Musical Birthday Notes – April 27th
Gerald “Jerry” Mercer – drummer – best known with Canadian rock group – April Wine – 1939 Cuba Gooding Sr. – singer/actor – best known
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Gerald “Jerry” Mercer – drummer – best known with Canadian rock group – April Wine – 1939 Cuba Gooding Sr. – singer/actor – best known
“Ma” Rainey (Gertrude Pridgett) – blues singer – billed as “The Mother of the Blues – (4/26/1886 – 12/22/1939) Johnny Shines – Delta blues singer/guitarist
Ella Fitzgerald – multi award winning jazz singer – “The First Lady of Song” – (4/25/1917 – 6/15/1996) Albert King – blues guitarist/singer/producer – “The
Barbra Streisand – multi-award winning pop singer/songwriter/actress – hits include – The Way We Were – Evergreen – You Don’t Bring Me Flowers – Woman
Vernice “Bunky” Green – jazz saxophonist/music educator – associated acts include – Fontella Bass – Elvin Jones – The Soulful Strings – 1935 Roy Orbison
Charles Mingus – jazz double bassist/pianist/composer/band leader – associated acts include – Louis Armstrong – Herbie Hancock – Joni Mitchell – Charlie Parker – Dizzie
Ira Louvin – country singer/songwriter/mandolinist – The Louvin Brothers – (4/21/1924 – 6/20/1965) Eddie King – Chicago blues guitarist/singer/songwriter – (4/21/1938 – 3/14/2012) Pee Wee
Johnny Tillotson – country-pop singer songwriter – hits include – Poetry In Motion – It Keeps Right On A Hurtin’ – awards include – 2008