Rock & Roll Birthdays

[too larry]

1947 Glen Buxton, American guitarist (Alice Cooper) and composer, born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1997)

 

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• 1954 Mario Cipollina, American rock bassist (Huey Lewis & The News), born in San Rafael, California

1959 Frank Maudsley, English rock bassist and vocalist (Flock Of Seagulls), born in Liverpool, England

 

[Amos Otis]

1946 Bill Bryson, American singer (Desert Rose Band

Bass player, bottom harmony. The best country band.

 

[Amos Otis]

1928 Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and musician

This song is so magnificent, someone made a movie for it.

 

[Amos Otis]

This Morricone song is so superb, Mike Patton covered it.

 

[too larry]

1927 Mose Allison, American jazz artist (Black Country Suite), born in Tippo, Mississippi (d. 2016)

 

[too larry]

1928 Ernestine Anderson, American jazz vocalist and blues singer, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)

 

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1930 Hank Garland, American guitar virtuoso (d. 2004)

 

[too larry]

1938 Roger Laver, [Jackson], rock keyboardist (Tornados)

 

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1945 Chris Dreja, rocker (Yardbirds), born in London, England

 

[too larry]

1945 Vince Martell, American rock guitarist (Vanilla Fudge), born in NYC, New York

 

[too larry]

1946 Len "Chip" Hawkes, English musician (the Tremeloes)

 

[Amos Otis]

1938 Roger Laver, [Jackson], rock keyboardist (Tornados)

Great clip from Letterman - I hope you watched it. Mr Laver, however, was not in the Texas Tornados, but in this band from a few decades before.

 

[Amos Otis]

1950 Jim Peterik, rocker
very cool

he wrote "Eye of the Tiger" for Sly, and 38 Special ("Rockin' into the Night", "Hold On Loosely"), Lynyrd Skynyrd ["Free Bird"], Blackhawk, Cheap Trick, Sammy Hagar ("Heavy Metal"), Cathy Richardson, Van Zant, Brian Wilson, REO Speedwagon, and The Beach Boys ["Fun, Fun, Fun"].

 

[Amos Otis]

1945 Neil Young

 

[Amos Otis]

1947 Donald Roeser, rock guitarist/vocalist

Three decades later, and I still get chills. The Anwar Sadat assassination.

 

[Amos Otis]

1939 Ruby Nash Curtis

Live performance in '64 - so good !

 

[too larry]

Great clip from Letterman - I hope you watched it. Mr Laver, however, was not in the Texas Tornados, but in this band from a few decades before.

I wondered if that was a typo. Thanks.

 

[too larry]

1947 Donald Roeser, rock guitarist/vocalist

Three decades later, and I still get chills. The Anwar Sadat assassination.

I was on the USS Saipan, cruising south in the IO {nearing the equator} when he was killed. Needless to say, all the preparations for the shellback ceremony were stopped and we turned around. The next morning the coast of Egypt was lined with American ships.

And I'm still a polliwog.

 

[too larry]

• 1905 John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (d. 1964)