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Born: 4/6/1937 Died: --
American country singer.
Song(s):
Sing Me Back Home (1967)
Mama Tried (1968)
Okie from Muskogee (1969)
Born: 7/6/1925 Died: 2/9/1981
American early rock-n-roll singer. His song, “Rock Around the Clock”, is generally considered to be the birth of the rock era because it was the first rock ‘n’ roll song to hit #1.
Song(s):
We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock (1954)
The DMDB Blog:
The Birth of Rock and Roll (7/9/10), also on Facebook.
Born: Daryl Franklin Hohl on 10/11/1948 in Philadelphia, PA
Philly soul/pop singer. Half of the #1 charting duo of the rock era (Hall & Oates) with John Oates.
Pop-rock blue-eyed-soul duo. Met while students at Temple University in 1967. Hall sang backup for many top soul groups before teaming up with Oates in 1972. In the late 1980s, they passed the Everly Brothers as the #1 charting duo of the rock era.
Active: 1974- Members: Daryl Hall and John Oates
Song(s):
I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) (1981)
Maneater (1982)
George Hall
Song(s):
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (1934)
Born: 5/25/1936 Died:
American country singer/songwriter (Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley P.T.A.”).
Wendell Hall
Song(s):
It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' (1924)
Tom Hamilton
Born: 6/2/1944 in New York City, NY Died: 8/6/2012
Musical theater composer (A Chorus Line) and songwriter (Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were”). 12-time Academy Award nominee (Sophie’s Choice, The Spy Who Loved Me), 3-time Oscar winner (scores for The Sting, The Way We Were), 4-time Emmy winner, 4-time Grammy winner, Tony Award winner (A Chorus Line). Also won a Pulitzer and two Golden Globes.
Album(s):
A Chorus Line (1975) cast
Stuart Hamm
Hammer - see MC Hammer
Born: 7/12/1895 Died: 8/23/1960
Musical theater composer.
Album(s):
Show Boat (with Jerome Kern, 1927/1951) cast/ST
Oklahoma! (written with Richard Rodgers, 1943/1955) cast/ST
Carousel (written with Richard Rodgers, 1945/1956) cast/ST
South Pacific (written with Richard Rodgers, 1949/1958) cast/ST
The King and I (written with Richard Rodgers, 1951/1956) cast/ST
The Sound of Music (written with Richard Rodgers, 1959/1965) cast/ST
The DMDB Blog:
The Sound of Music soundtrack hits #1: November 13, 1965 (11/13/11)
Born: 11/18/1962 in San Francisco, CA Died: --
Heavy metal guitarist with Exodus (1980-83) and Metallica (83-).
Albert Hammond
Born: John Henry Hammond on 12/15/1910 Died: 7/10/1987
Legendary talent scout with Columbia Records. Father of blues singer and guitarist John P. Hammond.
John P. Hammond
Born: 11/13/1942 in New York City, NY
Blues singer and guitarist. Son of famed record producer and talent scout John Henry Hammond.
Johnny Hamp (& the Kentucky Serenaders)
Song(s):
Black Bottom (1926)
Born: 4/20/1908 Died: 8/31/2002
American jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, and composer.
Song(s):
Flying Home (1942)
Hampton Quartette
Song(s):
Listen to the Lambs (1917)
Born: 4/12/1940 Died: --
American jazz musician.
Song(s):
Watermelon Man (1962)
Maiden Voyage (1965)
Chameleon (1973)
Rock-It (1983)
Album(s):
Maiden Voyage (1964)
Head Hunters (1973)
River: The Joni Letters (2007)
Born: 2/23/1685 Died: 4/14/1759
German classical composer.
Album(s):
Water Music (1717)
Messiah (1741)
Lou Handman
Born: 11/16/1873 Died: 3/28/1958
American blues songwriter and musician.
Song(s):
St. Louis Blues (1923)
The DMDB Blog:
W.C. Handy charted with “St. Louis Blues”: November 24, 1923 (11/24/11)
James F. Hanley
Fred Waring
Song(s):
I Found a Million Dollar Baby in a Five and Ten Cent Store (with Fred Waring, 1931)
Hanson
Song(s):
Mmmbop (1997)
English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Along with the Stone Roses, they were at the forefront of the ‘90s dance Madchester scene. After they disbanded, Shaun Ryder and Bez went on to form Black Grape.
