Birthdays (February)

[Charlie]

sorry to enter him after the event, as it were

04: 1943 - Barry Beckett (Birmingham, Alabama) Muscle Shoals rhythm section [Died 10 June 2009]

[judith]

I know, it's happened more than once that - I have had someone called to my attention on the forum. Then, I have gone to look them up in order to add them to the birthday list only to discover they have died, quite recently. It's an odd feeling and my urge has been to enter the person.

[Charlie]

It's an odd feeling and my urge has been to enter the person.

updated to acknowledge the passing of Bobby Charles and Kate McGarrigle (both of whom were already in the list, but Judith don't hesitate to add the recently departed even if they were not previously listed)

[uiwangmike]

I see these are still to be entered in the master list. Dan Seals (7, though Wikipedia says 8) died on March 25 last year.

A few late additions.
3: 1949 - Linda Hargrove (Jacksonville, Florida)
3: 1942 - Kenny Wertz (Washington D.C.) A later Burrito
3: 1962 - Clint Patrick Black pka Clint Black (Long Branch, New Jersey)
5: 1933 - Claude King (Keithville, nr. Shreveport, Louisiana)
5: 1939 - Brian Golbey (Pycombe, Sussex, UK)
7: 1962 - Troyal Garth Brooks pka Garth Brooks (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
7: 1948 - Dan Seals (McCamey, Texas)
14: 1951 - Michael Doucet (Scott, Louisiana)
17: 1969 - John Randall Stewart pka Jon Randall (Dallas, Texas)
23: 1946 - Rusty Young (Long Beach, California) Poco pedal steel player

February 1 would have been the birthday of Mary Jane DeZurik (1917-1981). I’ve located a little more accurately Michael Doucet’s (14) birthplace; Scott is about a 15-minute drive from Lafayette, and I remember it having a very nice dancehall.

[john poole]

Here's my February list -

03: 1935 - Joseph "Jody" Williams (Mobile, Alabama) Chicago / Chess guitar player
03: 1938 - Jimmy Hughes (Leighton, Alabama) 'Steal Away'
03: 1946 - Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra (Mexico City) Canned Heat (drums)
04: 1943 - Jimmy Johnson (Sheffield, Alabama) Muscle Shoals guitar player
05: 1929 - Harold Belsky pka "Hal Blaine" (Holyoke, Massachusetts) session drummer supreme
05: 1943 - Larry Tamblyn (Los Angeles) (brother of Russ) The Standells (organ)
05: 1945 - Reginald "Reg" King (Paddington, London) The Action (lead singer)
05: 1948 - Christopher Haden-Guest pka "Christopher Guest" (New York City) Spinal Tap; The Folksmen
05: 1950 - Ann Sexton (Greenville, South Carolina) 'You're Losing Me'
06: 1922 - Patrick Macnee (Paddington, London) "The Avengers" "This is Spinal Tap"
09: 1947 - Major Harris III (Richmond, Virginia) 'Love Won't Let Me Wait'
11: 1942 - Otis Clay (Waxhaw, Mississippi)
11: 1942 - Leon Haywood (Houston, Texas) 'It's got to be Mellow'
11: 1950 - Rochelle Fleming (Philadelphia) First Choice (lead singer)
13: 1942 - Peter Tork (Washington D.C.) The Monkees
14: 1943 - Eric Andersen (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
14: 1945 - Clarence Reid aka "Blowfly" (Cochran, Georgia)
16: 1918 - Patricia "Patty" Andrews (Minnesota) The Andrews Sisters (lead)
19: 1939 - Robert Harshman pka "Bobby Hart" (Phoenix, Arizona) Boyce and Hart
19: 1948 - Mark Andes (Philadelphia) Spirit (bass)
19: 1956 - Peter Holsapple (Greenwich, Connecticut) The dB's
19: 1976 - Teddy Thompson (London) son of Richard & Linda
20: 1953 - Kristy Wallace pka "Poison Ivy" Rorschach (San Bernadino, CA) The Cramps
21: 1947 - Johnny Echols (Memphis, Tennessee) Love (lead guitar)
22: 1938 - Bobby Hendricks (Columbus, Ohio) 'Itchy Twitchy Feeling'
22: 1944 - Robert Jonathan Demme (Baldwin, New York) film director
23: 1945 - John Halsey (Highgate, London) The Rutles (Barrington Womble pka "Barry Wom")
24: 1950 - George Thorogood (Wilmington, Delaware) .... and the Destroyers
25: 1947 - Douglas "Doug" Yule (Long Island, New York) The Velvet Underground (bass, from Oct, 1968)
25: 1949 - Frank "Poncho" Sampedro (West Virginia) Crazy Horse (guitar, from 1975)
25: 1950 - Emitt Rhodes (Hawthorne, California)
28: 1957 - Cindy Wilson (Athens, Georgia) The B52s

[judith]

Wow. Thanks John and Mike. I'll enter these this evening.

