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Music History Events: Births

March 1, 1944 Mike D'Abo of Manfred Mann is born in Surrey, England.

February 24, 1944 Nicky Hopkins, a renown piano player heard on albums from The Rolling Stones and The Kinks, is born in Perivale, Middlesex, England.

February 23, 1944 Johnny Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas. The respected blues-rock guitarist and singer enjoys a long career that includes performing at the famed Woodstock festival in 1969 and induction into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988. Like his younger brother Edgar Winter ("Frankenstein"), he has albinism.

February 22, 1944 Rock and roll guitarist Mick Green (of Johnny Kidd & the Pirates) is born in Matlock, Derbyshire, England.

February 20, 1944 Jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff (of Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born in Brooklyn, New York.

February 15, 1944 Mick Avory (drummer for The Kinks) is born in Surrey, England.

February 14, 1944 Denny Zager (of Zager & Evans) is born in Wymore, Nebraska.

February 13, 1944 Rebop Kwaku Baah (percussionist for Traffic, Wings) is born in Konongo, Ghana.

February 13, 1944 Broadway/film actress Stockard Channing, who plays Betty Rizzo in Grease (1978), is born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in New York City.

February 12, 1944 Country singer Moe Bandy is born in Meridian, Mississippi.

February 5, 1944 J.R. Cobb (guitarist for Classics IV, Atlanta Rhythm Section) is born in Birmingham, Alabama.

February 5, 1944 Al Kooper (of The Blues Project, Blood, Sweat & Tears) is born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt in Brooklyn, New York.

February 4, 1944 Florence LaRue (of The 5th Dimension) is born in Plainfield, New Jersey, but grows up in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

February 1, 1944 Tommy Duffy (bass guitarist for Lindisfarne) is born in England.

January 31, 1944 Electric blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.

January 27, 1944 Rocker Kevin Coyne is born in Derby, England.

January 27, 1944 Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is born in Birmingham, England.

January 21, 1944 Chris Britton (lead guitarist for The Troggs) is born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.

January 19, 1944 Shelley Fabares is born in Santa Monica, California. She becomes famous as daughter Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show, on which she performs the hit song "Johnny Angel."

January 19, 1944 Laurie London, known for the 1958 hit single "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," is born in Bethnal Green, East London, England.

January 18, 1944 "Legs" Larry Smith (drummer for Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) is born in Oxford, England.

January 17, 1944 French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy is born in Paris.

January 16, 1944 Country pop singer Jim Stafford is born in Winter Haven, Florida. His first charting hit is "Swamp Witch" in 1973.

January 12, 1944 Cynthia Robinson of Sly & the Family Stone is born in Sacramento, California.

January 10, 1944 Frank Sinatra Jr. is born Francis Wayne Emmanuel Sinatra to legendary crooner Frank Sinatra and first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra, in Jersey City, New Jersey. The name Emmanuel is an homage to Frank Sr.'s friend Manie Sacks, then head of Columbia Records.

January 7, 1944 Michael McCartney is born in Liverpool, England. As "Mike McGear," he forms a band called The Scaffold, but he's best known as the younger brother of Paul McCartney.

December 31, 1943 John Denver is born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. in Roswell, New Mexico.

December 31, 1943 Pete Quaife (original bass guitarist for The Kinks) is born Peter Alexander Greenlaw Quaife in Tavistock, Devon, England.

December 29, 1943 Rick Danko (bassist for The Band) is born in Blayney, Ontario, Canada. He drops out of school at age 14 to become a musician.

December 27, 1943 Peter Sinfield (keyboardist, lyricist for King Crimson) is born in Fulham, London, England.