Active: 1985-1992, 1999-2000, 2004- Members: Shaun Ryder (v), Paul Ryder (b), Mark Day (g), Paul Davis (k), Gary Whelan (d), Bez (dancer/percussionist), Rowetta Satchell (99-00), Wags (g – Paris Angels, Black Grape, Happy Mondays: 99-00).
Album(s):
Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches (1990)
Songs written by Harbach with Jerome Kern:
Who? (performed by George Olsen; 1926)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (performed by Paul Whiteman with Bob Lawrence, 1933)
Yesterdays (performed by Leo Reisman; 1933)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (performed by The Platters; 1958)
About: American song lyricist.
Born: Edgar Yipsel Harburg on 4/8/1896 in New York, New York Died: 3/5/1981
Songs written by Harburg:
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (performed by Rudy Vallee, 1932)
Over the Rainbow (performed by Judy Garland, 1939)
April in Paris (performed by Count Basie, 1956)
Album(s):
The Wizard of Oz (soundtrack written with Harold Arlen & Herbert Stothart, 1939)
The DMDB Blog:
Judy Garland charts with “Over the Rainbow”: September 9, 1939 (9/9/11)
About: Famous for his long series of hit duets with Arthur Collins (01-18) which emphasized ragtime and minstrel humor but also enjoyed great success as a solo artist (1899-1919) with mostly sentimental ballads. Also recorded with the Big Four Quartet (01) and Columbia Comedy Trio (07). Long a friend and neighbor of Thomas Edison.
Born: 8/29/1861 in KS Died: 9/11/1936
Song(s):
The Blue and the Gray (The Mother’s Gift to Her Country) (1900)
Hello Central, Give Me Heaven (1901)
Down Where the Wurzburger Flows (with Arthur Collins, 1902)
Hurrah for Baffin’s Bay (with Arthur Collins, 1903)
Under the Anhauser Bush (with Arthur Collins, 1904)
Blue Bell (with Frank Stanley, 1904)
Coax Me (with Arthur Collins, 1905)
Would You Care? (1905)
Where the Morning Glories Twine Around the Door (1905)
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1906)
Daddy’s Little Girl (1906)
The Good Old U.S.A. (1906)
My Gal Sal (written by Paul Dresser, 1907)
School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids) (1907)
Down in Jungle Town (with Arthur Collins, 1908)
Down Among the Sugar Cane (with Arthur Collins, 1909)
Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (with Arthur Collins, 1911)
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (performed with Arthur Collins; written by Irving Berlin; 1911)
Everybody’s Doin’ It Now (with Arthur Collins, 1912)
When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’ (with Arthur Collins, 1913)
Snookey Ookums (with Arthur Collins, 1913)
The Aba Daba Honeymoon (with Arthur Collins, 1914)
Alabama Jubilee (with Arthur Collins, 1915)
The Darktown Strutters’ Ball (with Arthur Collins, 1918)
The DMDB Blog:
Byron Harlan hit #1 with “School Days”: May 18, 1907 (5/18/12)
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” Hits #1: September 16, 1911 (9/16/11)
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Song(s):
Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (1975)
Song(s):
Peg O’ My Heart (1947)
The DMDB Blog:
The Harmonicats hit #1 with “Peg O’ My Heart”: June 21, 1947 (6/21/12)
Album(s):
Fiddler on the Roof (cast album composed with Jerry Bock, 1964)
The DMDB Blog:
Fiddler on the Roof opens on Broadway: September 22, 1964 (9/22/11)
Born: James Moore on 1/11/1924 in Baton Rouge, LA Died: 1/31/1970
Blues guitarist.
Song(s):
I’m a King Bee (1957)
Rainin’ in My Heart (year?)
Album(s):
Raining in My Heart (year?)
The Harptones
Calivin Harris
Song(s):
We Found Love (Rihanna with Calvin Harris, 2011)
Charles K. Harris
Born: 4/2/1947 Died: --
American country singer/songwriter and musician.
