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Ted Fio Rito born 20 December1900
Theodore Salvatore Fiorito (December 20, 1900 – July 22, 1971), known professionally as Ted Fio Rito, was an American composer, orchestra leader, and keyboardist, on both the piano and the Hammond...
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Hank Crawford born 21 December 1934
Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. (December 21, 1934 – January 29, 2009) was an American R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, soul jazz alto saxophonist, arranger and songwriter. Crawford was musical director...
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Art Christmas born 22 December 1905
Art Christmas (December 22, 1905 – September 24, 1961) was a Canadian dance band and jazz musician. For many years during the exciting dance band and jazz era of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Art...
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Eugene Record born 23 December 1940
Eugene Booker Record (December 23, 1940 – July 22, 2005) was a songwriter, producer, all-around instrumentalist and frequent lead vocalist of the Chi-Lites, one of the greatest soul groups ever to come...
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Jabbo Smith born 24 December 1908
Jabbo Smith, born as Cladys Smith (December 24, 1908 – January 16, 1991) was an American jazz musician, known for his virtuoso playing on the trumpet. He had one of the oddest careers in jazz history....
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Régine Zylberberg born 26 December 1929
Régine Zylberberg, (born Regina Zylberberg, 26 December 1929) better known as Régine, is a Belgian-born French singer and night-club impresaria. She dubbed herself the "Queen of the Night". Régine was...
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John Hughey born 27 December 1933
John Hughey (December 27, 1933 – November 18, 2007) was an American musician. He was known for his work as a session pedal steel guitar player for various country music acts, most notably Conway Twitty...
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Ed Bruce born 29 December 1939
William Edwin Bruce, Jr. (born December 29, 1939) is an American country music songwriter and singer. Bruce was born in Keiser, Arkansas and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1957, at the age of 17, he...
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Bo Diddley born 30 December 1928
Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates, December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known as Bo Diddley, was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and music producer who played a key role in the transition...
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Jonah Jones born 31 December 1933
Jonah Jones (born Robert Elliott Jones; December 31, 1909 – April 29, 2000) was a jazz trumpeter who created concise versions of jazz and swing and jazz standards that appealed to a mass audience. In...
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Teddy Foster born 1 January 1908
Teddy Foster (1908 - 1984) was a much loved British trumpeter and band leader in the 40's. Almost every sideman you meet seems to have played at one time or another in Teddy Foster's band. Teddy...
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Herbie Nichols born 3 January 1919
Herbert Horatio Nichols (3 January 1919 – 12 April 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who wrote the jazz standard "Lady Sings the Blues". Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly...
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Anona Winn born 5 January 1904
Anona Winn MBE (born Anona Edna Wilkins, 5 January 1904 – 2 February 1994) was an Australian-born actress, broadcaster and singer, who spent most of her career in the UK. She will be remembered by the...
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Earl Scruggs born 6 January 1924
Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", that is a defining characteristic...
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Paul Revere born 7 January 1937
Paul Revere (January 7, 1938 - October 4, 2014) was an American musician and organ player. In 1958, he and other musicians founded the group Paul Revere & the Raiders. They recorded many hits. He...
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Jon Lucien born 8 January 1942
Jon Lucien (January 8, 1942 – August 18, 2007) was a pioneering jazz-soul singer. Dubbed "the man with the golden throat" by Herbie Hancock, Jon Lucien was the premier crooner of the fusion era --...
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Dick Jurgens born 9 January 1910
Dick Henry Jurgens (January 9, 1910 – October 5, 1995) was an American swing music bandleader and composer who enjoyed great popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s.The son of Dietrich Heinrich...
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Jim Croce born 10 January 1943
James Joseph Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, Croce released five studio albums and singles. His songs "Bad, Bad...
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Frankie Randall born 11 January 1938
Frankie Randall (born Franklin Joseph "Frank" Lisbona; January 11, 1938 – December 28, 2014) was an American singer, dancer, songwriter, vocalist, actor, and comedian. His acting credits include The...
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Liz Anderson born 13 January 1929
Elizabeth Jane Anderson (née Haaby; January 13, 1927 - October 31, 2011) was an American country music singer-songwriter who was one in a wave of new-generation female vocalists in the genre during the...
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