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Barbara Pittman born 6 April 1938
Barbara Pittman (April 6, 1938 – October 29, 2005). Her claim to fame is that she was the only female artist signed to Sam Phillips' Sun Records -- other women recorded for the label, but only Pittman...
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Billie Holiday born 7 April 1915
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Billie Holiday was born...
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Gus Hardin born 9 April 1945
Gus Hardin (April 9, 1945 – February 17, 1996) was a country music singer. Her mixture of Blues, Rock, Gospel and Country typified the "Tulsa Sound" of the 1970'sBiographical information on Gus Hardin...
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Nate Nelson born 10 April 1932
Nate Nelson (born Nathaniel Nelson April 10, 1932 – June 1, 1984) was a tenor vocalist in two legendary R & B vocal groups: The Flamingos and The Platters.Nate nelson was trained on the gospel...
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David Cassidy born 12 April 1950
David Bruce Cassidy (April 12, 1950 – November 21, 2017) was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist.David Cassidy was born in Manhattan, to Jack Cassidy, a very skilled actor and singer,...
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Gene Ammons born 14 April 1925
Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. The son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, Gene Ammons is remembered for...
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Casper Reardon born 15 April 1907
Casper Reardon (April 15, 1907 – March 9, 1941) was a classical and jazz harpist. Casper Reardon was born to a vaudeville family in Little Falls, New York. At the age of five he trouped with his...
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Spike Milligan born 16 April 1918
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor. One of two comic geniuses nicknamed "Spike" whose work was wildly...
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Chuck Higgins born 17 April 1924
Charles Williams Higgins (April 17, 1924 – September 14, 1999) was an American saxophonist. Higgins, who was noted for mixing elements of Latin Jazz with Blues, recorded in Los Angeles during the...
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Dickie Goodman born 19 April 1934
Richard Dorian Goodman (April 19, 1934 – November 6, 1989) known as Dickie Goodman was an American music and record producer born in Brooklyn, New York. Although Weird Al Yankovic gets most of the...
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Tito Puente born 20 April 1923
Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente (April 20, 1923 – May 31, 2000) was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope", "El Rey de los imbales" (The...
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Betty Rhodes born 21 April 1921
Betty Jane Rhodes (April 21, 1921 – December 27, 2011) was an American actress and singer, most active in film during the late 1930s and the World War II era. This swinging singer from WWII was born...
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Glen Campbell born 22 April 1936
Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor.Born Glen Travis Campbell, his father was a sharecropper and Glen was...
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"Cow Cow" Davenport born 23 April 1895
Charles Edward "Cow Cow" Davenport (April 23, 1894 – December 3, 1955) was an American boogie-woogie and piano blues player as well as a vaudeville entertainer. He also played the organ and sang. He is...
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Ruth Welcome born 24 April 1919
Ruth Anneliese Welcome (April 24, 1919 – March 6, 2005) was a German-born American zither player. During her 30-year career (1945-1975) she distinguished herself as America's only professional...
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Jinny Osborn born 25 April 1927
Jinny Osborn (April 25, 1927 – May 19, 2003), born Virginia Cole, was an American popular music singer. She founded the group The Chordettes with three friends in 1946, which became one of the...
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Dorothy Donegan born 26 April 1922
Dorothy Donegan (April 26, 1922 – May 19, 1998) was an American jazz pianist primarily known for performing in the stride piano and boogie-woogie style. She also played bebop, swing jazz, and classical...
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Blossom Dearie born 28 April 1924
Margrethe Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist. She was physically petite, with a recognizably light and girlish voice One of the last supper...
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Tino Rossi born 29 April 1907
Constantin "Tino" Rossi (29 April 1907 – 26 September 1983) was a French singer and film actor who sold some 200 million records in a 50-year career. His best-known hit was ''Petit Papa No"el,'' which...
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Bob Jaxon born 30 April 1930
Bob Jaxon (born Robert Jackson 30th April 1930, New York City, New York was a Rock & Roll and Rockabilly singer. Bob Jaxon made some mighty fine teen rock 'n' roll during a recording career that...
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