Album(s):
Wrecking Ball (1995)
Born: Mary Ellen Harrison on 4/4/1896 in Indiana (?) Died: 4/23/1944
About: American vaudeville and Broadway singer. First white woman widely known for singing jazz and blues.
Song(s):
After You’ve Gone (1919)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1919)
Look for the Silver Lining (written by Jerome Kern and Buddy DeSylva, 1921)
I Ain't Got Nobody (1921)
I’m Just Wild about Harry (1922)
Tea for Two (1925)
The Man I Love (written by George Gershwin, 1928)
Born: Wonga Philip Harris in Linton, Indiana on 6/24/1904 Died: 8/11/1995
Jazz/big band leader.
Roy Harris
Album(s):
Symphony No. 3 (1940)
Steve Harris
Wee Willie Harris
Song(s):
Rockin’ at the 2 I’s (1957)
Born: 9/24/1915 in Omaha, NE Died: 6/14/1969
American blues shouter and R&B singer. One of rock ‘n’ roll’s forerunners.
Song(s):
Good Rockin’ Tonight (1948)
Born: 9/11/1878 Died: 2/2/1965
Tenor singer who recorded solo and with the Columbia Stellar Quartet (1912-22).
Song(s):
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (1918)
I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time (1920)
Born: 2/25/1943 Died: 11/29/2001
British singer/songwriter and guitarist who started out with the Beatles and then had a solo career. Also a member of the 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.
Song(s):
My Sweet Lord (1970)
Album(s):
All Things Must Pass (1970)
The Concert for Bangla Desh (live with various artists, 1971)
The DMDB Blog:
George Harrison released All Things Must Pass: November 27, 1970 (11/27/11)
James F. Harrison
Song(s):
Keep the Home Fires Burning (1915)
There’s a Long, Long Trail (with James Reed, 1915)
Wilbert Harrison
Song(s):
Kansas City (written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, 1959)
James Harrod
Song(s):
Till the Clouds Roll By (with Anna Wheaton, 1917)
Born: 7/1/1945 Died:
New wave singer with Blondie.
Charles Hart – see Andrew Lloyd Webber
Born: 12/21/1926 Died:
American country singer/songwriter.
Born: 5/2/1895 Died: 11/22/1943
American musical theater lyricist (“Blue Moon”, “Isn’t It Romantic?”, “The Lady Is a Tramp”, “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”, “My Funny Valentine”). Often worked with Richard Rodgers (Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse, Pal Joey, On Your Toes).
Song(s) by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart:
My Funny Valentine (performed by Hal McIntyre; 1945)
Blue Moon (performed by Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent, 1935)
Blue Moon (performed by the Marcels, 1961)
Album(s):
Pal Joey (with Richard Rodgers, soundtrack, 1957)
Johnny Hartman
Song(s):
Lush Life (with John Coltrane, 1963)
Album(s):
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (with John Coltrane, 1963)
Born: Polly Jean Harvey on 10/9/1969 Died: --
Alternative rock singer/songwriter.
Song(s):
Rid of Me (1993)
Down by the Water (1995)
Album(s):
Dry (1992)
Rid of Me (1993)
To Bring You My Love (1995)
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)
Let England Shake (2011)
Donny Hathaway
Born: 11/21/1904 Died: 5/19/1969
American jazz/big band leader.
Song(s):
Body and Soul (1940)
Dale Hawkins
Song(s):
Suzy-Q (1957)
Edwin Hawkins Singers
Song(s):
Oh Happy Day (1969)
Born: 7/26/1914 Died: 1993
American jazz/big band leader.
Roger Hawkins
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Song(s):
I Put a Spell on You (1956)
George D. Hay
Born: 3/31/1732 in Rohrau, Austria Died: 5/31/1809
Classical composer and pianist.
About: Along with the Peerless Quartet and American Quartet, one of the three great vocal groups in the pioneer age of popular recording. The four original members (Bieling, Macdonough, Dudley, and Hooley) also sang on Edison as the Edison Male Quartette. Murray sang lead on many of the group’s biggest hits. During the later period, Werrenrath often took Dudley’s place. Bieling, Dudley, Hooley, Murray, and Porter were all also members of the American Quartet.
Active: 1898-1914 Members: John Bieling (tenor), Harry MacDonough (tenor), S.H. Dudley (baritone), William F. Hooley (bass), Billy Murray (tenor: 1898-1914), Steve Porter (baritone: 1914), Wilfred Glenn (1914), Robert D’Armour (1914), Reinald Werrenrath (baritone – Haydn Quartet; Orpheus Quartet: 1914-19)
Song(s):
Bedelia (1904)
Toyland (with Corrine Morgan, 1904)
Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart) (1904)
Dearie (with Corrine Morgan, 1905)
How’d You Like to Spoon with Me? (with Corrine Morgan, 1906)
Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May? (1906)
Waltz Me Around Again Willie (‘Round, ‘Round, ‘Round) (with Billy Murray, 1906)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (with Billy Murray, 1908)
Sunbonnet Sue (1908)
Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet (1909)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (with Billy Murray, 1910)
The DMDB Blog:
The Haydn Quartet charted with “Sweet Adeline”: October 15, 1904 (10/15/11)
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” – In Celebration of the All Star Game: July 10, 2012 (7/10/12)
Bill Hayes
Song(s):
The Ballad of Davy Crockett (1955)
Born: 8/20/1942 Died:
R&B singer/songwriter and keyboardist.
Song(s):
Theme from “Shaft” (1971)
Album(s):
Hot Buttered Soul (1969)
Richard Hayman
Born: 9/13/1918 Died: 3/28/1980
Singer.
Song(s):
You'll Never Know (with the Song Spinners, 1943)
Long Ago and Far Away (with Helen Forrest; written by Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin; 1944)
I'll Get By As Long As I Have You (with Harry James, 1944)
It Might As Well Be Spring (1945)
Jazz drummer.
Born: 4/6/1960 Died: --
American blues guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule.
Born: 4/10/1950 in Brooklyn, NY Died: 12/23/1992
Funk guitarist with Parliament/Funkadelic, most notably on the 1971 album Maggot Brain and his ten-minute guitar solo on the title track.
Topper Headon
Hear’Say
Song(s):
Pure and Simple (2001)
Album(s):
Dreamboat Annie (1976)
Ray Heatherton
Song(s):
Where or When (1937)
Heidelberg Quintet
Song(s):
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (1912)
By the Beautiful Sea (1914)
Born: 5/21/1901 Died: 12/1/1986
American jazz pianist and big band leader. Also a radio and TV personality.
Song(s):
I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton, Donna Wood, & Don Juans; 1941)
Born: 2/2/1901 in Vilnius, Lithuania (then the Russian Empire) Died: 12/10/1987
Russian classical violinist.
Album(s):
Acoustic Recordings for Victor Records, 1917-1924 (1924)
Song(s):
I Belong to the Blank Generation (1977)
Born: 5/26/1940 Died: 4/19/2012
About: Rock drummer and vocalist for The Band.
Helmet
Album(s):
Meantime (1992)
Fletcher Henderson
Born: 12/18/1897 Died: 12/28/1952
American jazz/big band leader and pianist.
Ray Henderson
Born: 11/27/1942 in Seattle, WA Died: drug overdose in London on 9/18/1970
Legendary psychedelic-blues/rock guitarist. First as a sideman with Rosa Lee Brooks (64), Isley Brothers (64), Buddy & Stacey and the Upsetters (65); Little Richard, Curtis Knight, and Ronnie Youngblood. Formed Jimmy James and the Blue Flames (65), the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Discovered in 1966 by The Animals’ Chris Chandler at New York City’s Café Wha? Went to London to form the Jimi Hendrix Experience (66-69) with Noel Redding (b) and Mitch Mitchell (d). Formed Band of Gypsys (69-70) with Buddy Miles (d) and Buddy Cox (b).
Song(s):
Hey Joe (1966)
Purple Haze (1967)
All Along the Watchtower (1968)
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) (1968)
The Star-Spangled Banner (1969)
Album(s):
Are You Experienced (1967)
Jimi Plays Monterey (1967) live
Axis: Bold As Love (1967)
Live at Winterland (1968) live
Electric Ladyland (1968)
BBC Sessions (1969) live
Live at Woodstock (1969) live
Band of Gypsys/Live at Fillmore East (1970) live
Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight (1970) live
The Cry of Love/First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1971/1997)
Rainbow Bridge (1971) archives
War Heroes (1972) archives
Loose Ends (1974) archives
Crash Landing (1975) archives
Midnight Lightning (1975) archives
South Saturn Delta (1997) archives
Valleys of Neptune (2010) archives
The DMDB Blog:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience released Are You Experienced?: May 12, 1967 (5/12/12)
Born: 7/22/1947 Died:
American country-rock singer/songwriter and drummer with the Eagles. Also a solo artist.
