This Week's Birthdays (February 21 - 27)

Happy Birthday this week to:

Feb 21
1933 ● Nina Simone (Eunice Kathleen Waymon) → "I Put A Spell On You" (1965)
1943 ● David Geffen → Geffen Records
1946 ● Paul Newton → Uriah Heep
1949 ● Jerry Harrison → Talking Heads
1951 ● Vince Welnick → The Tubes, Grateful Dead
1956 ● Lester Hunt → Climax Blues Band
1958 ● Mary-Chapin Carpenter → Folk/country-rock, "I Feel Lucky" (1992)
1961 ● Rankin' Roger (Charlery) → English Beat, General Public
1970 ● Eric Wilson → Sublime
1986 ● Charlotte Church (Reed) → Classical crossover singer

Feb 22
1936 ● Ernie K-Doe (Ernest Kador, Jr.) → New Orleans R&B, "Mother-In-Law" (1961)
1938 ● Bobby Hendricks → Five Crowns, Swallows, Drifters
1944 ● Mick Green → Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
1945 ● Oliver (William Oliver Swofford) → "Good Morning Starshine" (1969)

Feb 23
1944 ● Johnny Winter → Blues-rock guitarist (Rolling Stone #74)
1944 ● Mike Maxfield → Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
1946 ● Rusty Young → Buffalo Springfield, Poco
1949 ● Terry "Tex" Comer → Ace
1950 ● Steve Priest → Sweet
1952 ● Brad Whitford → Aerosmith
1955 ● Howard Jones → "What Is Love" (1984)
1955 ● Zeke Manyika → Orange Juice
1958 ● David Sylvian (David Alan Batt) → Japan
1962 ● Michael Wilton → Queensryche
1971 ● Jett Beres → Sister Hazel
1973 ● Lars Olaf "Lasse" Johansson → Cardigans

Feb 24
1941 ● Joanie Sommers (Drost) → Pop vocalist, "Johnny Get Angry" (1962)
1942 ● Paul Jones (Paul Pond) → Manfred Mann
1905 ● George Harrison → Beatles, solo
1944 ● Nicky Hopkins → Quicksilver Messenger Service, session pianist
1947 ● Lonnie Turner → Steve Miller Band
1947 ● Rupert Holmes → "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" (1979)
1948 ● Dennis Waterman → UK actor/singer, "I Could Be So Good For You" (1980)
1962 ● Michelle Shocked (Karen Michelle Johnston) → "If Love Was A Train" (1988)

Feb 25
1932 ● Faron Young → "Four In The Morning" (1971)
1942 ● Roy Michaels → Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys
1946 ● Elkie Brooks (Elaine Bookbinder) → "Pearl's A Singer" (1977)
1947 ● David Stensen → The Grass Roots
1957 ● Dennis Diken → The Smithereens
1957 ● Stuart "Woody" Wood → Bay City Rollers
1905 ● Mike Peters → The Alarm
1973 ● Justin Jeffre → 98 Degrees
1976 ● Daniel Powter → "Bad Day" (2005

Feb 26
1928 ● Antoine "Fats" Domino → "Blueberry Hill" (1956)
1930 ● Carl Cicchetti → The Playmates, "Beep Beep" (1958)
1932 ● Johnny Cash →
1943 ● Paul Cotton → Poco
1945 ● Bob "The Bear" Hite → Canned Heat
1905 ● Mitch Ryder (William Levise, Jr.) → The Detroit Wheels, solo
1947 ● Sandie Shaw (Sandra Goodrich) → "Puppet on a String" (1967)
1950 ● Jonathan Cain → Journey, Babys, Bad English
1953 ● Michael Bolton (Bolotin) → Blackjack, solo
1961 ● John Jon (Jonathan Hellyer) → Bronski Beat
1971 ● Erykah Badu → "On & On" (1997)

Feb 27
1927 ● Guy Mitchell (Albert Cernick) → "Heartaches By The Number" (1959)
1950 ● Robert Balderrama → ? and the Mysterians
1951 ● Steve Harley (Stephen Nice) → Cockney Rebel, solo, "Ballerina (Prima Donna)" (1983)
1954 ● Neil Schon → Santana, Journey
1955 ● Garry Christian → The Christians
1957 ● Adrian Smith → Iron Maiden
1957 ● Johnny Van Zant → Lynyrd Skynyrd
1960 ● Paul Humphreys → Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
1964 ● Ewen Vernal → Deacon Blue
1971 ● Chilli (Rozonda Ocelean Thomas) → TLC
1972 ● Jeremy Dean → Nine Days
1981 ● Josh Groban → Pop singer, "The Prayer" (2001)