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September 30, 1943 R&B singer Marilyn McCoo (of The 5th Dimension) is born in Jersey City, New Jersey.
September 28, 1943 Nick St. Nicholas (of Steppenwolf) is born Klaus Karl Kassbaum is born in Plön, Germany. Nick's family will flee to Toronto, Canada, after his father's involvement in Operation Valkyrie, the failed mission to overthrow Adolf Hitler, makes his dad an assassination target.
September 19, 1943 "Mama" Cass Elliot is born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore, Maryland. The name Cass comes from her father, who calls her "the mad Cassandra." She becomes Mama Cass when she joins The Mamas & The Papas in 1965. After landing a string of hits with the group, she launches a solo career in 1968 and becomes a regular on TV talk and variety shows as both a guest and host. She has her own nightclub act when she dies from a heart attack in 1974 at 32.
September 12, 1943 Singer Maria Muldaur, known for her 1973 hit "Midnight At The Oasis," is born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato in Greenwich Village, New York City.
September 12, 1943 Frank Sinatra starts his film career when he signs a 7-year contract with RKO Pictures.
September 11, 1943 Mickey Hart (one of the drummers for Grateful Dead) is born Michael Steven Hartman in Brooklyn but would be raised in Long Island, New York.
September 6, 1943 Roger Waters of Pink Floyd is born George Roger Waters in Great Bookham, Surrey, England. A founding member of the group, he takes creative control starting with their 1979 masterpiece The Wall, alienating his bandmates along the way. He leaves in 1985 and is gobsmacked when they soldier on without him, led by David Gilmour.
September 2, 1943 Soul/R&B singer Joe Simon is born in Simmesport, Louisiana. Known for the Grammy Award-winning song "The Chokin' Kind" (1969).
August 19, 1943 Rock 'n roller Billy J. Kramer (of Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas) is born William Howard Ashton in Bootle, Lancashire, England.
August 19, 1943 Pop singer Don Fardon (of The Sorrows) is born Donald Maughn in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
August 19, 1943 Edwin Hawkins, who with his choir records "Oh Happy Day," the first traditional gospel song to cross to the pop charts, is born in Oakland, California.
August 18, 1943 Carl Wayne (lead singer for The Move) is born Colin David Tooley in Winson Green, Birmingham, England.
August 11, 1943 Songwriter Kenny Gamble is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Co-wrote a string of popular Soul hits with Leon Huff, including "If You Don't Know Me By Now," "Back Stabbers" and "Me and Mrs. Jones."
August 11, 1943 Jim Kale (bassist for The Guess Who) is born Michael James Kale in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
August 11, 1943 Saxophonist Denis Payton (of The Dave Clark Five) is born in Walthamstow, North London, England.
August 10, 1943 Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes, is born Veronica Bennett in New York City. They define the girl group sound of the '60s with hits like "Be My Baby" and "Walking in the Rain." Ronnie marries their producer, Phil Spector, in 1968, but it's a tumultuous relationship that ends in divorce in 1974.
July 28, 1943 Guitarist Mike Bloomfield is born in Chicago. He plays on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and joins The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
July 25, 1943 Drummer Jim McCarty (of The Yardbirds and Renaissance) is born in Walton, Liverpool, England.
July 23, 1943 Singer-songwriter Tony Joe White is born in Oak Grove, Louisiana. He has a hit in 1969 with "Polk Salad Annie" and pens "Rainy Night In Georgia," made famous by Brook Benton in 1970.
July 22, 1943 Bobby Sherman is born in Santa Monica, California. He becomes a teen idol in the late '60s with a string of pop hits, including the million-selling "Little Woman."
July 6, 1943 Soul singer Jan Bradley, who becomes popular by covering Curtis Mayfield tunes before writing her own songs, is born Addie Bradley in Byhalia, Mississippi.
June 26, 1943 Thanks to Dooley Wilson's rendition as piano-playing Sam in Casablanca, Rudy Vallee's 12-year-old version of "As Time Goes By" lands at #1 on the charts, where it stays for four weeks.
June 25, 1943 Carly Simon is born in New York City. Her dad is Richard L. Simon, co-founder of Simon & Schuster publishing. (Simon's birthdate is often reported as June 25, 1945, but birth records prove she was born in 1943.)
June 17, 1943 Barry Manilow is born Barry Alan Pincus in Brooklyn, New York. Despite never wanting to be an entertainer, he becomes one of the best-selling artists in the world as a famous soft-rock balladeer.More
June 6, 1943 Country singer Joe Stampley, known for the '70s chart-toppers "Roll On Big Mama" and "All These Things," is born in Springhill, Webster Parish, Louisiana.
May 28, 1943 Tony Mansfield (drummer for Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas) is born Anthony Bookbinder in Salford, Lancashire, England.
May 25, 1943 Country singer Jessi Colter is born Miriam Johnson in Phoenix, Arizona. Known for her collaborations with husband Waylon Jennings.
May 21, 1943 Vincent Crane is born in Reading, England. As a member of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, he co-writes "Fire," and later joins Atomic Rooster.
May 14, 1943 Derek Leckenby (lead guitarist for Herman's Hermits) is born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
May 8, 1943 Danny Whitten, guitarist in Neil Young's band Crazy Horse, is born in Columbus, Georgia. The song "The Needle And The Damage Done" is about Whitten, who dies of a drug overdose at 29.
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