Donna Summer

Happy birthday to Donna Summer, born this day in 1948! Here's her 1989 video for "This Time I Know It's For Real."

Andy Summers

Happy birthday to Andy Summers, born this day in 1942! Here he is playing "The Bed's Too Big Without You" with the Police in 1979.

Bo Diddley

Happy birthday to the late Bo Diddley, born this day in 1928! Here he is playing "You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover" on TV in the mid-'60s.

Robert Quine

Happy birthday to the late Robert Quine, born this day in 1942! Here he is playing "Some Kinda Love/Sister Ray" with Lou Reed in 1983.

Patti Smith

Happy birthday to Patti Smith, born this day in 1946! Here she is singing "Horses" and "Hey Joe" in 1976.

Jeff Lynne

Happy birthday to Jeff Lynne, born this day in 1947! Here he is playing "Brontosaurus" with the Move in 1970 or so.

Tracey Ullman

Happy birthday to Tracey Ullman, born this day in 1959! Here's her early-'80s video for "They Don't Know."

Marianne Faithfull

Happy birthday to Marianne Faithfull, born this day in 1946! Here's her early-'80s video for "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan."

Yvonne Elliman

Happy birthday to Yvonne Elliman, born this day in 1951! Here she is singing "If I Can't Have You" in 1977.

Pops Staples

Happy birthday to the late "Pops" Staples, born this day in 1915! Here he is playing "When Will We Be Paid" with the Staple Singers in 1971.

Alex Chilton

Happy birthday to Alex Chilton, born this day in 1950! Here he is singing "Turn on a Dream" and "Soul Deep" with the Box Tops in 1969.

Marlene Dietrich

Happy birthday to the late Marlene Dietrich, born this day in 1901! Here she is singing "Hot Voodoo" in 1932.

Youth

Happy birthday to Youth, born this day in 1961! Here he is playing "Wardance" with Killing Joke in 1982.

Lars Ulrich

Happy birthday to Lars Ulrich, born this day in 1963! Here he is playing "Breadfan" with Metallica in 1989.

Duke Fakir

Happy birthday to Duke Fakir, born this day in 1935! Here he is singing "Baby I Need Your Loving" with the Four Tops in 1964.

Cab Calloway

Happy birthday to the late Cab Calloway, born this day in 1907! Here he is performing "Minnie the Moocher" in a 1942 soundie. Hi-de-ho-ho-ho.

Annie Lennox

Happy birthday to Annie Lennox, born this day in 1954! Here she is in her pre-Eurythmics band the Tourists' 1979 video for "I Only Want to Be with You."

Bob Stanley

Happy birthday to Bob Stanley, born this day in 1964! Here he is in Saint Etienne's early-'90s video for "Nothing Can Stop Us."

Lee Dorsey

Happy birthday to the late Lee Dorsey, born this day in 1924! Here he is performing "Working In the Coal Mine" in the mid-'60s.

Lemmy Kilmister

Happy birthday to Lemmy Kilmister, born this day in 1945! Here he is in Motörhead's mid-'80s video for "Killed By Death."

Esther Phillips

Happy birthday to the late Esther Phillips, born this day in 1935! Here she is singing "And I Love Him" in 1965.

Tim Hardin

Happy birthday to the late Tim Hardin, born this day in 1941! Here he is singing "If I Were a Carpenter" in 1969.

Adrian Belew

Happy birthday to Adrian Belew, born this day in 1949! Here he is performing "Pretty Pink Rose" with David Bowie in 1990.

Robin and Maurice Gibb

Happy birthday to Robin and the late Maurice Gibb, born this day in 1949! Here they are performing "Massachusetts" with the Bee Gees in 1967.

Vanessa Paradis

Happy birthday to Vanessa Paradis, born this day in 1972! Here she is performing "I'm Waiting for the Man," circa 1993. Amazing how much that song's meaning changes with a woman singing it.

Carla Thomas

Happy birthday to Carla Thomas, born this day in 1942! Here she is singing "Pick Up the Pieces" in 1971.

Carl Wilson

Happy birthday to the late Carl Wilson, born this day in 1946! Here he is singing "God Only Knows" with the Beach Boys in 1969.

Betty Wright

Happy birthday to Betty Wright, born this day in 1953! Here she is singing "Shoorah Shoorah" on TV in 1975.

