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Vic Dana born 26 August 1942
Due to defunct 3rd party add-ons I could not access my blog without being re-directed; so whilst waiting for Blogger help I created another blogSo for today’s birthday go...
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Juliette Cavazzi born 27 August 1926
Juliette Augustina Cavazzi, CM (née Sysak; 27 August 1926 – 26 October 2017), ,was a Canadian singer and television host.With her folksy pop style and easy rapport with an audience, big band and...
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Honey Lantree born 28 August 1943
Anne Margot Lantree (born 28 August 1943, Hayes, Middlesex, England) was a drummer and singer with The Honeycombs. She was one of the only female drummers to come out of the British invasion of the...
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Charlie Parker born 29 August 1920
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.At age eleven, he had just begun to play the saxophone. At age...
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Kitty Wells born 30 August 1919
Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. One of the few country stars born in Nashville, Kitty...
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Karen Chandler born 1 September 1923
Eva Nadauld (September 1, 1923 – November 3, 2010), known professionally as Eve Young early in her career, and later as Karen Chandler, was an American singer of popular music during the 1940s, 1950s...
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Laurindo Almeida born 2 September 1917
Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres. He is widely...
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Memphis Slim born 3 September 1915
Memphis Slim (September 3, 1915 – February 24, 1988) was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included...
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Jan Savitt born 4 September 1913
Jan Savitt (born Jacob Savetnick; September 4, 1913– October 4, 1948), was an American bandleader, musical arranger, and violinist. (He was also known as "The Stokowski of Swing", from having played...
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Sunnyland Slim born 5 September 1906
Albert Luandrew (September 5, 1906* – March 17, 1995), known as Sunnyland Slim, was an American blues pianist who was born in the Mississippi Delta and moved to Chicago, helping to make that city a...
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Jimmie Rodgers born 8 September 1897
Jimmie Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) known as The Singing Brakeman and America's Blue Yodeler was the first country music superstar, resulting in another commonly used nickname: The...
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Marion Mann born 9 September 1914
Marion Mann (9 September 1914 - 1966) was a singer with Bob Crosby’s Orchestra and Bob Cats from 1938 – 1941. As you well may know I usually have a comprehensive biography of my birthday celebrities...
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Raymond Scott born 10 September 1908
Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow, September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, recording studio maverick, and inventor of electronic instruments.Born Harry...
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John Martyn born 11 September 1948
Iain David McGeachy, OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 22 studio albums,...
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Charles Brown born 13 September 1922
Tony Russell "Charles" Brown (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American blues singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced blues-club style influenced blues performance in the 1940s and...
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Tom Delaney born 14 September 1889
Tom Delaney (September 14, 1889 – December 16, 1963) was an African-American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer, who wrote a number of popular songs, mainly in the 1920sTom Delaney was born...
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Roy Acuff born 15 September 1903
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music," Acuff is often credited with moving the...
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Al (Doctor Horse) Pittman born 17 September 1917
Al (“Dr. Horse”) Pittman (17 September 1917 – 28 April 2003), an American rhythm and blues vocalist and entertainer who performed between the 1930s and 1960s.I couldn’t find much information...
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Billy Ward born 19 September 1921
Billy Ward (born September 19, 1921 - February 16, 2002) was a vocal coach, pianist, arranger, songwriter who formed The Dominoes in 1950. One of the most successful R&B groups of the early 1950s,...
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Sophia Loren born 20 September 1934
Sofia Villani Scicolone (born 20 September 1934), known by her stage name Sophia Loren, Dame of the Grand Cross, O.M.R.I., is an Academy Award-winning Italian actress and singer. A striking beauty,...
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