Birthday children today: Garth Hudson, keyboards, the Band . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMpR7m75RSQ. . . Doris Coley and Doris Kenner of the Shirelles (born a year to the day apart) . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhntgy2ohjo. . . Homer Banks, soul singer whose real talent was as a songwriter of such as . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJQa5fOBLY\. . . Jim Capaldi, drummer/songwriter with Traffic . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYMtMOcGjQ4. . . Ted Turner, Wishbone Ash guitarist/songwriter/vocalist . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZn8qeN5ayo. . . Andrew Gold, session guitarist turned hitmaker in his own right (this song
eventually made him a fortune not just as a hit for himself but as the theme
for
The Golden Girls) . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfjCPzIqX_k. . . Pete de Freitas, drummer for Echo & the Bunnymen . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXM77Jrh74ITrivia: "Echo" in the band's name referred to the drum machine the group used
when singer Ian McCulloch and guitarist Will Sergeant first got together and
began making demos with the drum machine. They added bassist Les Pattinson,
began gigging around Liverpool with the drum machine, and called themselves
Echo & the Bunnymen. They dumped the drum machine in favour of de Freitas
after their first single was issued and signed a full recording contract, but they
kept the full name of the band, anyway. De Freitas was killed in an auto accident in
1989.