May 25th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Anne Heche [Anne Celeste Heche; actress, director and screenwriter] -
May 25th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Anne Heche [Anne Celeste Heche; actress, director and screenwriter] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Dixie Carter [Dixie Virginia Carter; 1939-2010; actress] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Brian 'Blinky' Davison [1942-2008; progressive rock drummer; The Nice] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Sugar Minott [Lincoln Barrington Minott; 1956-2010; reggae singer, producer and sound system operator] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Roger Bowen [Roger Wendell Bowen; actor and novelist; Lt. Col. Henry Blake in 'M*A*S*H', 1970] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Beverly Sills [ Belle Miriam Silverman; 1929-2007; operatic soprano] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Jeanne Crain [Jeanne Elizabeth Crain; 1925-2003; actress] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Kitty Kallen [Katie Kallen; 1921-2016; jazz, swing and pop singer] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Hal David [Harold Lane David; 1921-2012; lyricist; Bacharach & David] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Steve Cochran [Robert Alexander Cochran; 1917-1965; actor] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Binnie Barnes [Gertrude Maud Barnes; 1903-1998; actress] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson [Luther Robinson; 1877 [[or 1878) -1949; tap dancer, actor and singer] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Bill Murray [William Thomas Murray; 1877-1954; pop singer] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Ernest 'Pop' Stoneman [Ernest Van Stoneman; 1893-1968; country musician] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882; essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Wallace Roney [1960-2020; hard bop and post bop jazz trumpeter] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Colonel Abrams [1949-2016; R&B and soul singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and actor; 'Trapped'] -
May 25th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Tom T. Hall [bluegrass and country music songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, novelist and short-story writer] -
May 25th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Claude Akins [Claude Aubrey Akins; 1926-1994; actor] -
May 25th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Karen Valentine [actress; Alice Johnson on 'Room 222'] -
May 26th:
Quote for the Day:
"If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing."
- Peggy Lee; 'Is that all there is?", 1969.
Remembering, on her Birthday:
Peggy Lee [Norma Deloris Egstrom; 1920-2002; jazz and pop singer, songwriter, composer and actress] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday:
John Wayne [Marion Robert Morrison; 'Duke'; 1907-1979; actor and film maker] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Pam Grier [Pamela Suzette Grier; actress] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Lauryn Hill [Lauryn Noelle Hill; hip hop, R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer and actress; The Fugees] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Jaheim [Jaheim Hoagland; R&B singer and former rapper] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to: -
Lenny Kravitz [Leonard Albert Kravitz; multi-genre singer, songwriter, actor and record producer] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Oscar Toney, Jr; [soul singer; 'For Your Precious Love'] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Ray Ennis [lead vocalist and guitarist; founding member of The Swinging Blue Jeans] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Verden Allen [Terence Allen; rock organ player; founding member of Mott The Hoople] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Garry Peterson [Garry Dennis Peterson; rock drummer; The Guess Who] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Stevie Nicks [Stephanie Lynn Nicks; rock singer-songwriter; Fleetwood Mac] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Hank Williams, Jr; [Randall Hank Williams; country singer, songwriter and musician] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Wayne Hussey [Jerry Wayne Hussey; lead singer with The Mission; rock guitarist with The Sisters Of Mercy] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Alan White [Alan Victor White; rock drummer with Oasis] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Helena Bonham Carter [actress; 'The Wings Of A Dove'; 'The King's Speech'] -
May 26th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Philip Michael Thomas [retired actor and musician; Ricardo Tubbs on 'Miami Vice'] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Miles Davis [Miles Dewey Davis III, 1926-1991; jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Mick Ronson [Michael Ronson; 1946-1993; rock guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer; The Spiders From Mars] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
James Arness [James King Aurness; 1923-2011; actor; Marshal Matt Dillon on 'Gunsmoke'] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Peter Cushing [Peter Wilton Cushing; 1913-1994; actor] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Jay Silverheels [Harold Jay Smith; 1912-1980; actor and athlete; Tonto, on ABC 'The Lone Ranger'] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Alec McCowen [Alexander Duncan McCowen; 1925-2017; actor] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Robert Morley [Robert Adolph Wilton Morley; 1908-1992; actor] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Levon Helm [Mark Lavon Helm; 1940-2012; rock musician and actor, drummer and vocalist with The Band] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson; 1886-1950; singer, film actor and comedian] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on his Birthday: -
Paul Lukas [Pal Lukacs; 1894-1971; actor] -
May 26th:
Remembering, on her Birthday: -
Isadora Duncan [Angela Isadora Duncan; 1877-1927; dancer] -
May 27th:
Quote for the Day:
"I like musicians who look at the public.
You have to bring the music to the largest number.
Otherwise, we'll [the jazz players] stay in the clubs.
Jazz must be accessible to everyone."
- Dee Dee Bridgewater. -
Happy Birthday, to:
Dee Dee Bridgewater [Denise Garrett; jazz singer, actress, record producer, songwriter, UN goodwill ambassador, radio host] -
May 27th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Barbara Livsey [R&B singer; Barbara and The Uniques, later Barbara Blake and The Uniques]
May 27th:
Happy Birthday, to:
Ramsey Lewis [Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis; jazz composer, pianist and radio personality; 'Wade In The Water'] -
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