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Bette McLaurin born 6 December 1929
Bette McLaurin (born December 6, 1929) is an American singer best known for her jazz-influenced ballad and R&B performances in the 1950s. Two of her recordings, "I May Hate Myself In The Morning"...
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Joey Powers born 7 December 1934
Joseph S. "Joe" Ruggiero (December 7, 1934 – January 20, 2017), who performed as Joey Powers, was an American former pop singer and songwriter whose record "Midnight Mary" reached No. 10 on the...
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Gregg Allman born 8 December 1947
Gregg Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Castle HeightsThe son of Willis Allman, a US...
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Anna King born 9 December 1937
Anna King (December 9, 1937 – October 21, 2002) was an American soul and gospel singer who performed with both James Brown and Duke Ellington. She was born Anna Dolores Williams in Philadelphia....
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Peter Sarstedt born 10 December 1941
Peter Sarstedt (10 December 1941 – 8 January 2017) was a British singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He was the brother of singers Eden Kane, a teenage pop idol and Clive Sarstedt, with both of whom...
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McCoy Tyner born 11 December 1928
McCoy Tyner (December 11, 1938 – March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet (from 1960 to 1965) and his long solo career afterwards....
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Lonesome Sundown born 12 December 1928
Cornelius Green III (December 12, 1928 – April 23, 1995), known professionally as Lonesome Sundown, was an American blues musician, best known for his swamp blues recordings for Excello Records in the...
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Skip Prokop born 13 December 1943
Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop (December 13, 1943 – August 30, 2017) was a Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist. He was also a band leader, was a founding member of the Canadian rock music groups...
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Martha Davis born 14 December 1917
Martha Davis (December 14, 1917 – April 6, 1960) was an American singer and pianist whose musical comedy act, "Martha Davis & Spouse," was popular in the late 1940s and 1950s. Marthesta Faye...
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Marjorie Hughes born 15 December 1925
 Marjorie Hughes (born December 15, 1925) is best known as an American band singer from mid 1940’s to 1950. Hughes was born Marjorie Carlone in Springfield, Massachusetts and her father was bandleader...
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Sam Most born 16 December 1930
Samuel Most (December 16, 1930 – June 13, 2013) was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was "probably the first great jazz flutist", according to jazz...
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Eddie Kendricks born 17 December 1939
Eddie Kendricks (December 17, 1939 – October 5, 1992), better known as Eddie Kendricks, was an American tenor singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks...
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Suzy Solidor born 18 December 1900
Suzy Solidor (18 December 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a French singer and actress, appearing in films such as La Garçonne. She owned her own nightclub and became 'the most painted woman in the world'....
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Bob Brookmeyer born 19 December 1929
Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer (December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011) was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer who was long considered a very advanced arranger whose...
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Judy Henske born 20 December 1936
Judith Anne Henske (December 20, 1936 – April 27, 2022) was an American singer and songwriter, dubbed "the Queen of the Beatniks" by producer Jack Nitzsche. Her 1963 recording of "High Flying Bird" was...
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Champ Butler born 21 December 1926
Champ Clark Butler (December 21, 1926 – March 8, 1992) was an American popular music singer who had several Billboard singles chart hits in the 1950s, and recorded primarily for Columbia Records. Champ...
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Joe Lee Wilson born 22 December 1935
Joe Lee Wilson (December 22, 1935 – July 17, 2011) was an American jazz singer from Bristow, Oklahoma, whose reputation never matched those of such male stars as Jon Hendricks, Mark Murphy or Kurt...
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Chet Baker born 23 December 1929
Chet Baker  (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".Heralded as...
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Jabbo Smith born 24 December 1908
Jabbo Smith (December 24, 1908 – January 16, 1991) was an American jazz musician, known for his virtuoso playing on the trumpet. He had a short but exceedingly important recording career in the late...
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Howard Crockett born 25 December 1925
Howard Crockett (December 25th, 1925 - 27 December 1994) was a little known singer and songwriter who is sadly ignored by practically every country music encyclopedia. Howard Crockett was born Howard...
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