April 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Ronald Neame [Ronald Elwin Neame; 1911-2010; cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director] -
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April 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Ronald Neame [Ronald Elwin Neame; 1911-2010; cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and director] -
April 23rd:
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Simone Simon [Simone Therese Fernande Simon; 1911-2005; actress] -
April 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Raymond Huntley [Horace Raymond Huntley; 1904-1990; actor] -
April 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Jimmie Noone [1895-1944; jazz clarinettist and bandleader] -
April 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Cow Cow Davenport [Charles Edward Davenport; 1894-1955; boogie-woogie and piano blues player, organist, singer and vaudeville entertainer] -
April 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
William Shakespeare [1564-1616; poet, playwright and actor] -
April 24th:
Quote for the Day:
"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
- Barbra Streisand.
Happy Birthday, to:
Barbra Streisand [Barbara Joan Streisand; singer, songwriter, actress and film maker] -
April 24th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Ricky Owens [Richard Edgar Owens; 1939-1996; R&B and soul singer; The Vibrations; The Temptations] -
April 24th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Robert Knight [Robert Henry Peebles; 1945-2017; soul and pop singer; 'Everlasting Love'; 'Love On A Mountain Top'] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Porter Carroll [Porter Carroll, Jr; R&B and soul singer, songwriter and drummer; Atlantic Starr] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
John Williams [John Christopher Williams; classical guitarist, arranger and composer] -
April 24th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Freddie Scott [1933-2007; soul singer and songwriter; 'Hey Girl'; 'Are You Lonely For Me'] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Captain Sensible [Raymond Ian Burns; punk rock singer; songwriter, bassist and guitarist; co-founder of The Damned] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Doug Clifford [Douglas Raymond 'Cosmo' Clifford; rock drummer; founding member of The Creedence Clearwater Revival] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Kelly Clarkson [Kelly Brianne Clarkson; pop and rock singer and songwriter] -
April 24th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Joe Henderson [1937-2001; jazz tenor saxophonist] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Tony Visconti [Anthony Edward Visconti; rock and glam rock record producer, musician and singer] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Dean Armstrong [actor, producer and acting coach; Blake Wyzecki on 'Queer As Folk'] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Cedric The Entertainer [Cedric Antonio Kyles; actor, comedian, director and game show host] -
April 24th:
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Jill Ireland [Jill Dorothy Ireland; 1936-1990; actress and singer; Jackie Pruitt on 'Love And Bullets'] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Aidan Gillen [Aidan Murphy; actor; Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish on 'Game Of Thrones'; Tommy Carcetti on 'The Wire'] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Shirley MacLaine [Shirley MacLean Beaty; actress, singer, dancer, activist and author; Aurora Greenway in 'Terms Of Endearment'] -
April 24th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Johnny Griffin [John Arnold Griffin III, 1928-2008; jazz tenor saxophonist] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Jean-Paul Gaultier [haute couture and pret-a-porter fashion designer] -
April 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Len Goodman [Leonard Gordon Goodman; professional ballroom dancer, dance judge and coach; 'Dancing With The Stars'; 'Strictly Come Dancing'] -
April 25th:
Quote for the Day:
"It looked like the entire British Navy was on the front lawn of Hitsville."
- Esther Gordy Edwards; Not the 'Same Old Song', Hour Detroit, March 2015.
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Esther Gordy Edwards [1920-2011; artistic booking manager, vice president and chief executive officer for Motown; creator and director of The Motown Historical Museum, 'Hitsville USA'] -
April 25th:
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Ella Fitzgerald [Ella Jane Fitzgerald; 1917-1996; swing, bebop, traditional pop, jazz and blues singer] -
April 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Albert King [Albert Nelson; 1923-1992; blues and soul blues guitarist and singer] -
April 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Jerry Leiber [Jerome Leiber; 1933-2011; lyricist and record producer; Leiber and Stoller] -
April 25th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Steve Ferrone [rock, funk, R&B, blues and pop drummer; The Average White Band; Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; also session drummer] -
April 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Earl Bostic [Eugene Earl Bostic; 1913-1965; jazz and R&B alto saxophonist] -
April 25th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Linda Womack [formerly Cooke; now Zeriiya Zekkariyas; R&B, soul, funk and dance singer and songwriter; Womack & Womack] -
April 25th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Stu Cook [Stuart Alden Cook; bass guitarist, musician, songwriter and producer; Creedence Clearwater Revival] -
April 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Bob Russell [Sidney Keith Rosenthal; 1914-1970; songwriter, usually lyricist; 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother'] -
April 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Meadowlark Lemon [Meadow Lemon III; 1932-2015; basketball player, actor and Christian minister] -
April 26th:
Quote for the Day:
"If you don't like my ocean. don't fish in my sea,
Stay out of my valley, and let my mountain be."
- Ma Rainey: -
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey [formerly Pridgett; 1886-1939; blues singer; 'Mother Of The Blues'] -
April 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
D.C. LaRue [David Charles L'Heureux; singer, songwriter and producer] -
April 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Giorgio Moroder [Giovanni Giorgio Moroder; euro disco and electronic composer, songwriter and record producer) -
April 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Maurice Williams [doo-wop and R&B singer; Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs; 'Stay'] -
April 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Ms. Dynamite [Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley; R&B and hip hop rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer] -