Born on this day in music, November 4th

1977
Kavana, singer, (1997 UK No.8 single ‘I Can Make You Feel Good’).

1974
Louise Redknapp, from British R&B girl group Eternal who had the 1997 UK No.1 single ‘I Wanna Be The Only One’, and the 1993 UK No.2 album Always & Forever. They achieved 15 UK Top 20 hits between 1993 and 1999. She had the 1996 solo UK No.5 single ‘Naked’.

1971
American singer, songwriter and actor Gregory Porter. He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Liquid Spirit.
1969
Sean John Combs, (aka, Puff Daddy & P Diddy), American record producer, clothing designer and rapper. (1997 US & UK No.1 single with Faith Evans, ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ is the most successful rap single of all time). Producer of MTV’s Making the Band. Richest hip-hop entertainer as of 2007, having a net worth estimate of US $346 Million.

1966
Kool Rock, (Damon Wimbley), rapper, The Fat Boys. (1988 UK No.2 single ‘Wipe-out’).
1956
James Honeyman-Scott, with English-American rock band The Pretenders, who had the 1980 UK No.1 single with ‘Brass In Pocket’. He died on 16th June 1982 of heart failure caused by cocaine intolerance.

1954
English singer, musician, songwriter Chris Difford, who was a founding member of Squeeze. Some of their best-known songs are ‘Tempted’, ‘Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)’, ‘Cool for Cats’ and ‘Up the Junction’. Difford now works as a solo artist.

1953
Van Stephenson (tenor vocalist for the country band BlackHawk) is born in Hamilton, Ohio, but relocates to Nashville, Tennessee, at age 10.
1947
Mike Smith from Welsh rock group Amen Corner who had the 1969 UK No.1 single ‘If Paradise Is Half As Nice’ plus five other UK Top 40 hits.

1944
American singer Sherri Payne, best known as the final lead singer of The Supremes from 1973 until 1977. Payne is the younger sister of singer Freda Payne.

1940
Delbert McClinton, US singer, songwriter, (1980 US No.8 single ‘Giving It Up For Your Love’), worked with Bruce Channel, wrote ‘Two More Bottles Of Wine’ country No.1 for Emmylou Harris, is born in Lubbock, Texas.

1938
Harry Elson, The Friends Of Distinction, (1969 US No.3 single ‘Grazing In The Grass’), is born in Dallas, Texas.

1929
Songwriter Paul Vance is born in Brooklyn, New York. The author of such pop hits as “Catch A Falling Star” and “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” he also writes Faron Young’s 1957 country hit “Love Has Finally Come My Way”

1929
British pop singer Dickie Valentine who enjoyed great popularity in Britain during the 1950s. In addition to several other Top Ten hit singles, Valentine had two chart-toppers on the UK Singles Chart with ‘Finger of Suspicion’ (1954) and the seasonal ‘Christmas Alphabet’ (1955) the first Christmas song to reach the No.1 position. It was the first Christmas No.1 that was actually about Christmas, a trend that would continue off and on over the next several decades. He was killed outright in a car crash on a single lane bridge near Crickhowell, Wales on 6 May 1971, at the age of 41, together with pianist Sidney Boatman and drummer Dave Pearson, aged 42.

1911
Wilma Wyatt is born in Harriman, Tennessee. Under the stage name Dixie Lee, she becomes a singer and actress, marrying Bing Crosby, who finds his way onto the country charts with a 1943 recording of “Pistol Packin’ Mama”

1903
Ion Vasilescu, Romanian composer, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1960)

 

 

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