May 4th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Stella Parton [Stella Mae Parton; country singer and songwriter] -
May 4th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Stella Parton [Stella Mae Parton; country singer and songwriter] -
May 4th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Mick Mars [Robert Alan Deal; heavy metal and hard rock musician, lead guitarist and co-founding member of Motley Crue] -
May 5th:
Quote for the Day:
"The music that truly moves my soul is Etta, and Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan, and stuff like that..."
- Adele; NPR interview, 2015.
Happy Birthday, to:
Adele [Adele Laurie Blue Adkins; pop, R&B and blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter; 'Rolling In The Deep'; 'Someone Like You'; 'Set Fire To The Rain'; 'Hello'] -
Westgrand, so many of my friends are hoping for another Adele album soon. Saw her when she was on tour in the US. Girlfriend wanted to go...we did [[& traveled). She was really good!!
May 5th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Barbara Randolph [aka Barbara Ann Sanders; 1942-2002; soul singer and actress; 'I Got A Feeling'; 'Can I Get A Witness'] -
No, & I don't think she will. Gotta wonder if it's a "been there done that" feeling in her.
My understanding is that Adele does have tracks prepared...but I have to guess that the pandemic hasn't helped with promoting a new release.
But nearly six years is a loooong time between album releases.
And if she really is planning to release album number four....then she'd best be also planning album number five. If not, then after all that time, album number four is the farewell album.....
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Johnnie Taylor [Johnnie Harrison Taylor; 1934-2000; R&B and soul singer; 'Who's Making Love'; 'Disco Lady'] -
I know she took time off when she had her child. But that child now is much older.
And she went through a divorce. So many are waiting for a new album.
Westgrand, I didn't know that Johnnie Taylor was initially in a gospel group with Sam Cooke until recently.
Yes, Moe....I think that was The Soul Stirrers, and Johnnie replaced Sam Cooke because there was a similarity between his and Sam's voice...?
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Jheryl Busby [1949-2008; record producer and record company executive; former President and CEO of Motown Records] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Chris Brown [Christopher Maurice Brown; R&B, hip hop and pop singer, rapper, songwriter, dancer and actor; 'Run It!' [featuring Juelz Santana]; 'Kiss Kiss' [featuring T-Pain] ; 'Forever']
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Craig David [Craig Ashley David; R&B, hip hop and dance singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer; 'Fill Me In'; '7 Days'] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Raheem DeVaughan [R&B and neo soul singer and songwriter; 'Woman'] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Andy Gibb [Andrew Roy Gibb; 1958-1988; disco, pop and rock singer and songwriter; 'I Just Want To Be Your Everything'; '[Love Is] Thicker Than Water'; 'Shadow Dancing'] -
Did Chris Brown ever conquer his demons? Physically abusive to Rhianna & Karucci Tran.
May 5th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Tammy Wynette [Virginia Wynette Pugh; 1942-1998; country music singer and songwriter; 'D.I.V.O.R.C.E.'; ' Stand By Your Man'] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Eddie Amoo [Edward Robert Amoo; 1944-2018; soul singer and guitarist; The Real Thing; 'You To Me Are Everything'] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to: -
Ian McCulloch [Ian Stephen McCulloch; post-punk and new wave singer, songwriter and musician; Echo & The Bunnymen] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to: -
Bill Ward [William Thomas Ward; heavy metal musician, songwriter and singer; drummer with Black Sabbath] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Pat Carroll [Patricia Ann Carroll; actress and comedian; the voice of Ursula, The Sea Witch, in Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Richard E. Grant [Richard Grant Esterhuysen; actor and presenter, screenwriter, director and perfumier; Withnail in 'Withnail And I'; John Seward in Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'; Izembaro on 'Game Of Thrones'] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Bing Russell [Neil Oliver Russell; 1923-2003; actor and baseball club owner; Deputy Clem Foster on 'Bonanza', Robert in 'The Magnificent Seven'] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Alice Faye [Alice Jeanne Faye, formerly Leppert; 1915-1998; actress and singer; 'You'll Never Know'] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Kyan Douglas [Hugh Edward Douglas, Jr; television personality and stylist; grooming expert on 'Queer Eye', 2003-2007] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Darrin Henson [Darrin Dewitt Henson; choreographer, dancer, actor, director and producer; 'Darrin's Dance Grooves'; Lem Van Adams on 'Soul Food'] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Michael Palin [Michael Edward Palin; comedian, actor, writer and television presenter; Monty Python] -
May 5th:
Happy Birthday, to:
John Rhys-Davies [actor, Giml and the voice of Treebeard in 'The Lord Of The Rings' trilogy; Sallah in the 'Indiana Jones' films] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Tyrone Power [Tyrone Edmund Power III; 1914-1958; actor; Don Diego Vega/Zorro in 'The Mask Of Zorro'; Leonard Vole in 'Witness For The Prosecution'] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Richard Schaal [1928-2014; actor; 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'; 'The Bob Newhart Show'; 'Rhoda'; 'Phyllis'; 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Freeman 'Gozzie' Gosden [Freeman Fisher Gosden; 1899-1892; radio comedian; Amos of 'Amos 'n' Andy'] -
May 5th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Karl Marx [Karl Heinrich Marx; 1818-1883; philosopher, economist, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and revolutionary socialist; 'The Communist Manifesto'] -
Westgrand, I didn't realize Pat Carroll was still alive! She's 94!! I remember as one of the wicked stepsisters in Rogers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella" starring Lesley Ann Warren.
That was the 1965 TV movie, with Ginger Rogers....?
May 6th:
Quote for the Day:
"They weren't great, but they weren't supposed to be.
I gave the public what they wanted...a chance to dream, to live vicariously, to see beautiful women, jewels, gorgeous clothes, melodrama."
- Ross Hunter, speaking of the films he had produced.
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Ross Hunter [Martin Terry Fuss; 1920-1996; film and television producer and actor; 'Pillow Talk'; 'Magnificent Obsession'; 'Imitation Of Life'; 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'; 'Airport'] -
Yes. Ginger Rogers played The Queen. And Pat Carroll played Prunella.
Plus she was in The Danny Thomas Show.
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May 6th:
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Sandra Tilley [1946-1981; R&B and soul singer; The Velvelettes; Martha Reeves & The Vandellas] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to: -
Leon Hughes [Leon Hughes, Sr; R&B and rock and roll singer; last surviving founder member of The Coasters] -
May 6th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Herb Cox [Herbert Alexander Cox; 1938-2019; doo wop and R&B singer; The Cleftones] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to:
MC Serch [Michael Berrin; hip hop rapper and music executive; 3rd Bass] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Juliet Roberts [jazz, rock, soul and house music singer and songwriter] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Colin Earl [rock pianist; Mungo Jerry; Foghat] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Bob Seger [Robert Clark Seger; rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist; solo work, also with The Decibels & The Town Criers; Doug Brown & The Omens; The Last Heard; The Bob Seger System; The Silver Bullet Band] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Mary McGregor [folk, country and soft rock singer; 'Torn Between Two Lovers'] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to:
George Clooney [George Timothy Clooney; actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer, activist and philanthropist; Bob Barnes in 'Syriana'; 'Michael Clayton'; 'Up In The Air'; 'The Descendants'] -
May 6th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Roma Downey [actress, film producer and author; Monica on 'Touched By An Angel'] -
Westgrand, George Clooney has a funny video out here in the US. For a contribution to his charity one would be entered to win a trip to Lake Como Italy, stay in a hotel near his house there & attend a party for the charity. The video [[as the usual Clooney style) pokes fun at one of his friends, Brad Pitt.
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