Joey Spampinato
Joseph Nicholas Spampinato is a multi-instrumentalist and was a founding member and bass player of NRBQ. He was also one of the band's lead singers and chief songwriters. Before NRBQ he played in several bands, including The Seven of Us, which in 1967 while in Miami, Florida, met another band, The Mersey-Beats USA. The bands merged to form NRBQ. On the group's first two albums, NRBQ and Boppin' the Blues Spampinato is credited as "Jody St. Nicholas".
16 August 1948
Born on the same birth date (16 August 1948): Barry Hay • Earl Blumenauer • Mike Jorgensen • Pierre Reid
Born on the same birth day (16 August): Albert Cohen (novelist) • Andreas Stamatiadis • Ann Blyth • Arthur Cayley • Arvind Kejriwal • Désiré Mérchez • Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen • Eric Weissberg • George Galloway • Georgette Heyer • Hongxi Emperor • James Casey (variety artist) • Lesley Turner Bowrey • Liane Haid • Marshall Manesh • Mary Gilmore • Masoud Barzani • Matt Christopher • R. R. Patil • Roque Cordero • Russell Brookes • Shivnarine Chanderpaul • Timothy Hutton
Born in the same month (August 1948): Andrei Pleșu • Andy Fairweather Low • Cliff Branch • David Marks • Deborah Swallow • Elizabeth Wilmshurst • James Street (American football) • Jean-Michel Jarre • John Scarlett • Johnny Grubb • Lev Zelyony • Marty Appel • Mike Jorgensen • Pierre Reid • Svetlana Savitskaya