Buddy Boudreaux

John Landry “Buddy” Boudreaux was a big band and jazz musician in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He played saxophone and clarinet. Since 1934, he directed and played in a number of bands that have toured the southern United States and drawn nationally known performers to Baton Rouge. The State-Times newspaper called him “the city’s sound of big band.” His bands backed such artists as Andy Williams, Bernadette Peters, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis, The Four Tops, Bob Hope, George Burns and Joan Rivers. He opened shows for Tony Bennett, Tony Orlando, Louise Mandrell, The Beach Boys and Bill Cosby. He was co-author—with his barber, Michael T. Abadie—of “My Baton Rouge,” which in 1998 was declared the city's official song.

27 December 1917

Born on the same birth date (27 December 1917): Onni Palaste • T. Nadaraja

Born on the same birth day (27 December): Bill Self • Claudio Castagnoli • David Shepherd (umpire) • François Hemsterhuis • Inejirō Asanuma • Jacqueline Pillon • Jay Pandolfo • Joan Manuel Serrat • Mark Lapidus • Werner Baumbach

Born in the same month (December 1917): Arthur C. Clarke • Audrey Totter • Cahit Külebi • David Bohm • Ellis Clarke • Irv Robbins • James Jesus Angleton • James Rainwater • June Taylor • Nabi Bakhsh Baloch • Onni Palaste • Tom Bradley (mayor)