Eddie Jefferson

Eddie Jefferson was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as an innovator of vocalese, a musical style in which lyrics are set to an instrumental composition or solo. Jefferson himself claims that his main influence was Leo Watson. Perhaps Jefferson's best-known song is "Moody's Mood for Love" which was recorded in 1952, though two years later a recording by King Pleasure catapulted the contrafact into wide popularity. Jefferson's recordings of Charlie Parker's "Parker's Mood" and Horace Silver's "Filthy McNasty" were also hits.

3 August 1918

Born on the same birth date (3 August 1918): James MacGregor Burns • Larry Haines • Sidney Gottlieb

Born on the same birth day (3 August): Anthony Sampson • Aron Stevens • David Buttolph • Dimitrios Zografakis • Ernesto Samper • Ian Bairnson • Jimmie Nicol • John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey • John C. McGinley • Marilyn Maxwell • Michael Arthur (physician) • Ryan Lochte • Sidney Gottlieb • Stanley Baldwin • Sunil Chhetri • Syreeta Wright • The Shirelles • Victoria Kan • Étienne Dolet

Born in the same month (August 1918): Albert Seedman • Betty Oliphant • Billy Johnson (baseball) • Billy Reay • Cisco Houston • Evelyn Ankers • Giles Cooper (playwright) • Gordon Zahn • Jacqueline Susann • L. B. Cole