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Frank Chacksfield born 9 May 1914
Frank Chacksfield (9 May 1914 – 9 June 1995) was an English pianist, organist, composer and conductor of popular light orchestral easy listening music, who had great success in Britain and...
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Pee Wee Hunt born 10 May 1907
Pee Wee Hunt (May 10, 1907, Mt. Healthy, Ohio – June 22, 1979 in Plymouth, Massachusetts), born Walter Gerhardt Hunt, was a jazz trombonist, vocalist and band leader.Pee Wee came from a musical family,...
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Beryl Bryden born 11 May 1920
Beryl Audley Bryden (11 May 1920 – 14 July 1998) was an English jazz singer, who played with Chris Barber and Lonnie Donegan. Ella Fitzgerald once said of Bryden that she was "Britain's queen of the...
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Carolyn Franklin born 13 May 1944
Carolyn Ann Franklin (May 13, 1944 – April 25, 1988) was an American singer–songwriter. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, she was the younger sister of Erma Franklin, Aretha Franklin, and the daughter of...
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Charlie Gracie born 14 May 1936
Charlie Gracie (born Charles Anthony Graci on May 14, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American rock pioneer and singer. His father encouraged him to play the guitar. Charlie's musical career...
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Eddy Arnold born 15 May 1918
Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the...
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Laura Lee McBride born 16 May 1920
Laura Lee Owens McBride (b. Laura Frances Owens, 16 May 1920, Bridport, Oklahoma, USA, d. 25 January 1989, Bryan, Texas, USA.) McBride first sang with her sister Dolpha Jane as Joy And Jane on their...
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Penny DeHaven born 17 May 1948
Penny DeHaven (born Charlotte DeHaven; May 17, 1948 – February 23, 2014) was an American country and gospel music singer and actress. At the beginning of her career, she recorded as Penny Starr.Country...
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Kai Winding born 18 May 1922
Kai Chresten Winding (May 18, 1922–May 6, 1983) was a popular Danish born American trombonist and jazz composer. He is well known for a successful collaboration with fellow trombonist J. J....
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Betty Driver born 20 May 1920
Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Driver, MBE (20 May 1920 – 15 October 2011) was an English actress and singer, best known for her role as Betty Williams (previously Betty Turpin) on the British soap opera,...
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Dennis Day born 21 May 1916
Dennis Day (May 21, 1916 – June 22, 1988) born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an American singer, radio, television and film personality and comedian of Irish descent.Dennis was christened Owen...
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Peter Nero born 22 May 1934
Peter Nero (born Bernard Nierow, May 22, 1934, Brooklyn) is a pianist and New York native who started with jazz then moved up to symphony until the early '60s, when RCA Victor signed him and...
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Humphrey Lyttelton born 23 May 1921
Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family. Raised in an academic...
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Max Bennett born 24 May 1928
Max Bennett (born May 24, 1928) is an American jazz bassist and session musician. He is perhaps the most recorded bass player in the world, having recorded every year for 68 years, and counting. John...
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T-Bone Walker born 28 May 1910
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker (May 28, 1910 – March 16, 1975) was a critically acclaimed American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who was an influential pioneer and...
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Saxie Dowell born 29 May 1904
Horace Kirby "Saxie" Dowell (May 24, 1904 – July 22, 1974) was an American jazz and pop music bandleader and singer and songwriter. The saxophonist with the nickname all other saxophonists are glad...
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Mel Blanc born 30 May 1908
Melvin (Mel) Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio and television commercials,...
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Billy Mayerl born 31 May 1902
William Joseph Mayerl known as Billy Mayerl (May 31, 1902 – March 25, 1959) was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of...
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Valaida Snow born 2 June 1904
Valaida Snow (June 2, 1904* – May 30, 1956) was an African American jazz musician and entertainer. *(Other presumed birth years are 1900, 1901, 1903, 1905, and 1907.) Billed as “Queen of the Trumpet”...
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Pete Jolly Born 4 June 1932
Pete Jolly (June 5, 1932 – November 6, 2004) was an American West Coast jazz pianist and accordionist. He was well known for his performance of television themes and various movie soundtracks. Howard...
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