Music History Events: Births
January 25, 1929 Singer/actress Elizabeth Allen is born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease in Jersey City, New Jersey.
January 16, 1929 Jazz drummer G.T. Hogan is born in Galveston, Texas.
January 14, 1929 Country singer Billy Walker is born in Ralls, Texas. Known for the 1962 hit "Charlie's Shoes."
January 5, 1929 R&B singer Wilbert Harrison - who wrote the 1962 hit "Let's Stick Together," later known as "Let's Work Together" by Canned Heat - is born in Charlotte, North Carolina.
December 31, 1928 Classic pop singer Ross Barbour (of The Four Freshmen) is born in Columbus, Indiana.
December 15, 1928 Ernest Ashworth is born in Huntsville, Alabama. Known for the 1963 chart-topping country hit "Talk Back Trembling Lips."
November 15, 1928 Singer-songwriter C.W. McCall is born William Dale Fries Jr. in Audubon, Iowa.
November 10, 1928 Ennio Morricone, a composer, orchestrator and conductor whose scores for films like A Fistful Of Dollars and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly define the sound of spaghetti Westerns, is born in Rome. He grows up during wartime, often hungry, learning music while bombs fall.
September 15, 1928 Jazz alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley is born in Tampa, Florida. Known for the 1966 hit "Mercy Mercy Mercy."
August 21, 1928 Jazz trumpeter Art Farmer is born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
August 10, 1928 Country singer/musician Jimmy Dean is born in Plainview, Texas.
August 10, 1928 Singer Eddie Fisher is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August 6, 1928 Andy Warhol, who makes his mark on the music world as manager for the The Velvet Underground and designer of the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers album cover, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 17, 1928 Jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, noted composer of music for Charles Schulz's Peanuts, is born Vincent Anthony Dellaglio in San Francisco, California.
July 12, 1928 Barbara Cowsill (mother of the family act The Cowsills) is born Barbara Russell in in Cranston, Rhode Island.
June 12, 1928 Pop singer Vic Damone is born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York.
May 23, 1928 Rosemary Clooney is born in Maysville, Kentucky.
May 4, 1928 Jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson is born in Verdun, Quebec, Canada.
May 3, 1928 Country singer Dave Dudley is born David Darwin Pedruska in Spencer, Wisconsin.
April 29, 1928 Rock and roll singer Carl Gardner (of The Coasters) is born in Tyler, Texas.
April 24, 1928 Jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin is born in Chicago, Illinois.
April 5, 1928 R&B singer Tony Williams (of The Platters) is born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
April 3, 1928 Country singer-songwriter Don Gibson ("Sweet Dreams," "I Can't Stop Loving You") is born in Shelby, North Carolina.
April 2, 1928 Singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg is born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris, France.
March 31, 1928 Lefty Frizzell ("Long Black Veil") is born in Corsicana, Texas.
February 3, 1928 Pop singer Frankie Vaughan is born Frank Ableson in Liverpool, England.
January 31, 1928 Chuck Willis, known for his rendition of "C.C. Rider," is born in Atlanta.
January 12, 1928 Soul singer Ruth Brown is born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Known for her huge voice, Brown is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
December 3, 1927 Andy Williams is born in Wall Lake, Iowa.
November 19, 1927 Folk singer and, yes, actual postman The Singing Postman is born Allan Smethurst is born in Walshaw, Lancashire, England.
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