Now, a few birthdays:
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born_today ;
http://www.onthisday.com/music/birthdays.phpCharles Patrick of the Monotones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSAVJnQnwocTommy Shaw of Styx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uGvF79CrAMick Talbot of the Style Council, this band is somewhat a derivative of the band "The Jam".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmVkOlZFF3YThat's to start off things, I do see some redundancy with some bands already mentioned in the past few weeks. Happy Birthday to Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, he's the one that has also explored a lot of "world" music in his solo career, so I'm sure it is all very good.
Still, a little more on Don Williams, he did sing in "Smokey and the Bandit", I never connected it to this song,
"Tell ol' Burt, I've seen all his movies".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvT0p184ZLYMost of Williams' well known songs were written by O'Dill or Danny Flowers, Don did write some. O'Dill wrote Tulsa Time, I guess Clapton heard Don Williams version and decided to record it himself. Something like this if not exactly.
Last b-day mention, yes, the coach with the funny hat, it's Tom Landry's birthday too and Charley Pride sang a song "Dallas Cowboys" that folks can look up. Pride also has an ownership interest in the Texas Rangers and played some low level baseball. Conway Twitty did too. It seems a number of well known names have something like that in their background.