Rock & Roll Birthdays

Amos Otis said:

Graham Gouldman wrote the two Yardbirds tunes you posted.

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• 1940 Dobie Gray [Lawrence Brown], American musician and singer (Drift Away), born in Simonton, Texas (d. 2011)

• 1949 Roger Taylor, English rock drummer (Queen-Bohemian Rhapsody), born in Norfolk, England

• 1917 Moses Rascoe, American blues singer, born in Windsor, North Carolina (d. 1994)

• 1930 Andy [Andrew] White, Scottish drummer, drummed on early Beatles records ("Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You"), born in Glasgow (d. 2015)

• 1933 Nick Reynolds, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), born in San Diego, California (d. 200

• 1943 Allan Ramsey, American rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-This Diamond Ring) (d. 1985)

• 1944 Bobbie Gentry, American singer and songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe), born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi

• 1962 Karl Mueller, American bassist (Soul Asylum), born in Minneapolis (d. 2005)

• 1963 Karrin Allyson, American jazz singer (Wild for You), born in Great Bend, Kansas

• 1973 Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones), born in Long Beach, California

• 1974 Pete Yorn, American musician (Musicforthemorningafter), born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey

too larry said:

• 1917 Moses Rascoe, American blues singer, born in Windsor, North Carolina (d. 1994)

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Amos Otis said:

I always thought P J Proby [?} wrote this, but the chorus sounds like it could be Moses Rascoe.

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too larry said:

PJ did a pretty good job on it really.

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• 1916 Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)