Herald and Ember Records during th fifies. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 9 January 1935 | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | He costarred with Dwayne Hickman on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" in 1959. | | Date Born: | Sunday 9 January 1921 | | | Description: | Actress, Australia | | | Summary: | Brooke was adopted at an early age and had an unhappy early life. As a young adult, she saw marriage as a means of escape, marrying Leonard Brooks in 1946. The union produced two children but ended after four years, with Brooke reporting that they were "wrong for marriage". | | Date Born: | Tuesday 9 January 1951 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | She accumulated 18 No. 1 country hits during the 1970s and 1980s.P/E | | Date Born: | Saturday 9 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Jordanaires are members of the "Gospel Hall of Fame" | | Date Born: | Monday 9 January 1967 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, Pianist, South Africa | | | Summary: | A South African, now naturalized American, Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and musician. | | Date Born: | Monday 9 January 1928 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Italy | | | Summary: | From a young age he wanted to become an actor and in 1951, after his military service, he enrolled in an acting school. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 9 January 1929 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | A swing music and bebop drummer best known for his long association with Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. | | Date Born: | Monday 9 January 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | He is notable as a performer of Australian traditional folk songs in an authentic style. He scored a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom in 1974 with his cover version of the Cole Porter song, "I Get a Kick out of You". | | Date Born: | Sunday 9 January 1898 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress , Comedian | | | Summary: | In 1956, Fields played Miss Jane Marple in a US TV production of Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced. The production featured Jessica Tandy and Roger Moore, and predates the Margaret Rutherford films by some five years.
| | Date Born: | Monday 9 January 1939 | | | Description: | Singer, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He recorded the song I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus for Columbia Records, when he was 12 years and 11 months old. | | Date Born: | Sunday 9 January 1944 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Songwriter, Producer, UK | | | Summary: | Page was born in the suburb of Heston, which today forms part of the London Borough of Hounslow. His father was an industrial personnel manager and his mother was a doctor's secretary. In 1952 they moved to Miles Road, Epsom. | | Date Born: | Thursday 9 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Baez was born on Staten Island to Mexican and Scottish parents. | | Date Born: | Saturday 9 January 1926 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Mexico | | | Summary: | He had no musical training, Jiménez didn't play an instrument and didn't even know the Spanish terms for "waltz" and "key". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 9 January 1952 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Songwriter, Producer, Australia | | | Summary: | He was arguably Australia's best front man of the 1970s, along with Bon Scott and Doc Neeson. | | Date Born: | Friday 9 January 1914 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Played with many greats that included Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespiein the Be bop field.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 9 January 1915 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | He was born to George and Evelyn Polfus. His birth name was first simplified by his mother to Polfus before he took his stage name of Les Paul.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 9 January 1957 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Phil was engaged to model and actress Britt Ekland in the late 70's and early 80's. | | Date Born: | Sunday 9 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Scott Walker's early solo career was successful in Britain. | | Date Born: | Thursday 9 January 1941 | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | Summary: | In 1972 she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. An Academy Award-nominated English film and television actress.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 10 January 1950 | | | Description: | Entrepreneur, Music Producer, Publisher | | | Summary: | She produced Damien Leith's album, Roy: A Tribute To Roy Orbison, which was released by Sony BMG in Australia on April 15, 2011 to coincide with what would have been Roy Orbison's 75th birthday. | | Date Born: | Sunday 10 January 1915 | | | Description: | Band leader, Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In 1946 Johnson composed a Blues Concerto, which he performed at Carnegie Hall in 1948.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 10 January 1948 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Fagen and Walter Becker founded Steely Dan in August 1972. | | Date Born: | Monday 10 January 1927 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Canadian - American | | | Summary: | In 1953 she reached #6 in the UK Singles Chart, with her rendition of "Seven Lonely Days".
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 10 January 1917 | | | Description: | Record producer, USA | | | Summary: | In Ray, the biopic of Ray Charles, Jerry Wexler is portrayed by Richard Schiff. | | Date Born: | Sunday 10 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer | | | Summary: | Croce is paid tribute to in The Righteous Brothers song Rock And Roll Heaven. | | Date Born: | Monday 10 January 1927 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | Ray was born in Oregon, eventually moving to Portland, Oregon. His great-grandmother was a full-blooded Indian and his great-grandfather was Oregon pioneer George Kirby Gay of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England. | | Date Born: | Thursday 10 January 1946 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, Bass, Australia | | | Summary: | Les was a founding member of "The Wild Cherries" during the sixties. | | Date Born: | Friday 10 January 1947 | | | Description: | Bassist, Vocalist. USA | | | Summary: | The bass guitarist, lead vocalist and a founder member of the the rock band, Wishbone Ash.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 10 January 1924 | | | Description: | Drummer, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Roach was born in the Township of Newland Pasquotank County, North Carolina, which borders the southern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, to Alphonse and Cressie Roach. | | Date Born: | Saturday 10 January 1953 | | | Description: | Vocalist,Composer, USA | | | Summary: | She was discovered at an amateur-night contest in the New York City comedy club Catch a Rising Star in 1977. | | Date Born: | Friday 10 January 1908 | | | Description: | Actor | | | Summary: | Known professionally as Paul Henreid, was an Austrian actor and film director.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 10 January 1904 | | | Description: | Actor, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | He like Gene Kelly was a song and dance man as well as a comedian. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 10 January 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | It has been estimated that Stewart's album and single sales total more than 250 million,earning him a place on the list of best-selling music artists.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 10 January 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Hawkins was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame at the Canadian Music Industry Awards on 4 March 2004. His pioneering contribution to the genre has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 10 January 1939 | | | Description: | Actor, Vocalist, Drummer , USA | | | Summary: | An Academy Award-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause. | | Date Born: | Monday 10 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | An American singer, best known for his 1967 hit single and anthem, "San Francisco, Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair".
| | Date Born: | Thursday 10 January 1952 | | | Description: | American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and session musician. | | | Summary: | Thurston later became a professional songwriter, penning tunes for (and sometimes with) Jackson Browne, Iggy Pop, and The Motels | | Date Born: | Saturday 11 January 1958 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | Johannesson's family moved to Selden, New York in 1963, as part of the great exodus to the suburbs. She later moved to the Smithtown area with her mother and sister, when her parents divorced. | | Date Born: | Saturday 11 January 1958 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Australia | | | Summary: | Johannesson's family moved to Selden, New York in 1963, as part of the great exodus to the suburbs. She later moved to the Smithtown area with her mother and sister, when her parents divorced. | | Date Born: | Friday 11 January 1952 | | | Description: | Stage, film and television actor and acclaimed playwright. Australia | | | Summary: | He began his career in the early 1970s at Queensland Theatre Company, working alongside Geoffrey Rush.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 11 January 1942 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | He released several solo albums and in 1985 had a hit single with "You're a Friend of Mine", a duet with Jackson Browne. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 11 January 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | Mainly known as the lead vocalist of Sherbet, with many hit singles with the band include,"How's That".He was crowned Australia's King of Pop by TV Week over three consecutive years from 1975 to 1977. As a child, he attended Punt Road Primary School in South Yarra, Victoria and then Christ Church Grammar, also in Punt Road, where he sung in the school choir, and for a time was in the same class as Olivia Newton-John. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 11 January 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Greene sang lead in the song "Tears on My Pillow". | | Date Born: | Friday 11 January 1924 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Not to be confused with the jazz trumpeter of the same name. | | Date Born: | Saturday 11 January 1936 | | | Description: | Vocalist, singer. USA | | | Summary: | Jody Payne was an American country musician and singer. He is best known as a longtime guitarist in Willie Nelson's band, The Family. | | Date Born: | Monday 11 January 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | She was ranked number 100 in the list of 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. As of 2010, Blige has sold over 50 million albums and 15 million singles. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 11 January 1955 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | One of the founding members of Australian rock band Rose Tattoo, guitarist Mick Cocks. | | Date Born: | Saturday 11 January 1947 | | | Description: | Percussionint. UK | | | Summary: | After Bolan and T.Rex's demise, he played sessions for The Blow Monkeys and The Soup Dragons. | | Date Born: | Friday 11 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Having passed life’s worst tests in such an elegant, yet down-to earth way has made Naomi one of the entertainment world’s most admired women. | | Date Born: | Friday 11 January 1985 | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter | | | Summary: | He then spent time recording and playing gigs under the name Newton Battenberg Faulkner, including the Lapagestock festival in 2005.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 11 January 1930 | | | Description: | Actor, Australia | | | Summary: | His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a famous British explorer of Australia.
