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Cash McCall born 28 January 1941
Cash McCall ( January 28, 1941 – April 20, 2019) was an American electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was best known for his 1966 R&B hit "When You Wake Up". Over his long career,...
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Jeanne Lee born 29 January 1939
Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Best known for a wide range of vocal styles she mastered, Lee collaborated with numerous distinguished...
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Hank Marr born 30 January 1927
Hank Marr (30 January 1927 – 16 March 2004) was a soul jazz and hard bop Hammond B3 organist and pianist, probably best known for his many albums recorded under his own name for the Double-time record...
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Carol Channing born 31 January 1921
Carol Elaine Channing (January 31, 1921 – January 15, 2019) was an American actress, singer, dancer and comedian who starred in Broadway and film musicals. Her characters usually had a fervent...
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Chris Clark born 1 February 1946
Christine Elizabeth Clark (born February 1, 1946), better known as Chris Clark, is an American soul, jazz, and blues singer, who recorded for Motown Records. Clark became known to Northern Soul fans...
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Red Prysock born 2 February 1926
Red Prysock (February 2, 1926 – July 19, 1993) was an American R&B tenor saxophonist, one of the early Coleman Hawkins-influenced saxophonists to move in the direction of rhythm and blues, rather...
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Varetta Dillard born 3 February 1933
 Varetta Mamie Dillard (February 3, 1933 – October 4, 1993) was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1950s whose biggest hit was "Mercy, Mr. Percy". She was born in Harlem, New York, and spent...
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John Stubblefield born February 1945
John Stubblefield (February 4, 1945 – July 4, 2005) was one of the most highly respected American jazz saxophonist, flautist and oboist of his generation. He played with legendary musicians across the...
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Jackie Lee Cochran born 5 February 1934
Jackie Lee Cochran (February 5, 1934 – March 15, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician, known as Jack the Cat. Jackie Lee Cochran liked to tell people that he was born in 1941, but in reality he...
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Conrad Gozzo born 6 February 1922
Conrad Joseph Gozzo (February 6, 1922 – October 8, 1964) was an American top-notch studio musician and first trumpeter, who was also a skilled (but underutilized) jazz soloist. He was a member of the...
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Bert Sommer born 7 February 1949
Bert Sommer (February 7, 1949 – July 23, 1990) was an American folk singer and songwriter. He appeared in the musical Hair and at the Woodstock Festival, and released several albums as a...
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Jackie Day born 8 February 1938
Jackie Day (February 8, 1938 - January 4, 2007)Â was a soul singerand songwriter whose career lasted throughout the 1960s until the death of frequent collaborator and producer Maxwell Davis. In soul...
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Carole King born 9 February 1942
Carole King  (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958, initially as one of the staff songwriters at 1650 Broadway and later as a solo...
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Roberta Flack born 10 February 1939
Roberta Flack (born February 10, 1937) is an American singer and pianist who was the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw...
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Leon Haywood born 11 February 1942
Leon Haywood (February 11, 1942 – April 5, 2016) was an American funk and soul singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his 1975 hit single "I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You",...
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Pink Anderson born 12 February 1900
 Pinkney "Pink" Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist. Born in small South Carolina town of Laurens and moved with his family to Spartanburg, also...
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Joan Edwards born 13 February 1919
Joan Edwards (February 13, 1919 – August 27, 1981) was an American film actress and singer-songwriter in the old-time radio era. She was perhaps best known for her work on the radio version of Your Hit...
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Big Jim Sullivan born 14 February 1941
James George Tomkins (14 February 1941 – 2 October 2012), known professionally as Big Jim Sullivan, was an English musician whose career started in 1958. He was best known as a session guitarist. In...
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Taft Jordan born 15 February 1915
Taft Jordan (February 15, 1915 – December 1, 1981) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was born James Taft Jordan  in Florence, South Carolina, United States.He studied baritone horn in Norfolk,...
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Machito born 16 February 1912
Machito (February 16, 1912* – April 15, 1984) was a Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music. He was raised in Havana with the singer Graciela, his...
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