Charlie Thomas (musician)

Charles Nowlin Thomas was an American singer best known for his work with The Drifters. Thomas was performing with The Five Crowns at the Apollo Theater in 1958 when George Treadwell fired his group, called The Drifters. Treadwell recruited the Five Crowns to become the new Drifters.

7 April 1937

Born on the same birth day (7 April): Alexander Karpovtsev • Andi Fraggs • Brooke Brodack • Bruce Gary • Charles Fourier • Danny Sandoval • Davidson Brothers • Edwin T. Layton • Erich Loewenhardt • Flora Tristan • Florian Schneider • Franco Di Santo • Gino Severini • Joe Gallo • Kevin Alejandro • Kurt von Schleicher • Margarete Schön • Martín Cáceres • Paul Berth • Warner Fusselle • Werner Schroeter • Will Keith Kellogg

Born in the same month (April 1937): Antonio Carluccio • Arie Selinger • Circle Repertory Company • George Takei • Gert Potgieter (athlete) • Jan Kaplický • Joseph Lelyveld • Richard Perham • Sid and Marty Krofft • Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood • Tony Harrison