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Doie Hensley Owens is born in Killeen, Texas, USA. He will find
fame as country music singer and songwriter Tex
Owens. His best-known composition is probably Cattle Call, and
his best-known group The Original Texas Rangers.
David Ivor Davies is born in Cardiff, Wales. He will find fame as composer and playwright Ivor Novello. An award founded in his name is given in the UK each year for excellence in songwriting. Winners have included Paul McCartney and George Michael.
Blues and jazz singer Lucille Bogan, who will record for Okeh Records, is born in Amory, Mississippi, USA.
Ishman Bracey (aka Ishmon Bracey) is born in Byram, Mississippi. He will make his first recordings as a blues singer and guitarist for Victor Records in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1928, and will also record for Paramount.
Pioneering bluegrass guitarist Charlie Monroe is born in Rosine, Kentucky, USA. The brother of the more famous Bill Monroe, Charlie known for compositions including Rubber Neck Blues.
Cornelius Michael Maffie is born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He will find success as popular organist Con Maffie, best known for his many appearances on radio.Moses Asch is born in Warsaw, Poland, Europe. After moving to New York City, USA in 1915, he will become a recording engineer and record business executive, founding Asch Recordings in 1940, which will evolve into the hugely influential Folkways Records in 1948. Folkways will record folk and blues albums by artists including Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston and Ella Jenkins.
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Blues guitarist, singer and recording artist Herman E. Johnson is born in Scotlandville, Lousiana, USA.
Blues mandolin virtuoso James 'Yank' Rachell, is born in Brownwell, Tennessee, USA. (N.B. Some sources give his year of birth as 1903)
Anna Inez Koníčková is born in Prague, Austro-Hungaria, Europe. She will find success as jazz singer Inka Zemánková.Yoshio Tabata is born in Matsusaka, Mie prefecture, Japan. Asia. He will become a popular singer and guitarist, making his record debut in 1939.
Chico Hamilton, drummer for Count Basie, Lester Young, Slim Gaillard and many more, is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.
James Louis 'J.J.' Johnson, regarded as the inventor of bebop trombone playing, is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.Tenor sax player Gene 'Jug' Ammons, son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Jazz vibraphonist and percussionist John Joseph Brokensha aka Jack Brokensha, is born in Nailsworth, Adelaide, Australia. He will find success with The Australian Jazz Quartet. After meeting Berry Gordy of Motown Records, Brokensha will be hired as a percussionist, becoming one of the few white members of Motown studio's house band, The Funk Brothers.
American hard bop and West Coast jazz double bassist Curtis Counce is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Counce will become an in-demand sessioneer, working with Johnny Otis, Lester Young, Shelly Manne and others.
Ivan Leroy Wiggins is born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Later to be famed as 'Little Roy' Wiggins, he will take up steel guitar after hearing the Grand Ole Opry's Burt Hutcherson picking the instrument. "He played in the neighborhood at somebody's home and mother and dad took me, and I thought then that it was the prettiest thing I ever heard." recalled Wiggins in 1995. Wiggins is best known for his work with Eddy Arnold.
Big band singer Bob Grabeau is born in Pittsburg, California, USA. He will become successful as a teenager in the San Francisco area, and will be signed by Capitol Records at 19, before going on to sing with The Jan Garber Orchestra and others.
Danny Barcelona is born in Waipahu a sugar cane plantation East of Honolulu, Hawaii. After moving to the USA he will find success as the jazz-band drummer for Louis Armstrong's All-Stars band.
Elsa Tia is born in Grossetto, Tuscany, Italy, Europe. She will find success as actress, singer and fashion model Elsa Martinelli.
Fred Tackett is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. He will become one of the world's most in-demand studio guitarists, working with The Allman Brothers, Greg Allman, Jackson Browne, Glen Campbell, Eric Carmen, Judy Collins, Rita Coolidge, Bob Dylan, Lowell George, Vince Gill, Rickie Lee Jones, Nicolette Larson, Juice Newton, Aaron Neville, Van Dyke Parks, Bonnie Raitt, Lionel Richie, Leo Sayer, Carly Simon, Boz Scaggs, Rod Stewart, Harry Nilsson, Bob Seger, Ringo Starr, Tom Waits, The Wallflowers, and Jimmy Webb - to name but a few. Tackett is also adept on mandolin and trumpet.Bernard Neeson is born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. After emigrating to Australia, he will find success as 'Doc' Neeson, vocalist of The Angels.
Tim Hart, founder-member and guitarist with Steeleye Span, is born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK.Popular singer and recording artist Floria Marquez is born in Caracas, Venezuela.
Tom Russell is born at California Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles, California, USA. He will become a successful singer-songwriter and recording artist, working largely in the country-rock area.
Gary Weeks, vocalist of popular 70s duo Gary And Dave, is born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward island, Canada.
Peter Geoffrey Richardson is born in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK. He will find success as viola player with Canterbury Scene prog-rock band Caravan and with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
Steve Brookins, drummer of 38 Special from 1974 until 1987, is born in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Nicolette Larson is born in Helena, Montana, USA. She will find success as a pop, rock and country singer. Hank Williams releases a new single, Settin' The Woods On Fire, on MGM Records, in the USA. On the same day, Gerry Beckley, later to be a member of America, is born in Fort Worth, Texas.
Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi is born in Highfield, Harare, Zimbabwe, Africa. An award-winning musician, composer and guitarist, he is widely regarded as the most celebrated performer in Zimbabwe's history.
Kendra Smith is born in San Diego, California, USA. She will be a founding member of The Dream Syndicate before pursuing asolo career as a singer-songwriter.
Future ABC founder/guitarist Mark White is born in Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.Jeff Pilson bass player of heavy metal recording band Dokken is born in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.
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Successful soul-jazz guitarist and recording artist Sugimoto Atsuhiko is born in Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
Raymond Leon Scott is born in Boston, Massachusettes, USA. He will achieve success as an urban media proprietor, television personality, rapper and record producer under his stage name Benzino.
Tim Lefebvre is born in Foxboro, Massachusetts, USA. He will find success as a bass guitarist, working in The Tdeschi Trucks Band, and also as a session musician, playing for a wide range of musicians, including David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Sting, Empire Of The Sun, The Sleepy Jackson, Wayne Krantz, Patti Austin, John Mayer, Jovanotti, Chuck Loeb, Mark Guiliana, Jamie Cullum, Chris Botti and others.
Sam Anderson is born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA. He will find success as rapper and producer 
Deniece Pearson, lead vocalist of 80s hitmaking family Five Star, is born in Romford, Essex, England, UK, Europe.
Tom Jenkinson is born in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK, Europe. He will find international success as electronic dance music musician Squarepusher.
Jonathan Johansson is born in Malmo, Sweden, Europe. He will find success as a singer-songwriter.
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Forrest Scott Kline is born in Ashland, Oregon, USA. He will find success as Forrest Kline, songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the power pop band Hellogoodbye.1892 |
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