August 10th: Born On This Day In Music

1977
Aaron Kamin (lead guitarist for The Calling) is born in Studio City, California.

1968
Leigh Marklew, bassist with English rock band Terrorvision who had the 1999 UK No.2 single ‘Tequila’. Terrorvision were originally known as The Spoilt Bratz.

1968
American singer, rapper and manager Michael Bivins, from American R&B group New Edition who had the 1983 UK No.1 single ‘Candy Girl’, and Bell Biv DeVoe who had the 1990 US No.3 single ‘Do Me!’.

1977
Aaron Kamin (lead guitarist for The Calling) is born in Studio City, California.

1962
Julia Fordham, singer, songwriter, one time member of Mari Wilson’s Wilsations and backing singer for Kim Wilde, (1988 UK No.27 single ‘Happy Ever After’).

1961
Jon Farriss drummer, from Australian rock band INXS, who had the 1988 UK No.2 & US No.1 single ‘Need You Tonight’. Their 1987 album Kick has sold over 10m copies in the US alone and features four Top 10 singles; ‘Need You Tonight,’ ‘Devil Inside’, ‘New Sensation,’ and ‘Never Tear Us Apart.’ INXS has sold over 55 million records worldwide.

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1959
Mark Price, drummer with All About Eve who had the 1988 UK No.10 single ‘Martha’s Harbour’. Also worked with The Cure and Right Said Fred.

1949
Andy Cresswell-Davis, The Korgis (1980 UK No.5 single ‘Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime’).

1948
English musician Peter Beckett, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for 1970s soft rock group Player, which scored a US No. 1 hit in 1977 with ‘Baby Come Back’.

1948
American R&B, pop and jazz singer Patti Austin who had the 1983 US No.1 & UK No.11 single with James Ingram ‘Baby Come To Me’. She and Michael Jackson performed a duet on It’s the Falling in Love, which appeared on his album Off the Wall.

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1947
British musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ian Anderson, best known for his work as the lead vocalist, flautist and acoustic guitarist of British rock band Jethro Tull. Anderson has also owned several salmon farms in the UK.

1946
Mick Clarke, from English pop band The Rubettes who had the 1974 UK No.1 single ‘Sugar Baby Love’.

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1943
American singer, guitarist and songwriter, James Griffin who with Bread had the 1970 US No.1 & UK No.5 single ‘Make It With You’. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1970 as co-writer of ‘For All We Know’. He died of complications from cancer on 11 January 2005.

1943
Veronica Bennett is born in New York, where she forms The Ronettes with sister Estelle and cousin Nedra Talley. They earn a hit with “Be My Baby,” covered by country’s Jody Miller in 1972. Veronica becomes Ronnie Spector after marrying producer Phil Spector in 1968. Ronnie alleged in her 1990 memoir, Be My Baby, that following their marriage, Phil subjected her to years of psychological torment and sabotaged her career. Ronnie died on January 12, 2022 aged 78.

1940
Bobby Hatfield, singer, The Righteous Brothers, (1965 UK & US No.1 single ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, 1990 UK No.1 single ‘Unchained Melody’, first released in 1965). He died on 5th November 2003.

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1929
American singer and entertainer Eddie Fisher, singer, who had the 1953 UK No.1 single ‘Outside Of Heaven’, and 1955 US No.6 single ‘Heart’. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds’ best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor. Fisher fell and broke his hip on September 9, 2010, and died 13 days later on September 22, 2010

1928
Jimmy Dean is born in Olton, Texas. A network TV host and sausage-company owner, he sells a million copies of the 1961 single “Big Bad John.” He joins the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010. He died June 10, 2010.

1909
Clarence Leonidas ‘Leo’ Fender, inventor and founder of the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company. The Fender Telecaster (1949) was the first mass-produced electric guitar; the Fender Stratocaster (1954) is among the world’s most iconic electric guitars and the Fender Precision Bass (1951) set the standard for electric bass guitars. Fender died on 21st March 1991 having long suffered from Parkinson’s disease.

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