May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Ted Allen [Edward Allen]; author and television personality, food and wine connoisseur on 'Queer Eye'......
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Ted Allen [Edward Allen]; author and television personality, food and wine connoisseur on 'Queer Eye'......
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to John Billingsley; actor, Dr. Phlox on 'Star Trek : Enterprise'.....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Dean Butler; actor and producer; Almanzo Wilder on 'Little House On The Prairie'....
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Matt McCoy; actor; Michael Bartel in 'The Hand That Rocks The Cradle'; Sgt. Nick Lassard on 'Police Academy' 5 & 6, and Lloyd Braun on 'Seinfeld'......
May 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering James Stewart [James Maitland Stewart; 1908-1997]; actor; 'Mr Smith Goes To Washington'; 'The Philadelphia Story'; 'It's A Wonderful Life'.....
May 20th:
On her Birthday, remembering Margery Allingham [Margery Louise Allingham; 1904-1966]; mystery and crime fiction novelist; The Albert Campion detective novels.....
May 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Stanley Fields [Walter L. Agnew; 1883-1941]; actor; Sam Vettori in 'Little Caesar'; Muspratt in 'Mutiny On The Bounty'; The Sheriff in 'Way Out West'.....
May 20th:
On his Birthday, remembering Honore de Balzac [Honore Balzac; 1799-1850]; novelist and playwright; 'La Comedie humaine'......
May 20th:
Happy Birthday to Nick Heyward; pop singer-songwriter and guitarist; lead singer and songwriter with Haircut One Hundred....
May 21st:
Quote for the Day:
"We did a lot of records there [Motown], and a lot of people were jealous of our success and complained to Berry Gordy that we were getting all the better songs.
He took the records off us, and gave them to other people.
I first did the record 'Grapevine' that Marvin did. He took it off me, and gave it to Smokey, and he didn't do it that well.
Then Gladys Knight came along, and she did a different version of it.
Later on, Marvin did the same version that I had done.
The same thing happened with The Four Tops. One of the records they were doing was 'Reach Out'. We had it first. That was one of the reasons we were angry enough to say "hey man, we don't want to be doing this any more. We want to be doing our own thing."
Then we came out with "This Old Heart Of Mine", and that hit right away."
- Blues & Soul interview, 2013 -
Happy Birthday to Ronald Isley; R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor; lead singer and original founding member of The Isley Brothers....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Blinky [Sondra Williams]; R&B and soul singer-songwriter; 'I Wouldn't Change The Man He Is'; Theme from 'Good Times', with Jim Gilstrap.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Hilton Valentine [Hilton Stewart Paterson Valentine; 1943-2021]; rock and blues rock guitarist with The Animals.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Bill Champlin; rock, blues and R&B singer, songwriter, keyboard player, guitarist, arranger and producer; with Chicago 1981-2009.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Rachelle Ferrell; R&B, pop and jazz singer, pianist.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Leo Sayer [Gerard Hugh Sayer]; soft rock and disco singer, songwriter; 'You Make Me Feel Like Dancing'.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Mr. T [Lawrence Tureaud]; actor and retired professional wrestler, B.A. Baracus on 'The A-Team'; Clubber Lang in 'Rocky III'.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Fairuza Balk [Fairuza Alejandra Feldthouse]; actress; Vicki Vallencourt in 'The Waterboy'.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Nick Cassavetes; film maker and actor; Wayne-O in 'The Assault Of The Killer Bimbos'....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to Judge Reinhold [Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr.]; actor; Brad Hamilton in 'Fast Time At Ridgemont High'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Fats Waller [Thomas Wright Waller; 1904-1943]; jazz pianist and singer; 'Ain't Misbehavin'; 'Honeysuckle Rose'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher George Latore Wallace; 1972-1997]; rapper; 'Hypnotised'; 'Mo Money Mo Problems [featuring Mase and Puff Daddy]....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Vincent Crane [Vincent Rodney Cheeseman; 1943-1989]; keyboardist with Atomic Rooster and Arthur Brown....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Raymond Burr [Raymond William Stacy Burr; 1917-1993]; actor; 'Perry Mason'; 'Ironside'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering David Groh [David Lawrence Groh; 1939-2008]; actor; Joe Gerard on 'Rhoda'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Anthony Steel [Anthony Maitland Steel; 1920-2001]; actor and singer; Bob Payton in 'Where No Vultures Fly'.....