He has homes in southern California and in his native Australia.
| | Date Born: | Friday 11 January 1924 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The album The Best of Slim Harpo was first released by Rhino Records in 1989 and re-released by Excello Records in 1997.
| | Date Born: | Monday 11 January 1926 | | | Description: | Vocalist, harpist and zitherist, USA | | | Summary: | A regular on the New York folk scene. | | Date Born: | Sunday 11 January 1948 | | | Description: | Drummer, Wales | | | Summary: | Between 1981 and 1982, he was part of the Neverland Express band, backing Meat Loaf, and in 1982 joined Dire Straits, with whom he played until 1988. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 11 January 1911 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer , USA | | | Summary: | When bandleader Bob Wills decided to form a more independent band, he and Duncan became the creative core of The Texas Playboys.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 11 January 1958 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1981 she founded The Bangs, later renamed The Bangles, with her sister Debbi Peterson, and Susanna Hoffs.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 12 January 1980 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Composer, Model, USA | | | Summary: | Rogers was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts to an African-American father and a Korean mother. | | Date Born: | Monday 12 January 1959 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, Germany | | | Summary: | A member of groups, Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
| | Date Born: | Friday 12 January 1973 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Keyboards, USA | | | Summary: | Brian Culbertson also works with many other musicians in the smooth jazz arena, often as a composer and arranger. | | Date Born: | Sunday 12 January 1936 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guiarist, USA | | | Summary: | A pioneer of Rockabilly during the early fifties.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 12 January 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | He is one of only a handful of British entertainers to be acclaimed internationally on stage and television. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 12 January 1954 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Rose is a founding member of "The Vilage People" | | Date Born: | Friday 12 January 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Australia. | | | Summary: | Arguably Australia's greatest entertainer, his motto "If you ain’t laughin’ you ain’t livin’ ". | | Date Born: | Tuesday 12 January 1904 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | He started playing guitar at the age of 14 and played at dances around Rossville. | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 January 1946 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, USA | | | Summary: | He is known for his solo work as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa. | | Date Born: | Sunday 12 January 1930 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | The first singers to record the traditional "The House of the Rising Sun" | | Date Born: | Tuesday 12 January 1954 | | | Description: | Disc Jockey, Radio Personality | | | Summary: | American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 12 January 1902 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | He appeared frequently on The Ed Sullivan Show, was the "Mystery Guest" three different times on What's My Line, and was interviewed on Person to Person in 1956. | | Date Born: | Friday 12 January 1951 | | | Description: | Actress, Comedy, USA | | | Summary: | Kirstie Alley has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
| | Date Born: | Friday 12 January 1951 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA | | | Summary: | Larry sang lead on two of Orleans' biggest hits, "Still the One" and "Dance with Me."
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 12 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | The nick name Long John came about because of his Height. | | Date Born: | Friday 12 January 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Scotland | | | Summary: | Her song "No Mean City", written by Mike Moran, is the theme music to the TV crime drama Taggart. | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 January 1918 | | | Description: | In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Maharishi achieved fame as the guru to The Beatles | | | Summary: | He began to be known as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi around the year 1955. His devotees referred to him as His Holiness, and because he often laughed in TV interviews he was sometimes referred to as the "giggling guru". | | Date Born: | Friday 12 January 1877 | | | Description: | Composers, Actress, Author,USA | | | Summary: | She was the wife of William Jerome. Songwriter ("Sweet Rosie O'Grady")composer, actress and author. | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 January 1974 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, UK | | | Summary: | She is also third after Lennon and McCartney for the most UK number-one singles by a British co-writer and is the only female to reach the UK number-one as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and as a solo artist. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 12 January 1938 | | | Description: | Composer, Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | While playing piano on some of Doc Pomus's recordings. In 1958 he and Pomus formed a partnership that lasted until 1965. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 12 January 1926 | | | Description: | Vocalist Composer | | | Summary: | Country music hall of fame - 1996. Began his recording career in the fifties with a song ’JEALOUS LIES’ | | Date Born: | Saturday 12 January 1952 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Ricky got the love for country music at the age of fourteen and also rock and roll.
| | Date Born: | Monday 12 January 1925 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Yodeller, Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | Shirley is was mainly known for her Yodelling.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 12 January 1905 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | He is the father of Thomas Ritter and the late American actor of films and television star John Ritter who starred in "Three's Company". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 12 January 1955 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | A rock drummer best known as a member of NRBQ (New Rhythm and Blues Quartet). | | Date Born: | Friday 12 January 1912 | | | Description: | Trombonist, USA | | | Summary: | With Sy Oliver, he wrote "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", a hit for both Lunceford and Ella Fitzgerald in 1939. | | Date Born: | Thursday 13 January 1938 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Gray still resides at the house in Topanga, located between Malibu and Santa Monica, California, which he purchased in 1957 at the height of his Father Knows Best popularity. The house has over the years become something of a "motorcycle museum". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 13 January 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, US | | | Summary: | Originally formed in their native Louisville, Kentucky as the Crazy Sounds | | Date Born: | Wednesday 13 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | Gardiner was a member of 'The Upsetters' in Jamaica. He also had a hit with the song 'Elizebeth Reggae' in 1970. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 January 1974 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Dallas, Texas. He with his mother moved to Summerville, South Carolina.
| | Date Born: | Monday 13 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | He started singing at local dance parties and record hops and in a short time landed a contract with Cincinnati based Fraternity Records. | | Date Born: | Thursday 13 January 1938 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered whilst working in a Melbourne bookshop. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 13 January 1909 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Banjo, Ukelele, USA | | | Summary: | He was a rhythm guitarist for some of the best bands of the day, including Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter throughout the 1930s. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 January 1929 | | | Description: | Manager and music founder Essex Music, USA | | | Summary: | He also founded two record labels, Fly and Cube, and, from 1973 to 1986, served as a publisher director of the Performing Rights Society | | Date Born: | Tuesday 13 January 1959 | | | Description: | Bassist, US | | | Summary: | He played bass with White Lion from 1984 to 1991, and later with Zakk Wylde's side-project Lynyrd Skynhead who evolved into Pride & Glory and released one 1994 album. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 13 January 1981 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | The band released its second album, Scream Aim Fire, in 2008. | | Date Born: | Monday 13 January 1947 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | Educated at Robin Hill Secondary Modern and Breeze Hill Comprehensive, John went on to study at Oldham School Of Art, where he met Woolly Wolstenholme in 1964.
| | Date Born: | Friday 13 January 1961 | | | Description: | Actress, Comedian. USA | | | Summary: | Louis-Dreyfus subsequently became one of the cast members on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985, tying with current cast member Abby Elliot as the youngest female cast member in the history of the program. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 January 1918 | | | Description: | Management, Producer, USA | | | Summary: | He worked with Leiber and Stoller co founder of Phillies Records. | | Date Born: | Monday 13 January 1936 | | | Description: | Trombonist, compositions, musical arrangementsUSA | | | Summary: | Melba Liston’s musical style reflects bebop and post-bop sensibilities, not surprising given her stints working with such major bop figures as Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey. | | Date Born: | Thursday 13 January 1955 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | Paul Kelly’s inroads on Australian music has been very significant in towards,completely being original. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 13 January 1904 | | | Description: | Composer of songs, UK | | | Summary: | A British composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron).
| | Date Born: | Monday 13 January 1919 | | | Description: | Actor, US | | | Summary: | He credits Lombard with giving him many tips on acting and with being his mentor. Lombard was killed in a plane crash. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 January 1884 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | She was born Sonia Kalish to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was an infant. | | Date Born: | Sunday 13 January 1963 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Kelly was a self-taught guitar player and began his music career around the sixth grade. He was inspired by other guitarists such as Rick Derringer and Peter Frampton. | | Date Born: | Saturday 13 January 1962 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Adkins musical interest came at an early age, when his father taught him to play the guitar. In high school, he joined a gospel music group called the New Commitments. Later, Adkins went on to study at Louisiana Tech University; after graduation, he took up work at an oil rig. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 13 January 1943 | | | Description: | Pianist, | | | Summary: | His other notable compositions include Thirty-One Days (1987), for alto saxophone, and Southern Harmony (1980-1981) | | Date Born: | Friday 14 January 1938 | | | Description: | Composer. Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Toussaint collaborated with Paul McCartney and Wings for their hit album Venus and Mars. Two years later, Glen Campbell covered Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and carried the song to Number One on the Pop, Country and Adult-Contemporary Charts. | | Date Born: | Monday 14 January 1901 | | | Description: | Actress, singer, USA | | | Summary: | One of her earliest roles was that of Dorothy in the oldest known surviving screen version of L. Frank Baum's well-known novel 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.' | | Date Born: | Thursday 14 January 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | She reached the top-10 of the Country music charts five times between 1969 and 1977, her biggest hit being "Blanket on the Ground", which, in 1975, became her only number one. | | Date Born: | Monday 14 January 1929 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Nicknamed The Tall Texan, Walker had six number one hits, 32 top ten hits and more than 100 charted records during a nearly 60-year career; and was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 14 January 1951 | | | Description: | Bassist, US | | | Summary: | Busta Jones can be heard on Bombers' "(Everybody) Get Dancin'" single and LP | | Date Born: | Wednesday 14 January 1931 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Actress, Dancer, Italy | | | Summary: | Caterina has worked with many stars that include Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich and so on. | | Date Born: | Friday 14 January 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Bass, Composer, New Zealand | | | Summary: | An acclaimed bass player and singer originally from New Zealand. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 January 1936 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Married Candy Staton.He and Staton divorced in the eighties.
