Rock & Roll Birthdays

[too larry]

1949 Arthur Kane, American musician (New York Dolls), born in NYC, New York (d. 2004)

 

[Amos Otis]

1937 Tom Smothers, American comedian and folk singer (The Smothers Brothers Show, Serial), born in NYC, New York

The Brothers Smothers act would never fly these days.

 

[Amos Otis]

1945 Johnny Cymbal

still cracks me up

 

[Amos Otis]

1946 Stan Webb, English blues musician (Chicken Shack)

 

[too larry]

1908 Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, American jazz trumpeter, born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)

 

[too larry]

1929 Paul Burlison, rockabilly musician (The Rock N Roll Trio), born in Brownsville, Tennessee (d. 2003)

 

[too larry]

1938 Joe Beard, American blues guitarist (No More Cherry Rose), born in Ashland, Mississippi

 

[too larry]

1941 John Steel, rock drummer (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)

 

[too larry]

1943 Jimmy Johnson, American session musician and co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, born in Sheffield, Alabama

1943 Barry Beckett, American keyboardist and record producer (David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Roger Hawkins), born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2009)

 

[too larry]

1948 Alice Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], rocker (School's Out), born in Detroit, Michigan

 

[too larry]

1948 Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las), born in Queens, New York (d. 1996)
1948 Mary Ann Ganser, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las), born in Queens, New York (d. 1970)

 

[too larry]

1949 Roy Yeager, American musician (Atlanta Rhythm Section), born in Greenwood, Mississippi

 

[too larry]

1950 Philip Ehart, rock drummer (Kansas)

 

[Amos Otis]

1929 Paul Burlison, rockabilly musician (The Rock N Roll Trio), born in Brownsville, Tennessee (d. 2003)

The vocalist would lose most any local karaoke bar contest in most any bar. The notes that he's on key is just because he was in the neighborhood and passing by.

 

[too larry]

The vocalist would lose most any local karaoke bar contest in most any bar. The notes that he's on key is just because he was in the neighborhood and passing by.

I didn't actually listen to very much of it. But it was the best recording quality of the few I looked at. Just trying to fly the flag for the rockabilly audience here at RIU. lol

 

[too larry]

1945 Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician (Exodus, One Love), born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica (d. 1981)

 

[too larry]

1946 Richie Hayward, American drummer (Little Feat), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 2010)

 

[too larry]

1954 Scott Kempner, American rhythm guitarist (Del-Lords), born in the Bronx, New York

 

[too larry]

1962 Axl Rose [William Bailey], American singer & songwriter (Guns & Roses), born in Lafayette, Indiana

 

[Amos Otis]

1962 Axl Rose [William Bailey], American singer & songwriter (Guns & Roses), born in Lafayette, Indiana