Sam Butera
Sam Butera was an American tenor saxophonist and singer best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who performed with equal ease in both R&B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that permeated the early Vegas nightclub scene.
17 August 1927
Born on the same birth date (17 August 1927): F. Ray Keyser Jr.
Born on the same birth day (17 August): Dan Dakich • Don Sweeney • Dustin Pedroia • Eduardo Mignogna • Erika Toda • Francis Gary Powers • Fred Goodwin • Fredrika Bremer • Herta Müller • Jacek Kazimierski • Johannes Maria Staud • Jon Gruden • Laurence Overmire • Lothar Bisky • Mahboob Ali Khan • Michael John Wise • Pauline A. Young • Philibert I, Duke of Savoy • William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes • Xie Zhenye • Álvaro Pino
Born in the same month (August 1927): Des Renford • F. Ray Keyser Jr. • Fred Kavli • Jimmy C. Newman • John Boardman (art historian) • John H. Moore II • Lois Nettleton • Maia Wojciechowska • María Teresa López Boegeholz • Yootha Joyce