Birthdays today start with the singer of perhaps the most inappropriate song for a Western in the history of movies, B.J. Thomas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5l6rIUu4A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gYtJ94C7SI

Kerry Chater of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap:

Richard Joswick of the one-hit-wonder Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods (and exactly which war does this song refer to?):

Bruce Dickinson (not this Bruce Dickinson) of Iron Maiden:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTaD9cd8hvw

Jacquie O’Sullivan of Bananarama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddaRTuYRW4

One death anniversary: Esther Phillips, today in 1984:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaD4mgpQwOM%5D