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Sonny Turner born 24 September 1939
Sonny Turner (born September 24, 1939 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American singer best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. Charles Arnold “Sonny” Turner was born on...
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Erik Darling born 25 September 1935
Erik Darling (September 25, 1933 – August 3, 2008) was an American songwriter and a folk music artist. He was an important influence on the folk scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Darling born in...
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Alvin Stardust born 27 September 1947
Bernard William Jewry (27 September 1942 – 23 October 2014), known professionally as Shane Fenton and later as Alvin Stardust, was an English rock singer and stage actor. Bernard William Jewry was...
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Tommy Collins born 28 September 1930
Leonard Raymond Sipes (September 28, 1930 – March 14, 2000), better known as Tommy Collins, was an American country music singer and songwriter. Collins was born just outside of Oklahoma City, spending...
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Nicola Di Bari born 29 September 1940
Nicola Di Bari, born Michele Scommegna on 29 September 1940, is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music. Hailing from Manfredonia, a...
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Buddy Rich born 30 September 1917
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Arguably the greatest jazz drummer of all time, the legendary Buddy Rich exhibited his love for...
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Chubby Wise born 2 October 1915
Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise (October 2, 1915, Lake City, Florida - January 6, 1996) was an American bluegrass fiddler. Most closely associated with Western swing and early bluegrass, Chubby Wise was...
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Phyllis Nelson born 3 October 1950
Phyllis Nelson (October 3, 1950 – January 12, 1998) was an American singer, most famous for her 1985 song, "Move Closer", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom. Her son is the singer and record...
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Carlo Mastrangelo born 5 October 1938
Carlo Mastrangelo, (October 5, 1938-April 4, 2016) was a singer, songwriter and drummer and former original member of Dion and the Belmonts and The Belmonts. Mastrangelo grew up in the Bronx, playing...
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June Allyson born 7 October 1917
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer. Born Eleanor Geisman on Oct. 7, 1917, Ella was 6 when her alcoholic father left....
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Gerry Brereton born 9 October 1921
Gerry Brereton, (9 September 1921 – 2005) was a ballad-singing baritone English singer and Commando who was blinded during a raid on Sicily in 1943. Also played football for Derby County before his...
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Leo Mathinsen born 10 October 1906
Leo "The Lion" Mathisen (10 October 1906 – 16 December 1969) was a Danish jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer and bandleader. He was a leading figure of the thriving Danish scene during the years...
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Nappy Brown born 12 October 1929
Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp (October 12, 1929 – September 20, 2008) better known by his stage name Nappy Brown, was an American R&B singer. His hits include the 1955 Billboard chart #2, "Don't Be...
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Bill Justis born 14 October 1926
William Everett "Bill" Justis, Jr. (October 14, 1926 – July 15, 1982) was an American pioneer rock and roll musician, composer, and musical arranger, best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song,...
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Mickey Baker born 15 October 1925
MacHouston Baker (October 15, 1925 – November 27, 2012), known as Mickey Baker and Mickey "Guitar" Baker, was an American guitarist. He is widely held to be a critical force in the bridging of rhythm...
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Reginald Dixon born 16 October1904
Reginald Herbert Dixon, MBE, ARCM (16 October 1904 – 9 May 1985), was an English theatre organist who was primarily known for his position as organist at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, a position he...
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Lattie Moore born 17 October 1924
Lattie Harrison Moore (17th October 1924 in Scottsville, Kentucky - 13. June 2010 ) was an American Hillbilly and rockabilly singer and songwriter. Lattie Harrison Moore was born in 1924 in...
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Don Parmley born 19 October 1933
Don Parmley (Oct. 19, 1933 - Jul. 30, 2016 ) was a lifelong banjo player and patriarch of the legendary Bluegrass Cardinals.Parmley was born in Monticello, Kentucky. As a 12-year-old he began learning...
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Dory Previn born 22 October 1925
Dory Previn (October 22, 1925 – February 14, 2012) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.She was born Dorothy Veronica Langan at Rahway, New Jersey, on October 22 1925, the daughter of...
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Betty Bennett born 23 October 1921
Betty Bennett (born October 23, 1921) is an American jazz singer. Betty Bennett was born 23 October 1921 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child, she hoped to become an opera singer, studying voice and piano...
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