Song(s):
The Boys of Summer (1984)
Album(s):
Building the Perfect Beast (1984)
Clarence “Frogman” Henry
Audrey Hepburn
Song(s):
Moon River (with Henry Mancini, written by Johnny Mercer with Mancini, 1961)
Victor Herbert
Born: 7/10/1931 Died:
American musical theater songwriter.
Album(s):
Hello, Dolly! (1964) cast
Born: 5/16/1913 Died: 10/29/1987
Jazz/big band leader, clarinetist, and composer.
Song(s):
Woodchopper’s Ball (1939)
Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me) (written by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, 1941)
Laura (written by Johnny Mercer and David Raskin, 1945)
Four Brothers (1948)
Early Autumn (1949)
Born to Be Alive (1979)
Born: 8/3/1963 Died:
Rock singer/songwriter with Metallica.
Edward Heyman
Dubose Heyward
Album(s):
Porgy and Bess (composed with George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin, 1935) opera
The DMDB Blog:
Porgy and Bess opens on Broadway: September 30, 1935 (9/30/11)
Eddie Heywood
John Hiatt
Album(s):
Bring the Family (1987)
Born: 8/16/1915 Died: 4/24/2001
American R&B singer.
Song(s):
Unchained Melody (1955)
Art Hickman
Song(s):
Rose Room in Sunny Roseland (1918)
Mina Hickman
Song(s):
Come Down, Ma Evening Star (1903)
Utada Hikaru
Song(s):
Flavor of Life (2007)
Billy Hill
Born: 9/21/1967 Died:
Country singer. Married country singer Tim McGraw.
Song(s):
This Kiss (1998)
Breathe (1999)
Album(s):
Breathe (1999)
Born: 5/25/1975 Died:
American R&B/rap singer with the Fugees (The Score). Also a solo artist.
Song(s):
Doo Wop (That Thing) (1998)
Ex-Factor (1999)
Album(s):
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
Z.Z. Hill
Album(s):
Down Home (1982)
Bob Hilliard
Billy Hillpot
Song(s):
Ain't She Sweet (Ben Bernie with Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot, 1927)
The Hi-Lo’s
Album(s):
The Hi-Lo’s and All That Jazz (1958)
Keri Hilson
The Way I Am (Timbaland with Doe & Keri Hilson, 2007)
Richard Himber
Song(s):
Just One of Those Things (with Stuart Allen, written by Cole Porter, 1935)
Hinder
Song(s):
Lips of an Angel (2006)
Born: 12/28/1903 Died: 4/22/1983
American jazz/big band leader and pianist.
Song(s):
Weather Bird (with Louis Armstong, 1928)
The Hives
Song(s):
Hate to Say I Told You So (2001)
Album(s):
Veni Vidi Vicious (2000)
Al Hoffman
Born: 12/15/1870 in Pirnitz, Austria Died: 5/7/1956
Classical pianist.
Susanna Hoffs
Album(s):
When You’re a Boy (1991)
Susanna Hoffs (1996)
Under the Covers (with Matthew Sweet, 2006)
Under the Covers 2 (with Matthew Sweet, 2009)
Born: 8/6/1946 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England Died:
English guitarist and composer known for work in a variety of genres, but mostly jazz fusion. Cited as an influence by other guitar notables such as Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, and Frank Zappa.
Hole
Song(s):
Violet (1994)
Malibu (1998)
Album(s):
Live Through This (1994)
Born: Eleanor Gough in Baltimore on 4/7/1915 Died: 7/17/1959
About: The great “Lady Day”, rivaled only by Ella Fitzgerald among all female jazz singers. Illegitimate daughter of guitarist Clarence Holiday. Following her difficult early years she was discovered in 1933 by jazz critic John Hammond. She recorded one hit with Benny Goodman, then began her classic 1935-38 association with Teddy Wilson, accompanied by the top jazz musicians in the country. Billie also sang briefly in the late ‘30s with Count Basie and Artie Shaw. The 1972 movie Lady Sings the Blues was based on her life.
