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Jimmy Bryant born 5 March 1925
Jimmy Bryant (5th March 1925 - September 22, 1980) was an American country music guitarist. He is best known for his collaborations with steel guitarist Speedy West and his session work and was known...
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Red Callender born 6 March 1916
George Sylvester "Red" Callender (March 6, 1916 – March 8, 1992) was an American string bass and tuba player. He is perhaps best known as a jazz musician, but worked with an array of pop, rock and...
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Martha Bass born 7 March 1921
Martha Bass (March 7, 1921 – September 21, 1998) was an American contralto gospel singer and mother of David Peaston and Fontella Bass. Martha Carter Bass Peaston was born in Arkansas. Her family moved...
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Sweet Charles Sherrell born 8 March 1943
Sweet Charles Sherrell (March 8, 1943 – March 29, 2023) was an American bassist known for recording and performing with James Brown. He was a member of The J.B.'s from 1973 to 1996. Born Charles...
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Don Abney born 10 March 1923
John Donald Abney (March 10, 1923 – January 27, 2000) was an American jazz pianist. Abney was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied piano and French horn at the Manhattan School of Music. He joined...
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Norman Burns born 11 March 1920
Norman Burns (11 March 1920 – June 1994) was a British dance band and jazz drummer. Burns questing nature and his feeling for bop helped to make him one of the most important if unacclaimed figures in...
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Lew DeWitt born 12 March 1938
Lewis Calvin DeWitt Jr. (March 12, 1938 – August 15, 1990) was an American country music singer, guitarist, and composer. He was a founding member of The Statler Brothers and the group's original...
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Lee Moses born 13 March 1941
Vincent Lee Moses (March 13, 1941 – January 26, 1998), known as Lee Moses, was an American R&B and soul singer and guitarist. His recordings in the late 1960s as well as his 1971 LP Time and Place,...
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Joe Mooney born 14 March 1911
Joe Mooney (March 14, 1911 – May 12, 1975) was an American jazz and pop accordionist, organist, and vocalist. If you like jazz with a swinging pop feel, you need to know about Joe Mooney. The singer,...
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Henry Thomas born 1874
Henry Thomas (1874 – 1930?) was an American country blues singer, songster and musician. Although his recording career, in the late 1920s, was brief, Thomas influenced performers including Bob Dylan,...
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Vince Martin born 17 March 1937
Vince Martin (born Vincent Marcellino; March 17, 1937 – July 6, 2018) was an American folk singer and songwriter.Martin’s career began when he recorded the 1956 pop song “Cindy, Oh Cindy,” with the...
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Big Daddy Kinsey born 18 March 1927
Lester J. Kinsey Jr., (March 18, 1927 – April 3, 2001) known as Big Daddy Kinsey, was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. Like so many great local bluesmen, Lester J....
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Tibby Edwards born 19 March 1935
Tibby Edwards (19 March 1935 – 21 September 1999) was a country and rockabilly singer and guitarist.Tibby Edwards was born Edwin Thibodaux in Garland, Louisiana. By the time he was 15 or 16, he'd...
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Don Edwards born 20 March 1936
Don Edwards (March 20, 1936* – October 23, 2022) was an American cowboy singer, guitarist, and recording artist who specialized in Western music. Edwards released more than a dozen solo albums from...
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Ronnie Haig born 21 March 1939
Ronnie Haig (21 March 1939 - 18 September 2024) was an American Rockabilly singer, songwriter, and guitarist who became a well-known dynamic performer and earned his induction into the Rockabilly Hall...
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Little Ann born 22 March 1945
Little Ann (22 March 1945 – 26 January 2003) was an American soul singer. Her recording career was short-lived but her work was 'rediscovered' shortly before her death. Originally born Ann Bridgeforth...
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Nora Ney born 23 March 1922
Iracema de Sousa Ferreira (March 20, 1922 – October 28, 2003), better known by her stage name Nora Ney, was a Brazilian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist and an avowed supporter of Olaria Atlético...
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Wee Willie Harris born 25 March 1933
Charles William Harris (25 March 1933 – 27 April 2023), better known by his stage name of Wee Willie Harris, was an English rock and roll singer. He is best known for his energetic stage shows and TV...
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Rafael Mendez born 26 March 1906
Rafael Méndez (March 26, 1906 – September 15, 1981) was known as the "Heifetz of the Trumpet" and one of the greatest trumpet players of the 20th century who strove to make the trumpet a classical solo...
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Miriam Kline born 27 March 1937
Miriam Klein (born 27 March 1937) is a Swiss jazz singer. Miriam Klein was born in Basel, Switzerland and active in jazz from her teenage years and first rose to prominence when she performed in Paris...
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Paul Whiteman born 28 March 1890
Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was a popular American orchestral leader. Because press agents dubbed him "The King of Jazz" in the 1920s, Paul Whiteman has always been considered a...
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Randy Barlow born 29 March 1943
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Anita Carter born 31 March 1933
Ina Anita Carter (March 31, 1933 – July 29, 1999) was an American singer who played upright bass, guitar, and autoharp. She performed with her sisters, Helen and June, and her mother, Maybelle,...
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Bonnie Baker born 1 April 1917
Bonnie Baker (April 1, 1917 – August 11, 1990) was an American singer of jazz and popular music and was known from 1936 to the end of her performing career as Wee Bonnie Baker. Her biggest hit was "Oh...
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Thumbs Carllisle born 2 April 1931
Kenneth Ray Carllile (April 2, 1931 – July 31, 1987), better known as Thumbs Carllile (Carlisle in some collections),was an American country music guitarist and songwriter known for his innovative...
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