Anita Ward

Happy birthday to Anita Ward, born this day in 1956! Here's a soothing video of a disco ball accompanying her 1980 performance of "Don't Drop My Love." Yes, she did have another song...

Billy Bragg

Happy birthday to Billy Bragg, born this day in 1957! Here he is playing "The Milkman of Human Kindness" on TV in 1984.

Edith Piaf

Happy birthday to the late Edith Piaf, born this day in 1915! Here she is singing "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" in 1961.

Phil Ochs

Happy birthday to the late Phil Ochs, born this day in 1940! Here he is playing "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" in 1971.

Professor Longhair

Happy birthday to the late Professor Longhair, born this day in 1918! Here he is being backed up by the Meters on "Hey Little Girl," sometime around 1980, I'd imagine.

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

Happy birthday to the late Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, born this day in 1917! Here he is playing "Mr. Cleanhead"... sometime in the '70s, maybe?

Martha Johnson

Happy birthday to Martha Johnson, born this day in 1950! Here she is in Martha & the Muffins' 1984 video for "Black Stations White Stations."

Christina Aguilera

Happy birthday to Christina Aguilera, born this day in 1980! Here she is singing "Ain't No Other Man" in 2006.

Art Neville

Happy birthday to Art Neville, born this day in 1937! Here he is playing "Look-Ka Py Py" and "Jungle Man" with the Meters in 1974.

Eddie Kendricks

Happy birthday to the late Eddie Kendricks, born this day in 1939! Here he is singing "If You Let Me" in 1972.

Mike Mills

Happy birthday to Mike Mills, born this day in 1958! Here he is in R.E.M.'s 1991 video for "Near Wild Heaven."

Noel Coward

Happy birthday to the late Noel Coward, born this day in 1899! Here he is performing "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" live on TV in 1955.

Benny Andersson

Happy birthday to Benny Andersson, born this day in 1946! Here he is playing "Wedding" with the Hep Stars, his pre-ABBA band.

Stan Kenton

Happy birthday to the late Stan Kenton, born this day in 1911! Here's his 1945 soundie for "It's Been a Long, Long Time," with June Christy singing.

Paul Simonon

Happy birthday to Paul Simonon, born this day in 1955! Here he is playing "Join the Professionals" with the Looters in 1982 (the Looters weren't exactly a real band, but hey...).

Spike Jones

Happy birthday to the late Spike Jones, born this day in 1911! Here's his 1942 "Soundie" for "Clink! Clink! Another Drink."

Jane Birkin

Happy birthday to Jane Birkin, born this day in 1946! Here she is singing "Comment Lui Dire Adieu" with Françoise Hardy in 1976.

Morris Day

Happy birthday to Morris Day, born this day in 1957! Here he is singing "The Walk" with Morris Day & the Time in 1982.

Tom Verlaine

Happy birthday to Tom Verlaine, born this day in 1949! Here he is playing "1880 Or So" with Television on TV in 1992.

Nick McCarthy

Happy birthday to Nick McCarthy, born this day in 1974! Here he is playing "It Won't Be Long" with Franz Ferdinand in 2004.

Gideon Kendall

Happy birthday to Gideon Kendall, born this day in 1966! Here he is singing "Fake Brain" with Fake Brain, sometime in the late '90s, I'd guess.

Dionne Warwick

Happy birthday to Dionne Warwick, born this day in 1940! Here she is lip-synching "Walk On By" on TV in 1964.

Sheila E.

Happy birthday to Sheila E., born this day in 1957! Here she is playing "Sister Fate" on TV in 1985.

Brenda Lee

Happy birthday to Brenda Lee, born this day in 1944! Here she is lip-synching "Sweet Nothin's" in 1960.

McCoy Tyner

Happy birthday to McCoy Tyner, born this day in 1938! Here he is doing a solo piano version of John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" in 1996.

Mos Def

Happy birthday to Mos Def, born this day in 1973! Here he is on the 2002 remix of DJ Shadow's "Six Days."

Paul Hardcastle

Happy birthday to Paul Hardcastle, born this day in 1957! Here's his 1985 video for "19."

Joan Armatrading

Happy birthday to Joan Armatrading, born this day in 1950! Here she is singing "Call Me Names" in 1983.