Song(s):
Autumn in New York (1935)
Summertime (1936)
Strange Fruit (1939)
God Bless the Child (1941)
Embraceable You (1944)
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) (1945)
Crazy He Calls Me (1949)
Solitude (1952)
Fine and Mellow (1957)
Album(s):
Quintessential (1940-42)
Lady in Satin (1958)
The DMDB Blog:
Billie Holiday charted with “Strange Fruit”: July 22, 1939 (7/22/12)
Born: 2/15/1941 Died: --
American songwriter with Motown’s Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting and production team.
Born: 10/30/1939
American songwriter with Motown’s Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting and production team.
Writing team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland. Over ten years, they wrote and produced many of the songs that are most closely identified with Motown. Left Motown in 1968 and formed formed Invictus/Hot Wax, where they continued their hitmaking ways until 1973, when Dozier decided to start a solo career.
Songs Written by H-D-H:
Heat Wave (Martha & the Vandellas, 1963)
Where Did Our Love Go (the Supremes, 1964)
Baby, I Need Your Loving (Four Tops, 1964)
Baby Love (the Supremes, 1964)
Stop! In the Name of Love (the Supremes, 1965)
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (Four Tops, 1965)
You Can't Hurry Love (the Supremes, 1966)
Reach Out (I’ll Be There) (Four Tops, 1966)
The Hollies
Song(s):
Bus Stop (1966)
Brenda Holloway
Born: Charles Hardin Holley on 9/7/1936 in Lubbox, TX Died: 2/3/1959 in a plane crash
One of rock and roll’s most original and innovative performers. (v/g – Buddy & Bob: 54; Three Tunes: 56; Buddy Holly & The Two-Tunes; The Crickets: 57-58), Sonny Curtis (g – Three Tunes: 56), Don Guess (b – Three Tunes: 56), Jerry Ivan Allison (d – Three Tunes: 56: Crickets: 57-58), Niki Sullivan (g – Crickets: 57-58), Joe B. Maudlin (b – Crickets: 57-58). Began recording western and pop demos with Bob Montgomery in 1954. Killed in a plane crash near Mason City, IA along with Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper.
Song(s):
That'll Be the Day (1957)
Peggy Sue (1957)
Album(s):
Holly in the Hills (1954-55) archives
That’ll Be the Day (1955-56) archives
The Chirping Crickets (1957)
Buddy Holly (1958)
The Buddy Holly Story (1957-59) G
The Buddy Holly Story 2 (1958-59) G/archives
Reminiscing (1955-59) archives
Showcase (1955-59) archives
Giant (1956-59) archives
Remember (1957-58) archives
20 Golden Greats (1955-59) G
Greatest Hits (1957-59) G
Collection: 50 Classic Recordings (1959) G
Odetta Holmes
Song(s):
Take This Hammer (1955)
Gustav Holst
Classical composer.
Album(s):
The Planets (composed 1986)
Jac Holzman
Homer & Jethro
Louise Homer
Song(s):
American the Beautiful (1910)
The Honeydrippers
Album(s):
Volume One (The Honeydrippers: 1984)
Hoobastank
Song(s):
The Reason (2004)
Peter Hook
Links:
- official site
- Wikipedia
Born: 8/22/1917 near Clarksdale, MI Died: 6/21/2001
Blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Song(s):
Boogie Chillen' (1949)
Boom Boom (1962)
Album(s):
The Folklore of John Lee Hooker (1962)
Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Five
Song(s):
Fascinating Rhythm (1938)
About: Philadelphia-based rock group.