| | Date Born: | Friday 14 January 1938 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, AU | | | Summary: | One of the well known country performers throughout Australia. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 January 1941 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Dunaway has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard which was awarded on October 2, 1996.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, US | | | Summary: | Cousin of Jackie Wilson, the group recorded for Motown with their first hit ’Do You Love Me’ | | Date Born: | Friday 14 January 1938 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Son of singer Alan Jones who mainly appeared in the ’Marx Brothers Films’. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 January 1919 | | | Description: | Vocalists, Composer, Actor | | | Summary: | He was also a songwriter and had big hits with Talk to Me which was sung by Little Willie John and "Break It to Me Gently". | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 January 1930 | | | Description: | Singer, Composer of music, Australian | | | Summary: | Known as the "grand lady" of Australian country music, McKean is recognised as one of Australia's leading song writers and bush balladeers and wrote several of Dusty's most popular songs.[
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 January 1930 | | | Description: | Trombonist, Canada | | | Summary: | Wheeler has written over one hundred compositions and is a skilled arranger for small groups and larger ensembles. | | Date Born: | Friday 14 January 1949 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | He played for "The Allman Brothers Band" in late 1972 after the death of original bassist Berry Oakley.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 14 January 1951 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Arranger, Musical Director. Australia | | | Summary: | Larry regularly taught master classes in guitar, for the University of Adelaide. | | Date Born: | Saturday 14 January 1961 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA, Australia | | | Summary: | In 2006 Tramp's White Lion toured Europe in November and December of 2006 and toured the USA & two European festivals in Europe in the summer of 2007.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 14 January 1934 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | He played Tom Good in the BBC sitcom The Good Life (1975–78), that he became a household name. In the 1980s he starred in Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89), and he had a leading role in Monarch of the Glen (2000–02). | | Date Born: | Tuesday 14 January 1908 | | | Description: | Actor, Singer, Violinist, USA | | | Summary: | He started playing the violin while still very young, and debuted professionally at the age of 13. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 14 January 1948 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, Producer | | | Summary: | In 1987, Burnett produced Roy Orbison's two-record album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits. After that, Burnett was the musical director and a guitarist for Orbison's HBO television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. | | Date Born: | Saturday 14 January 1967 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocals, USA | | | Summary: | He was the lead guitarist and vocalist in Pride & Glory, who released one self-titled album in 1994 before disbanding. As a solo artist he released Book of Shadows in 1996. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 January 1975 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | Belinda started her dance career at the age of 13, and spent the next four years at the Johnny Young Talent School. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 January 1941 | | | Description: | Voice, Saxophonist, Keyboards, USA | | | Summary: | A group formed by Van Vliet under his adopted name Captain Beefheart in 1964, California. | | Date Born: | Thursday 15 January 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Dancer, Comedienne, USA | | | Summary: | Taught guitar by the famous Adres Segovia. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 January 1930 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Hooker made his first recordings mainly 78 rpm and 45 rpm records in 1952 | | Date Born: | Saturday 15 January 1921 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | He appeared alongside Benny Hill, Frankie Howerd, Harry Worth, Reg Varney and Spike Milligan in their comedy shows. He appeared in five episodes of Steptoe and Son during its original run from 1962 to 1965, and in 1973 appeared in the film Steptoe and Son Ride Again. | | Date Born: | Friday 15 January 1909 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Many consider Krupa to be one of the most influential drummers of his time in with regard to the development of the drum kit. He used Slingerland drums. But he had already made history in 1927 as the first kit drummer ever to record using a bass drum pedal.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 January 1930 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, Arranger, USA | | | Summary: | Mainly known as a member of Bill Haley's backing band 'The Comets'. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 January 1913 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series Sea Hunt, which ran from 1958-1961. | | Date Born: | Friday 15 January 1937 | | | Description: | Actress. USA | | | Summary: | In 2006, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the SunDeis Film Festival at Brandeis University.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 15 January 1952 | | | Description: | Celloist, UK | | | Summary: | He was a Cellist for the Electric Light Orchestra from 1975 replacing Mike Edwards. He had also played with the London Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Opera Company. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 January 1936 | | | Description: | Drummer, Ghanaian | | | Summary: | Obo Addy, one of the key originators of the seminal musical movement now known as "Worldbeat," is a prominent member of the first generation of African musicians | | Date Born: | Wednesday 15 January 1947 | | | Description: | Composer of songs, UK | | | Summary: | To date, Waterman has scored a total of twenty two UK number one singles with his various acts and he claims upwards of 500 million sales worldwide. Documented 2009. | | Date Born: | Saturday 15 January 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | He was the lead vocalist, primary lyricist, and a founding member of the Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. | | Date Born: | Friday 16 January 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | She appeared at the Apollo Theatre, twice on American Bandstand, and even had her song "Oh Baby (We've Got A Good Thing Goin')" recorded by The Rolling Stones.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 16 January 1934 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Bassist, US | | | Summary: | Bogle was the lead guitarist and later bassist of the group. | | Date Born: | Monday 16 January 1950 | | | Description: | Producer, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Bob Kulick has been a member of the Neverland Express, Meat Loaf's touring band, on and off for years, and has appeared on several Meat Loaf albums, most notably on 1984's "Bad Attitude". | | Date Born: | Saturday 16 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Manhattans, originally from Jersey City, New Jersey, formed in 1962 with members: | | Date Born: | Tuesday 16 January 1894 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Music Publisher, Film Producer, USA | | | Summary: | Mills was one of the first to record black and white musicians together, using twelve white musicians and the Duke Ellington Orchestra on a 12" 78 rpm disc performing St. Louis Blues. | | Date Born: | Sunday 16 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | He co-hosted “Those Amazing Animals” with Burgess Meredith and Priscilla Presley, and also hosted 56 episodes of “Nashville on the Road” | | Date Born: | Monday 16 January 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Songwriter. USA | | | Summary: | Rockabilly legend Mac Curtis was born in Fort Worth, TX, on January 16, 1939. He grew up with his grandparents and started playing the guitar in 1951 at the age of 12. | | Date Born: | Friday 16 January 1981 | | | Description: | Guitariist, USA | | | Summary: | The Strokes released their debut album Is This It in the US in October 2001 on RCA. | | Date Born: | Monday 16 January 1961 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | Raven's replaced original Killing Joke bassist Youth in mid 1982, just in time for the North American tour documented on the Ha! live EP. | | Date Born: | Sunday 16 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | The group charted with the Mickie Most produced ’TOBACCO ROAD’ 1964. | | Date Born: | Saturday 16 January 1960 | | | Description: | Saxophonist | | | Summary: | Elliot is known for his zebra-striped tenor saxophone.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 16 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist | | | Summary: | Voted CMA country vocalst of the year in 1974. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 16 January 1923 | | | Description: | Gutarist, USA | | | Summary: | Roy saw his creative peak with his own band The Whipperwhills during the 1940s and unbelievably his work with this amazing band was never released until two years ago when the Bloodshot label made the recordings available on Hard Life Blues. | | Date Born: | Friday 16 January 1959 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Nigeria | | | Summary: | Debut album Diamond Life, in 1984, and have subsequently sold over 50 million albums. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 17 January 1922 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, USA | | | Summary: | White has won seven Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990), and two Viewers For Quality Television Awards. | | Date Born: | Friday 17 January 1936 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas. | | Date Born: | Sunday 17 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Montez grew up in Hawthorne, California, influenced by the Latino flavored music of his community and the success of Ritchie Valens. | | Date Born: | Monday 17 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, French | | | Summary: | Hardy is mentioned in a poem by Bob Dylan "Some other kinds of songs" on the cover of his LP "Another Side of Bob Dylan".
