July 18th: Born On This Day In Music

1978 – Tony Fagenson
Tony Fagenson, drummer for Eve 6 is born. His dad is record producer and bass player Don Was (of Was (Not Was)).

1975 – Daron Malakian
Daron Malakian, guitarist with Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down who had the 2001 US No.1 album Toxicity and the 2005 US No.1 & UK No.2 album Mezmerize.

1962 – Jack Irons
Jack Irons, drummer who has worked with Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Redd Kross and Joe Strummer.

1962 – Daniel de los Reyes
Daniel de los Reyes American musician 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. De los Reyes has performed with various artists such as Don Henley, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sting, Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin.

1958 – Nigel Twist
Nigel Twist, drummer from Welsh rock band The Alarm, who had the 1983 UK No.17 single ’68 Guns’. They Initially formed as a punk band, the Toilets, in 1977.

1957 – Keith Levene
Keith Levene, guitar, Public Image Ltd, (1983 UK No.5 single ‘This Is Not A Love Song’). He died from complications of liver cancer on 11 November 2022 age 65.

1955 – Terry Chambers
Terry Chambers, drums, XTC, (1982 UK No.10 single ‘Senses Working Over Time’).

1954 – Ricky Scaggs
Ricky Scaggs, country singer, 1982 Country Music Association singer of the year, (US country No.1 single ‘Crying My Heart Out Over You’).

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1950 – Cesar Zuiderwijk
Cesar Zuiderwijk from Golden Earring who had the 1974 UK No.7 & US No.13 single ‘Radar Love’.

1950 – Glenn Hughes
Glenn Hughes from American disco group The Village People. They had the hit singles ‘Macho Man’, ‘In the Navy’, ‘Go West and the 1978 US No.2 hit ‘YMCA’. The group’s name refers to New York City’s Greenwich Village, at the time known for its large gay population. Hughes died on 4th March 2001.

1950 – Richard Branson
Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Records and the Virgin Empire. In 1972 Branson bought a country estate in Oxford, England in which he installed a residential recording studio, The Manor Studio. He leased studio time to fledgling artists, including multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, whose debut album Tubular Bells (1973) was the first release for Virgin Records and became a chart-topping best-seller. Virgin signed controversial bands such as the Sex Pistols, and Virgin Records would go on to sign the Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, XTC, Japan, UB40, Steve Winwood and Paula Abdul, and become the world’s largest independent record label.

1948 – Wally Bryson
Wally Bryson, The Raspberries, (1972 US N.5 single ‘Go All The Way’).

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1948 – Phil Harris
Phil Harris, Ace, (1974 UK No.20 single ‘How Long’).

1946 – Tim Lynch
Tim Lynch, from American rock bandThe Flamin Groovies who had the 1976 album ‘Shake Some Action. In addition to the band’s role in the advancement of power pop, the Flamin’ Groovies have also been called one of the forerunners of punk rock.

1945 – Danny McCullock
Danny McCullock, guitarist in The Animals who had the 1964 UK & US No.1 single ‘House Of The Rising Sun’.

1943 – Robin McDonald
Robin McDonald, guitarist, from Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas who had the 1964 UK No.1 & US N0.7 single ‘Little Children’.

1941 – Martha Reeves
Martha Reeves, American R&B and pop singer and former politician, (1964 US No.2 & 1969 UK No.4 single with The Vandellas ‘Dancing In The Street’, plus ten US & six UK other top 40 singles).

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1941 – Lonnie Mack
Lonnie Mack, American rock, blues and country singer-guitarist. In the early 1960s, he was a “pioneer” in virtuoso rock guitar soloing whose recordings were pivotal to the emergence of the electric guitar as a lead voice in rock music. For this, it has been said that he launched the era of “modern rock guitar”. He scored the hit single instrumentals, ‘Memphis’ and ‘Wham!’ Mack died of natural causes on April 21, 2016, in hospital near his log-cabin home, seventy miles east of Nashville, Tennessee.

1940 – Mike Terry
American saxophonist, songwriter, Mike Terry. His baritone sax solos feature on the hits of Martha and the Vandellas (‘Heat Wave’, 1963), and The Supremes (‘Where Did Our Love Go’, 1964). As a member of the Funk Brothers he performed on thousands of Motown recordings from 1960-1967, including at least seven US No.1 hits. As was Motown’s policy at the time, none of the studio musicians were credited by name. Terry was the musical arranger of the 1966 hit ‘Cool Jerk’ by The Capitols, and later became a record producer. He died age 68 on October 30, 2008.

1940 – Jim Kweskin
Jim Kweskin, founder of Jim Kweskin Jug Band, is born in Stamford, Connecticut.

1939 – Brian Auger
Brian Auger, keyboards, (1968 UK No.5 single with Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger And The Trinity, ‘This Wheel’s On Fire’).

1939 – Dion Dimucci
American singer and songwriter Dion Dimucci, best known for his 1961 US No.1 & UK No.11 single ‘Runaround Sue’. He had 39 Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a solo performer, with the Belmonts or with the Del Satins.

1938 – Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart, keyboard player, The Rolling Stones. Stewart died of a heart attack in his doctor’s Harley Street waiting room on 12th December 1985.

1935 – Johnny Funches
Johnny Funches, American singer with The Dells, (1968 US No.10 single ‘Stay In My Corner’). He died on 23 January 1998 aged 62.

1931 – Thomas “Papa Dee” Allen
Thomas “Papa Dee” Allen, was a pianist, vibist and soprano saxophonist who is best remembered as a percussionist for American R&B/Funk/Rock band, War. Died on August 30, 1988.

1929 – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
American singer, songwriter, musician Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. A Golden Gloves boxing champion at 16, he was married nine times, fathered over 30 children, spent two years in jail and was temporary blinded by one of his flaming props on stage in 1976. He recorded ‘I Put A Spell On You’ in 1956, (which was covered by many acts including The Animals, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Nina Simone). He died on 12 February 2000 aged 70 after emergency surgery for an aneurysm.

1924 – Earl T. Beal
American singer Earl T. Beal from The Silhouettes. The doo wop/R&B groups single ‘Get A Job’ was a No.1 hit on the Billboard R&B singles chart and pop singles chart in 1958. The doo-wop revival group Sha Na Na derived their name from the song’s lyrics. ‘Get A Job’ is included in the soundtracks of the film American Graffiti, Trading Places and Stand By Me. Beal died on 22 March 2001.

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