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1949Steve Gaines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1977)[β ]
Steven Earl Gaines was an American musician. He is best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist with rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1976 until his death in the October 1977 airplane crash that claimed other band members and crew. His older sister Cassie Gaines, a backup vocalist with the band, also died in the crash.
1949Ed King, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2018)[β ]
Edward Calhoun King was an American musician. He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975, and again from 1987 to 1996.
1949Tommy Seebach, Danish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (died 2003)[β ]
Tommy Seebach, born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He is best known as front man of Sir Henry and his Butlers and for numerous contributions to the Danish qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, which he won three times. He was the father of songwriter/producer Nicolai Seebach and singer/songwriter/producer Rasmus Seebach.
1949Fred "Sonic" Smith, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1994)[β ]
Frederick Dewey Smith, known professionally as Fred "Sonic" Smith, was an American guitarist and member of the rock band MC5. He married and raised two children with poet and fellow rock musician Patti Smith. The couple also collaborated musically.
1949Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer-songwriter[β ]
Eikichi Yazawa is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and a prominent figure in Japanese popular music. Yoko Yazawa of The Generous is his daughter. He has been nicknamed as Ei-chan (ζ°Έγ‘γγ), Boss or The King of Rock.
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switch in press approach discussed
debate end set; night session averted; Malone urges end of program in 5 1/2-hr s; his substitute bill seen doomed; Lucas sees defeat for Millikin amendment; Natl Farmers Union pres charges Repubs are trying to put Truman on spot
meeting opens; annual rept; Pres Truman s; gets gavel made from Bretton Woods, NH, tree; illus
Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, badly damaged; arson suspected
NYS Communist party wins ct stay on enforcement
ALP not to name candidate, Marcantonio statement; move seen helpful to Lehman, but possibility Lehman will be subjected to charge of under-cover Communist support noted
Patterson Mayor De Vita indicted on charge of coercing witness, Capt McGrath, in grand jury inquiry of NY Star charges that police aided gambling syndicate in city; indictment of other officials as result of McGrath testimony noted
strike feared as indus reprs oppose co-financed welfare benefits; USWA warns on strike against cos rejecting bd rept; B Fairless asks talks resume; silent on welfare financing; Repub and Inland to press for cost sharing; Jones & Laughlin accepts rept as basis for talks; C B Randall and C M White score non-contributory plans as dangerous
UN comm issues com draft statute for permanent UN control of city; Dr Serup sees compromise; Israel disapproves
Lewis strike threat against Southern operators seen in lr to J D Francis; scores cos failure to make payments to welfare fund; Francis denies default; cites lack of contract, reply to Lewis; text of Lewis lr
CHICAGO, Sept. 13 -- Judge Michael L. Igoe of the Federal District Court issued an order today restraining the Federal Communications Commission from putting into effect its ban on radio give-away shows until a three-man Federal court could rule on the ban's legality.