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Today's birthdays include trumpeter Hank Lawson, in 1911; composer Betty Comden in 1915 (age 88); Pete Seeger, who was born in 1919 (age 84); Joe Ames of the Ames Brothers in 1924 (age 79); James Brown, in 1928 (age 75); Dave Dudley in 1928 (age 75); Engl

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Today's birthdays include Bobby Lewis, who had a chart-topping hit in 1961 with "Tossin' and Turnin'," was born in 1933 (age 70); Gene Pitney in 1941 (age 62); Dodie Stevens, who had a hit in 1959 with "Pink Shoe Laces," in 1947 (age 56); Melissa Brooke-B

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Today's birthdays include jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton in 1885; Mick Rogers of Manfred Mann's Earthband, who was born in 1946 (age 56); Chuck and John Panozzo of Styx in 1949 (age 53); Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins in 1959 (age 43); and Gunnar and

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Today's musical birthdays include singer Georgia Gibbs in 1920, Fred Milano of Dion & the Belmonts, who was born in 1940 (age 62); former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis in 1941 (age 61); Valerie Simpson, one-half of the pop duo Ashford and Simpson, in 19

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