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Carl Smith born 15 March 1927

 Carl Milton Smith (March 15, 1927 – January 16, 2010) was an American country music singer. Known as "Mister Country," Smith was the husband of June Carter (later June Carter Cash) and Goldie Hill,...

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Tommy Flanagan born 16 March 1930

 Thomas Lee Flanagan (16 March 1930, – 16 November 2001, New York City) was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered as an accompanist of Ella Fitzgerald and player...

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Ray Ellington born 17 March 1916

Ray Ellington (born Harry Pitts Brown, 17 March 1916 – 28 February 1985) was a popular English singer, drummer and bandleader. He is best known for his appearances on The Goon Show from 1951 to 1960....

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George Olsen born 18 March

George Olsen (18 March 1893 - 18 March 1971) was an American band-leader who had one of the country's most popular dance bands during the 1920s.George interviewed on the RCA radio in 1926Born in...

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Clarence "Frogman" Henry born 19 March 1937

 Clarence "Frogman" Henry (born March 19, 1937) is an American rhythm and blues singer.Clarence was born in Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana in 1937. As a child he studied piano and the trombone,...

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Carol Lee Cooper born 21 March 1942

Carol Lee Cooper (born 21 March 1942) is known as a long-time Grand Ole Opry background vocalist and leader of the Carol Lee Singers for 36 years.  As a child, she toured the country performing and...

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Sonny Burke born 22 March 1914

Sonny Burke (born Joseph Francis Burke; March 22, 1914, Scranton, Pennsylvania – May 31, 1980) was an accomplished musical arranger, composer, big band leader and producer. Burke studied violin and...

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Fernand Gignac born 23 March 1934

Fernand Gignac (March 23, 1934 - August 18, 2006) was a French Canadian singer and actor. He was one of the most prolific artists in Quebec, whose career spanned six decades.   A native of Montreal,...

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Paul Specht born 24 March 1895

Paul Specht (March 24, 1895 – April 11, 1954) was an American  dance bandleader popular in the 1920s.Paul Levi Specht entered the world, in 1895, in a place with the depressed name of Sinking Springs,...

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Len Dresslar born 25 March1925

Elmer "Len" Dresslar, Jr. (March 25, 1925, in St. Francis, Kansas – October 16, 2005) was an American voice actor and vocalist, best known as the deep bass voice of the Jolly Green Giant in commercials...

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Bud Isaacs born 26 March 1928

Bud Isaacs (b. 26 March 1928) is an influential American pioneer pedal steel guitarist who was a regular musician on the Grand Ole Opry and the Ozark Jubilee. He worked for numerous artists in...

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Sarah Vaughan born 27 March 1924

Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One") (March 27, 1924, Newark, New Jersey – April 3, 1990, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having...

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Charlie McCoy born 28 March 1941

Charles Ray "Charlie" McCoy (born March 28, 1941 in Oak Hill, West Virginia) is an American session musician noted for his work on a wide variety of instruments. Charlie McCoy was perhaps the...

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Moon Mullican born 29 March 1909

Aubrey Wilson Mullican (March 29, 1909 – January 1, 1967), known as Moon Mullican, and "King of the Hillbilly Piano Players", was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and pianist....

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John Lee (Sonny Boy) Williamson born 30 March 1914

John Lee Curtis "Sonny Boy" Williamson (March 30, 1914 – June 1, 1948) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter. He is often regarded as the pioneer of the blues harp as a solo...

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Bill Finegan born 3 April 1917

William James Finegan (3 April 1917 – 4 June 2008) was an American jazz bandleader, pianist, arranger, and composer. He was an arranger in the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s....

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Tony Williams born 5 April 1928

Tony Williams (5 April 1928 – August 14, 1992) was the lead singer of the Platters from 1953 to 1960. Samuel Anthony "Tony" Williams was the original lead singer of The Platters, the most successful...

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Julie Rogers born 6 April 1943

Julie Rogers (born Julie Rolls, 6 April 1943, Bermondsey, London) is an English pop singer. She is best known for her multi-million selling song, "The Wedding".Rogers, the youngest of five children,...

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Ralph Flanagan born 7 April 1919

Ralph Flanagan (born Ralph Elias Flenniken; April 7, 1914* in Lorain, Ohio – December 30, 1995 in Miami, Florida) was a famed big band leader, conductor, pianist, composer, and arranger for the...

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Jimmy Osborne born 8 April 1923

Jimmie Osborne (b. James Osborne Jnr., 8 April 1923, Winchester, Kentucky, USA, d. 26 December 1958) was a country singer, songwriter and radio performe. He ranked as one of the more traditional...

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