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December 8th 1925, Born on this day, Sammy Davis Jr, singer, actor, (1972 US No.1 single 'The Candy Man'). Died of throat cancer on 16th May 1990.

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8 DECEMBER 1925 Jazz organist Jimmy Smith is born in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He helps popularize the Hammond B-3 electric organ in the '60s.

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8 DECEMBER 1981 Blues harmonicist Big Walter Horton dies of heart failure at age 60.

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8 DECEMBER 1966 Sinead O'Connor is born in Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland.

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8 DECEMBER 1943 Jim Morrison is born James Douglas Morrison in Melbourne, Florida. He becomes lead singer of The Doors.

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7 DECEMBER 1910 Louis Prima is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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7 DECEMBER 1924 Rockabilly singer-songwriter Boyd Bennett is born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Known for the 1955 hit "Seventeen."

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7 DECEMBER 1963 The Singing Nun's "Dominique" hits #1 for the first of four weeks.

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Otis Redding

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7th Dec 1967, Otis Redding went into the studio to record ('Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay'. The song went on to be his biggest hit. Redding didn't see its release; he was killed three days later in a plane crash. Redding wrote the first verse of the...

7th Dec 1979, The Police had their second UK No.1 single with 'Walking on the Moon', taken from their second album 'Reggatta De Blanc'. The video for the song was filmed at Kennedy Space Center interspersed with NASA footage

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