Born On This Day In Music, July 13th

1992
Singer/songwriter Koe Wetzel is born in Pittsburg, Texas. He earns a Top 10 country album with his 2019 release “Harold Saul High”

1989
Leon Bridges is born Todd Michael Bridges in Atlanta, Georgia, but grows up in Fort Worth, Texas. He releases his debut album, Coming Home, in 2015 and is hailed as “the second coming of Sam Cooke.”

1988
Tula Paulinea “Tulisa” Contostavlos, English singer-songwriter. She is best known for being a member of hip hop group N-Dubz, during 2011 to 2012, she participated as a judge on the The X Factor.

1975
Singer/songwriter Jamey Johnson is born in Enterprise, Alabama. The author of Trace Adkins’ “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” and George Strait’s “Give It Away,” he breaks through as an artist with the 2008 album “That Lonesome Song.” It includes “In Color,” the 2009 Song of the Year for both the ACM and the CMA.

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1974
Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Her 1998 song ‘Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here’ held the record for longest-running number one single on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart (14 weeks).

1969
Born on his day, Mark Greenway, singer, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror and Benediction.

1966
Gerald Levert, R&B trio LeVert, who scored a UK top 10 single with Casanova in 1987. Died of a heart attack 11th Nov 2006 aged 40. The singer who was the son of O’Jays vocalist Eddie Levert.

1961
Lawrence Donegan, bassist from British pop band Lloyd Cole And The Commotions who had the 1985 UK hit single ‘Brand New Friend’. Between 1984 and 1989, the band scored four Top 20 albums and five Top 40 singles in the UK.

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1955
Mark “The Animal” Mendoza, bassist Twisted Sister, (1983 UK No.18 single ‘I Am, I’m Me’, 1984 album ‘Stay Hungry’). The Dictators.

1954
Country singer Louise Mandrell is born Thelma Louise Mandrell in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is the younger sister of fellow singer Barbara Mandrell.

1945
Drummer Jim Gordon is born in Los Angeles. A member of the rock band Derek & The Dominos, he plays on hits by Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell, Gordon Lightfoot, Lynn Anderson and Waylon Jennings. In 1983, in a psychotic episode associated with undiagnosed schizophrenia, Gordon murdered his mother and was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison, remaining incarcerated until his death. He died on March 13, 2023

1942
Roger McGuinn, guitar, vocals, The Byrds, (1965 US & UK No.1 single ‘Mr Tambourine Man’). He was the only member of The Byrds to play on the hit, the others being session players. He toured with Bob Dylan in 1975 and 1976 as part of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, and later worked with fellow ex-Byrds Gene Clark and Chris Hillman to form McGuinn, Clark and Hillman.

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1942
Stephen Bladd, drummer with American rock band The J Geils Band, who had the 1982 US No.1 & UK No.3 single ‘Centerfold’ which was taken from their US No.1 1981 album Freeze Frame.

1941
English singer-songwriter, Steve Gibbons. He was a member of The Ugly’s, in 1969 Gibbons teamed up with guitarist Trevor Burton from The Move and formed a new group called Balls, he then joined The Idle Race for three months in 1971 and this band evolved into the Steve Gibbons Band who scored the hit ‘Tulane’.

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1938
American bassist Al Rex, (Albert Floyd Piccirilli). He started playing for Bill Haley & His Comets and its predecessor Bill Haley and the Saddlemen in 1949 and became noted for ‘wild antics’ on stage. He died on 24 May 2020 age 91.

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