Make This A Birthday To Remember.......

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Floyd Smith [Floyd George Smith; 1917-1982]; jazz guitarist and record producer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Mia Kirshner; actress, writer and social activist....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Christine Lakin; actress and director......

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Jenifer Lewis; actress, singer and activist.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Dinah Manoff; actress and television director.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Ana Ortiz; actress and singer.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Gregory Sierra [Gregory Joseph Sierra; 1937-2021]; actor....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Leigh Taylor-Young; actress....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Tobe Hooper [1943-2017]; film director, screenwriter, and producer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On her Birthday, remembering Diana Hyland [1936-1977]; actress...

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Dean Jones [1931-2015]; actor.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On her Birthday, remembering Elizabeth Allen [1929-2006]; actress and singer.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Gregg Palmer [1927-2015]; actor....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On her Birthday, remembering Mildred Dunnock [1901-1991]; actress....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering King Donovan [1918-1987]; actor, also film and television director....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On her Birthday, remembering Virginia Woolf [Adeline Virginia Woolf; 1882-1941]; novelist....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering W. Somerset Maugham [William Somerset Maugham; 1874-1965]; playwright, novelist and short story writer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering William Colgate [1783-1857]; businessman and philanthropist; The Colgate Toothpaste Company....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Robert Burns ['Rabbie' Burns; 1759-1796]; Scottish poet and lyricist.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Harry Link [John Harry Linkey; 1896-1956]; vaudeville actor and singer...

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Marcus Samuelsson; celebrity chef, restaurateur and television personality.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

Happy Birthday to Michael Trevino; actor....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 25th:

On his Birthday, remembering Blind Willie Johnson [1897-1945]; gospel blues singer, guitarist and evangelist....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Quote for the Day:

"I would cringe every time the song ['Love Makes The World Go 'Round'] came on the radio.

I'd think "God, I don't like that". And I wrote it, too.

I just don't like that song.

Hey, maybe I didn't like it - I mean, it bugged me - because I wrote it so fast [about four minutes] and put it aside so fast, and then it sat around for a year before it was released.

I guess I figured it shouldn't be worth anything. It was too easy.

It kind of gets to me to do it.

But I do it...."

- interview with Bill Dahl, for Goldmine magazine -

On his Birthday, remembering Deon Jackson [1946-2014]; soul singer and songwriter....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Anita Baker [Anita Denise Baker]; soul jazz, smooth jazz, soul and R&B singer-songwriter....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Jean Knight [Jean Caliste]; soul, R&B and funk singer...

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Thom Bell [Thomas Randolph Bell; 1943-2022]; singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, pianist and composer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Huey 'Piano' Smith [Huey Pierce Smith]; R&B pianist, songwriter and bandleader......

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Howard Glover 'Fingers' Whaley [1927-1992]; R&B pianist.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Marshall Leib [Marshall Philip Leibovitz; 1939-2002]; pop singer, guitarist and producer; original member of The Teddy Bears....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Jazzie B [Trevor Beresford Romeo]; DJ, music producer and entrepreneur; founder of Soul II Soul....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Eddie Van Halen [Edward Lodewijk Van Halen; 1955-2020]; hard rock and heavy metal musician and songwriter....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Andrew Ridgeley; singer, songwriter and record producer; Wham!...

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Kirk Franklin; choir director, gospel musician, singer, songwriter and author; The Family; Nu Nation; One Nation Crew [1NC]....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Lucinda Williams; rock, folk, blues and country singer-songwriter and musician....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Wendy Melvoin; guitarist, singer-songwriter; The Revolution [Prince]; Wendy Lisa.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Merrilee Rush; singer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Corky Laing; rock drummer, Mountain.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Christopher North; keyboardist; Ambrosia.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Tom Keifer; hard rock and blues rock vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter; Cinderella.....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

Happy Birthday to Niklas Almqvist [Nicholaus Arson]; lead guitarist and backup vocalist; The Hives....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Ronnie Hilton [1926-2001]; singer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On her Birthday, remembering Alice Babs [1924-2014]; singer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Bob Bain [1924-2018]; jazz, pop and rock musician and composer......

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Jimmy Van Heusen [Edward Chester Babcock; 1913-1990]; composer....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Stephane Grappelli [1908-1997]; jazz violinist....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On her Birthday, remembering Jacqueline du Pre [1945-1987]; cellist....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On her Birthday, remembering Maria Von Trapp [1905-1987]; stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers; 'The Sound Of Music'....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Gary McSpadden [1943-2020]; pastor, singer, songwriter, record producer, television host and motivational speaker....

[westgrandboulevard]

January 26th:

On his Birthday, remembering Paul Newman [1925-2008]; actor, film producer, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur and philanthropist...