May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Michael Sarrazin [Jacques Michel Sandre Sarrazin; 1940-2011; actor; 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'; 'Harry In Your Pocket'; 'For Pete's Sake'] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Michael Sarrazin [Jacques Michel Sandre Sarrazin; 1940-2011; actor; 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'; 'Harry In Your Pocket'; 'For Pete's Sake'] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Susan Strasberg [Susan Elizabeth Strasberg; 1938-1999; actress; 'Picnic'; 'The Diary Of Anne Frank'] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Paul Winfield [Paul Edward Winfield; 1939-2004; actor; 'Sounder'; 'King'] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Quinn Martin [Irwin Martin Cohn; 1922-1987; television producer; 'The Fugitive'; 'The Streets Of San Francisco'; 'Cannon'; 'Barnaby Jones'] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Kenny Ball [Kenneth Daniel Hall; 1930-2013; jazz musician, singer, trumpeter and bandleader; Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen; 'Midnight in Moscow'] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
M. Scott Peck [Morgan Scott Peck; 1936-2005; psychiatrist and author; 'The Road Less Travelled'] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Judith Crist [Judith Klein; 1922-2012; film critic and academic; 'Today' show; 'New York Herald Tribune'; 'New York' magazine; 'TV Guide'] -
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Naomi Campbell [Naomi Elaine Campbell; model, actress and businesswoman] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Arthur Conan Doyle [Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle; 1859-1930; writer and physician; creator of Sherlock Holmes] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Bruce Rowland [1941-2015; rock and folk rock drummer and songwriter; The Grease Band; Fairport Convention] -
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Iva Davies [Ivor Arthur Davies; rock, new wave and synth-pop singer, songwriter, composer; multi-instrumentalist and record producer; co-founder and lead singer with Icehouse] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Nicky Wonder [Nick Walusko; 1960-2019; power pop drummer; The Wondermints; Brian Wilson touring band] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Richard Wagner [Wilhelm Richard Wagner; 1813-1883; composer, theatre director, polemicist and conductor] -
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday, to: -
Richard Benjamin [Richard Samuel Benjamin; actor, director and producer] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Herge [Georges Prosper Remi; 1907-1983; cartoonist; 'The Adventures Of Tintin'] -
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Michael Constantine [Gus Efstratiou; actor; Kostas 'Gus' Portokalos in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding', 2002] -
May 22nd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Johnny Olson [John Leonard Olson; 1910-1985; radio personality and television announcer; 'To Tell The Truth'; 'What's My Line?'; 'Match Game'; 'The Price Is Right'] -
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Jerry Dammers [Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers; Ska and 2 Tone keyboardist, songwriter and DJ; co-founder of The Specials; founder of 2 Tone records] -
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Arlene Phillips [choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, television judge and presenter, and former dancer] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Our fellow Soulful Detroit member, TomatoTom123.
Happy Birthday, Tom. Hope you are having a wonderful day!
Thanks Roger! I know I haven’t been posting here much lately, so thank you for remembering me. Still love this place and all you guys!
Happy Birthday Tomato Tom!!! Have a wonderful day!!!
Happy Birthday Tom. May your tomatoes never get squashed!
May 23rd:
Quote for the Day:
"I don't know why they re-released it, ['It Will Stand', by The Showmen], but I am glad, because if it hadn't been re-released, I never would have been with Holland-Dozier-Holland.
When it was re-released, it was number one in Detroit for about four or five weeks, and that's how they became familiar with my work and my voice.
When they decided to leave Motown, I was one of the first artists they got in touch with."
- General Johnson, Soul Express interview, 1993.
Remembering, on his Birthday:
General Johnson [General Norman Johnson; 1941-2010; soul singer and songwriter; record producer; frontman with Chairmen Of The Board] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Robert 'Bumps' Blackwell [Robert Alexander Blackwell; 1918-1985; rock and roll and pop bandleader, songwriter, arranger and record producer] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Otto 'Jeff' Jeffries [1912-1975; R&B singer, The "5" Royales] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
Scatman Crothers [Benjamin Sherman Crothers; 1910-1986; actor, singer, dancer and musician; Louie The Garbage Man on 'Chico And The Man'; Dick Hallorann in 'The Shining'; Big Ben in 'Lady Sings The Blues'] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Rosemary Clooney [1928-2002; singer and actress; 'Come On-a My House'; 'Mambo Italiano'; ;This Old House'] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Maxwell [Gerald Maxwell Riviera; R&B and neo-soul singer-songwriter; 'Fortunate'] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Nat Adderley, Jr; [Nathaniel Adderley, Jr; pop and R&B music arranger and pianist] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Joan Collins [Joan Henrietta Collins; actress, author and columnist; Alexis Carrington Colby on 'Dynasty'; Crystal Hennesey-Vaas on 'Benidorm'] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Artie Shaw [Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; 1910-2004; clarinettist, composer, bandleader and actor] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr; [Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; Douglas Elton Fairbanks; 1883-1939; actor, screenwriter, director and actor] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Charlie Hunter [jazz and funk guitarist, composer and bandleader; 8 string jazz guitar virtuoso] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Humphrey Lyttelton [Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton; 'Humph'; 1921-2008; jazz musician and broadcaster] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Jewel [Jewel Kilcher; singer, songwriter and actress; 'Who Will Save Your Soul'; 'You Were Meant For Me'; 'Foolish Games'] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Heidi Range [Heidi India Partakis; pop and disco singer and songwriter; Sugababes; Atomic Kitten] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Phil Selway [Philip James Selway; alternative and art rock drummer; Motorhead] -
May 23rd:
Happy Birthday, to:
Ruth Underwood [Ruth Komanoff; jazz and rock percussionist for Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Betty Garrett [1919-2011; actress, comedian, singer and dancer; Irene Lorenzo on 'All In The Family'; Edna Babish on 'Laverne & Shirley'] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Nigel Davenport [Arthur Nigel Davenport; 1928-2013; actor, Lord Birkenhead in 'Chariots Of Fire'] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Helen O'Connell [1920-1993; traditional pop and jazz singer with The Jimmy Dorsey band; actress and hostess] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
John Payne [John Howard Payne; 1912-1989; actor; Fred Gailey in 'Miracle On 34th Street'; Vint Bonner on NBC 'The Restless Gun'] -
May 23rd:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Libby Holman [Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman; 1904-1971; socialite, stage actress, torch singer and activist] -
May 24th:
Quote for the Day:
"Where I come from, it don't pay to read and speak white!"
- Gene Anthony Ray, as Leroy Johnson on 'Fame', 1980.
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Gene Anthony Ray [Eugene Anthony Ray; 1962-2003; actor, dancer and choreographer; 'Fame'] -
May 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Tommy Chong [Thomas B. Kin Chong; comedian, actor, writer, director, activist and musician; Cheech and Chong; Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers] -
May 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Patti LaBelle [Patricia Louise Holte; R&B, soul and pop singer, author, actress and entrepreneur; Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles; Labelle] -
May 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Larry Blackmon [Larry Ernest Blackmon; R&B, soul, funk and disco lead singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger; co-founder of Cameo] -
May 24th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Lou Pride [George Lou Pride; 1944-2012; blues and soul singer and songwriter] -
May 24th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman; folk, blues and rock songwriter, singer, painter, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature] -
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