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July 19, 1941 R&B guitarist/bassist Phil Upchurch is born in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to recording with Curtis Mayfield, Dee Clark, B.B. King, Michael Jackson, and others, he's known for the 1961 instrumental hit "You Can't Sit Down."
July 18, 1941 Producer Frank Farian is born in Kirn, Germany. In the '70s he masterminds the dance act Boney M., with his vocals mimed by lead lip-syncher Bobby Farrell. He follows a similar formula in the '80s with Milli Vanilli, who get embroiled in scandal when it's revealed they didn't sing on their albums.
July 7, 1941 Jim Rodford (bass guitarist for Argent, The Kinks) is born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England.
June 23, 1941 Lyricist Robert Hunter, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, is born Robert Burns in Oceano, California.
June 16, 1941 Lamont Dozier, member of the famed Motown songwriting and production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, is born in Detroit, Michigan.
June 4, 1941 Linda Martell, the first Black woman to land songs on the Country chart and the first to play the Grand Ole Opry, is born Thelma Bynem in Leesville, South Carolina. She releases just one album but influences singers like Beyoncé, who includes Martell on her 2024 album Cowboy Carter.
May 29, 1941 Roy Crewdson (guitarist for Freddie & the Dreamers) is born in England.
May 28, 1941 Country singer Ernest Tubb releases his signature song, "Walking The Floor Over You," and launches the honky tonk genre.
May 26, 1941 Art Sharp (former lead vocalist, guitarist for Nashville Teens) is born in Woking, Surrey, England.
May 24, 1941 Bob Dylan is born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota. He moves to New York City in 1961, where he becomes the breakout star of the Greenwich Village folk scene, known for intricate, incisive, and often mysterious lyrics that are examined in great detail throughout his career. We're still trying to make sense of "Desolation Row."
May 17, 1941 Malcolm Hale (lead guitarist for Spanky & Our Gang) is born in Butte, Montana.
May 11, 1941 Eric Burdon (lead singer of The Animals) is born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
May 9, 1941 Peter Birrell (bass guitarist for Freddie & the Dreamers) is born in Manchester, Lancashire, England.
May 8, 1941 Soul singer John Fred (of John Fred & His Playboy Band) is born John Fred Gourrier in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
April 28, 1941 Ann-Margret is born in Sweden. She has a few hits as a singer but is best known for her movie roles, which include Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas, which she stars in with Elvis Presley.
April 5, 1941 Folk musician Dave Swarbick (of Fairport Convention) is born in New Malden, England.
March 28, 1941 Charlie McCoy (of Area Code 615) is born in Oak Hill, West Virginia. As a session musician, he works with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Loretta Lynn, among others.
March 21, 1941 Record producer/songwriter John Boylan is born in New York City. He manages Linda Ronstadt and co-produces Boston's first album.
March 17, 1941 Paul Kantner, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, is born in San Francisco.
February 20, 1941 Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is born. According to her birth certificate, she's born Beverly Jean Santamaria in Stoneham, Massachusetts, but she claims to be Native-Canadian, born Beverly Sainte-Marie in Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan and adopted by a couple in Stoneham.More
February 15, 1941 Duke Ellington records "Take the A Train."
February 11, 1941 Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes is born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro.
February 5, 1941 Barrett Strong, who teams with producer Norman Whitfield to write a number of Motown hits, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," is born in West Point, Mississippi.
January 24, 1941 Aaron Neville, vocalist with the Neville Brothers, is born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He also finds success as a solo artist, and sings on the hit duet "Don't Know Much" with Linda Ronstadt.
January 18, 1941 Country/pop singer Bobby Goldsboro is born in Marianna, Florida.
January 18, 1941 David Ruffin (of The Temptations) is born in Meridian, Mississippi. He takes the lead on the hits "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg."
January 13, 1941 Glenn Miller makes the vocal group The Modernaires a part of his band. The quartet soon adds a female member, Paula Kelly, and appears on some of Miller's most popular songs, including "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "That Old Black Magic."
December 31, 1940 After forming the rival company BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.), radio stations in the United States stop playing music licensed by ASCAP (the American Society of Publishers and Composers) in a dispute over fees. The boycott lasts 10 months, with stations filling airtime with non-ASCAP songs, mostly older tunes in the public domain.
December 30, 1940 Perry Ford, of The Ivy League, is born Brian Pugh in Lincoln, England. The vocal trio, made up of session singers, was first heard on The Who's 1965 hit "I Can't Explain."
December 26, 1940 Famed record producer Phil Spector is born in The Bronx, New York. He moves to Los Angeles in his teens and develops his "wall of sound" recording technique, heard on classic songs like "Be My Baby" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'." He goes on to produce The Beatles' Let It Be album and also solo albums for George Harrison and John Lennon.
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