Neil Innes

Happy birthday to Neil Innes, born this day in 1944! Here he is singing "I Must Be In Love" with the original incarnation of the Rutles, in 1976.

Sinéad O'Connor

Happy birthday to Sinéad O'Connor, born this day in 1966! Here's her 1989-ish video for "I Want Your Hands On Me," guest-starring MC Lyte.

Paul Rutherford

Happy birthday to Paul Rutherford, born this day in 1959! Here's his 1990-or-so video for "Oh World."

Claudia Brücken

Happy birthday to Claudia Brücken, born this day in 1963! Here she is in Act's 1987 video for "Snobbery and Decay."

Tom Waits

Happy birthday to Tom Waits, born this day in 1949! Here he is playing "The Heart of Saturday Night" on TV in 1975.

Matthew Shipp

Happy birthday to Matthew Shipp, born this day in 1960! Here he is playing what I'm pretty sure is an improvisation in Budapest earlier this year.

Chris Stamey

Happy birthday to Chris Stamey, born this day in 1954! Here's the Emily Hubley-directed video for the dBs' "Big Brown Eyes," from 1982.

Willie Hutch

Happy birthday to the late Willie Hutch, born this day in 1944! Here he is singing "Slick" in 1973.

Little Richard

Happy birthday to Little Richard, born this day in 1932! Here he is singing "Bama Lama Bama Loo" sometime in the early '60s, I'd guess.

Ron Regé

Happy birthday to Ron Regé, born this day in 1969! Here he is playing "You Broke My Heart" with Lavender Diamond, live in 2007.

Bob Mosley

Happy birthday to Bob Mosley, born this day in 1942! Here he is playing "Omaha" and "8:05" on TV with Moby Grape in 1967.

Dennis Wilson

Happy birthday to the late Dennis Wilson, born this day in 1944! Here he is singing "Forever" with the Beach Boys, live in 1971.

Ozzy Osbourne

Happy birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, born this day in 1948! Here he is singing "Iron Man" with Black Sabbath live in 1970.

Jaye P. Morgan

Happy birthday to Jaye P. Morgan, born this day in 1931! Here she is singing "Tweedly Dee" in the late '70s--there don't seem to be any actual videos from her rockabilly prime...

Treach

Happy birthday to Treach, born this day in 1970! Here he is in Naughty By Nature's early-'90s clip for "Hip Hop Hooray."

Bette Midler

Happy birthday to Bette Midler, born this day in 1945! Here she is singing "Married Men" on TV in 1979.

Julee Cruise

Happy birthday to Julee Cruise, born this day in 1956! Here she is singing "Falling" on TV in 1990.

Billy Childish

Happy birthday to Billy Childish, born this day in 1959! Here's Wild Billy Childish and the Buff Medways' 2005-ish video for "Medway Wheelers."

Stacey Q

Happy birthday to Stacey Q, born this day in 1959! Here's her 1988 video for "Don't Make a Fool of Yourself."

Allan Sherman

Happy birthday to the late Allan Sherman, born this day in 1924! Here he is singing a medley beginning with "Pop Hates the Beatles" with Vic Damone and Dean Martin in 1965.

Billy Strayhorn

Happy birthday to the late Billy Strayhorn, born this day in 1915! Here he is playing "Take the 'A' Train" with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1965.

Roger Troutman

Happy birthday to the late Roger Troutman, born this day in 1951! Here he is singing "I Can Make You Dance" with Zapp in 1983.

Randy Newman

Happy birthday to Randy Newman, born this day in 1943! Here he is singing "Sail Away" on TV circa 1973. One of the most viciously ironic songs ever written..

Dawn Robinson

Happy birthday to Dawn Robinson (of En Vogue), born this day in 1968! Here she is singing "My Lovin'" with En Vogue on TV in 1992.

Mike Skinner

Happy birthday to Mike Skinner, born this day in 1978! Here he is performing "When You Wasn't Famous" with the Streets on the Letterman show a few years ago.

Jimi Hendrix

Happy birthday to the late Jimi Hendrix, born this day in 1942! Here he is playing "Voodoo Chile," "Hey Joe" and "Sunshine of Your Love" with the Jimi Hendrix Experience on TV in 1969.

John McVie

Happy birthday to John McVie, born this day in 1945! Here he is playing "Over My Head" with Fleetwood Mac live in 1977. A really fine version, although stevie looks very bored; Lindsay executes an amazing little harmonic flourish whenever he can get it in there...

Jean Terrell

Happy birthday to Jean Terrell, born this day in 1944! Here she is singing "Up the Ladder to the Roof" with the Supremes in 1970.

Tina Turner

Happy birthday to Tina Turner, born this day in 1939! Here she is singing "Get Back" with Ike & Tina Turner in 1972. Wow!

Paul Desmond

Happy birthday to the late Paul Desmond, born this day in 1924! Here he is playing "Koto Song" with the Dave Brubeck Quartet in 1966.

Eddie Boyd

Happy birthday to the late Eddie Boyd, born this day in 1914! Here he is playing "Five Long Years" in 1965.

Clem Burke

Happy birthday to Clem Burke, born this day in 1955! Here he is playing "X Offender" with Blondie in 1976.

Robin Williamson

Happy birthday to Robin Williamson, born this day in 1943! Here he is playing "The Half-Remarkable Question" and "Painting Box" with the Incredible String Band in 1968.

Betty Everett

Happy birthday to the late Betty Everett, born this day in 1939! Here's somebody's homemade Shakicam video for "Getting Mighty Crowded."

R.L. Burnside

Happy birthday to the late R.L. Burnside, born this day in 1926! Here he is playing "Just Like a Woman" in 1984. (Not the Dylan song.)

Tina Weymouth

Happy birthday to Tina Weymouth, born this day in 1950! Here she is with Talking Heads playing "Born Under Punches" live in 1980.

Hoagy Carmichael

Happy birthday to the late Hoagy Carmichael, born this day in 1899! Here he is playing "Lazybones" in a 1930 soundie.

Coleman Hawkins

Happy birthday to the late Coleman Hawkins, born this day in 1904! Here he is playing "Indian Summer"--not sure when exactly.

Björk

Happy birthday to Björk, born this day in 1965! Here's her video for "Bachelorette," which is arguably the greatest video ever made (it rotates for that position).

Dr. John

Happy birthday to Dr. John, born this day in 1940! Here he is playing "Right Place, Wrong Time" in the early '70s.

Robert Poss

Happy birthday to Robert Poss, born this day in 1956! Here he is playing "Now Is Now" with Band of Susans in 1991.

Norman Greenbaum

Happy birthday to Norman Greenbaum, born this day in 1942! Here's his 1971 video for "Spirit in the Sky."

Pete Moore

Happy birthday to Pete Moore, born this day in 1939! Here he is singing "Tracks of My Tears" with Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, circa 1967.

Jason Pierce

Happy birthday to Jason Pierce, born this day in 1965! Here he is in Spacemen 3's circa-1989 video for "Hypnotized."

Don Cherry

Happy birthday to the late Don Cherry, born this day in 1936! Here he is playing on TV in 1976.

Kim Wilde

Happy birthday to Kim Wilde, born this day in 1950! Here's her 1987 video for "You Keep Me Hangin' On." Is it heretical to say I like her arrangement at least as much as the Supremes'?

Gene Clark

Happy birthday to the late Gene Clark, born this day in 1941! Here he is playing "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" with the Byrds in 1965.

Kimya Dawson

Happy birthday to Kimya Dawson, born this day in 1972! Here she is singing "Who's Got the Crack" with Moldy Peaches in 2001.

Hubert Sumlin

Happy birthday to Hubert Sumlin, born this day in 1931! Here he is playing "How Many More Years" with Howlin' Wolf in 1966.

Garnet Mimms

Happy birthday to Garnet Mimms, born this day in 1933! Here he is singing "I'll Take Good Care of You" in 1966.

Petula Clark

Happy birthday to Petula Clark, born this day in 1932! Here she is singing "Si Tu Prenais Le Temps" in the mid-'60s.

Ol' Dirty Bastard

Happy birthday to the late Ol' Dirty Bastard, born this day in 1968! Here's his 1995 video for "Shimmy Shimmy Ya."

Bill Exley

Happy birthday to Bill Exley, born this day in 1939! Here he is performing with the Nihilist Spasm Band on Japanese TV in 1996.

