Happy birthday to Patty Andrews, born this day in 1920! Here's a 1941 Andrews Sisters performance of the rather dumbfounding "Gimme Some Skin, My Friend."
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Ali Campbell
Happy birthday to Ali Campbell, born this day in 1959! Here's UB40 doing an early-'80s live-on-TV performance of "King" and "Food for Thought."
Mick Avory
Happy birthday to Mick Avory, born this day in 1944! Here's a 1970-ish Kinks performance of "Victoria" with Avory on drums.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Maceo Parker
Happy birthday to Maceo Parker, born this day in 1943! Here he is in 1968, playing sax with James Brown on TV--almost ten minutes of "Cold Sweat."
Tim Buckley
Happy birthday to the late Tim Buckley, born this day in 1947! Here's a late-'60s TV appearance where he's playing "Song to the Siren."
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Leslie Feist
Happy birthday to Leslie Feist, born this day in 1976! Here she is with Broken Social Scene, doing a live-on-TV performance of "7/4 (Shoreline)" in 2006.
Robbie Williams
Happy birthday to Robbie Williams, born this day in 1974! Here's the rather unforgettable (and slightly creepy) video for "Rock DJ."
Judy Dyble
Happy birthday to Judy Dyble, born this day in 1949! Here's a 1967 TV performance of "Time Will Show the Wiser" with Fairport Convention--she doesn't sing much until almost halfway through it, but come on, Fairport in 1967...
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Happy birthday to the late Tennessee Ernie Ford, born this day in 1919! Here's a mid-'50s performance of "Kissin' Bug Boogie"--check out those guitar solos (it's Speedy West on the steel guitar).
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