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October 3, 1940 Pop rocker Alan O'Day is born in Hollywood, California.
September 19, 1940 Singer/songwriter Paul Williams is born in Omaha, Nebraska. A TV fixture in the '70s and '80s, he also writes many popular songs, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song," the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun," and David Bowie's "Fill Your Heart."
April 26, 1940 Synthpop pioneer Giorgio Moroder is born in Italy. As Donna Summer's producer, he crafts a disco sound on hits like "I Feel Love" and "Bad Girls" that elevates her to queen of the genre. In the '80s he writes and produces the soundtrack hits "Flashdance... What a Feeling" and "Danger Zone."
February 29, 1940 Pop singer Gretchen Christopher (of The Fleetwoods) is born in Olympia, Washington.
January 23, 1940 Pop singer Joe Dowell is born in Bloomington, Indiana, but grows up in Bloomington, Illinois.
August 18, 1939 Pop singer Johnny Preston is born in Port Arthur, Texas.
April 23, 1939 '60s pop singer Ray Peterson is born in Denton, Texas.
April 15, 1939 Pop singer-songwriter Marty Wilde is born Reginald Leonard Smith in Blackheath, South London, England.
April 5, 1939 Pop singer-songwriter Crispian St. Peters is born Robin Peter Smith in Swanley, Kent, England.
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.
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