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August 13, 1938 Pop/R&B musician Dave "Baby" Cortez is born David Cortez Clowney in Detroit, Michigan.
January 25, 1938 Blues singer Etta James, known for the enduring ballad "At Last," is born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles, California.More
May 2, 1936 English pop singer Engelbert Humperdinck is born Arnold George Dorsey in Madras, British India (present-day Chennai, India). He'll borrow his stage name from the German composer of the 1893 opera Hansel and Gretel.
September 8, 1935 The Hoboken Four, featuring a 19-year-old Frank Sinatra, appear on NBC's popular radio program Major Bowes and His Original Amateur Hour. They sing the Mills Brothers song "Shine" and earn the most votes in the history of the show, with 40,000 people calling in.
May 3, 1934 '60s pop singer Frankie Valli (of The Four Seasons) is born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio in Newark, New Jersey.
April 24, 1934 Country singer Red Foley and his second wife, Eva Alaine Overstake, welcome baby daughter Shirley Lee Foley. Shirley will marry pop singer Pat Boone in 1953.
April 15, 1934 Pop-folk vocalist Tim Feild (of The Springfields) is born in Hascombe, Surrey, England.
February 16, 1934 Herbie and Harold Kalin (of the pop duo Kalin Twins) are born in Port Jervis, New York.
August 17, 1933 Pop singer Mark Dinning is born in Manchester, Oklahoma.
July 28, 1933 The first singing telegram is sent - to popular crooner Rudy Vallee, on the occasion of his 32nd birthday.
August 15, 1932 Pop singer Johnny Thunder is born Gil Hamilton in Leesburg, Florida.
July 6, 1932 Big Dee Irwin is born DiFosco T. Ervin Jr. in Harlem, New York. Recorded a popular version of "Swinging on a Star" with Little Eva.
September 19, 1931 Pop/R&B singer Brook Benton is born Benjamin Franklin Peay in Lugoff, South Carolina.
August 16, 1931 Traditional Pop/Swing singer Eydie Gorme is born in The Bronx, New York.
April 21, 1931 Country singer-songwriter Carl Belew, known for '50s hits like "Am I That Easy To Forget" and "Lonely Street" (made popular by Andy Williams), is born in Salina, Oklahoma.
June 12, 1928 Pop singer Vic Damone is born Vito Rocco Farinola in Brooklyn, New York.
February 3, 1928 Pop singer Frankie Vaughan is born Frank Ableson in Liverpool, England.
October 7, 1927 Jazz/pop singer Al Martino is born Jasper Cini in Philadelphia. He plays the Sinatra-like Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.
July 16, 1927 '40s and '50s pop vocalist Mindy Carson is born in New York City. She catches her big break when she wins an audition to the radio program Stairway to the Stars, landing her an eight-month gig with Paul Whiteman's orchestra.
May 7, 1927 '50s pop singer-songwriter Jim Lowe is born in Springfield, Missouri.
April 26, 1925 Jazz and pop guitarist Jorgen Ingmann is born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
April 3, 1922 Actress and singer Doris Day is born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio. She turns to singing when a car accident wrecks her dreams of becoming a professional dancer.More
November 12, 1917 Traditional pop singer Jo Stafford is born in Coalinga, California.
December 12, 1915 Frank Sinatra is born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey.More
April 7, 1915 Billie Holiday is born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More
March 28, 1915 Composer Jay Livingston is born in McDonald, Pennsylvania. He teams with lyricist Ray Evans to write a number of popular songs for films, including the Academy Award-winning "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" for The Man Who Knew Too Much.
December 28, 1914 Roebuck "Pops" Staples (The Staple Singers) is born on a cotton plantation near Winona, Mississippi.
February 11, 1914 Matt Dennis is born in Seattle, Washington. Among many other tunes, he composes the pop standard "Everything Happens to Me," first recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra.
October 14, 1907 Singer/actor Allan Jones, the father of pop singer Jack Jones, is born in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
July 28, 1901 Pop crooner Rudy Vallee is born in Island Pond, Vermont.
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