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Sam Fletcher born 15 January 1934
Sam Fletcher (born Ira Levi Fletcher, January 15, 1934 – April 25, 1989) was an American singer who recorded in the late 1950s and 1960s.He was called” The Man with the Golden Voice” and was known for...
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Buddy Moss born 16 January 1914
Eugene "Buddy" Moss (January 16, 1914 – October 19, 1984) was an American blues musician. He is one of two influential Piedmont blues guitarists to record in the period between Blind Blake's final...
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Vido Musso born 17 January 1913
Vido Musso (January 16, 1913 – January 9, 1982) was an American thick- toned tenor jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader. He is probably not near the top of many B&R readers’ lists of...
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Hargus "Pig" Robbins born 18 January 1938
Hargus Melvin Robbins (January 18, 1938 – January 30, 2022), known by his nickname "Pig", was an American session keyboard player, having played on records for many artists. Robbins was born in Spring...
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Nora Brockstedt born 20 January 1923
Nora Brockstedt (20 January 1923 – 5 November 2015) was a Norwegian singer whose pioneering presence on radio and television helped define Norwegian entertainment. She was born Nora Berg in Oslo and...
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Snooks Eaglin born 21 January 1937
Fird Eaglin Jr. (January 21, 1936 or 37 – February 18, 2009), known as Snooks Eaglin, was an American guitarist and singer based in New Orleans. In his early years he was sometimes credited under other...
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Hammie Nixon born 22 January 1908
Hammie Nixon (January 22, 1908 – August 17, 1984) was an American blues harmonica player. Born Hammie Davis in Brownsville Tennessee in 1908 and orphaned as a young child but raised by foster parents....
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Anita Pointer born 23 January 1948
Anita Marie Pointer (January 23, 1948 – December 31, 2022) was an American singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. She co-wrote and was the lead...
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Zeke Carey born 24 January 1933
Zeke Carey (January 24, 1933 - December 24, 1999) was a tenor vocalist who came to prominence as an original co-founder of the American doo-wop group, The Flamingoes. Ezekiel J Carey was born in...
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Floyd Smith born 25 January 1917
Floyd Smith (January 25, 1917 – March 29, 1982), sometimes credited as Floyd "Guitar" Smith, was an American jazz guitarist and record producer who covered much stylistic territory in his long and...
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Dave Rowland born 26 January 1942
Dave Rowland (January 26, 1944 – November 1, 2018) was a country and gospel singer, better known to many in the music business as the founder and lead singer of hit-making group Dave & Sugar....
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Milt Raskin born 27 January 1916
Milt Raskin (January 27, 1916 – October 16, 1977) was an American jazz pianist, conductor and arranger. Born Milton William Raskin in Boston, Massachusetts, he played saxophone as a child before...
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Rod Morris born 28 January 1919
Rod Morris (January 28, 1919 – October 6, 1980) was a country and western singer and songwriter. Rodney (or Rogene) Morris was born into a musical family in Brookfield, Missouri and apparently reared...
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Salena Jones (aka Joan Shaw) born 29 January 1944
Salena Jones (born Joan Elizabeth Shaw, January 29, 1938) is an American jazz and cabaret singer. After performing and recording in the US as Joan Shaw from the late 1940s until the early 1960s, in...
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Tom McFarland born 30 January 1945
Tom McFarland (January 30, 1945 - September 3, 2004) was a well-traveled blues shouter, guitar player and composer who placed a vital role in reviving Seattle’s blues scene in the 1970s. McFarland was...
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Ottilie Patterson born 31 January 1932
Ottilie Patterson (31 January 1932 – 20 June 2011) was a Northern Irish blues singer best known for her performances and recordings with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the late 1950s and early 1960s....
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Dennis Brown born 1 February
Dennis Emmanuel Brown CD (1 February 1957 – 1 July 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven he recorded more than 75 albums...
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Rusty Kershaw born 2 February 1938
Rusty Kershaw born 2 February 1938, was an American singer, fiddler and guitarist better known as half of the country music duo Rusty & Doug, whose music blended elements of Cajun, country and rock...
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Luke McDaniel born 3 February1927
Luke McDaniel (February 3, 1927 – June 27, 1992), who also recorded under the stage name Jeff Daniels, was an American country and rockabilly music singer and songwriter. He was the grandfather of...
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Joe Beard born 4 February 1938
Joe Beard (b. Feb. 4, 1938) is Rochester’s legendary blues guitarist and vocalist. He has many times toured the United States as well as Europe and has sat in with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and his idol...
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