Bob James (musician)
Robert McElhiney James is an American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote "Angela", the theme song for the TV show Taxi. According to VICE, music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and believed to have contributed to the formation of hip hop. Among his most well known recordings are "Nautilus", "Westchester Lady", "Tappan Zee", and his version of "Take Me to the Mardi Gras".
25 December 1939
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Born on the same birth day (25 December): Archibald Pitcairne • Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Barbara Follett (politician) • Cab Calloway • Camille Herron • Choi Sung-yong • Chris Cahill • Enrique Morente • Ernst Ruska • Evangeline Booth • Glenn McCarthy • Hana Meisel • Ian Bostridge • Jeanne Hopkins Lucas • Jo-Jo Moore • Ken Stabler • Mary Rose Tuitt • Maung Aye • Orlando Gibbons • Pete Rugolo • Pope Pius VI • Stephen F. Chadwick
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