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Jim Sullivan born 13 August 1940
Jim Sullivan (August 13, 1940 – disappeared March 6, 1975) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who released two albums before he disappeared without a trace in New Mexico. James Anthony...
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Jeannie Cheatham born 14 August 1927
Jeannie Cheatham (born August 14, 1927) is a living legend in jazz and blues. A pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, she has played and sung with many of the greats...
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Rose Marie born 15 August 1923
Rose Marie (August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017) was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career ultimately spanning nine decades, which included film, radio,...
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Barbara George born 16 August 1942
Barbara George (16 August 1942 – 10 August 2006) was an American R&B singer and songwriter. Born Barbara Ann Smith and raised in the 9th ward New Orleans, George sang in a church choir, and began...
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Albert Washington born 17 August 1935
Albert Washington (August 17, 1935 - October 23, 1998) was a blues/soul singer and songwriter who spent most of his career singing in the blues clubs around Cincinnati, Ohio and his home in Long...
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Sarah Dash born 18 August 1945
Sarah Dash (August 18, 1945 – September 20, 2021) was an American singer. She first appeared on the music scene as a member of Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles. Dash was later a member of Labelle,...
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Susan Jacks born 19 August 1948
Susan Jacks (19 August 1948 – 25 April 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer. Susan Pesklevits was born on 19 August 1948 to a family of eight children in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan....
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J.J. Malone born 20 August 1935
John Jacob (J.J.) Malone (August 20, 1935 – February 20, 2004) was an American West Coast blues, electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer, keyboardist, record company executive and night club...
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Clydie King born 21 August 1943
Clydie King (August 21, 1943 – January 7, 2019) was an American singer, best known for her session work as a backing vocalist. King also recorded solo under her name. In the 1970s, she recorded as...
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Chuck Brown born 22 August 1936
Charles Louis Brown (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012) was an American guitarist, bandleader and singer known as "The Godfather of Go-Go". Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed around the...
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Vicki Brown born 23 August 1941
Vicki Brown (23 August 1940 – 16 June 1991) was an English pop, rock and contemporary classical singer. She was a member of both The Vernons Girls and The Breakaways and was the first wife of fellow...
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Wayne Shorter born 25 August 1933
Wayne Shorter (August 25, 1933 – March 2, 2023) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for...
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Fred Gerlach born 26 August 1925
Fred Gerlach (August 26, 1925 – December 31, 2009) was an American folk musician and luthier. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page credited his recording of the traditional song "Gallows Pole" with...
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Cesária Évora born 27 August 1941
Cesária Évora GCIH (27 August 1941 – 17 December 2011), more commonly known as Cize, was a Cape Verdean singer-songwriter. She received a Grammy Award in 2004 for her album Voz d'Amor. Nicknamed the...
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Texas Bill Strength born 28 August 1928
“Texas” Bill Strength (August 28, 1928 - October 1, 1973) was an American country/rockabilly musician and radio host / record store owner. Although much better known for his career as a radio...
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Maria Dolores Pradera born 29 August 1926
María Dolores Fernández Pradera OAXS, MMT (29 August 1924* – 28 May 2018) was a Spanish melodic singer and actress, and one of the most famous voices in Spain and Latin America. She was known as "La...
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Kenny Dorham born 30 August 1924
Kenny Dorham (August 30, 1924 – December 5, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer. Dorham's talent is frequently lauded by critics and other musicians, but he never received the...
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Bobby Parker born 31 August 1937
Robert Lee Parker (August 31, 1937 – October 31, 2013) was an American blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter and was one of the most exciting performers in modern blues, and arguably should have...
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George Riddle born 1 September 1935
George Riddle (September 1, 1935 - July 19, 2014) was an American singer and songwriter, who worked as a solo performer, sideman, front man for bigger name artists, and as sideman-straight man for Bill...
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Computer on last legs.
Well music lovers my poor old PC which I've had for many years has finally given up the ghost. According to the Windows troubleshooter I have multiple corrupt files and need to re-load Windows 10...
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