October 13th: Born on this day in music

13 Oct 1980
Ashanti Douglas, (2002 US No.1 single ‘Foolish’, 2002 US No.1 album, Ashanti’).

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13 Oct 1970
Paul Potts, Welsh singer who became the winner of the first series of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, (2007 UK No.1 album ‘One Chance’).

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13 Oct 1968
Carlos Mar’n, from the multi-national classical crossover vocal group Il Divo. Their 2004 self-titled album, was No.1 in 14 countries around the world.

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13 Oct 1962
Rob Marche, guitarist with British new wave group Jo Boxers, who had the 1983 UK No.3 single ‘Boxer Beat’.

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13 Oct 1959
Gerry Darby, Carmel, (1983 UK No.15 single ‘Bad Day’).

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13 Oct 1959
American singer, actress, doll designer Marie Osmond, who is part of The Osmonds family. She had the 1973 US No.5 & UK No.2 single ‘Paper Roses’. She and her singer brother Donny Osmond hosted the television variety show Donny & Marie.

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13 Oct 1950
Simon Nicol, guitar, Fairport Convention, (1969 UK No.21 single ‘Si Tu Dois Partir’).

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13 Oct 1948
John Ford Coley, England Dan & John Ford Coley, (1976 US No. 2 & UK No. 26 single, ‘I’d Really Love To See You Tonight.)’

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13 Oct 1948
Peter David Spencer, from English rock band Smokie who had the 1975 UK No.3 single ‘If You Think You Know How To Love Me’. Their most popular hit single was ‘Living Next Door to Alice‘.

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13 Oct 1947
American rock vocalist, guitarist, songwriter Sammy Hagar who came to prominence in the 1970s with the hard rock band Montrose. He replaced David Lee Roth of Van Halen in 1985 and left the band in 1996. He founded the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand and restaurant chain, as well as Sammy’s Beach Bar Rum.

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13 Oct 1944
American keyboardist, singer and songwriter Robert Lamm, with Chicago, who had the 1976 UK & US No.1 single ‘If You Leave Me Now’. The band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois as The Chicago Transit Authority before shortening the name in 1970. Lamm wrote many of the band’s biggest hits, including ‘Questions 67 & 68’, ‘Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?’, ’25 or 6 to 4′, and ‘Harry Truman’. Chicago have had five consecutive No.1 albums on the Billboard chart and 20 top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

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13 Oct 1941
Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, (1970 UK & US No.1 single with Simon and Garfunkel, ‘Bridge Over Trouble Water.’ The duo’s 1970 album ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ spent 307 weeks on the UK chart). Solo, (1986 UK No.4 single ‘You Can Call Me Al’, 1986 UK No.1 album Graceland spent 115 weeks on the UK chart).

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13 Oct 1940
Chris Farlowe, British singer, who had the 1966 UK No.1 single ‘Out Of Time’, which was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards).

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Oct 13, 1926
Jazz bass player Ray Brown is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He goes on to marry Ella Fitzgerald several years after she makes a surprise appearance on an early version of Billboard’s country chart

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Oct 13 1927
Country singer Anita Kerr, leader of The Anita Kerr Singers, is born Anita Jean Grilli in Memphis, Tennessee. Her group will perform backing vocals for Red Foley, Ernest Tubb, Roy Orbison, and Willie Nelson, among others. Anita Kerr died October 10, 2022 at age 94.