1994
Lauren Alaina Suddeth is born in Rossville, Georgia. After finishing as the runner-up in the 2011 edition of “American Idol,” she hits #2 on the Billboard country albums chart with her debut, “Wildflower.” She scores hits in 2017 with “Road Less Traveled” and a Kane Brown duet, “What Ifs”.
1977
Country singer Bucky Covington is born William Joel Covington III, along with identical twin brother Robert, in Rockingham, North Carolina. After competing on “American Idol,” he picks up a recording contract with Disney’s Lyric Street Records, earning a hit with his first single, 2007’s “A Different World”
1970
Reggae singer Diana King is born in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, Jamaica. She cameos on The Notorious B.I.G.’s 1994 song “Respect” before landing a recording contract with Sony Music.
1961
Leif Garrett is born Leif Per Nervik in Hollywood, California.
1958
Terry Lee Miall, from English rock band Adam and the Ants who scored the 1981 UK No.1 single ‘Stand And Deliver’ and 15 other UK Top 40 singles.
1954
American vocalist, musician, songwriter, Rickie Lee Jones who is a two-time Grammy Award winner. Her 1979 single ‘Chuck E.’s In Love’ was a No.4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
1949
Alan Berger, Southside Johnny & The Ashbury Jukes, (1978 album ‘Hearts Of Stone’).
1949
Bonnie Raitt, American 10-time Grammy Award-winning rock-blues guitarist and singer-songwriter (“Nick of Time”; “Something To Talk About“), born in Burbank, California.
1947
Minnie Riperton, US singer, (1975 US No.1 & UK No.2 with the Stevie Wonder produced single ‘Loving You’). Died of cancer 12th July 1979.
1946
Australian-born songwriter, arranger, singer and guitarist John Farrar who has been a member of The Strangers, Marvin, Welch & Farrar, and The Shadows. He wrote the No.1 hit singles for Olivia Newton-John, ‘Have You Never Been Mellow’ and ‘You’re the One That I Want‘ with John Travolta.
1946
John Martin, The Big Figure, Dr Feelgood, (1979 UK No.9 single ‘Milk And Alcohol’).
1946
Roy Wood, guitar, vocals, with British rock band The Move who had the 1969 UK No.1 single ‘Blackberry Way’ and hits with ‘I Can Hear The Grass Grow’, ‘Flowers in the Rain’ and ‘Fire Brigade’. And with Wizzard scored the 1973 UK No.1 single ‘See My Baby Jive’. Wood sang backing vocals on ‘You Got Me Floatin” a track on the The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love album.
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1945
American drummer Don Murray, best known for his work with The Turtles. The band had several Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan’s ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ in 1965. They scored their biggest and best-known hit in 1967 with the song ‘Happy Together’. Murray died on March 22 1996.
1944
Bonnie Bramlett, Delaney and Bonnie, (1971 US No.13 single ‘Never Ending Song Of Love’, worked with Eric Clapton during early 70s, acting roles in ‘Fame’, ‘Roseanne’ and ‘The Doors’).
1944
Rodney Slater who was a founding member of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band playing saxophones and other musical instruments. The had the 1968 UK No.5 single ‘I’m The Urban Spaceman’.
1942
Gerald Alston, vocals, The Manhattans, (1976 US No.1 & UK No.4 single ‘Kiss And Say Goodbye‘).
1942
Johnny Perez (drummer for the Sir Douglas Quintet) is born San Antonio, Texas.
1935
Alain Delon, French-Swiss stage and screen actor (Purple Noon; Le Samouraï; Monsieur Klein), filmmaker, and pop singer, born in Sceaux, France.
1934
Doc Green, American pop baritone vocalist (The Drifters). (died 1989)
1929
American songwriter and producer Bert Berns. He wrote many classic songs including ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘Hang On Sloopy’, ‘Here Comes the Night’, ‘I Want Candy’, ‘Under the Boardwalk’, ‘Everybody Needs Somebody to Love’ and ‘Brown Eyed Girl’. Berns died of heart failure on December 30 aged 38.
1927
American singer of pop and country music singer Patti Page, one of the most popular artists of the 1950s. She recorded four US No.1 hits, including ‘Tennessee Waltz’ and the novelty record ‘(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window’. Page recorded her first hit single, ‘Confess’ in 1947. Because of a strike, background singers were not available to provide harmony vocals for the song, so instead, Page decided to overdub her own, thus, Page became the first pop artist to overdub her vocals on a song. Page died on 1 January 2013 at the age of 85.
1927
Ken Dodd, British singer, comedian. His 1965 UK No.1 single ‘Tears’ topped the UK singles chart for five weeks becoming the biggest hit single in Britain that year and selling over a million copies in the UK alone. The recording is the third best selling song of the 1960s in Britain. In the 1960s, his fame in the UK was such that he rivaled The Beatles as a household name. He died on 11 March 2018 age 90.
