Mike Gracie
John J. (Cougar) Mellencamp is 64 years old today.
Singer-songwriter Mellencamp has been nominated for more than ten
Grammy Awards, winning one. Billy Joel helped induct him into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. Johnny Cash called Mellencamp "one of
the 10 best songwriters" in music.
Camille Bohannon
Sir George Ivan Morrison is celebrating birthday number 70 today.
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ED DONAHUE
Kenneth Ray "Kenny" Rogers is celebrating birthday 77 today.
Rogers joined his first band, The Scholars, in the mid-1950s, but the band
dissolved after their front man left to go solo. He is a 2013 inductee into the
Country Music Hall of Fame.
