Born on this day in music, November 16th

1970
Logan Mader, guitarist in melodic death metal band Once Human, as well as former lead guitarist in Machine Head.

1969
Bryan Abrams, from American R&B group Color Me Badd who had the 1991 UK No.1 single ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’, and the 1991 US No.1 single ‘I Adore Mi Amor’.

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1966
Dave Kushner, American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist for Velvet Revolver. Kushner has also been a member of Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs, Loaded, Danzig, Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro’s solo band Sugartooth.

1964
Diana Krall, Canadian singer, songwriter. Krall has become one of the best selling jazz artists of all-time. Nominated for Album of the Year at the 2000 Grammy. Won three Juno awards in 2002, Artist of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Vocal Jazz Album of the Year.

1962
Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, English rock bassist, best known for being a member of the Stone Roses (playing on both of the band’s albums) and Primal Scream. Mounfield has a guest role in the movie 24 Hour Party People (2002).

1958
Harry Rushakoff (original drummer for Concrete Blonde) is born in Chicago, Illinois.

1949
Pattie Santos (It’s a Beautiful Day vocalist) is born in San Francisco, California. She died December 14, 1989.

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1948
“Thunder and Lightning” (1972) singer Chi Coltrane is born in Racine, Wisconsin.

1945
English keyboardist and guitarist Paul Raymond. He joined Plastic Penny in the early 60s as their keyboardist, vocalist, and replaced Christine McVie in British blues band Chicken Shack. He first joined UFO in 1976 and played with the band during four different stints, he was a regular in the UFO lineup since 2003. Raymond had also worked with Michael Schenker in MSG. He died on 13 April 2019 age 73.

1943
Winfred Lovett, vocals, The Manhattans, (1976 US No.1 & UK No.4 single ‘Kiss And Say Goodbye‘). Dies at 74. December 9, 2014

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1941
’60s soul singer-songwriter Dan Penn is born Wallace Daniel Pennington in Vernon, Alabama. Wrote Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man.”

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1938
Troy Seals, James Brown Band, (1966 US No.8 and UK No.13 single ‘It’s A Man’s World’, 1986 UK No.5 single ‘Living In America’, 1963 album ‘Live At The Apollo’)

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1933
Garnet Mimms (lead singer of Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters) is born in Ashland, West Virginia. Known for the 1963 hit “Cry Baby,” later covered by Janis Joplin.

1921
Grammy-winning record producer Ethel Gabriel. A trailblazer for women in the music industry, she was one of the first women to work as a record producer. “We had a son-of-a-gun president at RCA who was not favourable to women in the industry,” she said in 1992. “He put me in charge of the Camden label, the economy line subsidiary, because it was supposed to fold. I’m sure he thought it was a way to get rid of me. Well, I made a multimillion dollar line out of it, conceived, programed and produced everything.” Gabriel died in New York on 23 March 2021 aged 99.

1916
Herb Abramson, producer, songwriter and co-founder of Atlantic records. He produced Tommy Tucker’s 1964 hit ‘High Heeled Sneakers.’ Abramson died on 9th November 1999.

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