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Music History Events: Births

March 26, 1944 Diana Ross is born in Detroit, Michigan. She finds fame as lead singer of The Supremes.

March 23, 1944 Ric Ocasek of The Cars is born in Baltimore, Maryland. His date of birth is often reported at March 23, 1949 because that's what he often claimed, but records show he was actually born five years earlier.

March 22, 1944 Tony McPhee (guitarist for The Groundhogs) is born in Humberston, Lincolnshire, England.

March 20, 1944 Jance Garfat (bassist for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show) is born Robert Jance Garfat in California.

March 17, 1944 John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful is born in New York City.

March 17, 1944 Pattie Boyd is born in Taunton, Somerset, England. She would later marry George Harrison and Eric Clapton, and also inspire the song "Layla."

March 11, 1944 Ric Rothwell (drummer for The Mindbenders) is born in Stockport, Cheshire, England.

March 7, 1944 Townes Van Zandt is born in Fort Worth, Texas.

March 6, 1944 Mary Wilson (of The Supremes) is born in Greenville, Mississippi. After moving to Detroit, she meets fellow future Supreme Florence Ballard at an elementary school talent show.

March 4, 1944 Michael Wilson (original drummer and first "Mick" of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich) is born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.

March 4, 1944 R&B/soul singer Bobby Womack is born in Cleveland, Ohio.

March 1, 1944 Roger Daltrey of The Who is born in London.

March 1, 1944 Mike D'Abo of Manfred Mann is born in Surrey, England.

February 24, 1944 Nicky Hopkins, a renown piano player heard on albums from The Rolling Stones and The Kinks, is born in Perivale, Middlesex, England.

February 23, 1944 Johnny Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas. The respected blues-rock guitarist and singer enjoys a long career that includes performing at the famed Woodstock festival in 1969 and induction into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988. Like his younger brother Edgar Winter ("Frankenstein"), he has albinism.

February 22, 1944 Rock and roll guitarist Mick Green (of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates) is born in Matlock, Derbyshire, England.

February 20, 1944 Jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff (of Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

February 15, 1944 Mick Avory (drummer for The Kinks) is born in Surrey, England.

February 14, 1944 Denny Zager (of Zager & Evans) is born in Wymore, Nebraska.

February 13, 1944 Rebop Kwaku Baah (percussionist for Traffic, Wings) is born in Konongo, Ghana.

February 13, 1944 Broadway/film actress Stockard Channing, who plays Betty Rizzo in Grease (1978), is born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in New York City.

February 12, 1944 Country singer Moe Bandy is born in Meridian, Mississippi.

February 5, 1944 J.R. Cobb (guitarist for Classics IV, Atlanta Rhythm Section) is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

February 5, 1944 Al Kooper (of The Blues Project, Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt in Brooklyn, New York.

February 4, 1944 Florence LaRue (of The 5th Dimension) is born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but grows up in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

February 1, 1944 Tommy Duffy (bass guitarist for Lindisfarne) is born in England.

January 31, 1944 Electric blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.

January 27, 1944 Rocker Kevin Coyne is born in Derby, England.

January 27, 1944 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is born in Birmingham, England.

January 21, 1944 Chris Britton (lead guitarist for The Troggs) is born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.