19s Day27 - Jazz singer Cleo Laine is born on this day.

1936 - Charlie Daniels is born today.

1939 - Jim Post of Friend & Lover (”Reach Out of the Darkness”) is born on this day.

1940 - Wayne Fontana (”Groovy Kind of Love”) is born.

1941 - Curtis Lee (”Pretty Little Angel Eyes”) is born today.

1948 - Telma Hopkins (Dawn) is born on this day.

1948 - Rickie Lee Reynolds of Black Oak Arkansas is born.

1957 - The Four Lads record “Put a Light in the Window.”

2007 - Country singer Porter Waggoner died in Nashville at age 80 of  lung cancer.

2007 - Robert  Goulet dies of intestinal pulmonary fibrosis.

#1 Songs This Week:

1973 - David  Cassidy: “Daydreamer/The Puppy  Song,” UK

1978 - Nick  Gilder: “Hot Child in the City”

1989 - Janet Jackson: ‘Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814,’ LP

1995 - Coolio featuring LV: “Gangsta’s Paradise,” UK

2001 - Mary J Blige: “Family Affair”

2206 - Rod Stewart: ‘Still the  Same…Great Rock Classics of Our Time,’ LP

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