May 21st:
On her Birthday, remembering Peggy Cass [Mary Margaret Cass; 1924-1999]; actress; Agnes Gooch in 'Auntie Mame'....
May 21st:
On her Birthday, remembering Kay Kendall [Justine Kay Kendall McCarthy; 1927-1959]; actress; Sybil Wren in 'Les Girls'; Rosalind Peters in 'Genevieve'.....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Robert Montgomery [Henry Montgomery, Jr; 1904-1981]; actor; David Smith in 'Mr and Mrs Smith'....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Harold Robbins [Harold Rubin; 1916-1997]; novelist; 'The Carpetbaggers'....
May 21st:
On his Birthday, remembering Tony Sheridan [Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity; 1940-2013]; rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist.....
May 21st:
Happy Birthday to John Dalton; rock and pop bass guitarist; The Kinks....
May 22nd:
Quote for the Day:
"I'd rather produce art, than become art."
Happy Birthday to Morrissey [Steven Patrick Morrissey], alternative rock and indie pop singer, songwriter, frontman of The Smiths; 'Suedehead'; 'The More You Ignore Me, The Closer You Get'; 'Irish Blood, English Heart'; 'You Have Killed Me'.....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Johnny Gill; R&B, soul and pop singer, songwriter and actor; New Edition; LSG; Heads Of State; 'Rub You Up The Wrong Way'; 'My, My, My'.....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Faye Adams [Fanny Tuell; aka Faye Scruggs; 'Atomic Adams'; Fannie Jones]; gospel and R&B singer......
May 22nd:
On her Birthday, remembering Jackie Landry Jackson [Jacqulyn Jackson; 1941-1997]; pop singer; The Chantels....
May 22nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Calvin Simon [Calvin Eugene Simon; 1942-2022]; funk singer; Parliament-Funkadelic....
May 22nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Bruce Rowland [1941-2015]; rock and folk rock drummer and songwriter; session musician, also The Grease Band; Fairport Convention....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Bernie Taupin [Bernard John Taupin]; rock. pop and country song lyricist, poet and singer; long time collaboration with Elton John, including 'Rocket Man'; 'Crocodile Rock'; 'Candle In The Wind'; 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'.....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Vivian Green [Vivian Sakiyyah Green]; R&B, soul and neo soul singer, songwriter and record producer; 'U Know What's Up' - featuring Lisa Lopes....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Shirley Murdock; R&B singer and songwriter; 'As We Lay'; 'Computer Love' - with Zapp and Roger.....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Peter Nero [Bernard Nierow]; pianist and pops conductor; The Philly Pops....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Ian Underwood [Ian Robertson Underwood]; jazz and avant garde woodwind and keyboard player with Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Barbara Parkins; former actress, singer and dancer; 'Peyton Place'; 'Valley Of The Dolls'....
May 22nd:
Happy Birthday to Rustie Lee; television personality, television chef, actress, singer and former politician....
May 22nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Sun Ra [Herman Poole Blount; Le Sony'r Ra; 1914-1993]; jazz musician, composer and bandleader....
May 22nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Harvey Milk [Harvey Bernard Milk; 1930-1978]; politician; San Francisco City Supervisor and gay civil rights leader.....
May 22nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Laurence Olivier [Laurence Kerr Olivier;1907-1989]; actor....
May 22nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Charles Aznavour [Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian; 1924-2018]; singer and songwriter; 'She'; 'Dance In The Old-Fashioned Way'; 'Yesterday When I was Young'.....
May 22nd:
On his Birthday, remembering Michael Sarrazin [Jacques Michel Andre Sarrazin; 1940-2011]; actor; 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'; 'Harry In Your Pocket'; 'For Pete's Sake'....
May 22nd:
On her Birthday, remembering Susan Strasberg [Susan Elizabeth Strasberg; 1938-1999]; actress; 'Picnic'; 'The Diary Of Anne Frank'....
Bookmarks