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Cora Lee Day born 15 April 1914
Cora Lee Day (April 15, 1914 - November 1, 1996) was a singer and actress. Cora Lee Day is yet another forgotten singer who has absolutely nothing regarding her biography on the internet except...
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Herbie Mann born 16 April 1930
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known professionally by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his...
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James Wayne born 17 April 1924
James Douglas Wayne (April 17, 1924* – March 31, 1978), who recorded in the 1950s and early 1960s as James Waynes, James Wayne, and Wee Willie Wayne, was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter...
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Leo Parker born 18 April 1925
Leo Parker (April 18, 1925 - February 11, 1962) was an American jazz musician who played baritone saxophone. Born in Washington, D.C., Parker studied alto saxophone in high school. By 1944 he was...
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Jack Tucker born 19 April 1918
Jack Tucker (19 April 1918 - 26 September 1996) was an American traditional country and rockabilly singer. He was born Morris Tucker in Haleyville near Oklahoma City and came from a musical family....
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Mimi Roman born 20 April 1935
Mimi Roman (born 20 April 1935) is a country music singer, guitarist and equestrienne.Mimi Roman never had a hit when she was recording for Decca in the late '50s but it wasn't for lack of trying....
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Mundell Lowe born 21 April 1922
James Mundell Lowe (April 21, 1922 – December 2, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session musician despite never becoming a household name....
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Charles Mingus born 22 April 1927
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.Music was always considered important in the Mingus family. Growing up in the...
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Vicky Lane born 23 April 1926
Vicky Lane (April 23, 1926 – August 1, 1983) was an Irish-American film actress who also worked as a singer. Vicky Lane was born Grace Patricia Rose Coghlan to an aristocratic family in Dublin, Ireland...
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Aaron Bell born 24 April 1921
Samuel Aaron Bell (April 24, 1921 - July 28, 2003) was an American jazz double-bassist. Bell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. When he was a child, Bell's mother taught him to play the piano. In high...
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Jimmy Hughes born 25 April 1935
Jimmy J. Hughes (April 25, 1935 – April1 -1997)* is an American former rhythm and blues singer, whose biggest successes in the mid-1960s, notably his hit "Steal Away", were important in the early...
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Jimmie Skinner born 27 April 1909
Jimmie Skinner (April 27, 1909 – October 27, 1979) was an American country and bluegrass music singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist. He also was known for a mail-order record business and retail...
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Billy Lamont born 28 April 1930
Billy Lamont (April 28, 1930 - June 3, 2012) was a professional dancer, R & B singer and songwriter. Billy Lamont (sometimes spelled La Mont) was an Afro-American R&B singer whose death in...
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Frank Parker born 29 April 1903
Frank Parker (April 29, 1903* – January 10, 1999) was an American singer and radio and television personality. Parker was born Frank Ciccio on April 29, 1903 in New York City. He studied at the Milan...
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Frankie Lee Sims born 30 April 1917
Frankie Lee Sims (April 30, 1917 – May 10, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter and electric blues guitarist. He released eighteen sides during his career, one of which, "Lucy Mae Blues" (1953), was...
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Jerry Ross born 1 May 1933
Jerry Jan Ross (May 1, 1933 – October 4, 2017) was an American songwriter, A&R man, record producer, and record label owner. As a writer, his greatest success was with "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me,"...
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Eddy Louiss born 2 May 1941
Eddy Louiss (2 May 1941 – 30 June 2015) was a French jazz musician. Eddy was born in Paris, France as Édouard Louise. His father Pierre Louise (1908-1986) was a French public servant and musician...
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Yank Lawson born 3 May 1911
John Rhea "Yank" Lawson (May 3, 1911 – February 18, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter known for Dixieland and swing music. With his appealing tone and strong melodic ideas, Lawson was a popular...
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Mary Ann McCall born 4 May 1919
Mary Ann McCall (May 4, 1919 – December 14, 1994) was acknowledged as the one of the most expressive voices in jazz who worked with the finest jazzmen of her time, including Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman;...
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Alice Faye born 5 May 1917
Alice Faye (May 5, 1915 – May 9, 1998) was an American actress and singer. A musical star of 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s and 1940s, Faye starred in such films as On the Avenue (1937) and Alexander's...
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