| | Date Born: | Thursday 17 January 1929 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1951, he signed with Decca Records with own country-jazz band, Grady Martin and the Slew Foot Five. | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 January 1942 | | | Description: | Magazine editor, fashion journalist | | | Summary: | She was the founding editor of Cleo, a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40. | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 January 1931 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | His first film role was as a young and trim B-52 crewman in Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964 which was more famous for the work of Peter Sellers and Slim Pickens. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 17 January 1962 | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | His first working job and getting paid was support act for singer Linda Ronstadt. He later dated Ronstadt for some time. P/E | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 January 1880 | | | Description: | Film producer, Singer, Dancer, Canada | | | Summary: | Sennett has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Also in 2004, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 17 January 1948 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, Songwriter, UK | | | Summary: | An English musician best known as the former guitarist for The Rolling Stones.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 17 January 1942 | | | Description: | Boxer, USA | | | Summary: | Muhammad Ali defeated every top heavyweight in his era, which has been called the golden age of heavyweight boxing.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 17 January 1956 | | | Description: | Vocalist,UK | | | Summary: | Paul was born in Luton, England. He has an older brother Mark and a younger sister Joanne. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 17 January 1917 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | A jazz drummer often referred to as "Big Sid Catlett" because of his large frame.
| | Date Born: | Monday 17 January 1955 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He was the eldest son of Jack Earle, an air traffic controller, and Barbara Earle. | | Date Born: | Saturday 17 January 1959 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Hoffs attended Palisades High School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. In 1980, she graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 17 January 1980 | | | Description: | Actress, model, singer-songwriter, musician | | | Summary: | American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's rebellious older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 18 January 1944 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins. | | Date Born: | Saturday 18 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | "Honey" was a Number One hit in 1968 in the Billboard Hot 100. | | Date Born: | Friday 18 January 1963 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | McCoy is well known for his mystical and occult-based lyrics and beliefs. | | Date Born: | Monday 18 January 1904 | | | Description: | Actor, USA, UK | | | Summary: | In 2001 a statue of Grant was erected in Millennium Square, a regenerated area next to the harbour in his city of birth, Bristol, England.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 18 January 1976 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, Ireland | | | Summary: | As a teenager he formed a family band, "Leaf", with his sister Áine and brothers Paul and Darren. | | Date Born: | Saturday 18 January 1913 | | | Description: | Actor, Vocalist. Comedian, Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | A celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. His best known performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire nonsense songs. Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), and – perhaps his most accomplished performance – The Court Jester (1956). | | Date Born: | Monday 18 January 1943 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, UK | | | Summary: | Mystic has also released Greenslade Live (1973-75) and Dave Greenslade's solo album, "Going South" (1999). | | Date Born: | Saturday 18 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Drummer, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In the late 1950s, Ruffin sang with The Voice Masters, which included future Motown producer Lamont Dozier and members of the singing group The Originals. | | Date Born: | Monday 18 January 1982 | | | Description: | Harpist, USA | | | Summary: | Newsom was first taught to play the Celtic harp by a local teacher in Nevada City. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 18 January 1955 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Costner was honored on September 6, 2006, when his hand and foot prints were set in concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre along side other great actors and entertainers. | | Date Born: | Monday 18 January 1892 | | | Description: | Actor, Comedian, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appear on the Beatles "Sgt Pepper" cover. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 18 January 1933 | | | Description: | American engineer | | | Summary: | Dolby was born in Portland, Oregon. He was raised in San Francisco, California and attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California. | | Date Born: | Saturday 18 January 1936 | | | Description: | Pianist. Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He composed the title track on Hubert Laws's Grammy-nominated album Morning Star (1973). | | Date Born: | Tuesday 19 January 1926 | | | Description: | Management, DJ, UK | | | Summary: | His voice was captured on the only live footage of the Beatles ever filmed at the Cavern, performing "Some Other Guy". Wooler became one of the major figures on the Mersey Scene and did much to help the various groups, remaining at the Cavern until 1967. | | Date Born: | Sunday 19 January 1930 | | | Description: | Vocalist, musician, songwriter, USA | | | Summary: | Bobby Bland began his career in around 1954. | | Date Born: | Monday 19 January 1920 | | | Description: | Actor, Author, UK | | | Summary: | Dunn was one of the younger members of the Dad's Army cast when, at 48, he took on the role of the elderly butcher whose military service in earlier wars made him the most experienced member | | Date Born: | Monday 19 January 1953 | | | Description: | Actor, Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | He was born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, California, the son of famous acting team Desi Arnaz (Cuban) and Lucille Ball. His older sister is actress Lucie Arnaz.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 19 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Composer USA | | | Summary: | Parton was born in Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children born to Robert Lee Parton and Avie Lee Owens.Her family was, as she described them, "dirt poor", and lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains, in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. | | Date Born: | Monday 19 January 1925 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Tromboniat, UK | | | Summary: | English trombone player and singer, who led his own band, Don Lang & his Frantic Five. They appeared on the first BBC Television show for teenagers called Six-Five Special | | Date Born: | Tuesday 19 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Janis Joplin was born to Seth and Dorothy (East) Joplin, her father was an engineer at Texaco, her mother, registrar at a business college. She had two younger siblings, Michael and Laura. | | Date Born: | Friday 19 January 1923 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Often mistaken for being the sister of Maureen Stapleton but not
at all related.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 19 January 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, Australia | | | Summary: | Often referred to by his initials, "J.O.K." or by his nickname, "The Wild One", O'Keefe was the first Australian rock'n'roll performer to tour the United States, and the first Australian artist to make the local Top 40 charts, and he remains Australia's most successful chart performer, with twenty-nine Top 40 hits to his credit in Australia. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 19 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalis , UK | | | Summary: | At the age of thirteen he made an up-tempo version of the spiritual song "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" with the Geoff Love Orchestra | | Date Born: | Monday 19 January 1942 | | | Description: | Actor, Vocalist | | | Summary: | Michael Crawford was invited to attend the Gala Performance of the stage version of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway at the Majestic Theater to celebrate the show becoming the longest running musical in Broadway history (supplanting Cats).
| | Date Born: | Sunday 19 January 1930 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Milt joined the group in 1951 along with his brother Buddy. | | Date Born: | Saturday 19 January 1924 | | | Description: | Actor / Director | | | Summary: | He directed the 1972 Columbo episode "Étude in Black". He also appeared in feature films, including Fat City and Family Plot. | | Date Born: | Thursday 19 January 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist,Gutaist, compser, USA 1960 | | | Summary: | Younger brother to Don Everly of 'The Everly Brothers'.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 19 January 1944 | | | Description: | Actress, Vocalist,USA | | | Summary: | Mainly known for "The Donna Reed Show" from 1958 to 1966. She was also Elvis Presley's costar in three films.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 19 January 1930 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | An American actress, former fashion model and an animal rights activist. She is known for her roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1954 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist. Australia | | | Summary: | His career in the late seventies included an anti drug album named 'On The Slide'.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 January 1953 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Author, | | | Summary: | Andrew was mainly known as a prominent author, Music Educator,
Singer.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 20 January 1934 | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | He is best known for his work on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, an American television show (1968–1973), | | Date Born: | Thursday 20 January 1921 | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | Summary: | Her 200 recordings were frequently up-tempo big band songs with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and Frank Sinatra. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 January 1946 | | | Description: | Film director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, USA | | | Summary: | Born to a middle-class family in Missoula, Montana, Lynch spent his childhood traveling around the United States, before going on to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. | | Date Born: | Thursday 20 January 1927 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Comedian, Actress, Australia | | | Summary: | Her most enduring character was Ethel, who first appeared in the early 1960s in The Mobil Limb Show. "You tell 'em luv!" was Ethel's catchcry. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1937 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer, USA | | | Summary: | In Washington she handed out prizes for a local television station's quiz show, until she was hired by Warner Bros. at $500 per week. | | Date Born: | Friday 20 January 1933 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Actor , Keyboardist | | | Summary: | A multi talents such as playing, drums, trumpet but most of all he was known for playing a Hammond organ and his rich voice. | | Date Born: | Saturday 20 January 1945 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | He Appeared in the following films:
Give My Regards to Broad Street (23-Oct-1984)
To Sir, With Love (14-Jun-1967 | | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 January 1920 | | | Description: | Director of film | | | Summary: | In 1950 Fellini co-produced and co-directed with Alberto Lattuada, Variety Lights (Luci del varietà), his first feature film. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1971 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer | | | Summary: | He has been voted as the greatest British songwriter of all time, ahead of Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles. | | Date Born: | Monday 20 January 1896 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Burns appeared in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the film based on the Beatles' album of the same name. | | Date Born: | Monday 20 January 1947 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Drummer/singer George Grantham is best known as one of the founding members of the band Poco. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Glen Moffatt is a New Zealand country music singer-songwriter who relocated to Brisbane, Australia, in 2002.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1965 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | On 26 May 2008 Small performed alongside Stereophonics and Feeder at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, as part of the celebrations of Wales success at the 2008 Grand Slam. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 January 1929 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Cobb is one of the most sought-after jazz musicians today. He leads his own band (Jimmy Cobb's Mob) in New York City. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1965 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Montgomery has sold over sixteen million albums and numerous awards during his seemingly short career. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 January 1918 | | | Description: | Pianist, and composer, Mexican | | | Summary: | His concerts also featured elaborate light shows years before effects like that became popular in live music. He performed in Las Vegas on several occasions, often as the opening act for Frank Sinatra.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1932 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | An American rhythm and blues singer and musician, known for providing the vocals for the 1959. | | Date Born: | Friday 20 January 1899 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He was incarcerated in Sugar Land, Texas and it is there that he got the inspiration for the song Midnight Special. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 January 1924 | | | Description: | Composer of music, USA | | | Summary: | He wrote Anita Bryant's "My Little Corner of the World", Shelley Fabares' "Johnny Angel", and the Clint Holmes song "Playground In My Mind." | | Date Born: | Thursday 20 January 1944 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | Lew Soloff was born in New York City on January 20th, 1944, was raised in Lakewood, New Jersey. P/A | | Date Born: | Monday 20 January 1936 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1952 he began playing with his uncle, J.T. "Boogie" Brown, saxophonist, studio musician, and sideman to slide guitarist, Elmore James. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 January 1948 | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | Summary: | He played with Barclay James Harvest throughout their career. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1960 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | Michael Hutchence was the lead singer of the famed "INXS". | | Date Born: | Wednesday 20 January 1926 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | In 1963, Neal won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Hud, co-starring Paul Newman. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 January 1952 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | Kiss were formed in 1972 in New York. The group were very theatrical with loads of make up etc.
