Post by Mark S. Baker

June 14 Music History Report BIRTHDAYS Burl Ives (1909) singer ["Ghost Riders in the Sky"/"Have a Holly Jolly Christmas"] (died 1995) age 85 – oral cancer Junior Walker (1931) Jr. Walker & the All Stars saxophonist/singer/founder (died 1995) age 64 – cancer Renaldo "Obie" Benson (1936) The Four Tops bass singer/songwriter/co-founder (died 2005) age 69 – lung cancer Dewey "Spooner" Oldham (1943) Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and session organist/keyboardist ["When a Man Loves a Woman"/"Mustang Sally"/"I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)"] and songwriter ["Cry Like a Baby"/"I'm Your Puppet"]...