Buckwheat Zydeco

Happy birthday to Buckwheat Zydeco, born this day in 1947! Here he is playing "On a Night Like This" (a Dylan cover!) on Australian TV in 1989.

Timmy Thomas

Happy birthday to Timmy Thomas, born this day in 1944! Here he is performing "Why Can't We Live Together" in the early '70s.

Ernst Reijseger

Happy birthday to Ernst Reijseger, born this day in 1954! Here he is playing with Nana Vasconcelos in 2008.

Charles Gocher

Happy birthday to the late Charles Gocher, born this day in 1952! Here he is singing "Soft Fragile Eggshell Minds" with Sun City Girls sometime around 2000, I'm guessing.

Neil Young

Happy birthday to Neil Young, born this day in 1945! Here he is playing "Sample and Hold" on TV in 1982.

Chris Dreja

Happy birthday to Chris Dreja, born this day in 1945! Here he is playing "Train Kept A-Rollin'" with the Yardbirds in 1968.

Lavern Baker

Happy birthday to the late Lavern Baker, born this day in 1929! Here she is lip-synching "Jim Dandy Got Married" on TV in 1957.

Mose Allison

Happy birthday to Mose Allison, born this day in 1927! Here he is singing "Your Mind Is On Vacation"--not sure when, exactly...

Jacqueline Abbott

Happy birthday to Jacqueline Abbott, born this day in 1973! Here she is singing (the bowdlerized version of) "Don't Marry Her" with the Beautiful South.

Phil May

Happy birthday to Phil May, born this day in 1944! Here he is singing "Midnight to Six Man" with the Pretty Things in 1966.

Big Punisher

Happy birthday to the late Big Punisher, born this day in 1971! Here's his late-'90s video for "Still Not a Player."

Minnie Riperton

Happy birthday to the late Minnie Riperton, born this day in 1947! Here she is singing "Inside My Love" in 1975.

Bonnie Bramlett

Happy birthday to Bonnie Bramlett, born this day in 1944! Here she is singing "When the Battle is Over" with Delaney and Bonnie in 1969.

Joni Mitchell

Happy birthday to Joni Mitchell, born this day in 1943! Here she is performing "California" on TV in 1970.

P.J. Proby

Happy birthday to P.J. Proby, born this day in 1938! Here he is singing (the Lennon/McCartney song) "That Means a Lot" in, I think, 1966.

George Young

Happy birthday to George Young, born this day in 1947! Here's Flash and the Pan's 1977 video for "Hey St. Peter."

Etta Moten

Happy birthday to the late Etta Moten, born this day in 1901! Here she is singing "Remember My Forgotten Man" in 1933, with Joan Blondell--Etta comes in at the 2:20 mark.

Gram Parsons

Happy birthday to the late Gram Parsons, born this day in 1946! Here he is singing "Big Mouth Blues" with Emmylou Harris, live in 1973.

Roy Rogers

Happy birthday to the late Roy Rogers, born this day in 1911! Here he is singing "It's Home Sweet Home to Me" in 1939.

Willem Breuker

Happy birthday to Willem Breuker, born this day in 1944! Here he is playing "Mandelay Song" with the Willem Breuker Kollektief in 2005.

Scherrie Payne

Happy birthday to Scherrie Payne, born this day in 1944! Here she is singing "All I Want" with the Supremes in 1975.

Lulu

Happy birthday to Lulu, born this day in 1948! Here's her 1974 video for "The Man Who Sold the World"--with David Bowie on saxophone...

Adam Ant

Happy birthday to Adam Ant, born this day in 1954! Here's Adam & the Ants' 1982 video for "Goody Two Shoes."

Brian Poole

Happy birthday to Brian Poole, born this day in 1941! Here he is singing "Uncle Willie" with the Tremeloes in 1965.

k.d. lang

Happy birthday to k.d. lang, born this day in 1961! Here she is singing "Don't Be a Lemming Polka" on TV in 1986.

Ultra Naté

Happy birthday to Ultra Naté, born this day in 1968! Here's her 1989 video for "It's Over Now."

Dizzee Rascal

Happy birthday to Dizzee Rascal, born this day in 1985! Here's his 2007 video for "Old Skool." I admire the fact that to make it radio-friendly they had to switch out the entire chorus.

