Happy Birthday this week to: June 141909 ● Burl Ives → Grammy-winning, grandfatherly folk singer, "A Little Bitty Tear" (#9, 1962), stage and screen actor, writer, radio personality, died from mouth cancer on 4/14/1995, age 851929 ● Cy Coleman / (Seymour Kaufman) →...
Happy Birthday this week to: June 071917 ● Dean Martin / (Dino Paul Crocetti) → Film, TV and stage actor, singer, "Memories Are Made Of This" (#1, 1956) and 15 other Top 40 singles, cultural icon and member of the Hollywood Rat Pack, died of lung cancer on 12/25/1995,...
Happy Birthday this week to: May 311930 ● Clint Eastwood / (Clinton Eastwood, Jr.) → Wannabe jazz pianist turned globally-acclaimed actor, film director, politician and film score composer, wrote the music to Mystic River (2003), Flags Of Our Fathers (2006) and J....
Happy Birthday this week to: May 241928 ● Max Bennett → Jazz and rock bass guitarist, session musician and bandleader, member of the acclaimed Wrecking Crew group of L.A. studio musicians, played on numerous albums by The Monkees, The Partridge Family, Frank Zappa and...
Happy Birthday this week to: May 171921 ● Bob Merrill / (Henry Merrill Levan) → Pop and Broadway songwriter, wrote multiple hits, including "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window" for Patti Page (#1, 1953) and "People" for Barbra Streisand (Adult Contemporary #1,...
Happy Birthday this week to: May 101888 ● Max Steiner / (Maximilian Raoul Steiner) → Austrian-American child-prodigy musician turned three-time Oscar-winning film score composer for over 300 films from the 30s through the 60s, including King Kong (1933), Gone With The...
Happy Birthday this week to: May 031903 ● Bing Crosby / (Harry Lillis Crosby) → Vastly popular multi-media megastar singer and actor with thousands of recorded songs, hundreds of albums and dozens of stage and screen roles, "White Christmas" (#1, 1942), died of a...
Happy Birthday this week to:April 261886 ● Ma Rainey / (Gertrude Pridgett) → The "Mother of the Blues," early female blues singer known for risqué lyrics, often about her own bi-sexuality, issued over 100 songs in the 1920s, many of which were national hits, recorded...
Happy Birthday this week to:April 191928 ● Alexis Korner → Major force in early British blues-rock, formed Blues Incorporated with Charlie Watts, then blues-rock ensemble CCS which covered Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" (#58, 1971), writer and radio DJ, died from...
Happy Birthday this week to:April 121916 ● Russell Garcia → Composer and arranger for NBC Radio, MGM Studios, Warner Bros. and Disney on soundtracks from classic movies (The Time Machine, 1960) to TV shows (Rawhide, 1962), orchestra conductor for Ella Fitzgerald, Mel...
Happy Birthday this week to:April 051906 ● Lord Buckley / (Richard Myril Buckley) → Sophisticated and influential Beat poet, comedian, stage performer, spoken word recording artist and proto-rapper, influenced Lenny Bruce, Wavy Gravy, George Harrison, Bob Dylan and...
Happy Birthday this week to the following contributors to rock and pop music of the 50s through the 80s - the BEST music ever made!March 291918 ● Pearl Bailey → Well-known and respected but modest-selling Broadway, TV and Hollywood actress and blues-jazz-pop singer,...
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