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Blues icon Memphis Slim was born today in 1916 (d. 1988).
Folk singer and songwriter Tom Glazer was born Sept. 2 in 1914 (d. 2003).
Keyboardist extraordinaire Billy Preston, who worked with everyone from Ray Charles to The Beatles and was a great performer in his own right, was born Sept. 2 in 1946 (d. 2006).