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June 10, 1981 ~ Twin siblings drummer Hannah Blilie and singer Jordan Blilie born ~ Hannah served as drummer for indie rock band Gossip, replacing original drummer Kathy Mendonça in 2004 and remaining with the band until its initial disbandement in 2016, recording five albums starting with 2001's That's Not What I Heard. Jordan is best known as co-founding member, co-lead singer for post-hardcore outfit the Blood Brothers, with whom he recorded from 2000 through 2006 including their acclaimed Crimes, and has also worked with supergroup Head Wound City and Past Lives
June 10, 1981 ~ Hoku Christian Ho, mononymously known as singer, actress Hoku, born in Oahu, Hawaii, USA ~ Daughter of singer Don Ho. Best known for her 2000 hit single Another Dumb Blonde from the soundtrack to Snow Day, and for Perfect Day from the soundtrack to Legally Blonde. Hoku released her eponymous Hoku debut album in 2000, and has acted for film and TV
June 10, 1979 ~ Country singer, guitarist, songwriter Lee Brice born in Sumter, South Carolina, USA ~ In-demand songwriter since the mid 2000s, his songs recorded by the likes of Sister Hazel, Garth Brooks (More Than A Memory), Cory Morrow, Jason Michael Carroll, Tim McGraw (Still), Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney (Seven Days), Josh Kelley, the Eli Young Band (Crazy Girl), Jerrod Niemann, Tyler Farr, and Faith Hill (Boy). As a singer Brice released his A Love Like Crazy debut album in 2010 and has recorded to commercial success since. Songs such as A Woman Like You, Hard To Love, I Drive Your Truck, Drinking Class, Rumor, and One Of Them Girls, have all reached top 10 Billboard Country
June 10, 1975 ~ Funk, R&B outfit the Average White Band release Cut The Cake, their third studio album ~ The followup to their immensely successful AWB album, which had brought the band international stardom with the surprise Billboard Hot 100 No.1 hit Pick Up The Pieces, the recording of Cut The Cake was plagued by artistic differences within the band with band members walking out on several occasions. Producer Arif Mardin had even considered pulling the plug, yet persevered. It paid off, the title track Cut The Cake would be the band's second and final Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hit, peaking at No.10, and would earn the band a Grammy Award nomination. Two other singles off the album, If I Ever Lose This Heaven and School Boy Crush, reached top 40 on the American pop charts, peaking respectively at No.39 and No.33
June 10, 1975 ~ Sibling outfit the Jackson 5 release Forever Came Today, lead single off their Moving Violation album ~ A disco remake of the 1966 Billboard Hot 100 top 30, and Billboard R&B top 20 hit by Diana Ross & the Supremes, the cover by the Jackson 5 would be their last charting single on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, where it stalled at No.60, and their last top 10 hit on the Billboard R&B charts, where it reached No.6. Despite disappointing chart success, critics had welcomed the disco remake by the Jackson 5, with Record World adding that the band “(took) the opportunity to salute their initial career sparker (Diana Ross) with a smash in return”. The siblings would release one more single for Motown, the poorly-charting All I Do Is Think Of You off the same parent album, before leaving the label and continuing at Epic Records as the Jacksons
June 10, 1975 ~ Disco group KC & the Sunshine Band release That's The Way (I Like It), lifted off their eponymous KC & the Sunshine Band sophomore album ~ Preceded by Get Down Tonight, this became the second of five Billboard Hot 100 No.1 hits for the band. A 1975 TIME article cited That's The Way (I Like It) as an example of sexually suggestive songs, along with Love To Love You Baby, that were all the rage. Bassist Richard Finch, who co-wrote the song with Harry Wayne Casey, later stated they were inspired by Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus) by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg and how the song initially included more suggestive “uh-huhs”, but they toned it down, making them cries of jubilation rather than moans of pleasure: “Back then you had to watch what you say. Not like today. People come on the radio and cuss and say all kinds of shit, but back then, you had to watch your mouth. You can be suggestive in a poetic way”