Later that same evening...I've entered John and Mike's additions to the main list.

February 1 would have been the birthday of Mary Jane DeZurik (1917-1981).

Mike, had you intended for me to enter Mary DeZurik's name on the list? I didn't as I wasn't certain. Let me know if I should put her on the list.

[uiwangmike]

Mike, had you intended for me to enter Mary DeZurik's name on the list? I didn't as I wasn't certain. Let me know if I should put her on the list.

No, Judith, that was just for interest. Sister Caroline (a December birthday, I think) appears to be still alive. One of the frustrations of researching birthdays is coming across people who have long since passed away but would have held a place of honour in the list had they survived, and sometimes I feel they deserve a mention anyway. Another such was Slim Willet, a December 1 birthday who I would have written up had the Great SOTW Crash not intervened. Slim's one famous composition has its own entry on Wikipedia. I was reminded of him again two days ago when my sister was driving me to London Airport and we listened to Jimmie Dale Gilmore singing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Let_ ... _Your_Eyes
Coincidentally, Jimmie Dale turned up again on my flight to Hong Kong (from one of whose splendid public libraries I'm posting this), doing a sepulchral version of Mack the Knife over the closing scene of Un Prophète.

Enough rambling. Some February passings you might enter:
Kate McGarrigle (6) died January 18, 2010
Dan Seals (7, but Wikipedia says 8) died March 25, 2009
Hank Locklin (18, but Wiki says 15) died March 8, 2009

[john poole]

Mike, had you intended for me to enter Mary DeZurik's name on the list? I didn't as I wasn't certain. Let me know if I should put her on the list.

No, Judith, that was just for interest. Sister Caroline (a December birthday, I think) appears to be still alive.

I was intending to post the Dezurik sisters on YouTube recommendations for Caroline's December birthday, had the site not gone AWOL again. I did however find references in more than one place, to Caroline having passed away on 16 March last year, although I couldn't find any press reports to confirm this. Her passing is not noted on wikipedia.

(scroll down to March 20, 2009)
http://edithfrost.com/dezurik_sisters_online

[judith]

One of the frustrations of researching birthdays is coming across people who have long since passed away but would have held a place of honour in the list had they survived, and sometimes I feel they deserve a mention anyway.

Yes, I agree. It does give pause. An example in particular - when I was researching names from the incredible 'Take Me To The River' compilation. And, as far as a post on YouTube to give mention, nonexistent.

I will enter the February passings you listed. Enjoy the library!

[judith]

I was intending to post the Dezurik sisters on YouTube recommendations for Caroline's December birthday, had the site not gone AWOL again. I did however find references in more than one place, to Caroline having passed away on 16 March last year, although I couldn't find any press reports to confirm this. Her passing is not noted on wikipedia.

(scroll down to March 20, 2009)
http://edithfrost.com/dezurik_sisters_online

I think, given that the poster is her grandson, I will enter March 16, 2009. Reading the comments on the Edith Frost site, it was sad to read that the man (Don Gill, her son and said grandson's father - see 23 Nov 2003 and 23 Jan 2003 posts) who had been posting information on the DeZurik sisters had also died in 2009 and that Carolyn's husband, Rusty had passed the year before.

[judith]

Dan Seals (7, but Wikipedia says 8) died March 25, 2009
Hank Locklin (18, but Wiki says 15) died March 8, 2009

Mike, should I check out the discrepancies in the above birthdates? The error could be on our list, however wikipedia has been incorrect at times.

Dan Seals fan site says date of birth the 8th as do several of his obituaries (though some might be quoting wikipedia info)
Hank Locklin -http://www.hanklocklin.com/history.html states 15 Feb.


Later Edit - given the information, I have changed Dan Seals birthdate on our main list to 8 Feb and Hank Locklin to 15 Feb. If someone has information indicating these (or any other) dates are incorrect, please inform.

[uiwangmike]

I'm willing to stand (or preferably sit) corrected. I know that at least one of my main sources, Bill's Country Calendar, is not 100% reliable. Bill seems like a great chap with his country heart in the right place (or perhaps located just slightly to the right of it), but I've occasionally had to revise his information. For example, I noticed he confuses the two Tracy Nelsons, the Mother Earth one and Rick's daughter.

[john poole]

11: 1941 - Lou Johnson (Brooklyn) 'Always Something There to Remind Me'

[judith]

Good find, John. I've entered Lou Johnson on the main list.

