Some fine musicians, songwriters and performers here, it's
Willie Nelson's birthday, before Willie hit pay dirt as a performer, i.e. the Red Headed Stranger, he was a songwriter, he pushed his trade in Nashville; this personally, is one I love and it still reflects the golden era of country music. Of course, Willie wrote Crazy, made famous by Patsy Cline, that too is largely from this era. Probably a few years before this one. I was looking at some country charts from the 1960s, there were number 1s from artists I had no idea who they were and songs I was not familiar with. That leads me to believe there are not that many "real" classics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSWAUAKJn0Other birthdays:
Lonnie Donegan, April Stevens, half of April and Nino who sing "Deep Purple";
1945, Born on this day, Tammi Terrell, singer, who died of a brain tumour on March 16th 1970 after collapsing into Marvin Gaye's arms on stage during a duet of ‘That’s All You Need To Get By’. Terrall had undergone eight brain operations in 18 months. She had had hits with Marvin Gaye, including the 1967 US No.5 ‘Your Precious Love’.
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_todayPoor Tammi Terrel, she really had a hard time.
And others per the link above.