1938 in Music - Births

Births

• January 6 – Adriano Celentano, singer-songwriter
• January 11 – Narvel Felts, country singer
• January 13 – Shivkumar Sharma, santoor player
• January 14
  • Allen Toussaint, songwriter and record producer
  • Jack Jones, singer
• January 19 – Phil Everly (The Everly Brothers)
• January 21 – Wolfman Jack, DJ (d. 1995)
• January 25
  • Etta James, blues singer (d. 2012)
  • Vladimir Vysotsky, singer, songwriter, poet, and actor (d. 1980)
• February 11 – Bobby "Boris" Pickett, singer, "Monster Mash" (d. 2007)
• February 16 – John Corigliano, composer
• February 22 – Bobby Hendricks (The Drifters)
• February 27 – Jake Thackray, singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• March 2
  • Lawrence Payton (The Four Tops)
  • Simon Estes, operatic bass
• March 3 – Douglas Leedy, composer
• March 12 – Dimitri Terzakis, composer
• March 13
  • Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
  • Jean-Claude Risset, composer
• March 18 – Charley Pride, country singer
• March 25 – Hoyt Axton, country singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
• April 2 – Booker Little, jazz trumpeter and composer
• April 3 – Jeff Barry, songwriter
• April 4 – Declan Mulligan (The Beau Brummels)
• April 7
  • Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter (d. 2008)
  • Spencer Dryden, Jefferson Airplane
• April 13 – Frederic Rzewski, composer
• April 19 – Jonathan Tunick, composer
• April 26
  • Duane Eddy, guitarist
  • Maurice Williams (Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs)
• May 4 – Tyrone Davis, singer
• May 10
  • Henry Fambrough (The Spinners)
  • Maxim Shostakovich, conductor
• May 13
  • John Smith (The Monotones)
  • Lucille Starr, French-Canadian singer
• May 15 – Lenny Welch, singer
• May 26 – Teresa Stratas, operatic soprano
• May 27 - Elizabeth Harwood, operatic soprano (d. 1990)
• May 28 – Prince Buster, ska musician
• June 9 – Charles Wuorinen, composer
• June 13 – Gwynne Howell, opera singer
• June 15 – Jean-Claude Eloy, composer
• June 20 – Mickie Most, record producer (d. 2003)
• June 24 – Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophonist
• July 1 – Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, bansuri player
• July 4 – Bill Withers, singer-songwriter
• July 17 – Stanley Bronstein (Elephant's Memory Band)
• July 28 – George Cummings (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show)
• August 8 – Jacques Hétu, composer
• August 13 – Dave "Baby" Cortez
• August 23 – Roger Greenaway, songwriter
• August 24
  • David Freiberg (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
  • Mason Williams, guitarist and composer
• August 26 - Jet Black (The Stranglers)
• August 28 – Clem Cattini (The Tornados)
• September 3 – Larry Grossman, composer of Broadway musicals
• September 6 – Joan Tower, composer
• September 19
  • Zygmunt Krauze, pianist and composer
  • Yuji Takahashi, composer
• September 21 – Atli Heimir Sveinsson, composer
• September 28 – Ben E. King, singer
• October 3 – Eddie Cochran, singer (d. 1960)
• October 15 – Marv Johnson, singer (d. 1993)
• October 16 – Nico, singer-songwriter, actress and model (d. 1988)
• October 18 – Ronnie Bright, The Coasters
• November 2 – Jay Black (Jay and the Americans)
• November 4 – Harry Elston (Friends Of Distinction)
• November 6
  • Jim Pike (The Lettermen)
  • P.J. Proby, singer
• November 7 – Dee Clark, soul singer (d. 1990)
• November 14 – Cornelius Gunter, The Flairs, The Coasters
• November 16 – Troy Seals, singer, songwriter
• November 17 – Gordon Lightfoot, singer-songwriter
• November 19 – Hank Medress (The Tokens)
• December 1 – Sandy Nelson, drummer
• December 5 – J. J. Cale, singer-songwriter
• December 8 – Bernie Krause, bioacoustician
• December 10 – Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
• December 12 – Connie Francis, singer
• December 15 – Fela Kuti, Afrobeat pioneer (d. 1997)
• December 18 – Chas Chandler, musician, record producer and manager (d. 1996)
• December 20 – John Harris Harbison, composer
• December 28 – Charles Neville (The Neville Brothers)
• date unknown
  • Fanta Damba, jalimosolu singer
  • Atli Heimir Sveinsson, composer