The Week in Music Birthdays, July 17 - 20
Jimmy Scott, Peppermint Harris, Don & Dewey, Gale Garnett, Phil Cordell, Phoebe Snow, Nicolette Larson, Pernice Brothers, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bergen White, Dion, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, more
Buckle up! This is a long one. And I left out a lot of them.
The remarkable Jimmy Scott was born July 17, 1925 in Cleveland. He was discovered a bunch of times and forgotten a bunch of times, but no one else ever sounded like him.
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