| | Date Born: | Friday 20 January 1922 | | | Description: | Band leader, Actor, Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | Anthony was considered one of the most modern of the big band leaders.
In the lyrics to "Opus One", which imagine a number of players performing the song, he is cited along with Les Brown and his Band of Renown:
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 January 1959 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Rusty Anderson grew up in La Habra, California. At age 8, his father gave him his first electric guitar. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 20 January 1959 | | | Description: | Singer-songwriter, guitarist and artist USA | | | Summary: | Rusty is an Rusty Anderson (born January 20, 1959) is an American guitarister. | | Date Born: | Sunday 20 January 1924 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Slim Whitman was, for the majority of his career, more famous in Europe than in the United States. | | Date Born: | Thursday 20 January 1966 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | In the mid-1980s, Axl Rose started Guns N' Roses with Tracii. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 21 January 1925 | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, UK | | | Summary: | Hill was a distant relative of the Australian actress and singer Holly Valance (Hill's cousin being Valance's grandfather). | | Date Born: | Saturday 21 January 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist,UK | | | Summary: | A Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 21 January 1931 | | | Description: | Radio, Australia | | | Summary: | He became Seven's chief newsreader in 1970 replacing Geoff Raymond. Naylor switched to GTV-9 in 1978. He | | Date Born: | Friday 21 January 1972 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | The daughter of divorced parents, Chan (pronounced "Shawn") Marshall was born in Georgia. Marshall's father, Charlie, is a blues musician and itinerant pianist. Her childhood involved much upheaval, with Marshall living throughout the Southern United States (Greensboro, North Carolina; Bartlett, Tennessee; and Georgia and South Carolina), back and forth between parents and her grandmother. | | Date Born: | Sunday 21 January 1945 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | They recorded on Page's Page One Records, and Page also leased them to CBS for debut single "Lost Girl". Their most famous hit was the single "Wild Thing" (written by Chip Taylor). | | Date Born: | Wednesday 21 January 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | In 1957 Starr formed a doo-wop group The Future Tones and began his singing career. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 21 January 1976 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | Emma was called Baby Spice because she was the youngest of the group, wore her long blonde hair in pigtails, wore babydoll dresses. | | Date Born: | Saturday 21 January 1956 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She was working as a model when director Sydney Pollack spotted her and cast her in Tootsie (1982) as a soap opera actress. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 January 1947 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | An Obie Award, been nominated five times for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globes, winning one, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in 2011. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 January 1947 | | | Description: | Keyboardist, USA | | | Summary: | Jimmy Ibbotson - guitar, bass, mandolin, piano, accordion, drums, flute and vocals (1968-1975 & 1982-2004) | | Date Born: | Sunday 21 January 1968 | | | Description: | Dancer, USA | | | Summary: | John started playing drums at age 11. Now having recorded on more than 200 records and playing on multiple world tours. | | Date Born: | Monday 21 January 1867 | | | Description: | Composer and theatrical producer. USA | | | Summary: | He is best remembered for his 1907 composition "Teddy Bears' Picnic" the only one of his songs to be a lasting hit. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 21 January 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Mac Davis was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. For his contribution to the recording industry, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. | | Date Born: | Monday 21 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, and songwriter. Switzerland | | | Summary: | Martinetti approached young singer Celine Dion, asking her to represent Switzerland in the 1988 for Eurovision Song Contest. | | Date Born: | Saturday 21 January 1922 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | He is considered by many to have been one of the best British actors of the 20th century. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, Spanish-Mexican | | | Summary: | Perhaps the most versatile of all living tenors. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Richard P. Havens was born in Brooklyn, the eldest of nine children, and first started singing street corner doo-wop and performed with The McCrea Gospel Singers at 16. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 January 1930 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002. | | Date Born: | Monday 21 January 1974 | | | Description: | Television presenter, Comedian, Producer, Australia | | | Summary: | Born John McManus II in Perth, Western Australia to John and Coralie McManus. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 21 January 1902 | | | Description: | Band Leader, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Orchestra Leader at the Astor Hotel in New York.
| | Date Born: | Monday 21 January 1924 | | | Description: | Actor | | | Summary: | Prior to his movie career, Savalas was a character actor on TV shows during the late 1950s and the 1960s. | | Date Born: | Monday 22 January 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, US | | | Summary: | Beginning in 1958 as schoolgirls in Passaic, New Jersey, The Shirelles quickly became rock & roll's first female supergroup and were the inspirations for a legion of female groups that followed.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 22 January 1921 | | | Description: | Violinist, composer, arranger and musicologist. France | | | Summary: | Hodeir was a founder, in 1954, and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris. | | Date Born: | Friday 22 January 1909 | | | Description: | Actress, Comedienne, USA | | | Summary: | Named Harriet, the first of three daughters born to Annette Yde and Walter Lake. She was raised by her mother, an opera singer and diction coach. Harriet's maternal grandfather was Danish violinist Hans Nilson.
P/A | | Date Born: | Monday 22 January 1934 | | | Description: | Actor, Director, USA | | | Summary: | He attended Lowell High School where he perfected his oratory and dramatic skills as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. PNA | | Date Born: | Wednesday 22 January 1896 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Johnson made 30 commercial recording studio record sides in five separate sessions for Columbia Records from 1927–1930. | | Date Born: | Thursday 22 January 1981 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia. | | | Summary: | In the fourth season of Australian Idol, he placed seventh.
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Flynn in the fourth season of Australian Idol, he was placed seventh.
| | Date Born: | Friday 22 January 1965 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | The Perfect Storm started Lane on a long-overdue career upswing, which peaked with 2002's Unfaithful and her first Oscar nomination. | | Date Born: | Friday 22 January 1909 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | Lewis played early in his career in Kansas City. | | Date Born: | Saturday 22 January 1916 | | | Description: | Composer, France | | | Summary: | In addition to his activities as a composer, Dutilleux worked as the Head of Music Production for Radio France for 18 years. | | Date Born: | Monday 22 January 1940 | | | Description: | Actor, UK | | | Summary: | John Hurt is an Academy Award nominated actor and BAFTA Award winning British actor. | | Date Born: | Thursday 22 January 1959 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She dated Australian rock singer Rick Springfield with the age difference of 10 years, plus at the time she was a minor.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 22 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Musician, band manager, entrepreneur, songwriter, UK | | | Summary: | By 1976, McLaren had started to manage The Strand, the band who would later become the Sex Pistols. | | Date Born: | Saturday 22 January 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Westhues set off to see the world, ending up in Finland, where he was extremely active | | Date Born: | Sunday 22 January 1922 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Nolan Strong's smooth tenor, influenced mainly by Clyde McPhatter. | | Date Born: | Friday 22 January 1932 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She appeared in the Australian film Tim (1979) opposite a very young Mel Gibson. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 22 January 1935 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He added an "e" onto the end of his name because he thought it added a touch of class. | | Date Born: | Saturday 22 January 1949 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Also a member in his early days with 'Alien Project'.During his tenure with Journey, Perry sang backing vocals on several Sammy Hagar songs, including the 1980 track "Run For Your Life," and duetting with Kenny Loggins on the 1982 #17 hit single "Don't Fight It." Perry also worked with other musicians such as Sheena Easton, Clannad and Jon Bon Jovi during the height of his career.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 22 January 1956 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | He is currently the drummer of the version of L.A. Guns. | | Date Born: | Thursday 23 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Australia | | | Summary: | Barry has appeared on 'BANDSTAND' (Australia)
'SIX O'CLOCK ROCK' - 'THE BRYAN DAVIES SHOW' - 'THE BOBBY LIMB SHOW'
and many more. | | Date Born: | Monday 23 January 1950 | | | Description: | Bassist, keyboardist, USA | | | Summary: | Bill remained a member of the Box Tops until September of 1969, when he decided to return to school to get a music degree in performance of the upright bass.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 23 January 1919 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Born to parents of Hungarian descent, Kovacs was influenced deeply by his Trenton Central High School drama teacher, Harold Van Kirk, and thus went to acting school after his 1937 graduation. | | Date Born: | Thursday 23 January 1919 | | | Description: | Actress, CA | | | Summary: | She was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame on September 6, 2008, in large part thanks to Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, David Lynch, Henry Winkler, Monty Hall and other celebrities. | | Date Born: | Saturday 23 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vibraphonist, USA | | | Summary: | Burton’s influence has been the likes of Stan Getz and others.
