10 Aug This Week’s Birthdays (August 11 – 17)
Happy birthday to these artist who contributed to rock and pop music of the 60s, 70s and 80s – the BEST music ever made!...
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28 Jul This Week’s Birthdays (July 28 – August 3)
Happy Birthday this week to: July 28 1901 ● Rudy Vallée / (Hubert Prior Vallée ) → Hugely popular 1930s crooner and vaudeville entertainer, often singing through a megaphone, "Stein Song" (The University Of Maine)" (#1, 1930), became a film, radio stage and TV...
29 Jun This Week’s Birthdays (June 30 – July 6)
Happy Birthday this week to: June 30 1917 ● Lena Horne / (Lena Mary Calhoun Horne) → Grammy-winning contemporary pop singer, stage, film and TV actress and nightclub entertainer with a 70 year career from the Cotton Club in the 30s to Hollywood films in...
25 May This Week’s Birthdays (May 26 – June 1)
Happy Birthday this week to: May 26 1886 ● Al Jolson / (Asa Yoelson) → Pre-eminent traditional and Tin Pan Alley pop singer, Broadway actor, radio host, comedian, early sound-era movie star and self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Entertainer," recorded dozens of still-popular songs, including "Swanee" (1921),...
11 May This Week’s Birthdays (May 12 – 18)
Happy Birthday this week to: May 12 1928 ● Burt Bacharach → Pianist, arranger, producer and songwriter, wrote 70 Top 40 hits, often in collaboration with lyricist Hal David, including "(They Long To Be) Close To You" for the Carpenters (#1, 1970), "Walk On By" for...
04 May This Week’s Birthdays (May 5 – 11)
Happy Birthday this week to: May 05 1901 ● Blind Willie McTell / (William Samuel McTier) → Piedmont blues slide guitarist and ragtime singer of the 40s and 50s, wrote the oft-covered "Statesboro Blues" (1928) and influenced numerous 60s folk revival musicians including Bob Dylan,...