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Portia Nelson born 27 May 1920
Portia Nelson (May 27, 1920 – March 6, 2001) was an American popular singer, songwriter, actress, and author. She was best known for her appearances in 1950s cabarets, where she sang soprano.Portia...
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Johnny Madara born 28 May 1936
Johnny Madara (born John L. Medora May 28, 1936), also known as John Madara, is an American singer-songwriter.John Medora was born in Philadelphia as part of a large Italian – American family. During...
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Gladys Horton born 30 May 1945
Gladys Catherine Horton (May 30, 1945 – January 26, 2011) (various sources cite her year of birth as 1944) was an American R&B and pop singer, famous for being the founder and lead singer of the...
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Clint Eastwood born 31 May 1930
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American motion-picture actor who emerged as one of the most popular Hollywood stars in the 1960s and went on to become a prolific and respected...
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Andy Griffith born 1 June 1926
Andy Samuel Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, comedian, television producer, southern gospel singer, and writer whose career spanned seven decades in music and...
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Carl Butler born 2 June 1927
Carl Butler (June 2, 1927 - 4, 1992) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter. Carl Roberts Butler was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. Not much is known about his father, but his mother, Annie...
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Lillian Briggs born 3 June 1932
Lillian Briggs (born Lillian Biggs, June 3, 1932 – April 11, 1998) was an American rock 'n roll performer and musician. Briggs was the first woman to achieve star status at the dawn of rock 'n roll in...
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Linda Martell born 4 June 1941
Linda Martell (born Thelma Bynem; June 4, 1941) is an American singer. She became the first commercially successful black female artist in the country music field and the first to play the Grand Ole...
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Hal Lone Pine born 5 June 1916
Hal Lone Pine (born Harold J. Breau June 5, 1916 in Pea Cove, Maine - March 26, 1977) and his wife Betty Cody (born Rita Cote in Sherbrooke, Quebec August 17, 1921 - July 1, 2014,Maine) are best-known...
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Grant Green born 6 June 1935
Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.A severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar....
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Dolores Gray born 7 June 1924
Dolores Gray (June 7, 1924 – June 26, 2002) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical twice, winning once.She was born as Sylvia...
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Robert Easton born 8 June 1898
Robert Easton (8 June 1898 in Sunderland, England – 26 May 1987) was a British bass of the mid-twentieth century.He sang in his local church choir in Sunderland. He joined the BEF in 1915, and was...
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Bill Pursell born 9 June 1926
Bill Pursell (June 9, 1926 – September 3, 2020) was an American composer and onetime session pianist. He had a brief but successful career as a pop musician before continuing on as a session player. He...
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Don Costa born 10 June 1923
Dominick P. "Don" Costa (June 10, 1925 – January 19, 1983) was an American conductor and record producer. He discovered singer Paul Anka and worked on several hit albums by Frank Sinatra, including...
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Joey Dee born 11 June 1940
Joey Dee (born June 11, 1940) with his group, The Starliters, (also credited as the Starlighters) helped launch the "Twist" craze in 1961 with their hit song "The Peppermint Twist". He is often billed...
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George Kent born 12 June 1935
George Kent (June 12, 1935 - August 12, 2010) was an American country singer and songwriter.George O. Kent, was born in Dallas, Texas. He served in the Army Reserves for four years and was with the...
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James Carr born 13 June 1942
James Edward Carr (June 13, 1942 – January 7, 2001) was an American R&B and soul singer.One of the greatest pure vocalists that deep Southern soul ever produced, James Carr is often mentioned in...
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Gene Barry born 14 June 1919
Gene Barry (born Eugene Klass, June 14, 1919 – December 9, 2009) was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City (1952)...
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Waylon Jennings born 15 June 1937
Waylon Arnold Jennings (born Wayland Arnold Jennings; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as one of the founding pioneers of the Outlaw...
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Marilyn Moore born 16 June 1930
Marilyn Moore (June 16, 1930* – March 19, 1992) was an American jazz singer during the 1950s.Marilyn Montez Moore was born to Montez and Lester Moore, backstage at a Chicago theatre, the Moores moved...
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