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Questions

I would greatly appreciate birth dates for the artists listed below or any country or 60s artists that I may have missed. Thanks, Denny

Country Artists

Darlene Austin: b. in Salina, KS; country/rock/blues/soul singer, songwriter; "Sunday Go to Cheatin' Clothes" (#68c 1982), "Guilty Eyes" (#81c 1986), "I Had a Heart" (#63c 1987), "The Mistake I Should Have Made" (2000), "I'm Gonna Beat You to the Truck" (2000), "Easier to Fall All to Pieces" (2000)
Sherry Brane: country singer; b. in KS; Miss KS 1977; "It's My Party" (#56c 1979), "Little Girls Need Daddies" (#83c 1980), "Falling in Trouble Again" (#86c 1980)
Glenda Griffith: country/rock singer; b. in CA (grew up in Wichita, KS); "All My Friends" (1977), "Don't Worry ('Bout Me)" (#96c 1978), "Night Eyes" (1978, she wrote)
Billy Hoffman: country/rock singer, guitar; b. in AR (grew up in Poteau, OK); "Perfect Night" (#69c 2000), "You're the Ticket" (#75c 2000), "All I Ever Wanted Was You" (2000), "Destination Unknown" (2000), "It Just Hurts a Little" (2000, he co-wrote); he was born with a severe hearing problem that was corrected by several surgeries
Ann Jones (Ann Matthews): b. 1920 in Hutchinson, KS (grew up in Enid, OK); country singer; "Give Me a Hundred Reasons" (#15c 1949, she wrote), "This Secret Love" (1951, she wrote), "I Love You More as Time Goes By" (1952, she wrote), "I Carry Your Picture in My Heart" (1952, she wrote), "A Little Bit of Nylon" (1953), "If I Was a Cat" (1954), "Hit and Run" (1961), "Baby Sitter's Blues", "Is It Any Wonder (That I Love You)", "Lonesome With You" (wrote), "You've Got the Right of Way" (she wrote), "If I Was a Cat" (she wrote), "God Gave Me You" (1951, she wrote)
J.D. Martin: (Jerald Derstine Martin aka Jerry Derstine); country/pop/gospel singer, piano, songwriter; b. in Harrisonburg, VA; "Running Out of Reasons to Run" (#72c 1986, he co-wrote), "Wrap Me Up in Your Love" (#77c 1986), "Only Heaven Knows" (2001, he wrote), "A World of Peace" (2001, he wrote); duets with Jan Garett, "This is What I Know" (2003), "I Dreamed of Rain" (2003), "All That I Am" (2003, he co-wrote), "Starting With Me" (2003), "And Together" (2003), "God Bless Us All" (2003); md. to singer/songwriter Jan Garrett; with Tanglefoot; co-wrote Reba McEntire's "Love Will Find It's Way to You"; Don Williams' "Nobody But You", "Just as Long as I Have You"; the Oak Ridge Boys' "Everyday"; Gary Morris' "I'll Never Stop Loving You", "Between Two Fires"; John Berry's "You and Only You"; Peter Cetera's "One Clear Voice"; Terri Clark's "Now That I Found You" (#1c 1998); Kellie Coffey's "When You Lie Next to Me"
Doug Meier: country singer; from Ottawa, KS; * "Lay Your Heart on Me" (1996, he wrote), "Candlelight and Bubblebath" (1996, he wrote), "Could Not, Would Not, Should Not Be" (1996, he wrote); http://www.dougmeier.com/
LeNaye Pearson: country/gospel singer; * "My Heartache Could Be Healed by You" (2002), "I'm Just Getting Over Getting Over You" (2002)
John Scott Sherrill: country/rock/folk singer, guitar; b. in New York City, NY (grew up in Mount Kisko, NY) ; founding member of Billy Hill (1989-90), "Too Much Month At The End Of The Money" (# 25 1989, he co-wrote), "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (#58c 1989); songwriter, wrote Steve Wariner's "Some Fools Never Learn" (#1c 1985); Highway 101's "Do You Love Me (Just Say Yes)?" (#1 1988); Shenandoah's "The Church on Cumberland Road" (#1c 1989); Brooks and Dunn's "How Long Gone?" (#1c 1998); co-wrote John Michael Montgomery's "No Man's Land" (#3c 1995); John Anderson's "Wild and Blue" (#1c 1982); Montgomery Gentry's " "Gone" (#3c 2005), "If You Ever Stop Loving Me" (#1c 2004); George Strait's "Blue Clear Sky" (#1c 1996); Faith Hill's "Take Me as I Am" (#2c 1994)
Anthony Smith (Ralph Anthony Smith): country singer, guitar, songwriter, music producer; b. ca 1964 in Oneida, TN or Warsaw, IN; "If That Ain't Country" (#26c 2002, he co-wrote), "John J. Blanchard" (#40c 2002, he co-wrote), "Infinity" (2002, he wrote), "Hell of a Question" (2002, he co-wrote), "Half a Man " (#40c 2003, he wrote); wrote George Strait's "Run" (#34, #2c 2001); Trace Adkins' "I'm Tryin'" (#44, #6c 2001), "Chrome" (#74, #10c 2003); Confederate Railroad's "That's What Brothers Do" (#39c 2001)