Calvin Johnson

Happy birthday to Calvin Johnson, born this day in 1961! Here he is playing "Black Candy" with Beat Happening in 1988.

Mary Hansen

Happy birthday to the late Mary Hansen, born this day in 1966! Here she is with Stereolab in 1996, playing "Stomach Worm."

Ethel Waters

Happy birthday to the late Ethel Waters, born this day in 1896! Here she is singing "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" in 1952.

Johnny Marr

Happy birthday to Johnny Marr, born this day in 1963! Here he is playing "You've Got Everything Now" live with the Smiths in 1983.

Annabella Lwin

Happy birthday to Annabella Lwin, born this day in 1965! Here she is in Bow Wow Wow's 1980 video for "C30 C60 C90 Go!"

Snow

Happy birthday to Snow, born this day in 1968! Here's his 1993 video for "Informer."

Grace Slick

Happy birthday to Grace Slick, born this day in 1939! Here she is singing backup on "Jane" with Jefferson Starship on TV in 1981.

Peter Green

Happy birthday to Peter Green, born this day in 1946! Here he is playing "Rattlesnake Shake" with Fleetwood Mac in 1969 or so, on an apposite TV show.

Einar Orn

Happy birthday to Einar Örn, born this day in 1962! Here he is with Ghostigital, playing "Not Clean" in 2005.

Peter Stampfel

Happy birthday to Peter Stampfel, born this day in 1938! Here he is playing "Before the Deal Goes Down" in 2007.

Stephen Morris

Happy birthday to Stephen Morris, born this day in 1957! Here he is playing "Temptation" with New Order at the Ukrainian National Home in New York in 1981.

Wayne Fontana

Happy birthday to Wayne Fontana, born this day in 1945! Here he is playing "Game of Love" with Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders in 1965.

Simon Le Bon

Happy birthday to Simon Le Bon, born this day in 1958! Here he is in (the long version of) Arcadia's 1985 video for "Election Day."

Mahalia Jackson

Happy birthday to the late Mahalia Jackson, born this day in 1911! Here she is singing "How I Got Over" sometime in the '60s.

Bootsy Collins

Happy birthday to Bootsy Collins, born this day in 1951! Here he is playing "Psychoticbumpschool" with Bootsy's Rubber Band in 1976.

Earl Palmer

Happy birthday to Earl Palmer, born this day in 1924! Here he is playing "I'm Walkin'" on a relatively recent instructional video.

Richard Lloyd

Happy birthday to Richard Lloyd, born this day in 1951! Here he is playing "Foxhole" with Television in 1978.

Santo Farina

Happy birthday to Santo Farina, born this day in 1937! Here he is playing "Sleep Walk" with Santo & Johnny in 1959.

Debbie Googe

Happy birthday to Debbie Googe, born this day in 1962! Here's My Bloody Valentine's 1989ish video for "You Made Me Realise."

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Happy birthday to "Weird Al" Yankovic, born this day in 1959! Here's the video for his his mid-'90s masterpiece, "Bob."

Bobby Fuller

Happy birthday to the late Bobby Fuller, born this day in 1943! Here he is with the Bobby Fuller Four playing "Let Her Dance" and "Another Sad and Lonely Night" on TV in the mid-'60s.

Steve Cropper

Happy birthday to Steve Cropper, born this day in 1941! Here he is playing "Green Onions" with Booker T. & the MGs in the mid-'60s.

Julian Cope

Happy birthday to Julian Cope, born this day in 1957! Here he is in the Teardrop Explodes' 1981 video for "Treason."

Rose McDowell

Happy birthday to Rose McDowell, born this day in 1959! Here's Strawberry Switchblade's 1985 video for their cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene."

Wanda Jackson

Happy birthday to Wanda Jackson, born this day in 1937! Here she is singing "Sparklin' Brown Eyes" on Jubilee USA in the late '50s.

Norman Blake

Happy birthday to Norman Blake, born this day in 1965! Here he is with James McNew in 2008, covering the Bevis Frond's "He'd Be a Diamond."

Sinitta

Happy birthday to Sinitta, born this day in 1966! Here's her 1988 video for "Cross My Broken Heart."

George McCrae

Happy birthday to George McCrae, born this day in 1944! Here he is singing "Rock Your Baby" in 1975.

