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Born Today In Music, September 29th
1994
Pop singer/songwriter Ashley Franginpane is born in Edison, New Jersey. She comes to prominence in 2015 with the stage name Halsey, joining Kelsea Ballerini on a 2020 country single that is certified gold, “the other girl”
1984
American musician, Chris Baio from Vampire Weekend. 2010 US & UK No.1 album, ‘Contra’ and the 2013 US No.1 album ‘Modern Vampires of the City’.
1970
Toby Smith, keyboards, with Jamiroquai who had the 1993 UK No.1 album Emergency on Planet Earth and the 1998 UK No.1 single ‘Deeper Underground’. Smith died on 11 April 2017 aged 46 after he had been diagnosed with cancer six years earlier.
1969
Roni Size, DJ, producer, 1997 Mercury Music Prize-winner.
1968
Bassist Brad Smith (of Blind Melon) is born in West Point, Mississippi.
1965
Peter Timmins, with Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band, Cowboy Junkies
1963
Primus singer/bassist Les Claypool is born in Richmond, California.
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1962
Einar Orn, vocals, The Sugarcubes, (1992 UK No.17 single ‘Hit’).
1956
Bob Carlisle of “Butterfly Kisses” fame is born in Santa Ana, California.
1955
Kevin DuBrow, singer, Quiet Riot, (1983 US No.1 album, ‘Metal Health’). Found dead in his Las Vegas home at the age of 52 on 25th Nov 2007. The band’s biggest hit was Cum on Feel the Noize, a cover of the Slade song which they are said to have grudgingly recorded in just one take.
1955
Roger O’Donnell, keyboardist with English rock band The Cure who had the 1989 US No.2 single ‘Love Song’, the 1992 UK No.6 single ‘Friday I’m In Love’, plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. He has also worked with the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson Twins and Berlin.
1954
Steve Luscombe, from English synth-pop band Blancmange, who had the 1982 UK No.7 single ‘Living On The Ceiling’.
1948
Guitarist Mark Farner is born in Flint, Michigan. As a member of Grand Funk, he plays on the 1973 pop hit “We’re An American Band,” referenced in The Eli Young Band’s 2009 country hit “Always The Love Songs”
1948
Guitarist Mike Pinera (of Iron Butterfly) is born in Tampa, Florida.
1948
Ricky Reynolds, from American Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas, known for their 70s US No.1 radio hit single ‘Jim Dandy To The Rescue’. He died on 5 September 2021 age 72.
1946
Rob Van Leeuwen, Shocking Blue, (1970 US No.1 & UK No.8 single ‘Venus’).
1944
Composer Mike Post is born Leland Michael Postil in Berkeley, California. Composed many TV theme songs, including Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The Rockford Files, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I., and Hill Street Blues.
1944
English musician, singer, songwriter Denny Laine who with The Moody Blues, had the 1965 UK No.1 & US No.10 single ‘Go Now’. As a member of Wings he had the 1974 UK No.3 single ‘Band on The Run’.
1944
Tommy Tate (vocalist/drummer for The Imperial Show Band) is born in Homestead, Florida.
1944
Folk singer Anne Briggs is born in Toton, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England.
1942
Virtuoso violinist/composer Jean-Luc Ponty is born in Avranches, France.
1939
Songwriter Tommy Boyce (Boyce & Hart) is born Sidney Thomas Boyce in Charlottesville, Virginia. Co-wrote the Monkees’ “Last Train to Clarksville.”
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1935
Jerry Lee Lewis is born in Ferriday, Louisiana. The piano-pumping singer, nicknamed “the Killer,” rises with his late-1950s, genre-busting Sun recordings, but focuses on country in the following decade, earning membership in both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Lewis died at his home on October 28, 2022, in Nesbit, Mississippi, at the age of 87.
1907
Gene Autry is born in Tioga, Texas. Noted for his signature song “Back In The Saddle Again,” he becomes a recording artist, a movie star and, later, the owner of the California Angels baseball team. He joins the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1969. Gene Autry died at his home in Studio City, California on October 2, 1998.
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