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December 27, 1941 Mike Pinder (original keyboardist for The Moody Blues) is born in Erdington, Birmingham, England.
December 6, 1941 Country singer Helen Cornelius, known for a string of popular duets with Jim Ed Brown ("I Don't Want To Have To Marry You," 1976), is born in Monroe City, Missouri.
November 27, 1941 Country singer Eddie Rabbitt is born in Brooklyn, New York. Before embarking on a recording career, he pens the hits "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap.
November 22, 1941 Terry Stafford, known for the hits "Suspicion" (1964) and "Amarillo By Morning" (1973), is born in Hollis, Oklahoma, but would be raised in Amarillo, Texas.
November 22, 1941 Jesse Colin Young (vocalist, bassist for The Youngbloods) is born Perry Miller in Queens, New York City.
November 21, 1941 Sax player Andrew Love (of The Memphis Horns) is born in Memphis, Tennessee. Contributed to the legendary horn sound on recordings by Stax Records performers like Otis Redding.
October 25, 1941 Singer/songwriter/activist Helen Reddy is born in Melbourne, Australia. In the '70s, she rises to fame in both her native country and in America, where she has three #1 hits: "I Am Woman," "Delta Dawn" and "Angie Baby."
October 13, 1941 Paul Simon is born in Newark, New Jersey. He meets his longtime music partner, Art Garfunkel, when they both perform in a school production of Alice in Wonderland for their sixth grade graduation. They would become Simon & Garfunkel.
October 3, 1941 Chubby Checker is born Ernest Evans in Spring Gulley, South Carolina; he is raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.More
September 13, 1941 David Clayton-Thomas is born in England. He would grow up in Canada and become the lead singer in Blood, Sweat, Tears, bringing with him their biggest hit, "Spinning Wheel."
September 9, 1941 Duffy Power is born Raymond Leslie Howard in Fulham, London, England. The blues/rock 'n roll singer is known for his covers of hits like Bobby Darin's "Dream Lover" and The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There."
August 15, 1941 Country musician Don Rich (of The Buckaroos, Buck Owens' backing band) is born in Olympia, Washington.
July 5, 1941 Terry Cashman (of Cashman & West, The Buchanan Brothers) is born Dennis Minogue in New York.
June 23, 1941 Lyricist Robert Hunter, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, is born Robert Burns in Oceano, California.
June 9, 1941 Jon Lord, keyboard player for Deep Purple and Whitesnake, is born in Leicester, England.
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 28, 1941 Country singer Ernest Tubb releases his signature song, "Walking The Floor Over You," and launches the honky tonk genre.
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."
March 27, 1941 R&B singer/songwriter Bunny Sigler is born in Philadelphia. His real name is Walter, but his family calls him Bunny because he was born two days before Easter.
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
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 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.
November 29, 1940 Jazz composer and flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, known for his instrumental hit "Feels So Good," is born in Rochester, New York.
November 13, 1940 Justine "Baby" Washington is born in Bamberg, South Carolina, but would be raised in Harlem, New York. Known for her biggest hit, "That's How Heartaches Are Made," in 1963.
October 23, 1940 Ellie Greenwich is born Eleanor Louise Greenwich in Brooklyn, New York. One of the most successful songwriters of the '60, her co-writes include "Leader of the Pack" and "Be My Baby."
October 18, 1940 Songwriter Cynthia Weil is born in New York. Known for her work with husband Barry Mann, including "On Broadway," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," to name a few.
September 30, 1940 Dewey Martin (drummer for Buffalo Springfield) is born Walter Milton Dwayne Midkiff in Chesterville, Ontario, Canada.
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."
September 19, 1940 Blue-eyed soul singer Bill Medley (of The Righteous Brothers) is born in Los Angeles, California.
September 15, 1940 Rock 'n Roller Jimmy Gilmer (of Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs) is born in Chicago, Illinois, but would be raised in Amarillo, Texas. Known for the 1963 hit "Sugar Shack."
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