Born On This Day In Music, August 28th

1989
Cassadee Pope is born in West Palm Beach, Florida. As a member of Blake Shelton’s team, she wins the third season of NBC’s “The Voice,” leading to a recording deal with Republic Nashville. She nabs hits with her 2013 debut, “Wasting All These Tears,” and a 2016 Chris Young duet, “Think Of You”.

1986
English musician, singer and songwriter Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine, who scored the 2009 UK No.1 album Lungs and the 2015 UK and US No.1 album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

1982
LeAnn Rimes, US singer, known for her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Bill Mack song ‘Blue’ when she was 13 to become the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972. Scored the 1997 US No.3 & 1998 UK No.7 single, ‘How Do I Live’ which spent 30 weeks on the UK top 40 singles chart (the first record, to do so since ‘Relax’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood).

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1981
Country singer Jake Owen is born Joshua Ryan Owen in Winter Haven, Florida. Arriving with him is fraternal twin brother, Jarrod. The Academy of Country Music’s Top New Male Vocalist in 2009, he nets hits with “I Was Jack (You Were Diane),” “Beachin’,” “Barefoot Blue Jean Night” and “Alone With You”.

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1974
Peter Turner, bass, Elbow, won the Mercury Music Prize for their 2008 album ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’.

1969
Jack Black, actor, comedian and musician. One half of the comedy/rock duo Tenacious D with Kyle Gass.

1969
Mary McCartney, a daughter to Paul and Linda McCartney Mary was named after Paul’s mother (who he mentioned in the song ‘Let It Be’).

1965
Shania Twain, Canadian singer, (Eilleen Regina Edwards). Her 1997 album ‘Come On Over’, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time selling more than 40 million copies worldwide. Twain has won 5 Grammy Awards and 27 BMI Songwriter awards and is sometimes referred to as “The Queen of Country Pop”, she is one of the most commercially successful artists of all time, having sold over 80 million albums.

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1961
Kim Appleby, singer, Mel and Kim, (1987 UK No.1 single ‘Respectable’).

1951
Wayne Osmond, from American family group The Osmonds. They had the 1971 US No.1 single ‘One Bad Apple’, the 1974 hit ‘Crazy Horses’ and the 1974 UK No.1 single ‘Love Me For A Reason’. They had their own 1972–1973 Saturday morning cartoon series, The Osmonds, on ABC-TV. The Osmonds have sold over 75 million records world wide.

1951
Dave Hlubek (lead guitarist for Molly Hatchet) is born in Jacksonville, Florida.

1949
English musician and singer-songwrite Hugh Cornwell from The Stranglers from 1974 to 1990 who had the 1982 UK No.2 single ‘Golden Brown’, and over 20 other Top 40 hits.

1949
Martin Lamble drums, Fairport Convention, (1969 UK No.21 single ‘Si Tu Dois Partir’). Killed on 14th May 1969 when the bands van crashed on the way home from a gig in Birmingham, England.

1948
American musician Danny Seraphine, known as the original drummer and founding member of the rock band Chicago, a tenure which lasted from February 1967 to May 1990. The band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois as The Chicago Transit Authority before shortening the name in 1970. Chicago have had five consecutive No.1 albums on the Billboard chart and 20 top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

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1943
Honey Lantree drummer with English beat, pop group The Honeycombs who scored the Joe Meek produced 1964 UK No.1 single ‘Have I The Right’. Lantree who was one of the few female drummers in bands at that time died on 23 December 2018 aged 75.

1943
David Soul, actor, singer (1977 UK & US No.1 single ‘Don’t Give Up On Us’).

1942
American guitarist Sterling Morrison one of the founding members of the rock group Velvet Underground. Their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (with German-born singer and model Nico), was released in 1967 to critical indifference and poor sales but has become critically acclaimed. Morrison died of cancer on 30th August 1995.

1942
Ken Andrew, drummer from Scottish pop group Middle Of The Road, who had the 1971 UK No.1 single ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’, which is one of only a few singles to have sold in excess of 10 million physical copies.

1940
American songwriter, record producer and singer, Ivy Jo Hunter. With Marvin Gaye and William “Mickey” Stevenson, he co-wrote the Martha and the Vandellas hit ‘Dancing in the Street’ as well as songs for The Temptations, Isley Brothers and The Four Tops.

1937
American bass guitar player Joe Osborn, known for his work as a session musician in Los Angeles and Nashville during the 1960s through the 1980s. As a member of The Wrecking Crew his playing can be heard on records by The Mamas & the Papas, The Carpenters, The Association and The 5th Dimension. Osborn can be heard on Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over Trouble Water’ and the 5th Dimension’s version of ‘Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In’. He died on December 14, 2018 aged 81.

1931
Drummer Clem Cattini (of The Tornados) is born Stoke Newington, North London, England.

1925
Country singer Billy Grammer is born in Benton, Illinois. Known for his chart-crossing 1959 hit, “Gotta Travel On.” He plays guitar on several Charley Pride hits, including “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'”. Died on August 10, 2011.

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