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Gerry Moore born 8 October 1903
“Gerry” Gerald Asher Moore (October 8, 1903, London – January 29, 1993, Twickenham) was an English jazz pianist.Moore played piano as a child, later studied at Brighton Grammer School. Did first paid...
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Larry Finnegan born 10 October 1938
John Lawrence Finneran, better known by his stage name Larry Finnegan (October 10, 1938 – July 22, 1973) was an American pop singer.Finneran was born in Jamaica, a suburb of New York. He had six...
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Dottie West born 11 October 1932
Dottie West (born Dorothy Marie Marsh; October 11, 1932 – September 4, 1991) was an American country music singer and songwriter Her career started in the 1960s, with her Top 10 hit, "Here Comes My...
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Art Tatum born 13 October 1909
Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and despite being blind in one eye and only partially sighted in the other...
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Bud Flanagan born 14 October 1896
Bud Flanagan, OBE (born Chaim Reuben Weintrop, 14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a popular British music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian, and later a television and film actor. He was...
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Bert Kaempfert born 16 October 1923
Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 1923, Hamburg, Germany – 21 June 1980, Majorca, Spain) was a German orchestra leader and songwriter, often referred to as the "father of easy...
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Anita O'Day born 18 October 1919
Anita O'Day (born Anita Belle Colton; October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that...
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Piano Red born 19 October 1911
William "Willie" Lee Perryman (October 19, 1911 - July 25, 1985), who was usually known professionally as Piano Red and later in life as Dr. Feelgood, was an American blues musician, the first to hit...
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Carolina Cotton born 20 October 1925
Carolina Cotton (nee Helen Hagstrom; October 20, 1925 in Cash, Arkansas – June 10, 1997, in Bakersfield, California) was an American singer and actress known as the "Yodeling Blonde Bombshell", the...
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Georgia Brown born 21 October 1933
Georgia Brown (21 October 1933 – 5 July 1992) was an English singer and actress.Born Lilian Klot in Whitechapel, east London, in 1933, she became the most successful product of the Brady School, a...
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Gary McFarland boen 23 October 1933
Gary Robert McFarland (October 23, 1933 – November 3, 1971) was a composer, arranger, vibraphonist and vocalist. Largely forgotten now, Gary McFarland was one of the more significant contributors to...
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Mahalia Jackson born 26 October 1911
Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911** – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer. Possessing a contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel." She became one of the most influential...
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Boyd Raeburn born 27 October 1913
Boyd Albert Raeburn (October 27, 1913 – August 2, 1966) was an American jazz bandleader and bass saxophonist.Though not well remembered today bandleader Boyd Raeburn blazed trails in progressive jazz...
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Frida Bocarra born 29 October 1940
Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara (29 October 1940 – 1 August 1996) was a French singer of Italian descent and born in Casablanca, who performed and recorded in a number of languages, including French,...
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Norman Wright born 31 October 1937
Norman Wright (October 31, 1937 – April 23, 2010) was a lead tenor of the popular Doo-Wop quintet The Del-Vikings.The Del-Vikings (also known as The Dell-Vikings) were an American doo-wop musical group...
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Andre Williams born 1 November 1936
Zephire Andre Williams (November 1, 1936 – March 17, 2019) was an American R&B wildman whose career as a singer, songwriter, producer, and A&R man stretched from the '50s into the new...
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Janette Davis born 2 November 1916
Janette Davis (November2, 1916- April 25, 2005) was a 20th-century American pop singer, noted particularly for her work for Arthur Godfrey.Dorothy Janette Marguerite Davis was born in Memphis,...
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Horst Wende born 5 November 1919
Horst Wende (5 November 1919 — 23 January 1996) was a German bandleader, arranger and composer. He recorded over 150 easy listening albums under his own name as well as under the name Roberto Delgado....
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Juanita Hall born 6 November 1902
Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers...
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Al Hirt born 7 November 1922
Al Hirt (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million selling recordings of "Java", and the accompanying album, Honey in the Horn...
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