Musical Birthday Notes – September 4th
Jordan “Jerry” Ragavoy – songwriter/producer – best known for the song – Time Is On My Side – made popular by The Rolling Stones –
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Jordan “Jerry” Ragavoy – songwriter/producer – best known for the song – Time Is On My Side – made popular by The Rolling Stones –
Memphis Slim (John Len Chatman) – blues singer/pianist/composer – best known for – Everyday I Have The Blues – (9/3/1915 – 2/24/1988) Hank Thompson –
Booker T. Laury – blues-boogie woogie pianist/singer – associated acts include – Mose Vinson – Memphis Slim – (9/2/1914 – 9/23/1995) Tom Glazer – folk
Art Pepper – jazz saxophonist/clarinetist – associated acts include – Stan Kenton – Buddy Rich – Chet Baker – Anita O’Day – (9/1/1925 – 6/15/1982)
“Spider” John Koerner – blues guitarist/singer/songwriter/harmonica – part of group – Koerner, Ray & Glover – 1983 named Best Folk Group by the Minnesota Music
Willie Bryant – jazz band leader/musician/singer/disc jockey – New Orleans native – (8/30/1908 – 2/9/1964) Kitty Wells (Muriel Deason) – country singer/songwriter – Country Music
Charlie “Bird” Parker – multi-award winning jazz saxophonist/band leader/composer – (8/29/1920 – 3/12/1955) Dinah Washington – R&B/blues singer/pianist – 1986 Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame
Leon Theremin – Russian inventor of one of the first electronic music instruments – The Theremin – and the first to be mass produced –