Born On This Day In Music, June 27th

1983 – Evan David Taubenfeld
Evan David Taubenfeld, guitarist and singer with Avril Lavigne and The Black List Club.

1976 – Leigh Nash
Leigh Nash, singer, Sixpence None The Richer, (1999 UK No.4 single, ‘Kiss Me’, 1999 US No.8 single ‘There She Goes’). Born in New Braunfels, Texas.

1970 – Laurence Colbert
Laurence Colbert, drums, Ride, (1992 UK No.9 single ‘Leave Them All Behind’).

1962 – Michael Ball
Michael Ball, UK singer, radio presenter, actor. He had the 1989 UK No.2 single ‘Love Changes Everything’. In April 2020, Ball & Captain Tom Moore scored a UK No.1 with their version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” raising money for charity during the COVID-19 pandemic. This made Moore – six days short of his one hundredth birthday – the oldest person to achieve a No.1 (he was at the top of the charts on his 100th birthday), beating the previous record-holder Tom Jones.

1959 – Lorrie Morgan
Country singer Lorrie Morgan is born Loretta Lynn Morgan in Nashville, Tennessee, a day before father George Morgan’s 35th birthday, in Nashville. She joins the Grand Ole Opry in 1984, preceding a run of 1990s hits, including “Something In Red,” “Five Minutes” and “What Part Of No”

1958 – Lisa Germano
Lisa Germano, American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, 1994 album ‘Geek the Girl.’ Also worked with John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, David Bowie, Neil Finn, Sheryl Crow, Iggy Pop, Jewel and Eels.

1958 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce
Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist and founding member and guitarist with The Gun Club. Pierce died from a blood clot on his brain on 31st March 1996 aged 37.

1951 – Gilson Lavis
English drummer Gilson Lavis who has worked with Chuck Berry, Jools Holland, Jerry Lee Lewis and Dolly Parton. He was working in a brickyard when he noticed the advertisement in Melody Maker for Squeeze who he joined in the seventies.

1947 – Jim Fuller
American guitarist Jim Fuller from The Surfaris who had the 1963 US No.2 & UK No.3 single ‘Wipe Out’. Fuller was known as the “Godfather” of surf music, a Californian instrumental music and with his Fender guitar contributed to the popularity of Leo Fender’s instruments. Fuller died on 3 March 2017 aged 69.

1945 – Joey Covington
American drummer Joey Covington, best known for his involvements with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship. Covington died in an automobile accident in Palm Springs, California, on June 4, 2013.

1942 – Bruce Johnston
Bruce Johnston, vocals, guitar, The Beach Boys. In 1965, Johnston joined the band for live performances, filling in for the group’s co-founder Brian Wilson. He wrote the No.1 Barry Manilow hit ‘I Write the Songs’ and also sang on the recordings for Elton John’s ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ and several songs on Pink Floyd’s album The Wall.

1935 – Bobby Harden
Bobby Harden is born in England, Arkansas. As a member of The Harden Trio, he appears on the 1966 hit “Tippy Toeing.” He also writes Mark Chesnutt’s “Too Cold At Home” and Reba McEntire’s “Today All Over Again,” among others

1925 – Doc Pomus
American songwriter and Blues singer Doc Pomus. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hits with Mort Shuman including, ‘A Teenager in Love’, ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’, ‘Sweets For My Sweet’, ‘Can’t Get Used to Losing You’, ‘Little Sister’, ‘Suspicion’, ‘Surrender’ and ‘Viva Las Vegas.’He died from lung cancer aged 65 on March 14th 1991.