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Manuel Manetta is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will find success as a jazz multi-instrumentalist working with The Eagle Brass Band, The Tuxedo Brass Band, Kid Ory and Papa Celestin.
Salvatore Guaragna is born in Brooklyn, New York. He will find fame as Harry Warren, composer of such songs as September In The Rain, I Only Have Eyes For You, Lullaby Of Broadway, Chatanooga Choo Choo, You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby, I'll String Along With You and many others.
Successful blues and jazz singer and recording artist of the 20s and 30s, Beulah 'Sippie' Wallace is born in Houston, Texas, USA.
Dixieland jazz tuba player Joe Tarto, sometimes called The Titan Of The Tuba, is born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.Albert Luandrew is born in Vance, Mississippi, USA. He will find fame as blues pianist Sunnyland Slim.
Booker T. Washington White is born in Houston, Mississippi, USA. [N.B. Some sources say 1906] He will find fame as Delta blues master Bukka White.
Country singer and yodeller Leon Huff, nicknamed The Texas Songbird, is born in Whitesboro, Texas, USA. During his career Leon will sing with The Light Crust Doughboys, Bob Wills' Texas Playboys and Johnnie Lee Wills And His Boys.Jazz and jump blues saxophonist Jimmy Forrest is born in St Louis, Missouri, USA.
George Barnes is born in Chicago Heights, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success as a folk, blues and jazz guitarist, working with artists as diverse as Big Bill Broonzy, Ruby Braff, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, as well as pursuing an acclaimed solo career.
James Edward Pryor is born in Lambert, Mississippi, USA. He will find fame as blues vocalist/harmonica player Snooky Pryor.
Blues guitarist and harmonica player John Brim is born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA.
Bill Pinkney is born in Sumter, South Carolina, USA. He will go on to be a founding member of The Drifters.
Aaron Schroeder is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. . He will
become a highly successful saongwriter with over 500 song
recordings to his credit. Artists recording his material will
include Rosemary
Clooney, Roy Orbison, Duane Eddy, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Perry Como and Pat Boone, but he is most associated
with Elvis Presley, who
recorded seventeen Schroeder compositions, five of them No1 hits.
Joyce Bryant is born in Oakland, California, USA. She will find widespread success as a singer, dancer, and civil rights activist, achieving fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s as a theater and nightclub performer.Eddie 'Guitar' Burns is born in Belzoni, Mississippi, USA. He will find success as a blues guitarist and recording artist under a variety of names including Big Daddy, Little Eddie and Big Ed.
Billy Lee is born in Wright City, Missouri, USA. he will become a successful folk and country music fiddler and recording artist.
Session saxophonist Clarence Ford is born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He will be best known for his work with Fats Domino.
Lillie Mae Jones is born in Flint, Michigan. She will grow up to be jazz vocalist Betty Carter.
Thurston
Harris is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He will find
major success in 1957 with the hit single Little Bitty
Pretty One,
Don Wilson, rhythm guitarist with hitmaking instrumental rock group
The
Ventures, is born in Tacoma, Washington. Wilson will play on
the band's biggest hit Walk
Don't Run.
King Malachi Street is born in the countryside near Grundy, Virginia, USA. Under the name Mel Street, he will find success as country music singer and recording artist in the 1970s.
Blues guitarist James Wheeler is born in Albany, Georgia, USA. He will work with Otis Clay, The Impressions, Otis Rush and others, as well as making albums in his own name.
Curtis Wheeler is born. He will find success as New Orleans bluesman, guitarist, songwriter and recording artist Rooster.
Thomasina Winifred Montgomery is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She will find success as soul vocalist Tammi Terrell, best-known for her collaborations with Marvin Gaye.James L. Mangrum is born in Black Oak, Arkansas, USA. He will earn notoriety as Jim Dandy, leader of Southern boogie band Black Oak Arkansas.
Martha Johnson is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She will find success as a pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for the 1980s new wave band Martha And The Muffins.
Geraint Meurig Vaughan Watkins is born in Abertridwr, near Caerphilly, Wales. He will find success mostly as Geraint Watkins, a rock music pianist and accordionist backing artistes including Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney and Shakin' Stevens.Jack Greenwood is born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Europe. He will play drums for The Pretty Things in 2008.
Trombonist, keyboardist, and vocalist Wayne Wallace is born in San Francisco, California, USA. In his career he will work with his own Latin Jazz Quartet, Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra, The Pete Escovedo Orchestra and The See America Horns - to name a few.
John D. Morton is born in Lakewood, Ohio, USA. He will find acclaim as a musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, writer, and visual artist, but is best-known as the leader and founder of protopunk band Electric E els in 1972.Mantombi Matotiyana is born in Cape Town, South Africa. He will, in due course, play percussion and sing vocals for Amampondo, a leading South African group which has transformed the traditional musical style of Xhosa into an international phenomenon.
Clive Jackson is born. He will briefly find fame as leader of UK one-hit wonder band Doctor And The Medics.
Robert Harry Kuykendall is born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He will find fame as Bobby Dall, bassist of heavy rock glamsters Poison.
Chris Novoselic, bass player of Nirvana is born in Compton, California, USA.
Olufemi Sanyaolu is born in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa. He will find success as blues, funk and soul musician Keziah Jones.Cathy Dennis, singer, songwriter and record producer, is born in Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
Lee Min-Woo is born in South Korea, Asia. He will find success as singer M in the boy band Shinhwa, before also pursuing a solo career.
Pour Lui is born in Saitama, Honshu, Greater Tokyo, Japan, Asia. She will find success as the founder and leader of the "alternative idol" group BiS, and also as a solo performer.
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