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Eddy Drake born 7 August 1940
Eddy Drake ( August, 7, 1940 – July 8, 2009) was an American honky tonk guitarist, singer and session player. Eddy Drake (also known as Eddie) was born one of five brothers, just outside Louisville,...
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Michael Johnson born 8 August 1944
Michael Johnson (August 8, 1944 – July 25, 2017) was an American pop, country, and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. Stylistically, he has been all over the map, ranging from folk to pop and soft...
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Rocky Cole born 10 August 1920
Rocky Cole (August10, 1920 - October 3, 1999) was an American jazz pianist and singer. Rocky Cole was born “Rocky Coluccio” in 1920, and his career as a solo singer was relatively brief. However, his...
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Eddie Tigner born 11 August 1926
Ed Tigner, Jr. (August 11, 1926 – April 18, 2019), better known as Eddie Tigner, was an American blues pianist, keyboardist, singer, and songwriter. He recorded two albums, both released by Music...
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Joe Jones born 12 August 1926
Joseph Charles Jones (August 12, 1926 – November 27, 2005) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and arranger who was generally credited with discovering the Dixie Cups. He also worked with B.B....
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Dan Fogelberg born 13 August 1951
Dan Fogelberg (August 13, 1951 – December 16, 2007) was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. While never particularly popular in the UK, he sold millions of albums in the US and...
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Toots Mondello born 14 August 1911
Nunzio (Toots) Mondello (August 14, 1911 – November 15, 1992) was an important American swing jazz lead alto saxophonist during the swing era and a talented soloist, yet he remains relatively unknown...
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Mal Waldron born 16 August 1925
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Waldron was born in New York. He wanted to be a classical pianist and composer, and...
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Tex Harper (aka Rudy Preston) born 17 August 1936
Tex Harper (aka Rudy Preston) (August 17, 1936 - October 9, 2023) was a very talented musician, singer and songwriter from Texas. Tex was born as Freddie Jean Harper, in Jacksonville, Cherokee County,...
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Billy J. Kramer born 19 August 1943
William Howard Ashton (born 19 August 1943), known professionally as Billy J. Kramer, is an English pop singer. With The Dakotas, Kramer was managed by Brian Epstein during the 1960s and scored hits...
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Sky Saxon born 20 August 1937
Sky "Sunlight" Saxon (August 20, 1937 – June 25, 2009) was an American rock and roll musician best known as the leader and singer of the 1960s Los Angeles psychedelic garage rock band The Seeds. He was...
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Classie Ballou born 21 August 1937
Classie Ballou (August 21st 1937 - 27 July 2022) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Classie Ballou was born in the tiny country town of Elton, Louisiana. His folks sharecropped cotton,...
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Carolina Slim born 22 August 1923
Carolina Slim (August 22, 1923 – October 22, 1953) was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer. His best-known records are "Black Cat Trail" and "I'll Never Walk in Your Door". He used various...
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Martial Solal born 23 August 1927
Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Born to French parents in Algiers, North Africa, on August 23, 1927, Martial Solal grew up under the influence of his mother,...
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John Cipollina born 24 August 1943
John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.John...
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Ray Heindorf born 25 August 1908
Raymond John Heindorf (August 25, 1908 – February 3, 1980) was an American composer and songwriter who was noted for his work in film. Raymond John Heindorf was born August 25, 1908. in Haverstraw, New...
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Nik Turner born 26 August 1940
Nik Turner (26 August 1940 – 10 November 2022) was an English musician, best known as a member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner played saxophone and flute, as well as being a vocalist and...
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Joe Weaver born 27 August 1934
Joe Weaver (August 27, 1934 – July 5, 2006) was an American Detroit blues, electric blues and R&B pianist, singer and bandleader. His best known recording was "Baby I Love You So" (1955), and he...
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Vince Maloy born 28 August 1933
Vince Maloy (28 August 1933 - 14 August 2002) was an American rockabilly singer. Vince Maloy was born in Southern Maryland. When he was 6 years old his mother gave him a Roy Rogers guitar and he...
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Dutch Tilders born 29 August 1941
Dutch Tilders (29 August 1941 – 23 April 2011) was a Netherlands-born Australian blues singer-songwriter and guitarist where he was dubbed the “Godfather Of Blues”. Born Mattheus Frederikus Wilhelmus...
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