July 17th: Born On This Day In Music

1987
American singer songwriter, record producer, Jeremiah Felton. His debut single, ‘Birthday Sex’ (which was also recorded in French), peaked at No.4 on the US Hot 100.

1985
Tom Fletcher, guitar, vocals, McFly, (2004 UK No.1 single ‘Colours In Her Hair’, 2004 UK No.1 album ‘Room On The 3rd Floor’).

1982
English singer-songwriter, Natasha Hamilton who with Atomic Kitten had the 2000 UK No.1 single ‘Whole Again’. The girl group were founded by OMD frontman Andy McCluskey.

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1980
Philip Lawrence, producer and songwriter who is part of the Smeezingtons record producing team with Bruno Mars and Ari Levine. Worked with Adele, Snoop Dogg, Cee Lo Green, Justin Bieber, Flo Rida and many other artists.

1976
Luke Bryan, American country music singer and songwriter. He began his music career writing songs for Travis Tritt and Billy Currington. Bryan’s first nine solo albums have included fourteen No.1 country music hits.

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1971
Jarrett Cordes, DJ Minutemix, from American hip hop act PM Dawn who scored the 1991 US No.1 & UK No.3 single ‘Set Adrift On Memory Bliss’.

1970
Mandy Smith, singer, model and actress. In 1983 at age 13 she started dating the then 47 year old Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. The couple married in 1989, divorced 1992. Smith released records with SAW none of which charted. Wyman’s son later dated Mandy’s mother.

1966
American alternative rock musician and songwriter, Lou Barlow, a founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and The Folk Implosion. Barlow is credited with helping to pioneer the lo-fi style of rock music in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

1963
Regina Belle, US singer, (1993 US No.1 & UK No.12 single with Peabo Bryson, ‘A Whole New World, Aladdin’s Theme’).

1952
Chet McCracKen, drums, The Doobie Brothers, (1979 US No.1 single ‘What A Fool Believes’, 1993 UK No.7 single ‘Long Train Runnin’).

1952
Nicolette Larson is born in Helena, Montana. Best known for the 1979 pop hit “Lotta Love,” her brief country career yields a single duet hit with Steve Wariner, “That’s How You Know When Love’s Right”.

1950
Phoebe Snow, US singer, songwriter, (1975 US No.5 single ‘Poetry Man’, 1979 UK No.37 single ‘Every Night’). Snow suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on January 19, 2010 and slipped into a coma, she died on April 26, 2011.

1950
Ian McCridie guitarist 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.

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1950
Otis Damon Harris, vocals, The Temptations, (1971 UK No.8 single ‘Just My Imagination’ and re-issued ‘My Girl’ UK No.2 in 1992). Harris died on February 18th 2013 at the age of 62 after a 14-year battle with prostate cancer. Harris was a member of The Temptations from 1971 to 1975, joining shortly after the departure of Eddie Kendricks.

1949
Geezer Butler, bassist and primary lyricist with English rock band Black Sabbath who had the 1970 UK No.4 single ‘Paranoid’. The bands self-titled album was voted as the best British rock album ever by Kerrang! in 2005. He received the nickname “Geezer” at school because he used to call everybody “Geezer”.

1949
Mike Vale, bass, from American rock band, Tommy James & The Shondells who had the 1966 US No.1 single ‘Hanky Panky’, the 1968 UK No.1 single ‘Mony Mony’ and the hit ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’.

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1948
Ron Asheton, guitar, Iggy Pop And The Stooges, (1973 album ‘Raw Power’). Asheton was ranked as number 29 on Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He was found dead in his bed by police at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the early hours of January 6, 2009, apparently having died of a heart attack a couple of days earlier.

1947
Mick Tucker, drummer with English group Sweet, who had the 1973 UK No.1 single ‘Blockbuster’, plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles. Sweet scored four top-ten hits in the US: ‘Little Willy’, ‘Ballroom Blitz’, ‘Fox On The Run’, and ‘Love Is Like Oxygen’. Tucker died of leukaemia on 14th February 2002.

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1947
German musician Wolfgang Flur, electronic drums with Kraftwerk who had the 1975 US No.25 single, ‘Autobahn’, and the 1982 UK No.1 single ‘Computer Love / The Model’.

1945
Eric McCredie bassist 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. He died on 6 October 2007.

1942
Gale Garnett, known for the 1964 folk hit “We’ll Sing In The Sunshine,” is born in Auckland, New Zealand, but will relocate to Canada by age 11.

1939
Welsh musician Spencer Davis, the founder of the 60s rock band The Spencer Davis Group who scored 1966 UK No.1 single ‘Keep On Running’ and the 1967 US No.7 single ‘Gimme Some Lovin’. He died on 19 October 2020 age 81.

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Eric McCredie

1938
Stan Bronstein, sax, Elephant’s Memory, worked with John Lennon on his 1972 album Some Time In New York City. Died March 22, 2020

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