Jazz keyboardist Erroll Garner was born today in 1921 (d. 1977). Here he plays his most famous composition “Misty”:
Former Buddy Holly bass player, Nashville Cat, country-rock icon and, with Willie Nelson, one of the original ‘Outlaws,’ Waylon Jennings greeted this mean ol’ world in 1937 (d. 2002).
And from the first Farm Aid Concert in 1985:
Folk-rock singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson was born in 1941 (d. 1994). Here’s the theme song he sang for the film “Midnight Cowboy”: