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April 1, 1942 Phil Margo is born in Brooklyn, New York. He and brother Mitch will form The Tokens and release the #1 hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
March 25, 1942 Aretha Franklin is born in Memphis, Tennessee. More
March 16, 1942 Country singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, who writes the oft-recorded "Mr. Bojangles" in 1968, is born Ronald Clyde Crosby in Oneonta, New York.
March 9, 1942 Experimental musician John Cale (of Velvet Underground) is born in Wales.
March 8, 1942 Ralph Ellis (guitarist for The Swinging Blue Jeans) is born in Liverpool, England.
February 28, 1942 Big Band orchestra music is huge, and Glenn Miller is king. His song "Moonlight Cocktail" takes the #1 spot on the Billboard tally, where it stays for 10 weeks.
February 25, 1942 Roy Michaels, bass player of Cat Mother & The All Night News Boys, is born.
February 10, 1942 RCA Victor presents Glenn Miller with a gold record for "Chattanooga Choo Choo." It's purely a promotional gimmick (the label is celebrating sales of over one million), but still the first time that a gold record is awarded. Other labels follow suit in handing out framed golden discs to their artists in celebration of the one million milestone, and in 1958 the RIAA makes it official, awarding gold records to singles and albums that sell over a million copies.
February 9, 1942 Carole King is born Carol Joan Klein in Manhattan, New York City. She meets husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin while attending Queens College.More
February 9, 1942 Mark Mathis (of The Newbeats) is born in Hahira, Georgia.
February 8, 1942 Terry Melcher, who produces "Kokomo" for The Beach Boys and "Kicks" for Paul Revere & the Raiders, is born in New York City. His mother is Doris Day.
February 2, 1942 Graham Nash is born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. After founding The Hollies in 1962, he leaves in 1968 to make more newsworthy music, which he does with Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
January 29, 1942 Claudine Longet is born in Paris. The French singer is the subject of the Rolling Stones song "Claudine."
January 21, 1942 Country singer-songwriter Mac Davis is born in Lubbock, Texas. He writes "In The Ghetto" and "A Little Less Conversation" for Elvis Presley.
January 21, 1942 Edwin Starr is born Charles Edwin Hatcher in Nashville, Tennessee. He grows up in Cleveland but launches his career in Detroit, eventually joining Motown, where he has big hits with "Twenty-Five Miles" and "War."
January 20, 1942 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra record "Who Wouldn't Love You."
January 19, 1942 Michael Crawford is born Michael Patrick Smith in Salisbury, England. He originates the title role in the Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera.
January 17, 1942 Cassius Clay is born in Louisville, Kentucky. Later changing his name to Muhammad Ali, he becomes a champion boxer and one of the world's most famous athletes. His clever, boastful raps during interviews and other public appearances influence hip-hop, and he becomes an icon of the genre. He is also one of the first athletes to make music: his cover of "Stand By Me" is a minor hit in 1964.
January 16, 1942 Billy Francis (keyboardist for Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show) is born in Mississippi.
January 15, 1942 The Glen Gray Orchestra records "It's the Talk of the Town."
January 11, 1942 Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is born in Virginia.More
January 1, 1942 Joe McDonald (lead singer of Country Joe & The Fish) is born in Washington, DC, but will grow up in El Monte, California.
December 27, 1941 Les Maguire (pianist for Gerry and the Pacemakers) is born in Wallasey, Cheshire, England.
December 23, 1941 Folk musician Tim Hardin is born James Timothy Hardin in Eugene, Oregon. Wrote the '60s hit "If I Were A Carpenter."
December 17, 1941 Dave Dee (of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich) is born David John Harman in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He is one of the first police cadets on scene at Eddie Cochran's fatal car accident and learns to play the guitar on Cochran's impounded Gretsch.
December 11, 1941 J. Frank Wilson (of J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers) is born in Lufkin, Texas.
December 10, 1941 R&B singer Ralph Tavares is born, the eldest of his singing brothers that form Tavares.
December 6, 1941 Country singer Helen Cornelius, known for a string of popular duets with Jim Ed Brown ("I Don't Want To Have To Marry You," 1976), is born in Monroe City, Missouri.
November 27, 1941 Country singer Eddie Rabbitt is born in Brooklyn, New York. Before embarking on a recording career, he pens the hits "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap.
November 24, 1941 Bass guitarist Donald "Duck" Dunn (of Booker T. & the MG's) is born in Memphis, Tennessee. His dad gives him the nickname "Duck" while they watch cartoons together featuring the popular Donald Duck.
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