August 3rd: Born On This Day In Music

1985
Holly Lake, Dream, (2001 US No.3 & UK No.17 single, ‘He Loves You Not’).

1976
Jimmy De Martini American singer and fiddle player with the Grammy Award winning country music group, Zac Brown Band. Their 2015 album Jekyll + Hyde which debuted at No.1 on the US chart featured the single ‘Heavy Is the Head’ with vocals from Chris Cornell.

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1973
Stephen Carpenter, from American alternative metal band Deftones, who had the 2003 US No.2 & UK No.7 album Deftones.

1971
Deirdre Roper, (DJ Spinderella), from American hip-hop/rap trio from New York City Salt-N-Pepa who had the 1991 hit single ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’.

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1967
Skin, (Deborah Anne Dyer), singer with British rock band Skunk Anansie who had the 1996 UK No.20 single ‘Weak’. The band have spent a total of 141 weeks on both the singles and album charts.

1966
Dean Sams, keyboards, with American country group Lonestar who had the 2000 US No.1 & UK No.21 single ‘Amazed’. Lonestar has charted more than 20 singles on the Hot Country Songs chart, including 9 that reached No.1.

1963
James Hetfield, guitar, vocals, Metallica, (1991 UK No.5 single ‘Enter Sandman’, 1991 US & UK No.1 album ‘Metallica’).

1963
Ed Roland (lead vocalist for Collective Soul) is born in Stockbridge, Georgia.

1961
American double bass player Lee Rocker with The Stray Cats who spearheaded the neo-rockabilly movement of the early 1980s. They scored the 1980 UK No.9 single ‘Runaway Boys’, and the 1983 US No.3 single ‘Stray Cat Strut’. The Stray Cats sold nearly 10 million albums.

1959
Martin Atkins, Public Image Ltd, (1983 UK No.5 single ‘This Is Not A Love Song’).

1956
Kirk Brandon, singer, guitarist, Spear Of Destiny, (1987 UK No.14 single ‘Never Take Me Alive’), Theatre Of Hate, (1982 UK No.40 single ‘Do You Believe In The Westworld’).

1953
Ian Bairnson, Pilot, (1975 UK No.1 single ‘January’).

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1951
John Graham, guitarist with Earth, Wind & Fire, who had the 1975 US No.1 single ‘Shining Star’, and the 1981 UK No.3 single ‘Let’s Groove’. The band has received 20 Grammy nominations and were the first African-American act to sell out Madison Square Garden.

1949
B.B. Dickerson, American bassist with funk band War. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was the best-selling US album of 1973. They also scored the 1973 US No.2 single ‘Cisco Kid’. He died on 2 April 2021 age 71.

1946
John York, The Byrds, (1965 UK & US No.1 single ‘Mr Tambourine Man’)

1941
Beverly Lee, singer with American girl group The Shirelles, notable for their popularity in the early 1960s. They were the first all female group to have a No.1 hit record with ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’ in 1961.

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1939
Jimmy Nicol, drummer, temporary member of The Beatles for nine Australian gigs in 1964, after Ringo Starr collapsed and was hospitalised on 3 June 1964 with tonsillitis. George Martin suggested Nicol, as he had recently played on a budget label album called “Beatlemania” and knew the songs.

1936
Kenny Hodges (bass guitarist for Spanky and Our Gang) is born in Jacksonville, Florida.

1935
Gordon Stoker, The Jordanaires, Elvis Presley’s backing group. Known for providing background vocals for Elvis Presley, in live appearances and recordings from 1956 to 1972. He died on 27 March 2013.

1929
Arthur Wood keyboardist for Ceramic City Stompers and The Climax Blues Band (1968 – 1973). He died on September 11, 2005.

1926
American singer Tony Bennett who had the 1955 UK No.1 single ‘Stranger In Paradise’ and the 1965 UK No.25 single ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco’. In 1998, Bennett made an unlikely but highly successful appearance on the final day of a mud-soaked Glastonbury Festival in the UK dressed in an immaculate suit and tie, his whole set on this occasion consisting of songs about the weather. Bennett and Amy Winehouse recorded the duet ‘Body and Soul’ in March 2011 – the final recording made by Winehouse before her death on July 23, 2011 at the age of 27. When the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100 it made Bennett, at age 85, the oldest living artist ever to chart on the Hot 100. Bennett died at his home in New York City on July 21, 2023 just two weeks short of his 97th birthday, following seven years of Alzheimer’s disease.

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