June 10, 1973 ~ Faith Renée Jordan, commonly known as hip-hop, R&B singer Faith Evans born in Lakeland, Florida, USA ~ Sang backup for Al B Sure and Christopher Williams. First female artist to be signed to Bad Boy Entertainment. Widow of the Notorious BIG. Best known for her first two solo albums, 1995's Faith and 1998's Keep The FaithJune 10, 1973 ~ Stanley Howse, commonly known as rapper Flesh-n-Bone, born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA ~ Founding member of hip-hop group Bone Thugs 'n Harmony, which also included Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone and Flesh-n-Bone. The group would be discovered by NWA's Eazy E and release a debut EP in 1994 which spawned the hit Thuggish Ruggish Bone featuring Shatasha Williams. Subsequent hits included 1st Of Da Month, Tha Crossroads, Look Into My Eyes and I Tried featuring Akon
June 10, 1973 ~ Jamie Graham Appleby, commonly known as alternative rock, electronic keyboardist, guitarist, DJ James Ash, born in Windsor, UK ~ Co-founded electro-rock, electropunk outfit the Rogue Traders, where he plays keyboards and guitar. The band took their name from the 1998 psychological drama film Rogue Trader and is best known for their 2005 Here Come The Drums sophomore album. It would spawn the hits Voodoo Child, Way To Go, and Watching You, which all reached top 10 in the band's native Australia. Other hits include Don't You Wanna Feel and I Never Liked YouJune 10, 1971 ~ Mark Potsic, commonly known as DJ, producer DJ Nu-Mark, born in Los Angeles, California, USA ~ Member of the Jurassic 5. Released his Bend Crafters Volume One solo debut album in 2004. Has collaborated with artists such as J-Live, Aloe Blacc, Charles Bradley, and Freddie Foxxx
June 10, 1971 ~ Joel Hailey, commonly known as R&B, new jack swing singer Joel JoJo Hailey, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA ~ Along with his brother K-Ci co-lead singer of new jack swing group Jodeci, enjoying popularity during the first half of the 1990s topping the Billboard R&B charts with the singles Forever My Lady, Stay, Come & Talk To Me, and Cry For You. The siblings also enjoyed success as the duo K-Ci & JoJo, topping the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 with All My Life of their 1997 Love Always debut album
June 10, 1970 ~ Post-bop double bassist Dwayne Burno, full name Dwayne Allen Burno, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ~ Took up the bass in his mid-teens, to become a fixture and first-call session musician on the New York jazz scene. First gained attention in the early 1990s, barely out of his teens, backing Betty Carter. Burno would go on to appear on albums by the likes of Eric Reed, Greg Gisbert, Jesse Davis (As We Speak), Vincent Herring, Bob Belden, Digable Planets (Blowout Comb), Stephen Scott, Pete Yellin, Don Braden, Greg Osby (Zero), Justin Robinson, Benny Golson, Roy Haynes, Stefon Harris (A Cloud Of Red Dust), Xavier Davis, Eric Alexander, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Don Braden, John Hicks, Jason Lindner (Premonition), Duane Eubanks, Mike DiRubbo, Monday Michiru (4 Seasons), David Weiss, Peter Leitch, Roy Hargrove, Jeremy Pelt (November), Joe Chambers (Horace To Max), and Lisa Kirchner. Diagnosed with kidney disease in the mid 2000s, Burno would eventually receive a kidney transplant yet succumbed at age 43, two days after his last gig with his own quartet at the Small Jazz Club, New York ~ Burno passed away in 2013June 10, 1968 ~ Tracy Lynn Curry, commonly known as rapper the DOC, born in Dallas, Texas, USA ~ Member of the Fila Fresh Crew. Known for his association with NWA. Worked with Dr Dre on Dre's 1992 The Chronic debut album. Released his own No One Can Do It Better solo debut album in 1989 which spawned the hits It's Funky Enough and The DOC And The Doctor
June 10, 1967 ~ Bassist Charnett Moffett born in New York, New York, USA ~ Worked with Far East, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, Dizzy Gillespie, Ellis Marsalis, Sonny Sharrock, Stanley Jordan, Wallace Roney, Arturo Sandoval, Courtney Pine, David Sanborn, David Sánchez, Dianne Reeves, Frank Lowe, Harry Connick Jr, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Kenny Kirkland, Kevin Eubanks, Lew Soloff, the Manhattan Jazz Quintet, Melody Gardot, Mulgrew Miller, Stanley Jordan, Tony Williams, Rachel Z, Cindy Blackman, Geri Allen, Cyrus Chestnut, Erin McPherson, Yungchen Lhamo, Scott Tixier, Mark Whitfield, Jana Herzen, and Kenny Drew Jr ~ Moffett passed away in 2022June 10, 1967 ~ Shoegazing guitarist, singer, songwriter Emma Anderson, full name Emma Victoria Jane Anderson, born in Wimbledon, UK ~ Member of 1990s shoegazing, Britpop outfit Lush, with whom she recorded four albums starting withy Gala released in 1990. Anderson wrote a substantial amount of the band's material including Single Girl, one of their best known
June 10, 1967 ~ The KFRC Fantasy Fair & Magic Mountain Music Festival held in Marin County, California, USA ~ One-time event. Day 1 of 2. Would serve as a template for rock festivals and as the start of the Summer Of Love. In total some 36,000 visitors would attend the two-day festival. Today's bill included the Charlatans, Mount Rushmore, Rodger Collins, Dionne Warwick, the Doors, Lamp Of Childhood, Canned Heat, the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Spanky & Our Gang, Blackburn & Snow, the Sparrows, Every Mothers Son, Kaleidoscope, the Chocolate Watchband, Mojo Men, and the Merry-Go-Round
