Born on this day in music, November 22nd

1981
Ben Adams, vocals, A1, (2000 UK No.1 single, ‘Same Old Brand New You’).

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1979
Scott Robinson, vocals, Five, with English boy band Five who had the 1998 UK No.2 single ‘Everybody Get Up’ and the 1999 UK No.1 single ‘Keep On Movin’.

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1978
Karen O, singer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, (2006 UK No. 18 single ‘Gold Lion’).

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1970
Chris Fryar American drummer 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.

1968
Rasa Don, from American alternative hip hop group Arrested Development who scored the 1992 UK No.2 and US No. 8 single ‘People Everyday’. The group won two Grammy Awards in 1993 for Best New Artist and Best Rap Performance and were also named Band of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine.

1966
Francis Anthony ‘Eg’ White, songwriter and producer. Member of Brother Beyond in the late 1980s, Will Young, Natalie Imbruglia, James Morrison, Kylie Minogue, Adele and Duffy have all recorded his songs.

1960
James Morrison, (Jim Bob), Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, 1992 UK No.7 single ‘The Only Living Boy In New Cross’).

1957
Sharon Bailey, Amazulu, (1986 UK No.5 single ‘Too Good To Be Forgotten’)

1950
American musician Tina Weymouth, bassist with Talking Heads, who had the 1983 US No.9 single ‘Burning Down The House’, 1985 UK No.6 single ‘Road To Nowhere’. Also a member of Tom Tom Club, who had the 1981 UK No.7 single ‘Wordy Rappinghood’.

1950
American musician and actor Steven Van Zandt, (Little Steven or Miami Steve), guitarist with South Side Johnny, then Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul. Created music-industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid as an action against the Sun City resort in South Africa, Springsteen, U2, Bob Dylan and Run DMC, collaborated on ‘Sun City’. He starred as Silvio Dante in the TV Series The Sopranos.

1948
Dennis Larden (of Every Mother’s Son) is born in New York City, New York. Known for the 1967 hit “Come On Down To My Boat.”

1946
Aston Barrett, The Upsetters, Bob Marley and the Wailers, (1981 UK No.8 single ‘No Woman No Cry’, plus over Ten other UK Top 40 singles).

1947
Rod Price (lead guitarist for Foghat) is born Roderick Michael Price in Willesden, North London, England.

1943
Floyd Sneed, drummer with Three Dog Night, who had the 1970 UK No.3 & US No.1 single with a cover of the Randy Newman song ‘Mama Told Me Not To Come’. The band scored 21 Billboard Top 40 hits (with three hitting No.1) between 1969 and 1975.

1941
Jesse Colin Young, The Youngbloods, (1969 US No.5 single ‘Get Together’).

1941
Terry Stafford, known for the hits “Suspicion” (1964) and “Amarillo By Morning” (1973), is born in Hollis, Oklahoma, but would be raised in Amarillo, Texas. Died March 17, 1996.

1936
Opal Courtney Jr, singer with Fifties doo-wop group The Spaniels. Their 1954 hit ‘Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite’ was featured in such films as Three Men and a Baby and American Graffiti. The Spaniels became one of the first artists to sign with Vee-Jay Records, the first large, independent Afro-American owned record label. He died on 18 September 2008.

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