May 19th:
On her Birthday, remembering Nellie Melba [Helen Porter Mitchell; 1861-1931]; operatic soprano.....
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May 19th:
On her Birthday, remembering Nellie Melba [Helen Porter Mitchell; 1861-1931]; operatic soprano.....
May 19th:
On his Birthday, remembering Michael Balcon [1896-1977]; film and television producer; Ealing Studios....
May 19th:
On his Birthday, remembering Robert Wilcox [1910-1955]; actor; 'The Man They Couldn't Hang'....
May 19th:
On his Birthday, remembering Malcolm X [Malcolm Little; El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz; 1925-1965]; Muslim minister and human rights activist.....
May 19th:
On her Birthday, remembering Nancy Astor [Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor; 1879-1964]; politician; first woman in the House Of Commons....
May 20th:
Quote for the Day:
"In the end, I don't think you can find soul.
Soul finds you."
On his Birthday, remembering Joe Cocker [John Robert Cocker; 1944-2014]; rock, blues, soul and pop singer and musician; 'A Little Help From My Friends'; 'You Are So Beautiful'; and 'Up Where We Belong', with Jennifer Warnes......
May 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Shorty Long [Frederick Earl Long; 1940-1969]; soul singer, songwriter, musician and record producer; 'Function At The Junction'; 'Here Comes The Judge'.....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian]; pop, dance and disco singer and actress; 'Bang Bang'; 'If I Could Turn Back Time'; 'Believe'; films include 'Silkwood', 'Mask'; and 'Moonstruck'.....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Busta Rhymes [Trevor George Smith, Jr]; hip hop recording artist, actor, record producer and record company executive; 'Woo-Hah! Got You All In Check'.....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Jane Wiedlin [Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin]; punk and pop rock musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress; rhythm guitarist and background vocalist with The Go-Go's; 'Rush Hour'.....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Ted Allen [Edward Allen]; author and television personality, food and wine connoisseur on 'Queer Eye'......
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to John Billingsley; actor, Dr. Phlox on 'Star Trek : Enterprise'.....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Dean Butler; actor and producer; Almanzo Wilder on 'Little House On The Prairie'....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Matt McCoy; actor; Michael Bartel in 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle'; Sgt. Nick Lassard on 'Police Academy' 5 & 6, and Lloyd Braun on 'Seinfeld'......
May 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering James Stewart [James Maitland Stewart; 1908-1997]; actor; 'Mr Smith Goes To Washington'; 'The Philadelphia Story'; 'It's A Wonderful Life'.....
May 20th:
On her Birthday, remembering Margery Allingham [Margery Louise Allingham; 1904-1966]; mystery and crime fiction novelist; The Albert Campion detective novels.....
May 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Stanley Fields [Walter L. Agnew; 1883-1941]; actor; Sam Vettori in 'Little Caesar'; Muspratt in 'Mutiny On The Bounty'; The Sheriff in 'Way Out West'.....
May 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Honore de Balzac [Honore Balzac; 1799-1850]; novelist and playwright; 'La Comedie humaine'......
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Nick Heyward; pop singer-songwriter and guitarist; lead singer and songwriter with Haircut One Hundred....
May 21st:
Quote for the Day:
"We did a lot of records there [Motown], and a lot of people were jealous of our success and complained to Berry Gordy that we were getting all the better songs.
He took the records off us, and gave them to other people.
I first did the record 'Grapevine' that Marvin did. He took it off me, and gave it to Smokey, and he didn't do it that well.
Then Gladys Knight came along, and she did a different version of it.
Later on, Marvin did the same version that I had done.
The same thing happened with The Four Tops. One of the records they were doing was 'Reach Out'. We had it first. That was one of the reasons we were angry enough to say "hey man, we don't want to be doing this any more. We want to be doing our own thing."
Then we came out with "This Old Heart Of Mine", and that hit right away."
- Blues & Soul interview, 2013 -
Happy Birthday to Ronald Isley; R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor; lead singer and original founding member of The Isley Brothers....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Blinky [Sondra Williams]; R&B and soul singer-songwriter; 'I Wouldn't Change The Man He Is'; Theme from 'Good Times', with Jim Gilstrap.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Hilton Valentine [Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine; 1943-2021]; rock and blues rock guitarist with The Animals.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Bill Champlin; rock, blues and R&B singer, songwriter, keyboard player, guitarist, arranger and producer; with Chicago 1981-2009.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Rachelle Ferrell; R&B, pop and jazz singer, pianist.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Leo Sayer [Gerard Hugh Sayer]; soft rock and disco singer, songwriter; 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Mr. T [Lawrence Tureaud]; actor and retired professional wrestler, B.A. Baracus on 'The A-Team'; Clubber Lang in 'Rocky III'.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Fairuza Balk [Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse]; actress; Vicki Vallencourt in 'The Waterboy'.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Nick Cassavetes; film maker and actor; Wayne-O in 'The Assault Of The Killer Bimbos'....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Judge Reinhold [Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr.]; actor; Brad Hamilton in 'Fast Time At Ridgemont High'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Fats Waller [Thomas Wright Waller; 1904-1943]; jazz pianist and singer; 'Ain't Misbehavin'; 'Honeysuckle Rose'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher George Latore Wallace; 1972-1997]; rapper; 'Hypnotised'; 'Mo Money Mo Problems [featuring Mase and Puff Daddy]....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Vincent Crane [Vincent Rodney Cheeseman; 1943-1989]; keyboardist with Atomic Rooster and Arthur Brown....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Raymond Burr [Raymond William Stacy Burr; 1917-1993]; actor; 'Perry Mason'; 'Ironside'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering David Groh [David Lawrence Groh; 1939-2008]; actor; Joe Gerard on 'Rhoda'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Anthony Steel [Anthony Maitland Steel; 1920-2001]; actor and singer; Bob Payton in 'Where No Vultures Fly'.....
May 21st:
On her Birthday, remembering Peggy Cass [Mary Margaret Cass; 1924-1999]; actress; Agnes Gooch in 'Auntie Mame'....
May 21st:
On her Birthday, remembering Kay Kendall [Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy; 1927-1959]; actress; Sybil Wren in 'Les Girls'; Rosalind Peters in 'Genevieve'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Robert Montgomery [Henry Montgomery, Jr; 1904-1981]; actor; David Smith in 'Mr and Mrs Smith'....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Harold Robbins [Harold Rubin; 1916-1997]; novelist; 'The Carpetbaggers'....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Tony Sheridan [Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity; 1940-2013]; rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist.....