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Floyd McDaniel born 21 July 1915
Floyd McDaniel (July 21, 1915 – July 22, 1995 in Chicago) was an American blues, jazz, rhythm & blues and doo-wop guitarist and singer. Floyd Edward "Butter" McDaniel was born in Athens, Alabama....
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Cora Vaucaire born 22 July 1918
Cora Vaucaire (July 22, 1918 – September 17, 2011) was a French singer of traditional pop (chanson) music known for her breezy style. Her husband was the famous songwriter Michel Vaucaire. She was...
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Gloria Coleman born 24 July 1931
Gloria Coleman (July 24, 1931 - February 17, 2010) was an American organist, pianist, bassist and vocalist. For many, the history of women on the jazz organ begins and ends with Shirley Scott. Though...
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Darrell Banks born 25 July 1937
Darrell Banks (July 25, 1937 – February 24, 1970) was an American soul singer. He had a hit with 1966's "Open the Door to Your Heart". A native of Mansfield, Ohio, he was born Darrell Eubanks, but he...
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Betty Davis born 26 July 1945
Betty Davis (July 26, 1944 – February 9, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and model. She was known for her controversial sexually-oriented lyrics and performance style and was the second wife...
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Carol Ventura born 1939
Carol Ventura (1939 – March 5, 2010) was a little known Jazz singer who cut two LPs for Prestige in the mid-1960s. This Newark-born lady came from a musical family. Her father was a vaudeville...
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Junior Kimbrough born 28 July 1930
David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 – January 17, 1998) was an American blues musician. In 2023, he was inducted in the Blues Hall of Fame. Kimbrough was born in Hudsonville, Mississippi, and lived...
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Nancie Banks born 29 July1951
Nancie Banks (July 29, 1951 – November 13, 2002)* was an American jazz singer. Nancie Manzuk in Morgantown, West Virginia, was born into a musical family. The four-octave range of her vocalist dad...
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Big Jack Johnson born 30 July 1941
Big Jack Johnson (July 30, 1940* – March 14, 2011) was an American electric blues musician, one of the "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound." He...
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Bob Welch born 31 July 1945
Bob Welch (August 31, 1945 – June 7, 2012) was an American musician who was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1971 to 1974. He had a successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included "Hot...
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Jerry Garcia born 1 August 1942
Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he...
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Homer Banks born 2 August 1943
Homer Banks (August 2, 1941 – April 3, 2003) was an African American songwriter, singer and record producer. Although best known by many for his songwriting for Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s,...
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Tony Bennett born 3 August 1926
Tony Bennett (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), was an American jazz and traditional pop singer. He received many accolades, including 20 Grammy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award, and two Primetime...
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Bill Coleman born 4 August 1904
Bill Coleman (August 4, 1904 – August 24) was mellow toned American jazz trumpeter with a distinctive sound and a lyrical style. William Johnson Coleman was born in Paris, Kentucky, United Sates. In...
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Lenny Breau born 5 August 1941
Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941 – August 12, 1984) was an American-Canadian guitarist. He blended many styles of music, including jazz, country, classical, and flamenco. Inspired by country guitarists like...
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Bobby Sykes born 6 August 1928
Bobby Sykes (August6, 1928 – November 7, 1994) was a singer, guitarist and songwriter and top session man -- particularly in association with Marty Robbins, with whom he worked and performed for 24...
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Harry Arnold born 7 August 1920
Harry Arnold (August 7, 1920 – February 11, 1971) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer.       An overlooked and now obscure figure in jazz, Harry Arnold led an incredibly tight,...
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Pete Drake born 8 August 1932
Roddis Franklin "Pete" Drake (October 8, 1932 – July 29, 1988) was a Nashville-based American record producer and pedal steel guitar player. One of the most sought-after backup musicians of the 1960s,...
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Ronnie Dawson born 11 August 1939
Ronnie Dawson (11 August 1939 – 30 September 2003) was an American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, nicknamed The Blond Bomber. Although he achieved regional success in the 1950s, his...
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Roland Stone born 12 August 1941
Roland Stone (12 August 1941 – 22 December 1999) was an American rhythm and blues and pop singer who performed and recorded in New Orleans between the 1950s and 1990s. OffBeat called him "R&B...
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