This day (October 29, 1945), in New York City, New York, is born Beatrice Melba Smith a.k.a Melba Moore, an American disco, R&B singer and actress who began her performing career in 1967 as Dionne in the original cast of the musical Hair along with Ronnie Dyson and Diane Keaton.

Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt, Shakin' Stevens, Freddie Jackson & Melba Moore, Jennifer Rush, Keith Sweat, George Benson, Eurythmics, INXS, Huey Lewis And The News, a~ha, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Somerville

Gwen Guthrie, Ruthless Rap Assassins, TLC, Melba Moore, Ice Cube, Maxwell, Peter Andre, Janet Jackson, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Kris Kross, Aaliyah, Dr.Octagon

James Brown, OutKast, Smokey Robinson, The Miracles, Curtis Mayfield, The Temptations, Melba Moore, The Neville Brothers, Emeli Sandé, Sampha, Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson

'Dizzy Gillespie at Newport' is a live album recorded with a big band on July 6, 1957 and released the same year by Verve.

'The Genius of Ray Charles' is his sixth studio album mixing big band songs with string-backed ballads, recorded on May 6 and June 23, 1959 and released in October 1959 by Atlantic. .