| | Date Born: | Thursday 23 January 1908 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, clarinetist. USA | | | Summary: | He played violin before switching to reeds. | | Date Born: | Sunday 23 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | A member of 'THE PERSUASIONS' and leader of the quintet a cappella group for nearly 40 years. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 23 January 1940 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | He wrote songs for most of the popular country singers that included Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Dolly Parton Linda Ronstadt.
| | Date Born: | Friday 23 January 1880 | | | Description: | Composer, Lyricist, USA | | | Summary: | His songs include "Wabash Avenue After Dark," the hit "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" (1909). | | Date Born: | Sunday 23 January 1898 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Scott was born in Orange County, Virginia, the only son of six children born to George Scott, an administrative engineer in a textile firm, and Lucille Crane Scott, a member of a wealthy North Carolina family. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | An American soul and R&B singer. He made his debut in 1966 with the hit single "Tell It Like It Is", a Number One hit on the Billboard R&B charts. | | Date Born: | | | | Description: | Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | Amanda is a three time "TIME TOYOTA STAR MAKER" top twenty finalist & won the title "VOICE URBAN COUNTRY" 2008. | | Date Born: | Monday 24 January 1972 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | While playing the Los Angeles clubs, she enlisted bassist Tal Herzberg and guitarist Jimmy Khoury.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 24 January 1954 | | | Description: | Vocalist, songwriter, writer, USA | | | Summary: | Reeder sang for fifteen years with John Denver in live concerts, on television and recordings including Dreamland Express and It's About Time. | | Date Born: | Monday 24 January 1910 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Belgium | | | Summary: | Django's only acoustic guitar was given to Les Paul. Les Paul keeps Django's acoustic guitar in his garage and it is his most prized possession. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 January 1936 | | | Description: | Fiddle, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Kershaw was the seventh child born to a family that eventually
included five boys and four girls. Raised in a home where Cajun French was spoken, he didn't learn English until the age of eight. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 24 January 1917 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Borgnine was born in Hamden, Connecticut, the son of Anna and Charles B. Borgnino,who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. Ernest Borgnine has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6324 Hollywood Blvd. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 January 1936 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | When Jack Scott first appeared on the rock scene in the late Fifties he immediately demonstrated a highly individual and powerful style, like Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis or any other well-known pioneer, there could be no mistaking a Jack Scott record. | | Date Born: | Monday 24 January 1966 | | | Description: | Comedian, Actor, Australia | | | Summary: | Jimeoin McKeown is an English-born actor and stand up comedian who grew up in Portstewart, Northern Ireland. | | Date Born: | Monday 24 January 1949 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois to Agnes B. Samaras, a first-generation Albanian American,and Adam Belushi, an Albanian immigrant. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 January 1958 | | | Description: | Pianist, Band Leader, UK | | | Summary: | His autobiography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts (Michael Joseph Ltd, October 2007) was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in the week. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Diamond is a fan of the Australian Rules Football team the Brisbane Lions as his girlfriend is a native of Brisbane, Australia. | | Date Born: | Thursday 24 January 1985 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, Australia | | | Summary: | She played and sang at Jackson's memorial, globally televised live on July 7, 2009. She appears in the film Michael Jackson's This Is It, which chronicles the rehearsals for the tour.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 24 January 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Stevens has won two Grammy Awards: one for "Everything Is Beautiful" and one for the arrangement of his country and western version of the jazz standard "Misty" (1975). | | Date Born: | Thursday 24 January 1907 | | | Description: | Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Washington taught himself piano at age 10, and studied with New Orleans jazz pianist Joseph Louis "Red" Cayou. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a leading player for New Orleans dance and Dixieland bands. | | Date Born: | Friday 24 January 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist. Composer, Pianist, Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Zevon was born to William "Stumpy" Zevon and mother Beverly Cope Simmons, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, Utah. | | Date Born: | Sunday 25 January 1981 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, Composer, Pianist, Cellist, Arranger, USA | | | Summary: | Keys was born in a Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, the daughter and only child of Teresa "Terri" Augello, a paralegal and part-time actress, and Craig Cook, a flight attendant. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 25 January 1956 | | | Description: | Guitarist, UK | | | Summary: | In 1985 he joined Beat bassist David Steele and singer Roland Gift in Fine Young Cannibals. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 25 January 1927 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Brazilian | | | Summary: | The Rio de Janeiro airport was renamed the Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport in his honour. | | Date Born: | Sunday 25 January 1942 | | | Description: | Composer, Management, UK | | | Summary: | He formed a beat group, Cliff Ward and the Cruisers, and this later became the Secrets.
| | Date Born: | Friday 25 January 1963 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | He formed own band in England - "Thee Hypnotics". | | Date Born: | Friday 25 January 1957 | | | Description: | Vocalist , USA | | | Summary: | Sylvers provided the voice of Marlon on the 1971–1973 ABC-TV cartoon series The Jackson 5ive.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 25 January 1938 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Etta James is the winner of four Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Grammy Hall of Fame both in 1999 and 2008. | | Date Born: | Monday 25 January 1915 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Born to Scottish parents, William and Betsy Miller in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire in England. | | Date Born: | Saturday 25 January 1958 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | He played the part of Dave in the film "Breaking Glass".
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 25 January 1922 | | | Description: | Guitariist, USA | | | Summary: | He played in the bands of Benny Goodman and Red Norvo; with Norvo he toured Australia backing Frank Sinatra. | | Date Born: | Saturday 25 January 1919 | | | Description: | Record producer, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | In 1964 he produced Peter and Gordon's number 1 hit "A World Without Love".UK Singles Chart chart-topper.
| | Date Born: | Monday 25 January 1932 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | His claim to fame is he co wrote "Raunchy" in the fifties.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 25 January 1931 | | | Description: | Composer, Producer, Manager, Sweden | | | Summary: | As well as being the manager of the Swedish supergroup, Anderson was also the founder of the Polar Music record label. | | Date Born: | Monday 25 January 1965 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | From 1978 to 1980, Halliday was the lead vocalist in a punk rock band initially named The Incest.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 26 January 1958 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | An eight-time Grammy Award-winning, multi-Platinum rhythm and blues and soul singer and songwriter. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 26 January 1932 | | | Description: | Record producer, Jamaica | | | Summary: | Reggae music pioneer. Legendary music producer known as a highly influential figure in the development of Jamaican music and credited with launching the career of Bob Marley and the Wailers. | | Date Born: | Monday 26 January 1948 | | | Description: | Drummer, Canada | | | Summary: | A Canadian rock drummer, best known as a longtime member of pioneering American hard rock band Mountain.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 26 January 1908 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | A graduate of the Chicago College of Music. An early jazz saxophonist, Crawford Wethington's most significant musical associations were with trumpeter Louis Armstrong, and a popular dance band of the '30s. | | Date Born: | Friday 26 January 1951 | | | Description: | Guitariist, Australia | | | Summary: | In 1976 he joined Little River Band. He wrote their hit single "Lonesome Loser", as well as "Happy Anniversary". | | Date Born: | Saturday 26 January 1946 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Composer, Australia, | | | Summary: | Born in Casino NSW Australia,He first came to prominence in the mid-1960s in Sydney as a member of the second incarnation of legendary Australian rock group The Missing Links (1965-66). | | Date Born: | Wednesday 26 January 1955 | | | Description: | Guitarist,Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Edward Van Halen was born to Jan van Halen, a Dutch father, and Eugenia, a Javanese mother, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Van Halen family moved to Pasadena, California, United States, from the Netherlands in 1962. | | Date Born: | Sunday 26 January 1958 | | | Description: | Actress, Television Host, USA | | | Summary: | Born to Elliot DeGeneres, a salesman, and Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer.She is of French, English, German and Irish descent.P/E. She has won twelve Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. | | Date Born: | Friday 26 January 1934 | | | Description: | Pianist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Huey's influence on New Orleans music in the mid 1950s was profound, and it was often said Huey Piano Smith’s band was like a finishing school for Nola singers and musicians. | | Date Born: | Sunday 26 January 1913 | | | Description: | Pianst, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He also worked as a part time test pilot for Lockheed Corporation in World War II.