[john poole]

UPDATES - including a number of previously listed birthdays that I noticed had appeared to have vanished from the master-list (probably during the down time at the end of 2009).

01: 1946 - Christine "Chris" Clark (Santa Cruz, California) 'Love's Gone Bad'
01: 1990 - Laura Marling (Eversley, Hampshire)
02: 1944 - Edna Wright aka "Sandy Wynns" (Los Angeles) The Honey Cone ('Want Ads')
02: 1977 - "Shakira" Ripoll (Barranquilla, Columbia)
03: 1923 - Alice Robitaille pka "Alys Robi" (Quebec City)
03: 1943 - Shawn Phillips (Texas)
03: 1946 - Stanley "Stan" Webb (Fulham, London) Chicken Shack
03: 1956 - Lee Ranaldo (Glen Cove, Long Island) Sonic Youth
03: 1959 - Yasuharu Konishi (Hokkaido) Pizzicato Five
04: 1922 - Pandit "Bhimsen Joshi" (Gadag, Karnataka, India) [died 24th January, 2011]
04: 1947 - Dwight "Spyder" Turner (Beckley, West Virginia) 'Stand By Me'
05: 1942 - Emil Lewandowski pka "Cory Wells" (Buffalo, New York) Three Dog Night
05: 1954 - Bibi Den's Tshibayi (Luebo, West Kasai, Zaire)
05: 1971 - Sara Evans (New Franklin, Missouri)
06: 1941 - David Grundy pka "Dave Berry" (Woodhouse, Sheffield) 'The Crying Game'
06: 1948 - Marilyn Rovell (Chicago) The Honeys; Spring (married Brian Wilson)
07: 1923 - Dora Bryan (Southport) 'All I Want for Christmas is a Beatle'
07: 1934 - Donna Stoneman (Alexandria, Virginia) The Stoneman Family (mandolin)
08: 1945 - Louise Boisot pka "Louise Cordet" (Wraysbury, Berks) 'I'm Just a Baby'
08: 1968 - Tjinder Singh (New Cross, Wolverhampton) Cornershop
09: 1964 - Garth Cartwright (Auckland, New Zealand)
12: 1944 - Marion "Moe" Bandy (Meridian, Mississippi)
12: 1968 - Chynna Phillips (Los Angeles) Wilson Phillips
13: 1945 - Roy Dyke (Liverpool) The Remo Four; Ashton, Gardner, & Dyke (drums)
13: 1962 - Robert "Rob" Ellis (Bristol) drummer / producer (P.J. Harvey)
14: 1945 - Victor "Vic" Briggs (Twickenham, London) Eric Burdon & the Animals (lead gtr)
15: 1949 - William "Billy" Nicholls (White City, Hammersmith, London) 'Would You Believe'
15: 1950 - Billy Ficca (Delaware) Television (drums)
15: 1954 - Matthew "Matt" Groening (Portland, Oregon) The Simpsons
15: 1959 - Alistair "Ali" Campbell (Birmingham) UB40
15: 1960 - Michael "Mikey" Craig (Hammersmith, London) Culture Club
15: - Dayna
16: 1945 - Leonard "Lenny" Williams (Little Rock, Arkansas) Tower of Power (lead vocals)
16: 1952 - James Ingram (Akron, Ohio)
17: 1911 - Orrin Tucker (St.Louis) bandleader
17: 1928 - Marta Romero (Ponce, Puerto Rico)
17: 1933 - Bobby Lewis (Indianapolis, Indiana) 'Tossin' and Turnin'
17: 1939 - John Leyton (Frinton-on-Sea, Essex) 'Johnny Remember Me'
17: 1946 - Geraldine Pasquale pka "Dodie Stevens" (Chicago) 'Pink Shoe Laces'
17: 1952 - Bernando Balderamus pka "Bruce Ruffin" (St. Catherine, Jamaica)
18: 1943 - Denny Zager (Wymore, Nebraska) Zager & Evans ('In The Year 2525')
18: 1955 - Brian Robertson pka "Brian James" (Hammersmith, London) The Damned
19: 1924 - Andre Popp (Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendee, France) composer ('Love is Blue')
19: 1949 - Eddie Hardin (London) The Spencer Davis Group (replaced Stevie Winwood)
20: 1940 - Barbara Ellis (Olympia, Washington) The Fleetwoods [1 of 2]
20: 1981 - Christopher "Chris" Thile (Oceanside, California) mandolin
20: 1988 - Robyn "Rhianna" Fenty (Saint Michael, Barbados)
21: 1943 - David Geffen (Brooklyn) record executive ('Free Man in Paris')
21: 1952 - Jean-Jacques Burnel (London) The Stranglers
21: 1954 - Michael "Mike" Pickering (Manchester) M People
21: 1958 - John "Jake" Burns (Belfast) Stiff Little Fingers
21: 1958 - Mary Chapin Carpenter (Princeton, New Jersey)
21: 1960 - Steve Wynn (California) The Dream Syndicate
22: 1930 - Margaret McEathron pka "Marni Nixon" (Altadena, California) playback singer
22: 1943 - Louise Lopez (Virgin Islands) Odyssey ('Native New Yorker')
22: 1953 - John B. "Sparko" Sparks (-?-) Dr. Feelgood
23: 1940 - Peter Fonda (New York City)
23: 1942 - Steven Barry Lipkin pka "Steve Barri" (New York) songwriter / producer
23: 1944 - Mike Maxfield (Manchester) The Dakotas (lead guitar)
23: 1948 - Stephen "Steve" Priest (Hayes, Middlesex) The Sweet
24: 1922 - Richard Hamilton (Pimlico, London) artist (The "White Album")
24: 1941 - Joan Drost pka "Joanie Sommers" (Buffalo, New York) 'Johnny Get Angry'
25: 1945 - Elaine Bookbinder pka "Elkie Brooks" (Broughton, Salford) Vinegar Joe
27: 1936 - Charles "Chuck" Glaser (Spalding, Nebraska) Tompall & the Glaser Brothers
28: 1930 - Robert "Bob" Marcucci (Pennsylvania) Chancellor Records
28: 1934 - Giorgio Gomelsky (Georgia, USSR) manager / producer
28: 1945 - Danny Rivera (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
29: 1940 - Gretchen Christopher (Olympia, Washington) The Fleetwoods [2 of 2]

