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,...
View ArticleTommy 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...
View ArticleRay 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....
View ArticleGeorge 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...
View ArticleClarence "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,...
View ArticleCarol 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...
View ArticleSonny 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...
View ArticleFernand 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,...
View ArticlePaul 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,...
View ArticleLen 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...
View ArticleBud 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...
View ArticleSarah 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...
View ArticleCharlie 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...
View ArticleMoon 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....
View ArticleJohn 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...
View ArticleBill 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....
View ArticleTony 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...
View ArticleJulie 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,...
View ArticleRalph 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...
View ArticleJimmy 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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