Active: 1980-95, 2001- Members: Eric Bazilian (v/g), Rob Hyman (v/k), David Uosikkinen (d), John Kuzma (g: 80-83), Bobby Woods (b: 80-83), Rob Miller (b: 83-84), John Lilley (g: 83-84), Andy King (b: 84-87), Fran Smith Jr. (b: 87-95, 01-), Mindy Jostyn (violin/harmonica (92-93),
Album(s):
Amore (1983)
Nervous Night (1985)
One Way Home (1987)
Zig Zag (1989)
Out of Body (1993)
Time Stand Still (2007)
Album(s):
Cracked Rear View (1994)
The DMDB Blog:
Hootie & the Blowfish hit #1 with Cracked Rear View: May 27, 1995 (5/27/12)
Bob Hope
Song(s):
Thanks for the Memory (with Shirley Ross, 1939)
Mary Hopkin
Song(s):
Those Were the Days (1968)
Born: 8/24/1903 Died:
Americna jazz/big band leader.
Born: Sam Hopkins on 3/15/1912 Died: 1/30/1982
Blues guitarist.
Linda Hopkins
Born: 6/30/1917 Died: 5/9/2010
American jazz singer.
Song(s):
Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin’ All the Time) (1943)
Born: 1/16/1934 in Bradford, PA Died: --
Mezzo-soprano opera singer.
James Horner
Album(s):
Titanic (soundtrack, 1997)
Born: 10/1/1903 Died: 11/5/1989
Russian classical pianist.
The Horrors
Album(s):
Primary Colours (2009)
Born: John Gale Horton on 4/30/1925 Died: 11/5/1960
American rockabilly singer.
Song(s):
The Battle of New Orleans (1959)
Roy Horton
Big Walter Horton
Hot Chip
Song(s):
Over and Over (2006)
Born: Eddie James, Jr. on 3/21/1902 in Riverton, MS Died: 10/19/1988
Blues guitarist and singer.
Song(s):
My Black Mama (1930)
Album(s):
Father of the Folk Blues (year?)
House of Pain
Song(s):
Jump Around (1992)
Cissy Houston
Born: 12/9/1938 Died: 11/30/1993
American country singer.
Song(s):
Almost Persuaded (1966)
Thelma Houston
Song(s):
Don’t Leave Me This Way (1976)
Born: 8/9/1963 in Newark, NJ Died: 2/11/2012
R&B/pop singer. Daughter of Cissy Houston and cousin of Dionne Warwick. Began singing career at age 11 with the gospel gropu New Hope Baptist Junior Choir. As a teen, worked as a backing vocalist for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls. Pursued modeling career in 1981, appeaing in Glamour magazine and on the cover of Seventeen. Married singer Bobby Brown on 7/18/92. Starred in the movies The Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale, and The Preacher’s Wife.
Song(s):
I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me (1987)
I Will Always Love You (written by Dolly Parton, 1992)
Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (1995)
Album(s):
Whitney Houston (1985)
Whitney (1987)
The Bodyguard (et al, soundtrack; 1992)
Waiting to Exhale (et al, soundtrack; 1995)
The DMDB Blog/Facebook Note(s):
Whitney Houston – Top 20 Songs
Whitney Houston Has the #1 Single and Album: June 27, 1987 (6/27/11)
Whitney Houston hit #1 with “I Will Always Love You”: November 28, 1992 (11/28/11)
Dominic Howard
Born: 9/12/1914 Died: 5/23/1963
American jazz/big band leader.
Song(s):
To Each His Own (1946)
Sin (It's No Sin) (1951)
Joe Howard
Julia Ward Howe
Born: Stephen James Howe on 4/8/1947 in Holloway, London, England Died: --
English progressive rock guitarist best known for his work with Yes (70-81, 91, 96-). He has also worked solo, was a member of the supergroup Asia (81-84,92,07-), the one-album GTR (86), and collaborated with his Yes’ bandmates from the 1970-72 era as Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe (88-92).
Album(s) featuring Howe:
The Yes Album (Yes, 1971)
Fragile (Yes, 1971)
Close to the Edge (Yes, 1972)
Tales from Topographic Oceans (Yes, 1973)
Relayer (Yes, 1974)
Going for the One (Yes, 1977)
Tormato (Yes, 1978)
Drama (Yes, 1980)
Asia (Asia, 1982)
Alpha (Asia, 1983)
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe (ABWH, 1989)
Union (Yes, 1991)
Phoenix (Asia, 2008)
Omega (Asia, 2010)
Fly from Here (Yes, 2011)
The DMDB Blog:
The Steve Howe Show (7/15/09), also on Facebook.
