... and more January 21 birthdays - Wolfman Jack (aka Robert Weston Smith) (1938) Plácido Domingo (aka José Plácido Domingo Embil) (1941) Mac Davis (1942) Billy Ocean (aka Leslie Sebastian Charles) (1950) Bob Brill (1956) - drummer for Berlin. Emma Bunton (aka Baby Spice) (1976) ____________________
Birthday correction - Huddie Ledbetter was born January 20, 1888. ____________________ January 21 R.I.P. - Jackie Wilson (aka Jack Leroy Wilson, Jr.) (1984) - heart attack. Age 49. "Colonel" Tom Parker (aka Thomas Andrew Parker - born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk) (1997) - stroke. Age 87. Peggy Lee (aka Norma Deloris Egstrom) (2002) - diabetes/heart attack. Age 81. January 21 album releases - Them - Them Again (1966) UK Canned Heat - Boogie With Canned Heat (1968) Simon and Garfunkel - The Graduate (1968) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983) U.S. Events - 1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded "All Along The Watchtower" at Olympic Studios in London. 1987 - The Coasters became the first vocal group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1996 - The London Boys (Edem Ephraim and Dennis Fuller) were killed in a car crash in The Alps. 2003 - David Palmer, former keyboard player for Jethro Tull, changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change operation.
