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Bucky Pizzarelli born 9 January 1926
John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli (January 9, 1926 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz guitarist. He worked for NBC as a staffman for Dick Cavett (1971) and ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in (1952). Musicians...
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Teresa Graves born 10 January 1948
Terresa M. Graves (January 10, 1948 – October 10, 2002), credited as Teresa Graves, was an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as undercover police detective Christie Love in...
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Betty Hall Jones born 11 January 1911
Betty Hall Jones (January 11, 1911 – April 20, 2009), was an American boogie-woogie pianist, singer, songwriter and arranger. She professed to admire Mary Lou Williams, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Fats...
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Abrim "Abe" Tilmon Jr. born 12 January 1948
Abrim "Abe" Tilmon Jr. (January 12, 1945 – July 6, 1982), was a soul and disco singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known the lead singer of the Detroit Emeralds. Abrim was originally part of the...
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Joe Pass born 13 January 1929
Joe Pass (January 13, 1929 – May 23, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. A uniquely gifted accompanist, he would often work with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. He was as...
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Maxwell Davis born 14 January 1916
Thomas Maxwell Davis, Jr. (January 14, 1916 – September 18, 1970), was an American rhythm and blues saxophonist, arranger, bandleader and record producer. Davis was born in Independence, Kansas. By the...
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Kenny Parchman born 15 January 1937
Kenneth W. Parchman (January 15, 1932 - June 2, 1999) was a rockabilly musician although largely forgotten in his native US, he developed a following in Europe. Born on January 15, 1932 near Jackson,...
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Ruby Falls born 16 January 1946
Ruby Falls (January 16, 1946 - June 15, 1986) was one of the few black female singers to achieve success in country music.She was Bertha Bearden Dorsey from Jackson, Tennessee. Country music fans got...
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Dick Contino born 17 January 1930
Richard Joseph Contino (January 17, 1930 – April 19, 2017) was an American accordionist and singer. Contino was born in Fresno, California. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Contino, and he attended...
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Ric Cartey born 18 January 1937
Whaley Thomas Cartey better known as Ric Cartey (18 January 1937 - 5 August 2009) was an American rockabilly musician and songwriter. He was one of the first young singers on Atlanta's rock and roll...
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Phil Everly born 19 January 1939
Phil Everly (January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014) who along with his brother Don, were The Everly Brothers, who were an American country rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and...
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King Coleman born 20 January 1932
Carlton "King" Coleman (January 20, 1932 – September 11, 2010) was an American rhythm and blues singer, , musician, disc jockey, actor and Baptist minister, known for providing the vocals for the 1959...
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René Hernandez born 21 January 1916
René Hernandez (January 21, 1916 – September 5, 1977) was a Cuban pianist, arranger and a pioneer of big-band mambo and Afro-Cuban jazz in the United States. René Alejandro Hernández Junco was a native...
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Ann Sothern born 22 January 1909
Ann Sothern (January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television, in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Ann Sothern, who was born...
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Michel Warlop born 23 January 1911
Michel Maurice Armand Warlop (23 January 1911 – 6 March 1947) was a French classical and jazz violinist professionally active from 1929 to 1947. Michel Warlop (Michou to his friends) was a child...
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Joe Albany born 24 January 1924
Joe Albany (January 24, 1924 – January 12, 1988) was considered something of a legend in modern jazz and one of the first important bebop pianists. As with many others, critics never acknowledged his...
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Benny Golson born 25 January 1929
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more...
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Norma Tanega born 26 January 1939
Norma Cecilia Tanega (January 30, 1939 – December 29, 2019) was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician. In the 1960s, she had a hit with the single "Walkin' My...
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Smokey Hogg born 27 January 1914
Andrew "Smokey" Hogg (January 27, 1914 – May 1, 1960) was an American post-war Texas blues and country blues musician navigating a post-war era infatuated by R&B, but he got along quite nicely...
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Kathy Linden born 1938
Kathy Linden (born 1938) is an American pop singer, mainly active in the 1950s. She is known for her Top 20 Billboard hits, “Billy” and “Goodbye, Jimmy, Goodbye”. The childlike-voiced singer also had...
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