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Sheila Guyse born 14 July 1925
Etta Drucille Guyse, known as Sheila Guyse* (July 14, 1925 – December 28, 2013), was a beautiful multi-talented, popular and well-loved figure on the stage and screen during the 1940s and 1950s. Some...
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Dion DiMucci born 18 July 1939
Dion DiMucci (born Dion Francis DiMucci, 18 July 1939), better known as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter, now widely recognized as one of the top singers of his era, blending the best elements of...
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Mary Mayo born 20 July 1924
Mary Mayo Riker Ham (born July 20, 1924 in Statesville , North Carolina , † December 1985 in New York City ) was an American singer in the field of jazz , folk , exotica , easy listening and pop music....
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Margaret Whiting born 22 July 1924
Margaret Eleanor Whiting (July 22, 1924 – January 10, 2011) was an American popular music and country music singer who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.Whiting was born in Detroit, but her...
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Gloria DeHaven born 23 July 1925
Gloria Mildred DeHaven (July 23, 1925 – July 30, 2016) was an American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Gloria Mildred DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, to...
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Bob Eberly born 24 July 1918
Robert Eberly (born Robert Eberle, July 24, 1916 – November 17, 1981) was a big band vocalist best known for his association with Jimmy Dorsey and his duets with Helen O'Connell.His younger brother Ray...
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Rudy West born 25 July 1932
Rudolph ''Rudy'' Lorenzo West (born July 25, 1932, Newport News, Virginia - died May 14, 1998, Suffolk City, Virginia) was the renowned primary lead singer of the Five Keys and with his delicate, pure...
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Boogie Jake born 2 August 1927
Boogie Jake (born Mathew Jacobs, August 2, 1927 - December 6, 2013) was a blues singer and guitarist from Marksville, Louisiana, USA. Like many blues artists with a small discography, Jacobs was a...
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Eddie Jefferson born 3 August 1918
Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was a jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, in which he took the recorded solos of jazz horn players, wrote lyrics to...
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Ken Mackintosh born 4 August 1914
Ken Mackintosh (4 August 1919 – 22 November 2005) was an English saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Mackintosh was born in Liversedge, Yorkshire, and died in Mitcham, Surrey, England. Mackintosh...
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Don Rich born 5 August 1941
Donald Eugene Ulrich (August 15, 1941 – July 17, 1974), best known by the stage name Don Rich, was a country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted...
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Freddie Slack born 7 August 1910
Frederick Charles Slack (August 7, 1910 – August 10, 1965) was an American swing and boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader.Slack was born in Wisconsin. He learned to play drums as a boy. Later he took...
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Barbara Mason born 9 August 1947
Barbara Mason (born August 9, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American soul singer with several R&B and pop hits in the 1960s and 1970s, best known for her self-written 1965 hit song,...
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Trudy Pitts born 10 August 1932
Gertrude E. "Trudy" Pitts (August 10, 1932 – December 19, 2010) was an American soul jazz organist, pianist and singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A fine soul-jazz organist of the 1960s, Trudy...
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Lucho Gatica born 11 August 1928
Luis Enrique Gatica Silva (11 August 1928 – 13 November 2018), better known as Lucho Gatica was a Chilean bolero singer, film actor, and television host known as "the King of Bolero." It is estimated...
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Buck Owens born 12 August 1929
Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), professionally known as Buck Owens, was an American musician, singer, songwriter and band leader who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country...
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Jack Fina born 13 August 1913
Jack Fina (August 13, 1913 – May 14, 1970) was a bandleader, songwriter, and pianist. His were once called “the ten most talented fingers in radio.”Fina was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and educated at...
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Stuff Smith born 14 August 1909
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith (August 14, 1909 - September 25, 1967), better known as Stuff Smith, was one of the preeminent jazz violinists of the swing era. He was also a hard drinking character, often...
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Rose Maddox born 15 August 1925
Roselea Arbana "Rose" Maddox (August 15, 1925 – April 15, 1998) was an American country singer-songwriter and fiddle player, who was the lead singer with the Maddox Brothers and Rose before a...
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Al Hibbler born 16 August 1915
Albert George "Al" Hibbler (August 16, 1915 – April 24, 2001) was an American baritone vocalist, who sang with Duke Ellington's orchestra before having several pop hits as a solo artist. Some of...
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