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Taswell "Little Joe" Baird born 24 June
Taswell Joseph Baird Jr. (June 24, 1922 - November 22, 2002) was an American jazz trombonist who towered among the pre-eminent trombonists of bebop's heyday, collaborating with giants including Dizzy...
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Bonnie Lou Williams born 25 June 1927
Bonnie Lou Williams (June 25, 1925 - March 4, 1986) was an American singer and actress who worked with various orchestras up through the middle of the decade before embarking on a mildly successful...
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Roger Voisin born 26 June 1918
Roger Louis Voisin (June 26, 1918 – February 13, 2008) was an American classical trumpeter. In 1959, The New York Times called him "one of the best-known trumpeters in this country." Among the most...
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Bobby Harden born 27 June 1935
Bobby Harden (27 Jun 1935 - 30 May 2006) was an American country singer and songwriter. Bobby Lamoyne Harden was born in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee and gained national success as part of the...
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Ralph Burns born 29 June 1922
Ralph Joseph P. Burns (June 29, 1922 – November 21, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Burns was born in Newton, Massachusetts, United States, where he began playing the piano...
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Tommy Keene born 30 June 1958
Tommy Keene (born Thomas Clay Keene; June 30, 1958 – November 22, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for releasing critically acclaimed rock & roll/power pop songs in the 1980s....
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Stu Davis born 1 July 1921
Stu Davis (July 1, 1921 – March 25, 2007) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, storyteller and musician. Davis was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993. Stu Davis was born David...
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Charlie Phillips born 2 July 1937
Charlie Phillips (born July 2, 1937) is an American country music singer and songwriter. With his 4-octave range, he is one of the most soulful and accomplished singers to emerge from West Texas. A...
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Baker Knight born 4 July 1933
Thomas Baker Knight Jr. (July 4, 1933 –) was an American songwriter and musician. Perhaps best known for penning the Elvis Presley hit "The Wonder of You," Baker Knight ranks among the most prolific...
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Ron Thompson born 5 July, 1953
Ron Thompson (July 5, 1953 – February 15, 2020) was an American electric blues and blues rock guitarist, singer and songwriter. Thompson released nine albums after 1983 on labels including Blind Pig....
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Danny White born 6 July 1931
Danny White (July 6, 1931 – January 5, 1996) was an influential R&B singer and bandleader who worked in the New Orleans area. Joseph Daniel White was born at Charity Hospital in New Orleans,...
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Chan Romero born 7 July 1941
Robert Lee "Chan" Romero (July 7, 1941 – April 21, 2024) was an American rock and roll performer, best known for his 1959 song "Hippy Hippy Shake". Romero was born in Billings, Montana. His father was...
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Toby Keith born 8 July 1961
Toby Keith (July 8, 1961 – February 5, 2024) was an American country music singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and businessman. Toby Keith Covel was born in Clinton, Oklahoma. Raised in...
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Vince Edwards born 9 July 1928
Vince Edwards (July 9, 1928 – March 11, 1996) was an American actor, director, and singer. He was best known for his TV role as Dr. Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's...
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Cootie Williams born 10 July 1911
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (July 10, 1911 – September 15, 1985) was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter, whose mastery of mutes and expressive effects made him one of the...
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Michel Louvain born 12 July 1937
Michel Louvain, CM (July 12, 1937 – April 14, 2021) was a Canadian singer most popular in the 1960s and 1970s. He recorded many hit songs, and also worked as a host for a variety of shows on television...
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Long John Hunter born 13 July 1931
John Thurman Hunter Jr. (July 13, 1931 – January 4, 2016), known by the stage name Long John Hunter, was an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He released seven...
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Marijohn Wilkin born 14 July 1920
Marijohn Wilkin (née Melson, formerly Russell, later Selman; July 14, 1920 – October 28, 2006) was an American songwriter, famous in country music for writing a number of hits such as "One Day At a...
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Abner Jay born 15 July 1921
Abner Wingate Jay (July 15, 1921 – November 4, 1993) was an American multi-instrumentalist from Georgia, best known for performing eccentric, blues infused folk music as a one man band. His...
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Desmond Dekker born 16 July 1941
Desmond Dekker (16 July 1941 – 25 May 2006) was one of the first Jamaican vocalists to make a significant impact outside the land of his birth. A pioneering singer and a consistent hit-maker throughout...
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