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June 3, 1942 Curtis Mayfield is born in Chicago, Illinois. With his group The Impressions, he writes, produces and sings on '60s classics like "People Get Ready" and "Keep On Pushing." He makes his mark in the '70s as a solo artist with songs like "Superfly" and "Move On Up."
May 24, 1942 Derek Quinn (guitarist, harmonica player for Freddie & the Dreamers) is born in Manchester, England.
May 17, 1942 Blues musician Taj Mahal is born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks in Harlem, New York.
May 14, 1942 Film composer Frank Churchill - who wrote several classic Disney numbers including "Heigh-Ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age 40.
May 12, 1942 Country singer Billy Swan is born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
May 12, 1942 Ian Dury (Kilburn and the High-Roads, Ian Dury & the Blockheads) is born in England.
May 5, 1942 Tammy Wynette is born Virginia Wynette Pugh on a cotton farm in Mississippi. Her signature song comes in 1968 with "Stand By Your Man," which she says she spent 15 minutes writing and a lifetime defending.
April 29, 1942 Klaus Voorman (bassist for Manfred Mann), who designs The Beatles album cover for Revolver, is born in Hamburg, Germany.
April 24, 1942 Barbra Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York City.More
April 19, 1942 Rock guitarist Larry Ramos (of The Association) is born Hilario Ramos in Waimea, Hawaii.
April 5, 1942 Allan Clarke, co-founder and original lead singer of The Hollies, is born Harold Allan Clarke in Salford, Lancashire, England.
April 1, 1942 Pop guitarist Alan Blakley (The Tremeloes) is born in Bromley, Kent, England.
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.
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 24, 1942 Paul Jones (original lead vocalist for Manfred Mann) is born Paul Pond in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
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 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 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 11, 1942 Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is born in Virginia.More
December 29, 1941 Ray Thomas (flautist, percussionist for The Moody Blues) is born in Stourport-on-Severn, England.
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 18, 1941 Sam Andrew (guitarist for Big Brother & the Holding Company) is born in Taft, California.
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.
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