| | Date Born: | Monday 26 January 1970 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Kirk Franklin's 10th album, The Fight of My Life, was released in the United States on December 18, 2007 (2007-12-18). The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 33 with 74,000 copies sold in the first week. | | Date Born: | Monday 26 January 1953 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, USA | | | Summary: | The daughter of poet and literature professor Miller Williams and an amateur pianist. | | Date Born: | Monday 26 January 1931 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Murphy first gained attention 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who tries to reform Marlon Brando in The Wild One.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 26 January 1944 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Rush's version of "Angel of the Morning" was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in early 1968, and was produced by Chips Moman and the late Tommy Cogbill. Released by the Bell Records company, in late June. 1968, the song climbed to #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart | | Date Born: | Monday 26 January 1925 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | The founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donates all profits and royalties to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million. P/E | | Date Born: | Tuesday 26 January 1926 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | From a comparatively unknown Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "Me and Juliet" written in 1953, Ronnie Hilton took the hit tune "No Other Love", and scored his one and only UK Number One hit in 1956. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 26 January 1937 | | | Description: | Drummer, UK | | | Summary: | Stephenson had a close association with Ronnie Scott and the Club, spent two years in Ronnie Scott's Quartet. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 26 January 1955 | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, Composer | | | Summary: | An Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist, he was the mainstay of folk rock group Goanna which had hits with "Solid Rock" | | Date Born: | Sunday 26 January 1908 | | | Description: | Violinist, French | | | Summary: | Grappelli is rated as one of the greatest jazz violinist of all time. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 26 January 1943 | | | Description: | Songwriter, record producer, and arranger, USA | | | Summary: | One of the creators of the Philadelphia style of soul music in the 1970s. Nominated for a Grammy Award in 1970. | | Date Born: | Monday 26 January 1925 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Composer of more than 100 works, his music has been performed in more than 40 countries, and many of his works have been recorded. | | Date Born: | Thursday 27 January 1927 | | | Description: | Composer and lyricist, USA | | | Summary: | Barnes started writing musical comedy sketches while still in high school, and continued while at UCLA. He started collaborating in college with Bob Rodgers, and their first professional revue, a Cabaret Concert Show, was staged in 1956 in Los Angeles. | | Date Born: | Monday 27 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vibraphone and marimba, USA | | | Summary: | One of the most gifted and innovative jazz musicians of his generation, trumpeter Woody Shaw navigated the rapidly fluctuating jazz scene of the '70s and '80s | | Date Born: | Monday 27 January 1964 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Fonda was born in California, into a family of actors, including her grandfather Henry Fonda, father Peter Fonda, and aunt Jane Fonda. Her mother, Susan Jane Brewer, is an artist. | | Date Born: | Sunday 27 January 1895 | | | Description: | Composer, USA | | | Summary: | De Sylva was mainly successful with songs written for Al Jolson and Jolson's Broadway show 'Sinbad'. The show goes back to 1918. | | Date Born: | Monday 27 January 1919 | | | Description: | Voca, Actor, Record Producer.USA | | | Summary: | Bagdasarian's first musical composed success was the song he wrote with Saroyan, "Come on-a My House", sung by Rosemary Clooney. | | Date Born: | Thursday 27 January 1927 | | | Description: | Pianist, Jamaica | | | Summary: | His first teacher was his mother. He began playing piano at age of about two and made his first public performance at the age of 3. | | Date Born: | Thursday 27 January 1921 | | | Description: | Actress, USA | | | Summary: | Reed was the daughter of Hazel Jane (née Shives) and William Richard Mullenger.The trees that Reed's father planted still stand and the route to their home, southeast of Denison, is named Donna Reed Drive. This route is now paved to the north corner of the old Mullenger farm. | | Date Born: | Sunday 27 January 1918 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | He was the illegitimate son of 15-year-old Leola Brooks, a field hand. His father was probably Joe Willie "Frost" James, who moved in with Leola, and so Elmore took this as his name. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 January 1920 | | | Description: | Violinist, Germany | | | Summary: | In the 1950s he was considered to be one of the best jazz violinists of Europe. | | Date Born: | Monday 27 January 1908 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, Vocals, USA | | | Summary: | He has been largely neglected by historians since his death due to mysterious circumstances in November 1954, but is considered by many to be one of the giants of the Swing Era and one of the founders of what came to be known as rhythm and blues. | | Date Born: | Friday 27 January 1928 | | | Description: | Pianist, conductor and composer | | | Summary: | French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 January 1885 | | | Description: | Composer, Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Jerome Kern was born to Fanny and Henry Kern, both German Jews. They named him Jerome because they lived near Jerome Park, a favorite place of theirs. | | Date Born: | Thursday 27 January 1944 | | | Description: | Guitar, Vocalist, Harmonica, Composer, Singer, Artist, Writer, Poet, Filmmaker | | | Summary: | Coyne is notable for his unorthodox and unforgettable style of blues-influenced guitar composition, the intense quality of his vocal delivery. | | Date Born: | Sunday 27 January 1946 | | | Description: | Bassist, UK | | | Summary: | He was part of the British invasion of the 1960s, and recorded more than thirty albums during his music career.Ashton and Dyke then joined forces with the bass guitar playing Kim Gardner
| | Date Born: | Monday 27 January 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The Ronettes were a girl group of the 1960s from New York City, best known for their work with producer Phil Spector. | | Date Born: | Saturday 27 January 1945 | | | Description: | Drums, UK | | | Summary: | The son of the documentary film maker Bill Mason, he was born in Birmingham but brought up in Hampstead, London. P/E | | Date Born: | Sunday 27 January 1918 | | | Description: | Pianist, USA | | | Summary: | Aunt Hattie, who raised him. She taught him piano, starting at the age of four | | Date Born: | Saturday 27 January 1968 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Lawrence worked as an ironworker and in phone sales while he tried to break into the music business. | | Date Born: | Monday 27 January 1936 | | | Description: | Actor,USA | | | Summary: | An American actor of film and television considered a male sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 January 1756 | | | Description: | Composer, Austria | | | Summary: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. P/E | | Date Born: | Tuesday 27 January 1756 | | | Description: | Composer, Austria | | | Summary: | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. P/E | | Date Born: | Monday 28 January 1929 | | | Description: | Clarinetist, UK | | | Summary: | He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style.P/E | | Date Born: | Sunday 28 January 1979 | | | Description: | Singer, Songwriter, Scotland | | | Summary: | a Scottish singer-songwriter. He is best known for his appearance on the BBC's television programme, Fame Academy, and his subsequent Top 5 UK single, "Keep Me A Secret". In 2006, he independently released his debut album. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 28 January 1936 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | His father, Robert Alda (1914-1986) aka Alphonso Giovanni Giuseppe Roberto D'Abruzzo, was an actor and singer, and his mother, Joan Brown, was crowned Miss New York in a beauty pageant. P/E | | Date Born: | Thursday 28 January 1971 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Hamilton's career and was released in June 2005. Ain't Nobody Worryin', his gold-selling third studio album. | | Date Born: | Friday 28 January 1887 | | | Description: | Pianist, Poland | | | Summary: | He retired from the stage in 1976, as his eyesight and hearing were rapidly deteriorating. He became almost blind in later life.
he Aeolian Duo-Art system and the American Piano Company. | | Date Born: | Saturday 28 January 1950 | | | Description: | Actress, Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Benton a recording artist with some success. Her 1975 record, "Brass Buckles," was a top five hit on Billboard's country singles chart. | | Date Born: | Sunday 28 January 1945 | | | Description: | Drummer, USA | | | Summary: | Keenan was part of The Chambers Brothers from 1965 to 1971. | | Date Born: | Monday 28 January 1963 | | | Description: | Guitarist, Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | The lead guitarist of the thrash metal band Anthrax from 1983-1995 and 2005 to 2007. He is the brother of former Black Sabbath bassist Dave Spitz.