Yes released Fragile: November 26, 1971 (11/26/11)
Born: Chester Arthur Burnett in White Station, Mississippi on 6/10/1910 Died: 1/10/1976
Blue singer and guitarist.
Song(s):
Smokestack Lightning (1956)
Spoonful (1960)
The Red Rooster (1962)
Album(s):
Moanin’ in the Moonlight (1951-58) G
Howlin’ Wolf (aka ‘The Rockin’ Chair Album’) (1962) G
Chester Burnett, a.k.a. Howlin’ Wolf (1972)
Born: 4/7/1938 Died: --
American jazz trumpeter.
Song(s):
Red Clay (1970)
Born: 4/8/1942 in Camden, NJ Died: --
American R&B songwriter and producer behind 170 gold and platinum records (along with partner Kenny Gamble). They were considered pioneers of Philadelphia soul. Their songs, in addition to those below, include “Only the Strong Survive” (Jerry Butler), “Me and Mrs. Jones” (Billy Paul), “Backstabbers” (The O’Jays), “When Will I See You Again” (The Three Degrees), and “Enjoy Yourself” (The Jacksons).
Marjorie Hughes
Song(s):
Oh! What It Seemed to Be (with Frankie Carle, 1946)
About: Electronic new wave band from Sheffield, England.
Active: 1977- Members: Philip Oakley (v/songwriter: 77-), Martyn Ware (k: 77-80), Ian Craig Marsh (k: 77-80), Philip Adrian Wright (k: 78-86), Joanne Catherall (v: 80-), Susan Ann Sulley (v: 80-), Jo Callis (k/g: 81-85), Ian Burden (k: 81-87), Jim Russell (d/g/programming: 85-87), Neil Sutton (k: 86-), Russell Dennett (k: 90-94), David Beevers (on-stage engineering: 90-), Erroll Rollins (electronic percussion: 01-04), Nic Burke (multi-instrumentalist: 01-), Rob Barton (electronic percussion: 03-)
Song(s):
Don't You Want Me? (1981)
Album(s):
Dare! (1981)
The DMDB Blog:
The Human League hit #1 in the UK with “Don’t You Want Me?”: December 12, 1981 (12/12/11)
Pawlo Humeniuk
Song(s):
Tanec Pid Werbamy (Dance Under the Willows) (1926)
Born: Arnold George Dorsey on 5/2/1936 Died:
Indian-born English singer.
Song(s):
Release Me (1967)
The Last Waltz (1967)
Pee Wee Hunt
Song(s):
Twelfth Street Rag (1948)
Alberta Hunter
Album(s):
Amtrak Blues (1978)
Tab Hunter
George Hurley
Born: 7/3/1893 in Teoc , Mississippi Died: 11/2/1966
Blues singer and guitarist.
Song(s):
Stack O’ Lee Blues (year?)
Frankie (1928)
Album(s):
Today! (1966)
Song(s):
Turn on the News (year?)
Album(s):
Zen Arcade (1984)
New Day Rising (1985)
Warehouse: Songs and Stories (1987)
Born: 12/3/1925 in Cartwell, MO Died: 3/17/2011
American country singer with two dozen top 20 country hits on the Billboard charts including the #1 hits “A Dear John Letter” (with Jean Shepard), “Gone”, and “Wings of a Dove”.
Song(s):
Wings of a Dove (1960)
Walter Huston
Song(s):
September Song (1939)
Michael Hutchence
Born: 8/20/1946 in Krefeld, Germany Died:
Electronica singer/songwriter and keyboardist with Kraftwerk.
J.B. Hutto
Odetta Holmes
Song(s):
It Had to Be You (1944)
Marion Hutton
Song(s):
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me (Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke, & the Modernaires, 1942)
I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo (Glenn Miller's Orchestra with Tex Beneke & Marion Hutton, 1942)
Rock singer, songwriter (Cyndi Lauper’s “Time after Time”) and keyboardist with the Hooters (80-95, 01-). Also helmed the one-time collaborative project Largo.
Album(s):
with various artists: Largo (1998)
Rock singer/songwriter with The Pretenders.
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