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Music History Events: Births

November 21, 1949 Drummer Randy Zehringer, brother of The McCoys' guitarist Rick Derringer, is born in Celina, Ohio.

November 18, 1949 Herman Rarebell (drummer for the Scorpions) is born in Schmelz, Germany.

November 16, 1949 Pattie Santos (It's a Beautiful Day vocalist) is born in San Francisco, California.

November 15, 1949 Steve Fossen (bassist, percussionist for Heart) is born.

November 14, 1949 Styx guitarist James Young is born in the Chicago suburb of Western Springs, Illinois.

November 13, 1949 Rocker Terry Reid is born in Huntingdon, England. Known for '60s songs like "Better By Far" and The Hollies' "A Man With No Expression," which he wrote with Graham Nash (later recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young as "Horses Through A Rainstorm").

November 13, 1949 Roger Steen (guitarist for The Tubes) is born in Pipestone, Minnesota.

November 8, 1949 Bonnie Raitt is born in Burbank, California. She becomes a headline act in the '70s but ebbs in the '80s until a remarkable resurgence with her 1989 album Nick Of Time, which wins four Grammy Awards and goes to #1 in America.

October 29, 1949 David Paton (bassist, guitarist for Pilot) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

October 27, 1949 Garry Tallent (bass player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) is born in Detroit, Michigan.

October 27, 1949 Byron Allred (keyboardist for The Steve Miller Band) is born in Logan, Utah.

October 25, 1949 Glenn Tipton (guitarist for Judas Priest) is born in Blackheath, England.

October 23, 1949 R&B singer Tiny Tavares (of Tavares) is born Perry Lee Tavares in Providence, Rhode Island.

October 18, 1949 Gary Richrath (guitarist for REO Speedwagon) is born in Peoria, Illinois.

October 17, 1949 Bill Hudson (the eldest of the three Hudson Brothers) is born in Portland, Oregon.

October 8, 1949 Hamish Stuart (of The Average White Band) is born James Hamish Stuart in Glasgow, Scotland.

October 7, 1949 David Hope (bass guitarist for Kansas) is born in Topeka, Kansas.

October 6, 1949 Thomas McClary (lead guitarist for the Commodores) is born Eustis, Florida.

October 6, 1949 Bobby Farrell (of Boney M.) is born in San Nicolaas, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles.

October 5, 1949 Country pop singer B.W. Stevenson is born Louis Charles Stevenson in Dallas, Texas.

October 3, 1949 Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac is born in Palo Alto, California.

September 18, 1949 Kerry Livgren (songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist for Kansas) is born in Topeka, Kansas.

September 14, 1949 Steve Gaines (guitarist/songwriter for Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born in Seneca, Missouri, but would be raised in Miami, Oklahoma.

September 10, 1949 Barriemore Barlow (drummer/percussionist for Jethro Tull) is born in Birmingham, England.

September 7, 1949 Disco queen Gloria Gaynor is born Gloria Fowles in Newark, New Jersey.

September 5, 1949 Rock guitarist Dave "Clem" Clempson (of Humble Pie) is born in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.

September 1, 1949 Russ Field (guitarist for Showaddywaddy) is born James Lewis Russell Field in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England.

August 28, 1949 Martin Lamble (drummer for Fairport Convention) is born in St John's Wood, London, England.

August 27, 1949 Country rock musician Jeff Cook (of Alabama) is born in Fort Payne, Alabama.

August 26, 1949 Pop singer Bob Cowsill (of The Cowsills) is born in Portsmouth, Virginia, though the family band will be born out of Newport, Rhode Island.