August 15th: Born On This Day In Music

1989
Joe Jonas, American singer and actor, Jonas Brothers, 2009 US No.1 album ‘Lines, Vines and Trying Times’, is born in Casa Grande, Arizona.

1985
American rapper, songwriter Nipsey Hussle. He initially became known for his numerous mixtapes, including his Bullets Ain’t Got No Name series, The Marathon, The Marathon Continues and Crenshaw. His debut studio album Victory Lap was released in February 2018 to critical acclaim and commercial success and was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019. He died on 31 March 2019 age 33 after being shot multiple times in the parking lot of his store, Marathon Clothing, in South Los Angeles.

1984
Ted Dwane, bassist of the Grammy Award winning British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. Their second studio album ‘Babel’ released in 2012 debuted at No.1 on both the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200. It became the fastest selling album of 2012 in the UK. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in the US. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

1984
David Welsh, guitarist, from American rock band The Fray who scored the 2005 US Top 3 single ‘How to Save a Life’. The group’s self-titled, second album, released in 2009, debuted at No.1 on the Billboard charts.

1978
Tim Foreman bassist for Switchfoot. Their 2014 album Fading West reached No.6 on the US album chart.

1974
Simon Dawbarn, vocals, 911, (1998 UK No.2 single ‘More Than A Woman’).

1972
Mike Graham, vocals, Boyzone, who have had 21 UK hit singles, including 6 UK No.1 singles. Their breakthrough hit was their second single and cover version of the classic Osmonds hit, ‘Love Me for a Reason’, which peaked at No.2 on the UK Singles Chart.

1962
Marshall Schofield, The Fall, (1987 UK No.30 single ‘There’s A Ghost In My House’).

1961
Matt Johnson, English singer, songwriter, The The, who had the 1993 UK hit single ‘Slow Emotion Replay’.

1951
Jazz/Soul singer Bobby Caldwell is born in Manhattan, New York.

1950
American singer and songwriter Billy Griffin. He is best known for replacing Smokey Robinson as lead singer of The Miracles in 1972. He co-wrote the Miracles’ most successful single, the No.1 hit ‘Love Machine’, in 1975.

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1950
Tommy Aldridge, drums, Whitesnake, (1987 US No.1 & UK No.9 single ‘Here I Go Again’).

1948
American musician Tom Johnston the guitarist and vocalist, known principally as a founder and songwriter for The Doobie Brothers who have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. They scored the 1979 US No.1 single ‘What A Fool Believes’ and the 1993 UK No.7 single ‘Long Train Runnin.’

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1946
Jimmy Webb American singer, songwriter who wrote the 1968 hit for Richard Harris ‘MacArthur Park’, plus ‘Galveston’, for Glen Campbell (and other hits for Campbell), and ‘Up Up and Away’, a hit for 5th Dimension. According to BMI, his song ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 and 1990. Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.

1942
Pete York, Spencer Davis Group (1966 UK No.1 single ‘Keep On Running’).

1941
Don Rich, country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s. He was a noted guitarist and fiddler, and a member of the Buckaroos, the backing band of country singer Buck Owens. Rich died on July 17, 1974.

1938
Stix Nesbert Hooper, The Crusaders, (1979 UK No.5 & US No.36 single ‘Street Life’).

1935
Bill Pinkney (of The Drifters) is born in Dalzell, South Carolina. (1960 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’). He died on July 4th 2007.

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1933
Bobby Helms, American country music singer best known for his 1957 hit, ‘Jingle Bell Rock’. Died of emphysema at his home in Martinsville, Indiana. He was 63.

1933
Floyd Ashton from the American vocal group The Tams who had the 1964 US hit ‘What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)’ and the 1971 UK No.1 single ‘Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me’. The group took their name from the Tam o’shanter hats they wore on stage.

1932
Pop singer Johnny Thunder is born Gil Hamilton in Leesburg, Florida.

1930
R&B singer/saxophonist Jackie Brenston is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Sang lead on Ike Turner’s “Rocket 88.”. He died December 15, 1979.

1896
Leon Theremin, Russian inventor. Most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments. He first performed the theremin with the New York Philharmonic in 1928. He died on 3rd November 1993.
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