Loleatta Holloway born 5 November 1946
Loleatta Holloway (November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation". In December 2016, Billboard named her the 95th...
View ArticleGus Kahn born 6 November 1886
Gus Kahn (November 6, 1886 – October 8, 1941) was a prolific, consistently successful lyric writer in Tin Pan Alley, on Broadway, and in Hollywood for more than 30 years. Kahn was born Gustav Gerson...
View ArticleRed Ingle born 7 November 1906
Ernest Jansen "Red" Ingle (November 7, 1906 – September 6, 1965) was an American musician, singer and songwriter, arranger, cartoonist and caricaturist. He is best known for his comedy records with...
View ArticleBertha Hope born 8 October 1936
Bertha Hope-Booker (née Rosemond, born November 8, 1936 in Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz pianist and jazz educator. Jazz pianist Bertha Hope-Booker was born to Corinne Meaux and Clinton...
View ArticleDorothy Dandridge born 9 November 1922
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was a film and theatre actress, singer, and dancer. She is one of the earliest African-American movie stars and the first woman of colour...
View ArticleOnie Wheeler born 10 November 1921
Onie Wheeler (November 10, 1921 – May 26, 1984) was an American country musician who recorded traditional country, bluegrass, and rockabilly in a career that stretched from a small radio show in...
View ArticleAnnisteen Allen born 11 November 1920
Annisteen Allen (November 11, 1920 – August 10, 1992) was an American blues and jazz singer. Rhythm & blues in the 1950s was mostly a male affair, but there were a few talented and determined...
View ArticleHenry Jerome born 12 November 1917
Henry Jerome (November 12, 1917– March 23, 2011) was an American big band leader, trumpeter, arranger, composer, and record company executive.Born Henry Jerome Pasnick in New York, he attended primary...
View ArticleBaby Washington born 13 November 1940
Justine Washington (born November 13, 1940), usually credited as Baby Washington, but credited on some early records as Jeanette (Baby) Washington, is an American soul music vocalist, who had 16 rhythm...
View ArticleJames Gilreath born 14 November 1936
James Gilreath (November 14, 1936 – September 7, 2003) was an American pop singer and songwriter, whose single "Little Band of Gold" went to #21 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963. James William...
View ArticleOlga Lowina born 15 November 1924
Olga Lowina (November 15, 1924 - April 4, 1994 ) was a Dutch singer who specialized in yodeling. Partly due to Lowina, the Netherlands experienced various yodel fads. Her infectious yodel crossed a...
View ArticleDan Penn born 16 November 1941
Dan Penn (born Wallace Daniel Pennington, 16 November 1941) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s including "Dark End Of The Street"...
View ArticleSamantha Jones born 17 November 1943
Samantha Jones (real name Jean Owen) (born November 17, 1943) is an English singer and entertainer from Liverpool, whose career in show business spanned the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Her...
View ArticleClaude Williamson born 18 November 1926
Claude Berkeley Williamson (November 18, 1926 – July 16, 2016) was an American jazz pianist known for his daring, centipede-like speed on the keyboard along with sinewy improvisational lines. Claude...
View ArticleSam Trippe born 19 November 1923
Sam Trippe (born Nov. 19 1923, Endicott, NY, USA. d. Nov. 19 1959, Los Angeles, CA, USA), was a New York big band leader for a very brief time in the late 50's. Samuel Tripiccio grew up near Rochester,...
View ArticleEsquerita born 20 November 1935
Eskew Reeder, Jr. (November 20, 1935 – October 23, 1986), usually known by the stage name Esquerita, and occasionally as S.Q. Reeder or The Magnificent Malochi, was an American R&B singer,...
View ArticleClaire Austin born 21 November 1913
Claire Austin (November 21, 1918 - June 19, 1994) was an American blues and jazz singer and pianist. Claire was born Augusta Johnson in Yakima, Washington to Swedish / American parents in 1918 and...
View ArticleWhistlin' Alex Moore born 22 November 1899
Whistlin' Alex Moore (November 22, 1899 – January 20, 1989) was an American blues pianist, singer and whistler. Moore was born Alexander Herman Moore in Dallas, Texas. At the age of three, his family...
View ArticleR.L. Burnside born 23 November 1926
R. L. Burnside (November 23, 1926 – September 1, 2005) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played music for much of his life but received little recognition before the early...
View ArticleJeremy Taylor born 24 November1937
Jeremy Taylor (born 24 November 1937 in Newbury, Berkshire) is a retired English folk singer and songwriter who has spent much of his life in South Africa, originally as a teacher of English at St....
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