July 26th: Born On This Day In Music

1993 – Taylor Momsen
Taylor Momsen, American singer, songwriter with The Pretty Reckless who released their debut album Light Me Up in 2010.

1992 – Stormzy
British rapper Stormzy. His debut album, Gang Signs & Prayer (2017), was the first grime album to reach No.1 on the UK Albums Chart and won British Album of the Year at the 2018 Brit Awards. In 2019, Stormzy achieved his first UK No.1 single with ‘Vossi Bop’ and his headline appearance at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival was widely praised; he wore a Union Jack stab vest designed by Banksy, in light of the rise in knife crime in London.

1980 – Dave Baksh
Dave ‘Brown Sound’ Baksh, guitarist with Sum 41, who had the 2001 UK No 13 single ‘In Too Deep’. He quit Sum 41 in 2006 to pursue his career with his second band Brown Brigade and The Organ Thieves.

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1967 – Tim Barnwell
Tim Barnwell, DJ Headliner, from American alternative hip hop Arrested Development group 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.

1963 – Scott Francis Crago
Scott Francis Crago, American session drummer, worked with the Eagles since 1994 as well as Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Bryan Adams, Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger and Chris Isaak.

1962 – Miranda Joyce
Miranda Joyce, vocals, The Belle Stars, (1983 UK No.3 single ‘Sign Of The Times’).

1961 – Gary Cherone
Gary Cherone, singer with Extreme who had the 1991 US No.1 & UK No.2 single ‘More Than Words’. Also toured and recorded with Van Halen.

1961 – Andy Connell
Andy Connell, Swing Out Sister, (1986 UK No.4 single ‘Breakout’).

1950 – Duncan Mackay
Singer/keyboardist Duncan Mackay of 10cc, is born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.

1949 – Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor, drums, vocals, Queen, (1975 UK No.1 single ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ also UK No.1 in 1991, plus over 40 other UK Top 40 singles, 1980 US No.1 single ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’). Also a member of The Cross.

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1944 – Betty Davis
Funk vocalist, songwriter, and producer Betty Davis was artistic and sexual liberation personified. Uncompromising, unfiltered, and ahead of its time, her small body of work consequently made little commercial impact but gradually found a wider audience. Davis died from cancer in Homestead, Pennsylvania, on February 9, 2022.

1943 – Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger, singer, songwriter with The Rolling Stones, (1969 UK & US No.1 single ‘Honky Tonk Women’, and over 35 UK & US Top 40 singles and albums). Solo (1985 UK No.1 single with David Bowie ‘Dancing In The Street’). 1985 UK No. 6 solo album ‘She’s The Boss.’ In 2003 he was knighted for his services to popular music and in early 2009 he joined the electric supergroup SuperHeavy.

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1941 – Bobby Hebb
Bobby Hebb, US singer, (1966 US No.2 and UK No.12 single ‘Sunny’). The song was written about Bobby’s brother, who had been killed by a mugger in 1963, and started out as an album filler until it was picked for a single release.

1941 – Neil Landon
Neil Landon, singer and songwriter with the band Fat Mattress, which he co-founded with guitarist/singer Noel Redding. He later joined The Flower Pot Men, who scored a hit in 1967 with ‘Let’s Go To San Francisco’ which reached No.4 in the UK Singles Chart. Landon was a member of The Ivy League who had the 1965 UK No.3 single ‘Tossing and Turning’. He died on 26 March 2020, age 78.

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1941 – Brenton Wood
Soul singer Brenton Wood is born Alfred Jesse Smith in Shreveport, Louisiana. Known for 1967’s “The Oogum Boogum Song” and “Gimme Little Sign.”

1941 – Darlene Love
American singer Darlene Love from The Crystals who had the 1962 US No.1 single ‘He’s A Rebel’, and the 1963 UK No.2 single ‘Then He Kissed Me’.

1940 – Dobie Gray
Singer Dobie Gray is born in Simonton, Texas. His hit songs included “The ‘In’ Crowd” in 1965 and “Drift Away”, which was one of the biggest hits of 1973. Gray died on December 6, 2011, of complications from cancer surgery in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 71.

1939 – Casey Jones
American drummer Casey Jones. In the early 1960s, he recorded with Earl Hooker, A.C. Reed, McKinley Mitchell, and Muddy Waters. As a session drummer, he worked with artists such as Lou Rawls, Otis Rush and Johnny Winter. For six years he was a member of Albert Collins’s band as his drummer. He died on May 3, 2017.

1938 – Bobby Hebb
Bobby Hebb, who had a hit with “Sunny” in 1966, is born in Nashville, Tennessee. On August 3, 2010, Hebb died from lung cancer.

1914 – Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Hawkins, trumpeter and Big Band leader known for “Tuxedo Junction,” is born in Birmingham, Alabama. Died November 11, 1993.

1895 – Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen, comedic radio and TV star with partner/husband George Burns, is born in San Francisco, California (though the specific date of her birth is disputed). Allen, who had a history of heart disease, died from a heart attack in Hollywood on August 27, 1964, at age 62

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