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Jesse Colin Young born 22 November 1941
Perry Miller (November 22, 1941 – March 16, 2025), known professionally as Jesse Colin Young, was an American singer and songwriter. He was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the...
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Sonia Delfino born 23 November 1942
Sonia Delfino (November23, 1942- March 20, 2025) is a Brazilian singer who was one of the first to sing bossa nova as well as rock and roll. Delfino was born Sonia de Campos Veras in...
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Eileen Barton born 24 November 1924
Eileen Barton (November 24, 1924 – June 27, 2006) was an American singer best known for her 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake." Barton was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her...
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Carl Dean born 25 November 1940
Carl Dean (Nov. 25, 1940 – Oct.14, 2010) was a country and rock and roll piano player and entertainer and performed the "Carl Dean Show" in all 50 states throughout his career that spanned more than 50...
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Bobby Sharp born 26 November 1924
Bobby Sharp (November 26, 1924 - January 28, 2013) was an American pianist, singer who had a long songwriting career highlighted by his 1961 hit, “Unchain My Heart." Robert Sharp Jr., was born in...
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Bobby Forrester born 27 November 1947
Bobby Forrester (November 27, 1947 - November 23, 2002 was an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. Robert Forrester began playing the piano at the age of nine. He then learned to play the...
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Gigi Gryce born 28 November 1925
Gigi Gryce (November 28, 1925 – March 17, 1983), later in life changing his name to Basheer Qusim, was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator. George...
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Ed Bickert born 29 November 1932
Edward Isaac Bickert, CM (November 29, 1932 – February 28, 2019) was Canada’s best-known jazz guitarist. He developed a unique, understated style of considerable harmonic sophistication. Rooted in...
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Frank Ifield born 30 November 1937
Francis Edward Ifield OAM (30 November 1937 – 18 May 2024) was an Australian country music singer and guitarist who often incorporated yodelling into his music. Ifield was the third of seven sons born...
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Matt Monro born 1 December 1930
Matt Monro (1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985) was an English singer. Known as "The Man with the Golden Voice" and the "British Sinatra," he performed internationally during his 30-year career and sold...
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Wynton Kelly born 2 December 1931
Wynton Charles Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) was a Jamaican American jazz pianist and composer. He is known for his lively, blues-based playing and as one of the finest accompanists in...
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Cool John Ferguson born 3 December 1953
John W. Ferguson (December 3,* 1953 – August 12, 2025), known professionally as Cool John Ferguson, was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released five albums under his own name...
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Eddie Heywood born 4 December 1915
Edward Heywood Jr. (December 4, 1915 – January 3, 1989) was an American jazz pianist and composer particularly active in the 1940s and 1950s. Eddie is probably most remembered now for originating the...
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Jill Day born 5 December 1930
Jill Day (5 December 1930- 16 November 1990, Kingston-Upon-Thames, England) was a successful pop singer and actress in Britain in the 1950s and early 60s.She was called “the Golden Girl of Song” and...
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Toni Lynn Washington born 6 December 1936
Toni Lynn Washington (born Dorothy Helen Leak, December 6, 1937, Southern Pines, North Carolina) is an American blues singer, who is considered Boston's "queen of the blues,'' where she has a long and...
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Joyce Carr born 7 December 1931
Joyce Carr (December 7, 1931 - January 26, 2002) was a soft-voiced interpreter of jazz standards and was a well known performer in the Washington area, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s. Born Joyce...
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Sammy Davis Jr. born 8 December 1925
Samuel George Davis, Jr., better known as Sammy Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. Recognized throughout much of his career as "the world's greatest living...
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Billy Edd Wheeler born 9 December 1932
Billy Edd Wheeler (December 9, 1932 – September 16, 2024) was an American songwriter known for several major country hits that showed the influence of the folk-pop music with which he began his career....
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Don Sebesky born 10 December 1937
Donald Sebesky (December 10, 1937 – April 29, 2023) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz trombonist. He was a multi-instrumentalist and could play a number of other instruments:...
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Carole Simpson born circa 1928
Carole Simpson (born c. 1928 – 25 January 2013) was an American pop and jazz musician (vocals, piano). A gorgeous, glamorous blonde, she had an intimate singing style not far from June Christy and a...
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Toshiko Akiyoshi born 12 December 1929
Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 12 December 1929) is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader who has cemented her place as one of the most important jazz musicians of the twentieth century....
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Buck White born 13 December 1930
Buck White (December 13, 1930 - January 13, 2025) was a legendary American country and bluegrass musician, patriarch of the Grammy-winning family group The Whites. Born in Oklahoma City to Edward...
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Phineas Newborn Jr. born 14 December 1931
Phineas Newborn Jr. (December 14, 1931 – May 26, 1989) was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Bud Powell. Newborn was born in Whiteville,...
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Randy Parton born 15 December 1953
Randy Parton (December 15, 1953 – January 21, 2021) was an American country music singer-songwriter, actor, and businessman. Randle Huston Parton was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the eighth of...
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Bob Dawdy born 16 December 1942
Bob Dawdy (December 16, 1942 - January 21, 2013) was best known as lead guitarist of the Velaires. Robert Edward Dawdy was born at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, the son of Richard and Mary (Green) Dawdy....
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