AMENDED BIRTHDATES

05: 1923 - Claude King (Keithville, Nr. Shreveport, Louisiana) 'Wolverton Mountain'
(presently listed as 1933 but appears to be ten years older)
21: 1972 - Jeong Hyeon-Cheol pka "Seo Taiji" (Seoul)
(seems to be rather younger than presently indicated)

DEPARTURES

05: 1945 - Reginald "Reg" King (Paddington, London) [died 8th October, 2010]
14: 1934 - Merle Saunders (San Mateo, California) [died 24th October, 2008]
21: 1938 - Robert Guidry pka "Bobby Charles" (Abbeville, Louisiana) [died 14th January, 2010]

SENIOR BIRTHDAYS THIS MONTH

Orrin Tucker (100); Patty Andrews (93); Oscar Brand (91); Wilma Lee Cooper (90); Patrick Macnee (89); Richard Hamilton (89); Alys Robi (88); Dora Bryan (88); Claude King (88); Andre Popp (87); Val Doonican (84); Juliette Greco (84); Ralph Stanley (84); Dorothy McGuire (83); Marta Romero (83); Fats Domino (83); Hal Blaine (82); Marni Nixon (81); Bob Marcucci (81); Phyllis McGuire (80)

LIST #2

qualification - born in February; died prior to 2007. A few nominations -

03: 1935 - John Watson Jr. pka "Johnny Guitar Watson" (Houston) [died 17th May, 1996]
06: 1945 - Robert "Bob" Marley (Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica) [died 11th May, 1981]
07: 1934 - Earl Johnson pka "Earl King" (New Orleans) [died 17th April, 2003]
07: 1934 - Curtis Ousley pka "King Curtis" (Fort Worth, Texas) [died 13th August, 1971]
09: 1914 - Ernest Tubb (Crisp, Texas) [died 6th September, 1984]
11: 1935 - Vincent Eugene Craddock pka "Gene Vincent" (Norfolk, Virginia) [died 12th October, 1971]
13: 1920 - (Diadorius) Boudleaux Bryant (Shellman, Georgia) [died 25th June, 1987]
14: 1947 - Timothy "Tim" Buckley (Washington D.C.) [died 29th June, 1975]
16: 1932 - Otis Blackwell aka "John Davenport" (Nashville, Tennessee) [died 6th May, 2002]
17: 1940 - Gene Pitney (Hartford, Connecticut) [died 5th April, 2006]
20: 1898 - James "Jimmy" Yancey (Chicago) [died 17th September, 1951]
20: 1927 - Ibrahim Ferrer (San Luis, Cuba) [died 6th August, 2005]
21: 1933 - Eunice Waymon pka "Nina Simone" (Tyron, North, Carolina) [died 21st April, 2003]
25: 1873 - Enrico Caruso (Naples) [died 2nd August, 1921]
25: 1943 - George Harrison (Liverpool) [died 29th November, 2001]
26: 1932 - John R. "Johnny" Cash (Kingsland, Arkansas) [died 12th September, 2003]
28: 1942 - Lewis Brian Jones (Cheltenham) [died 3rd July, 1969]