Peter Tosh

Happy birthday to the late Peter Tosh, born this day in 1944! Here he is singing "Walk and Don't Look Back" with Mick Jagger in 1978.

Tenpole Tudor

Happy birthday to Tenpole Tudor, born this day in 1956! Here's his 1981-or-so video for "Swords of a Thousand Men." Rather Antmusic-ish.

Lotte Lenya

Happy birthday to the late Lotte Lenya, born this day in 1898! Here she is singing "Pirate Jenny" in the 1931 film of The Threepenny Opera.

Chuck Berry

Happy birthday to Chuck Berry, born this day in 1926! Here he is playing "Little Queenie" in 1958.

Laura Nyro

Happy birthday to the late Laura Nyro, born this day in 1947! Here she is singing "He's a Runner" in 1969.

The Singing Nun

Happy birthday to the late Singing Nun, born this day in 1933! Here she is singing "Dominique" (and some other songs) in 1963.

David St. Hubbins

Happy birthday to David St. Hubbins, born this day in 1947! Here he is playing "Gimme Some Money" with Spinal Tap in the mid-'60s.

Eminem

Happy birthday to Eminem, born this day in 1972! Here he is doing a guest spot on the Notorious B.I.G.'s (posthumous and distinctly NSFW) "Dead Wrong."

Sugar Pie DeSanto

Happy birthday to Sugar Pie DeSanto, born this day in 1935! Here she is singing "Rock Me Baby" in 1964.

Nico

Happy birthday to the late Nico, born this day in 1938! Here she is singing "Heroes" sometime in the '80s, apparently backed up by the Blue Orchids.

Victoria Spivey

Happy birthday to the late Victoria Spivey, born this day in 1906! Here she is singing "TB Blues" in 1963.

Fela Kuti

Happy birthday to the late Fela Kuti, born this day in 1938! Here he is performing "Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense" with Egypt 80 sometime in the mid-'80s.

Cliff Richard

Happy birthday to Cliff Richard, born this day in 1940! Here he is singing "Please Don't Tease" with Cliff Richard & the Shadows in 1960.

Thomas Dolby

Happy birthday to Thomas Dolby, born this day in 1958! Here's Dolby's Cube's circa-1990 video for "May the Cube Be With You," one of his collaborations with George Clinton.

Paul Simon

Happy birthday to Paul Simon, born this day in 1941! Here's a very peculiar late-'80s video for the 1972 recording of "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard," featuring an introduction by Big Daddy Kane and Biz Markie. I'm not kidding.

Pharoah Sanders

Happy birthday to Pharoah Sanders, born this day in 1940! Here he is playing "Thembi" on TV in the late '80s.

Chris Farlowe

Happy birthday to Chris Farlowe, born this day in 1940! Here he is singing "Out of Time" in 1966.

Simon Nicol

Happy birthday to Simon Nicol, born this day in 1950! Here he is playing "Walk Awhile" with Fairport Convention in 1970.

Henri Padovani

Happy birthday to Henri Padovani, born this day in 1952! Here he is playing "Clouds in Venice" with the original (pre-Andy Summers) incarnation of the Police in 1977.

Sam Moore

Happy birthday to Sam Moore, born this day in 1935! Here he is singing "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby" with Sam & Dave" in 1967.

Bob Mould

Happy birthday to Bob Mould, born this day in 1961! Here's his 1989 video for "See a Little Light."

MC Lyte

Happy birthday to MC Lyte, born this day in 1971! Here's her 1988 video for "Paper Thin."

Petra Hayden

Happy birthday to Petra Haden, born this day in 1971! Here she is singing a pretty memorable version of "Don't Stop Believin'" in 1987.

Thelonious Monk

Happy birthday to the late Thelonious Monk, born this day in 1917! Here he is playing "Blue Monk" in 1966.

Tanya Tucker

Happy birthday to Tanya Tucker, born this day in 1958! Here she is singing "Delta Dawn" in 1972. Yes, she was 13 at the time.

Kirsty MacColl

Happy birthday to the late Kirsty MacColl, born this day in 1959! Here's the video for her mid-'80s version of "A New England."

John Entwistle

Happy birthday to the late John Entwistle, born this day in 1944! Here he is playing his song "Heaven and Hell" with the Who in 1970, back in the days when it was their traditional set-opener...