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April 16, 1930 Jazz flautist Herbie Mann is born Herbert Jay Solomon in Brooklyn, New York.
March 22, 1930 Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim is born in New York City. He wins an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Madonna's "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)," written for the 1990 film Dick Tracy.
February 13, 1930 Dorothy McGuire of The McGuire Sisters is born in Middletown, Ohio.
February 5, 1930 Jazz trumpeter Don Goldie is born Donald Elliott Goldfield in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Harry "Goldie" Goldfield, was also a trumpet player who worked with Paul Whiteman.
January 2, 1930 Pop singer Julius La Rosa - known for '50s hits like "Anywhere I Wander" and "Eh Cumpari" - is born in Brooklyn, New York.
December 25, 1929 R&B singer Chris Kenner, who writes and sings the original version of "Land Of 1000 Dances," is born in Kenner, Louisiana (yes, his last name and birthplace are both Kenner).
December 23, 1929 Jazz singer/trumpeter Chet Baker is born Chesney Henry Baker Jr. in Yale, Oklahoma. He hits his stride in the '50s when he joins the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and releases his signature hit "My Funny Valentine."
November 30, 1929 Dick Clark is born in Mount Vernon, New York. Dubbed the "world's oldest teenager," he becomes a cultural icon as the longtime host of American Bandstand and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
November 15, 1929 Soul singer Joe Hinton is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Known for the 1964 hit "Funny How Time Slips Away," written by Willie Nelson.
November 5, 1929 McKinney's Cotton Pickers, an African American jazz band from Detroit, record the instrumental "Plain Dirt" in New York City.
October 4, 1929 Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is born in Mora, Missouri. Known for the hits "The Auctioneer" (1956) and "Walk On By" (1961).
September 18, 1929 Jazz/pop singer Teddi King is born Theodora King in Boston, Massachusetts. Known for the mid-'50s singles "Mr. Wonderful," "Married I Can Always Get" and "Say It Isn't So."
August 6, 1929 Saxophonist Mike Elliott (of The Foundations) is born in Jamaica, West Indies.
July 30, 1929 Christine McGuire of The McGuire Sisters is born in Middletown, Ohio.
July 21, 1929 Jazz singer Helen Merrill is born Jelena Ana Milčetić in New York City.
June 8, 1929 Bliss Carman (the former William Bliss Carman), dies in New Canaan, Connecticut at age 68.
May 12, 1929 Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri.More
April 16, 1929 R&B singer Roy Hamilton ("Unchained Melody," "You'll Never Walk Alone") is born in Leesburg, Georgia.
April 5, 1929 English record producer Joe Meek, famous for writing and producing the Tornados' instrumental hit "Telstar," is born Robert George Meek in Newent, Gloucestershire, England.
March 16, 1929 Singer Betty Johnson is born in North Carolina. Her biggest hit is "I Dreamed," which hits #9 US in 1957.
February 5, 1929 Hal Blaine, the famous session drummer coined the term "Wrecking Crew" for the prolific group of Los Angeles studio musicians, is born in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
January 5, 1929 R&B singer Wilbert Harrison - who wrote the 1962 hit "Let's Stick Together," later known as "Let's Work Together" by Canned Heat - is born in Charlotte, North Carolina.
December 30, 1928 R&B and rock 'n roll icon Bo Diddley is born Ellas Otha Bates in McComb, Mississippi. He grows up on the South Side of Chicago, where he and his friends perform music on street corners.
December 14, 1928 Fanny Brice records "If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain)."
December 4, 1928 Louis Armstrong records "Basin Street Blues," named for a street in New Orleans known as a hub for jazz music. The song has been around for two years, but Armstrong's version becomes the standard.
November 22, 1928 Maurice Ravel's one-movement rhythmic orchestral work Boléro premieres at the Paris Opera.
November 10, 1928 Ennio Morricone, a composer, orchestrator and conductor whose scores for films like A Fistful Of Dollars and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly define the sound of spaghetti Westerns, is born in Rome. He grows up during wartime, often hungry, learning music while bombs fall.
November 7, 1928 This Year Of Grace opens at the Selwyn Theatre in New York, with Noël Coward playing the lead.
August 6, 1928 Andy Warhol, who makes his mark on the music world as manager for the The Velvet Underground and designer of the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers album cover, is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 12, 1928 Barbara Cowsill (mother of the family act The Cowsills) is born Barbara Russell in in Cranston, Rhode Island.
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