Non-Country Artists

Denny Davis: pop/soul; with The Glades, "Sally Go Round the Sunshine" (1964), "I Love You" (1964)
Cathy Dougher (Kathleen Dougherty): singer; she was Josie of Josie and the Pussycats, "Every Beat of My Heart" (1970)
Ed Hardin: pop singer; (not Eddie Harden b. 19 Feb 1949); * "Broken Hearted, Sad and Blue", "Sure Gonna Miss Her"; founding member of Ed Hardin and the Cadets, "Good Thing"
Cornelius 'Nini' Harp: founding member and lead singer with The Marcels (1959-62, and reunions), "One Last Kiss" (1963)
Rochell Henderson: lead tenor with Rochell and the Candles
Joey Levine: pop singer; with Rock 'n' Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card Co. of Philadelphia 1941, * "Bubble Gum Music" (#74 1969); founding member of Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus (session musicians featuring Joey Levine), "Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)" (#25 1968, One-Hit Wonder), "Down in Tennessee" (1968); founding member of Ohio Express (1967-68), "Beg, Borrow and Steal" (#29 1967), "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" (#4 1968), "Zig Zag" (1968), "Chewy Chewy" (#15 1968); backup singer on Crazy Elephant's "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" (#12 1969, One-Hit Wonder, he co-wrote); and with Captain Groovey and his Bubblegum Army
Danny Loveland: singer, drums; b. in Wichita or Kansas City, KS; with Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods (1965-75); solo, "Black is Black"
Ethel McCrea (Earl-Jean McCrea): b. 1942 in Brooklyn, NY (grew up in NC); married Grant Reavis; "I'm Into Something Good" (#38 1964, One-Hit Wonder), "How Does it Feel?" (1964), "Randy" (1964); founding member of The Cookies, "Chains" (#17 1962), "Stranger in My Arms" (1962), "Don't Say Nothing Bad (About My Baby)" (#7 1963), "Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys" (#33 1963); The Cookies sang backup on Little Eva's "Locomotion"; Eydi Gorme's "Blame it on the Bossa Nova"; Carole King's "It Might As Well Rain Until September"; and for Neil Sedaka, Ben E. King, and others.

Country Groups

Heartland: from KS; country/bluegrass; Mark Carman, Christian singer, keyboards, music producer, songwriter, wrote "New River"; Ron Kohlman; Barry McLawhorn, guitar; Barry Templeton; "New River" (#79c 1988), "Keep the Faith" (#61c 1989), "Southern Frame of Mind" (1985, re-released 2007); not the group that did "I Loved Her First" (2006)
The Solid Gold Band: from Galina, KS; "Cherokee Country" (#47c 1982), "I Never Had the One I Wanted" (#65c 1982), "Bandera, Texas" (1982), "Country Fiddles" (#68c 1982); Jim Rowland, John Green, Mike Bartlett, Tyler Ogle, Buddy Burr
The Wichita Linemen: "Every Day of My Life" (#100c 1977, he co-wrote), "You're a Pretty Lady, Lady" (#93c 1979); country singer and instrumentalist Greg Stevens b. 1951 in MO (grew up in Wichita, KS); Don Powell, steel guitar; Don Walton, singer; Carl Hendricks, lead guitar; Robin Harris, drums

Non-Country Groups

The Blue-Belles aka The Starlets (1961-64): Jane Hall; Maxine Edwards; Mickey McKenney; Jeanette Miles; Liz Walker aka Dynetta Boone; "Listen for a Lonely Tambourine" (1960), "Better Tell Him No" (#38 1961), "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman" (#15 1962, recorded as the Blue-Belles, Patti LaBelle's group are often wrongly credited for it)

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