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Music History Events: Births

December 7, 1924 Pianist/composer Bent Fabric is born Bent Fabricius-Bjerre in Frederiksberg, Denmark.

November 30, 1924 Allan Sherman is born Allan Copelon in Chicago, Illinois. Aside from being the producer of the popular game show I've Got A Secret, he makes a living as a novelty singer, notably with the 1963 hit "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah."

November 26, 1924 Pop singer Michael Holliday is born Norman Alexander Milne in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Known for '50s and '60s hits like "The Story of My Life" and "Starry Eyed."

November 24, 1924 Eileen Barton is born in Brooklyn, New York, to two vaudeville performers. Known for her 1950 hit "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake."

October 27, 1924 Country/rock 'n roll singer Bonnie Lou is born Mary Jo Kath in Towanda, Illinois. Known for the 1955 hit "Daddy-O."

October 25, 1924 R&B drummer Earl Palmer is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Known for working with a score of artists, including Little Richard and Tom Waits (on Blue Valentine).

October 5, 1924 Ed Sullivan Show alum Bill Dana is born William Szathmary in Quincy, Massachusetts.

September 20, 1924 Pop singer Gogi Grant is born Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known for her 1956 hit cover of "The Wayward Wind."

September 15, 1924 Cabaret singer/pianist Bobby Short is born in Danville, Illinois.

August 29, 1924 Jazz/R&B vocalist Dinah Washington is born Ruth Lee Jones in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

August 24, 1924 Louis Teicher (of the piano-playing duo Ferrante & Teicher) is born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

August 20, 1924 Jazz vocalist Joya Sherrill is born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Known for "I'm Beginning to See the Light" with Duke Ellington's orchestra.

August 3, 1924 Gordon Stoker of Elvis Presley's backing group, The Jordanaires, is born in Gleason, Tennessee.

July 22, 1924 Margaret Whiting is born in Detroit, Michigan, but is raised in Los Angeles, California, where her dad, Richard, composes popular tunes such as "Hooray For Hollywood" and "On The Good Ship Lollipop." Modern listeners know her for her holiday duet with Johnny Mercer, "Baby It's Cold Outside."

July 7, 1924 Mary Ford is born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California.

July 6, 1924 Jazz drummer Louie Bellson, famous for his work with Duke Ellington, is born in Illinois.

June 20, 1924 Chet Atkins, country musician and one of the architects behind the Nashville Sound, is born in Luttrell, Tennessee.

May 1, 1924 R&B singer Big Maybelle, known for the 1956 hit "Candy," is born Mabel Louise Smith in Jackson, Tennessee.

April 28, 1924 Jazz singer Blossom Dearie is born in East Durham, New York.

April 21, 1924 Gospel singer Clara Ward (leader of The Famous Ward Singers) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

April 18, 1924 Blues musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown is born in Vinton, Louisiana.

April 16, 1924 Film composer Henry Mancini ("Moon River") is born Enrico Nicola Mancini in Cleveland, Ohio.

April 16, 1924 Rudy Pompilli (tenor saxophonist for Bill Haley & His Comets) is born in Chester, Pennsylvania.

March 27, 1924 Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan is born in Newark, New Jersey.

January 22, 1924 Jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson is born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

January 11, 1924 Bluesman Slim Harpo is born James Isaac Moore in Lobdell, Louisiana.

January 10, 1924 Jazz drummer Max Roach is born in North Carolina.

January 6, 1924 Bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs (The Bluegrass Boys, The Foggy Mountain Boys) is born near Boiling Springs, North Carolina.

October 16, 1923 Bert Kaempfert, orchestra leader and songwriter, is born Berthold Kämpfert in Hamburg, Germany. Wrote the music for "Strangers in the Night" and "Moon Over Naples."

October 10, 1923 Louis Gottlieb (bass violinist/bassist for The Limeliters) is born in Los Angeles, California.