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January 23

1910   Flamenco influenced gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt is born.
1943   Jazz composer and vibraphonist Gary Burton born in Anderson, Indiana. To hell with his innovative multi-mallet techniques and the drift into soft-core jazz, check the cameo in the film, Get Yourself a College Girl!
1944   Jerry Lawson of The Persuasions born in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

White, blue-eyed albino blues artist Johnny Winter born in Texas.

Foul-mouthed and funny, funky diva/humorist Millie Jackson is born.

1948   Pointer Sister Anita is born.
1950   The Box Tops' Bill Cunningham born.

Danny Federici of The E Street Band born.

Kevin Staples of the band Rough Trade born.

Pat Simmons of the Doobie Brothers is born.

1952   Robin Zander of punky/pretty pop band Cheap Trick is born. (may be '53?)
1955   Reggie Calloway is born.
1957   Patsy Cline's hubby, Gerald Cline, files For divorce.
1959   Earl Falconer, bassist for the UK pop-reggae pop band, UB40, born in Birmingham.
1972   Big Maybelle (Mabel Louise Smith), blues singer dies in Cleveland, OH at the age of 47.
1973   Edward "Kid" Ory dies in Hawaii of heart failure. Kid joined Louis Armstrong band in 1916.
1974   The receipts show that on this day a drunken John Cummings and Douglas Colvin purchase a blue Mosrite and a DanElectro bass, respectively, at Manny's on 48th St. in NYC. A few days later they begin rehearsing the band that would become the Ramones.

At Cannes, France, Alvin Stardust debuts at a Midem (Recording Industry confab) showcase.

1976   Civil Rights activist and Socialist Paul Robeson dies. Robeson was a stage and screen star best known for his rendition of "Ole Man River", which he updated and altered with each singing to wrest it from it's racist origins.
1977   Singer/poet Patti Smith, opening for fellow Detroiter Bob Seger, broke a number of vertebrae in her neck after falling from a stage in Tampa, Florida.
1978   Chicago vocalist Terry Kath shoots and kills himself at age 32. He was playing with a gun at a party and turned it on himself telling the crowd around him the gun was unloaded.

Vic Ames of the Ames Brothers dies.

1979   After 15 years together, Brian Wilson and wife Marilyn Rovell divorce.
1986   First Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction held In New York City. Inductees are: The Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke
1990   Surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allen Collins dies.
1997   "Louis Louis" author Richard Berry (61) dies in LA from an aneurysm suffered earlier. Nearly everyone in America has sung the song at one time in their life, yet no one knew the words.