| | Date Born: | Monday 28 January 1980 | | | Description: | Contributing editor to "Rolling Stone" - Journalist | | | Summary: | Michael Mahon Hastings was an American journalist, author, contributing editor to Rolling Stone, and reporter for BuzzFeed. He was raised in New York, Canada, and Vermont, and attended New York University. | | Date Born: | Sunday 28 January 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, Drummer, UK | | | Summary: | Founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. | | Date Born: | Friday 28 January 1927 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, UK | | | Summary: | Scott is best remembered for co-founding, with former tenor sax player Pete King, the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, which opened in 1959 at 39 Gerrard Street in London's Soho | | Date Born: | Sunday 28 January 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist, French | | | Summary: | He is mentioned in the Peter Sarstedt's song "Where Do You Go To, My Lovely". One of Sarstedt's bigest hits in the sixties. | | Date Born: | Monday 28 January 1963 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Multi- Instrumentalist, Painter, Executive Producer, CA | | | Summary: | Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide | | Date Born: | Sunday 29 January 1956 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Stewart is the aunt of actress/singer Sinitta who, in turn, is the daughter of actress/singer Miquel Brown.
| | Date Born: | Friday 29 January 1937 | | | Description: | Pianist, vibraphonist, Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | As a songwriter, he won a Grammy award for Best Instrumental Composition for the song "A Taste of Honey". | | Date Born: | Thursday 29 January 1942 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actress, France | | | Summary: | Married Andy Williams on December 15, 1961. She and Williams separated in 1969 but did not formally divorce until 6 years later in 1975.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 January 1946 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | Mainly known as the frontman of the '70s arena rock outfit Uriah Heep, singer David Byron also performed as a solo artist. | | Date Born: | Monday 29 January 1923 | | | Description: | Guitarist, USA | | | Summary: | Taylor's son Eddie Taylor Jr. is a blues guitarist in Chicago, and his stepson Larry Taylor is a blues drummer and vocalist. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 29 January 1862 | | | Description: | Composer, UK | | | Summary: | His parents were German born and moved to England which they worked a wollen business. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 January 1946 | | | Description: | Media, Personality, Journalsit, Australia | | | Summary: | Music news presenter on the popular music program Countdown and widely recognised for his trademark Akubra hat. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 January 1985 | | | Description: | Actress, Australia | | | Summary: | Known for her role as Tasha Andrews on the Australian television soap opera Home and Away (2003–2006) | | Date Born: | Monday 29 January 1923 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Composer, Croatia | | | Summary: | Robi¿ was nicknamed "Mister Morgen" following the success of his first international hit, "Morgen" (which means "tomorrow"), in 1959. | | Date Born: | Saturday 29 January 1938 | | | Description: | Bassist, USA | | | Summary: | James Jamerson plays bass on countless Motown singles and album tracks, including classics by the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Four Tops, Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, the Marvelettes, the Temptations and others.P/A
| | Date Born: | Sunday 29 January 1939 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Her influence is the black rootsand tradition and her love for classical.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 January 1985 | | | Description: | Actress, Australia | | | Summary: | Born in South Africa, Marais and her family lived in Canada and New Zealand before relocating to Perth, Western Australia, when she was nine.
| | Date Born: | Tuesday 29 January 1918 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Forsythe, the oldest of three children, was born in New Jersey to a factory worker, and was raised in Brooklyn, New York where his father worked as a Wall Street businessman during the Great Depression of 1929.P/E
| | Date Born: | Monday 29 January 1940 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Ross was born in Hollywood, California, when her father was in the Navy. Her family later settled in Walnut Creek, California, east of San Francisco. She graduated from Las Lomas High School.P/E | | Date Born: | Friday 29 January 1943 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | One of Britain’s most promising singers charting with songs such as "DREAM GIRL" and "VENUS IN BLUE JEANS" all covers but very good covers compared to the originals. | | Date Born: | Sunday 29 January 1950 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | In addition to performing, Carl also found time during the mid-80s to compose tunes for various movie soundtracks, performing on many of them as well. Films such as Police Academy (1984) and Doin' Time (1985) include his compositions. | | Date Born: | Monday 29 January 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Guitarist , Composer, Australian | | | Summary: | An Australian country singer, songwriter. | | Date Born: | Monday 29 January 1934 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, UK | | | Summary: | He is the son of British actor Sir Rex Harrison.
| | Date Born: | Friday 29 January 1954 | | | Description: | Talk show host, Actress, USA | | | Summary: | She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century. | | Date Born: | Friday 29 January 1943 | | | Description: | Comedian, Vocalist, Poet and Write, rAustralia | | | Summary: | He began his career in a band, singing and playing guitar. His habit of altering the lyrics of songs to amuse himself and his audience prompted him to become a comedian. | | Date Born: | Monday 29 January 1945 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Born in Detroit to a father from north eastern Slovakia Robert Selleck (died 2001) and Scottish-American mother Martha. | | Date Born: | Friday 29 January 1943 | | | Description: | Disc Jockey, Singer UK | | | Summary: | An English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s | | Date Born: | Friday 29 January 1915 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Born to father, Marcellus George Mature, a cutler, and Swiss American mother, Clara Mature.
| | Date Born: | Monday 30 January 1922 | | | Description: | Comedian, USA | | | Summary: | Mainly known for the co host of "LAUGH IN" television series
during the sixties with partner Dan Rowan.P/E | | Date Born: | Thursday 30 January 1930 | | | Description: | Actor, USA | | | Summary: | Lyda and Eugene Ezra Hackman. He has a brother, Richard. Hackman's family moved from one place to another until finally settling in Illinois, living in the house of his maternal grandmother, Beatrice, and where Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper. | | Date Born: | Thursday 30 January 1936 | | | Description: | Pianist, Germany | | | Summary: | A classically trained pianist most famous for his easy listening music.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 30 January 1937 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | She was one of ten children, and since a young age she listened to the Grand Ole Opry and also harmonized with her brothers and sisters. | | Date Born: | Friday 30 January 1959 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | She ranks as the #144 most successful R&B artist of all time according to Billboard magazine. | | Date Born: | Thursday 30 January 1941 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Danny and The Juniors were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003.
| | Date Born: | Saturday 30 January 1926 | | | Description: | Actress, Singer | | | Summary: | She began her career as a teenage band vocalist under the name Betty Webb, singing to the troops during World War II and freelancing with British bands | | Date Born: | Tuesday 30 January 1945 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Balin was the founder and featured vocalist for Jefferson Airplane from 1965 to 1971. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 30 January 1951 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, Composer, UK | | | Summary: | Collins was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five. Later, his uncle made him a makeshift one that he used regularly. | | Date Born: | Monday 30 January 1911 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, USA | | | Summary: | Eldridge was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and originally played drums, trumpet and tuba. | | Date Born: | Monday 30 January 1928 | | | Description: | Vocalist, USA | | | Summary: | Ruth Brown's father was a dockhand who directed the local church choir. Ruth showed more of an interest in singing at nightclubs. She was inspired by Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington. | | Date Born: | Thursday 30 January 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, UK | | | Summary: | Steve Marriott was born to parents Kay and Bill Marriott who lived at Strone Road, Manor Park. | | Date Born: | Wednesday 30 January 1935 | | | Description: | Saxophonist, UK | | | Summary: | From 1957 to 1959 he joined Ronnie Scott in co-leading a quintet, The Jazz Couriers, perhaps the most fondly remembered of British Modern Jazz groups. | | Date Born: | Saturday 30 January 1937 | | | Description: | Actress, UK | | | Summary: | The daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave. | | Date Born: | Sunday 31 January 1915 | | | Description: | Vocalist , Guitarist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.
| | Date Born: | Sunday 31 January 1915 | | | Description: | Trumpeter, USA | | | Summary: | He played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra during 1941-42.
| | Date Born: | Wednesday 31 January 1923 | | | Description: | Actress, Comedienne, USA | | | Summary: | Her father was George Channing, a journalist, whose newspaper career took the family to San Francisco when Channing was only two weeks old; her mother was the former Carol Glaser. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 31 January 1928 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Composer, USA | | | Summary: | Willis signed with Columbia Records. After one single, he began recording on a Columbia subsidiary, Okeh. During his stay at Okeh, he established himself as a popular R&B singer and songwriter. In 1956, he moved to Atlantic Records where he had immediate success with "It's Too Late", "Juanita", and "Love Me Cherry". His most successful recording was "C.C. Rider". | | Date Born: | Saturday 31 January 1914 | | | Description: | Band Leader, UK | | | Summary: | Stapleton was a leader in Britain and overseas, thanks to his regular BBC broadcasts and his many recordings. | | Date Born: | Friday 31 January 1947 | | | Description: | Vocalist, songwriter, musician and comedian, UK | | | Summary: | He performs on TV in several countries, particularly in Brazil, Australia and Germany. | | Date Born: | Tuesday 31 January 1882 | | | Description: | Vocalist, Actor, USA | | | Summary: | His eye rolling song and dance routines eventually led to his nickname, Banjo Eyes. In 1907, Cantor became a billed name in vaudeville. | |
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