June 10, 1965 ~ Jazz guitarist Carl Kress passed away in Reno, Nevada, USA ~ Leader and sideman. Known for late 1930s recordings such as Peg Leg Shuffle, Helena, Love Song, Sutton Mutton and Afterthoughts. Worked with Paul Whiteman, the Boswell Sisters, the Dorsey Brothers, Bix Beiderbecke, Hoagy Carmichael, Miff Mole, Red Nichols, Adrian Rollini, Frankie Trumbauer, Eddie Lang, Tony Mottola, Bobby Hackett, Pee Wee Russell, and Muggsy Spanier ~ Kress was born in 1907
June 10, 1964 ~ Christian David Hayes, commonly known as alternative rock, indie rock, psychedelic rock guitarist, singer, songwriter Bic Hayes, born in Westminster, UK ~ Member of the Cardiacs, present on their 1992 Heaven Born And Ever Bright album for which he co-wrote Goodbye Grace. Guitarist for 1990s rock outfit Levitation, with whom he recorded the albums Need For Not and Meanwhile Gardens. Frontman of psychedelic rock outfit Dark Star, known for their 1999 Twenty Twenty Sound album. Hayes has also recorded as a solo artist, going by the moniker Mikrokosmos, starting with In The Heart Of The Home released in 2007
June 10, 1964 ~ Drummer, singer, songwriter Jimmy Chamberlin born in Joliet, Illinois, USA ~ Co-founding member, drummer for alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, a quintessential 1990s band especially acclaimed for the albums Gish, Siamese Dream, and Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. Following the band's initial disbandement at the turn of the century Chamberlin would join bandmate Billy Corgan in supergroup Zwan, form his own the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex, and work with Skysaw through 2012
June 10, 1964 ~ British rockers the Rolling Stones record It's All Over Now at Chess Studios, Chicago, Illinois ~ Originally recorded by Womack's R&B outfit the Valentinos. Written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack. The Stones version would become the better known version though. Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Released later the same month, paired with Good Times Bad Times on the B-side. Line-up: Mick Jagger lead vocals, Keith Richards lead guitar, Brian Jones 12 string rhythm guitar, Bill Wyman bass, Charlie Watts drumsJune 10, 1961 ~ Jazz, avant-garde saxophonist, flutist Gary Thomas born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA ~ Leader and sideman. Perhaps best known for his association with Jack DeJohnette. Has also worked with John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Greg Osby, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, Cassandra Wilson, Wallace Roney, Miles Davis, Steve Coleman, and Lonnie Plaxico
June 10, 1961 ~ Twin sisters guitarist Kelley Deal and bassist Kim Deal born in Dayton, Ohio, USA ~ Kelley is best known for her work with the Last Hard Men, Kim for her work with the Amps and the Pixies. Both siblings have also worked with the Breeders
June 10, 1961 ~ Max Alfred Elliott, commonly known as reggae fusion singer Maxi Priest, born in Lewisham, UK ~ Mixes reggae and R&B. Influenced by reggae artists such as Dennis Brown, John Holt, Ken Boothe, Gregory Isaacs, and by pop and R&B artists such as Marvin Gaye, Al Green, the Beatles, Phil Collins and Frank Sinatra. Scored American top hits duetting with Roberta Flack on Set The Night To Music, with Shaggy on That Girl, and solo with Close To You. Has also collaborated with Sly & Robbie, Beres Hammond, Jazzie B, Apache Indian, Shurwayne Winchester, Shabba Ranks and Lee Ritenour
June 10, 1958 ~ Singer Elvis Presley records A Big Hunk O' Love in RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee ~ Under the supervision of producer Steve Sholes, Elvis Presley recorded Big Hunk O' Love with regular backing vocalists the Jordanaires and drummer DJ Fontana, along with Nashville session musicians Chet Atkins and Hank Garland on guitar, Bob Moore on double bass, Buddy Harman on drums and Floyd Cramer on piano. The single, featuring My Wish Came True on the B-side, would be released the next year. During the same session Elvis recorded (Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I, to be initially released in 1959 as the B-side to I Need Your Love TonightJune 10, 1957 ~ Singer, actress Midori Kinouchi born in Otaru, Japan ~ First gained attention in 1972 winning the talent contest Miss Teen Contest aired on Nippon TV. Known for songs such as Mezame and Yokohama Eleven. Also ventured into acting. Married to songwriter Tsugutoshi Goto from 1978 through 1982. Married actor, comedian, singer Naoto Takenaka in 1990