Dissatisfied with the King Bees and their repertoire of Howlin ' Wolf and Willie Dixon blues numbers, Bowie quit the band less than a month later to join the Manish Boys, another blues outfit, who incorporated folk and soul — " I used to dream of being their Mick Jagger ", Bowie was to recall.

Big Walter Horton was the favored harmonicist of many Chicago blues bandleaders, including Willie Dixon.

* 1992 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician ( b. 1915 )

* 1915 – Willie Dixon, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( d. 1992 )

Cabrel cited the artist as one of a number of blues influences, including Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Howlin ' Wolf, Blind Blake, Willie Dixon and Ma Rainey.

" Alabama Song " was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ); " Back Door Man " was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin ' Wolf.

* January 29 – Willie Dixon, American composer and musician ( b. 1915 )

He left King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys in Stourbridge in his mid-teens and developed a strong passion for the blues, mainly through his admiration for Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson and early rendition of songs in this genre.

He frequently talks about American blues musicians as his inspiration, mentioning artists like Robert Johnson, Howlin ' Wolf, Blind Willie Johnson, and Willie Dixon at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and the 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert with Led Zeppelin.

Subjects for the murals were drawn from the history of Vicksburg and the surrounding area and include President Theodore Roosevelt's bear hunt, the SS Sultana, the Sprague, the Siege of Vicksburg, the Kings Crossing site, Willie Dixon, the Flood of 1927, the 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado outbreak, Rosa A. Temple High School and the Vicksburg National Military Park.

They played covers of songs written by The Rolling Stones (" Dandelion "), Moby Grape (" Hey Grandma "), and Willie Dixon (" Spoonful ") along with a handful of originals.

** Willie Dixon sues Led Zeppelin over the song " Whole Lotta Love ", on the grounds that it contains too many similarities to his own song " You Need Love ".

Cabrel cites the artist as one of a number of blues influences, including Charley Patton, Son House, Blind Lemon, Robert Johnson, Howlin ' Wolf, Blind Blake, Willie Dixon, and Blues Boy Willie, whose father toured with Rainey.

In time, other important artists signed with Chess Records, including Bo Diddley and Sonny Boy Williamson, while Willie Dixon and Robert Lockwood Jr. took on a significant role behind the scenes.

Well-known Chicago blues players include singer / songwriters such as Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf, Willie Dixon, and Koko Taylor ; guitar players such as Freddie King, Otis Rush, Luther Allison, Magic Sam, Syl Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy, Robert Lockwood Jr., McKinley Mitchell, Bo Diddley, Mike Bloomfield and Elmore James ; harmonica players such as Big Walter Horton, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Butterfield, Junior Wells and Jimmy Reed ; and keyboardists such as Marty Sammon.

When his previous record label, Abco Records, failed to generate much interest, Toscano approached Willie Dixon about working for Cobra.

According to Dixon & Godrich ( 1981 ) and Leadbitter and Slaven ( 1968 ), Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress researchers did not record any Delta bluesmen ( or women ) prior to 1941, when he recorded Son House and Willie Brown near Lake Cormorant, Mississippi, and Muddy Waters at Stovall, Mississippi ; however, this claim is disputed as John and Alan Lomax did record Bukka White in 1939, Lead Belly in 1933 and most likely others.

Broonzy combined all these influences into his own style of the blues that foreshadowed the post-war Chicago blues sound, later refined and popularized by artists such as Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.

With a lineup of alto saxophone, tenor sax, piano, and string bass ( Willie Dixon played the instrument on the first session ), he signed with the Miracle label in the fall of 1946.

Slim first appeared outside the United States in 1960, touring with Willie Dixon, with whom he returned to Europe in 1962 as a featured artist in the first of the series of American Folk Festival concerts organized by Dixon and promoter Willie Dixon that brought many notable blues artists to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.

The first European explorer to pass near the site of Coober Pedy was Scottish born John McDouall Stuart in 1858, but the town was not established until after 1915, when opal was discovered by Willie Hutchison.

Germany captured copies of the pamphlet in 1916, translating and issuing it to units, but already had more sophisticated infiltration tactics: an experimental Pioneer unit commanded by Hauptmann Willie Rohr had been formed in the spring of 1915, over two months before Laffargue's pamphlet was published.

: On 27 September 1915 near the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, at about noon the enemy's bombers in superior numbers were successfully working up " Little Willie " Trench towards the Redoubt.

Two of his brothers Willie ( killed in 1915 ) and John McCudden ( killed in 1918 ) were also military pilots.

On 29 September 1915 in the " Big Willie " Trench near the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, during a heavy bombing attack, more bombs were urgently required and private Harvey volunteered to fetch them.

Born on January 1, 1915, in Union Springs, Alabama, as the eldest child to sharecroppers John ( Doctor ) and Willie Ella ( Mays ) Clark, he renamed himself John Henrik ( after rebel playwright Henrik Ibsen ) and added an " e " to his surname Clarke.

* 1933 – Willie Nelson, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and activist

* 1950 – Willie Hall, American drummer ( The Bar-Kays )

* 1925 – Willie Jones, American baseball player ( d. 1983 )

* 1951 – Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist

* 1944 – Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter ( d. 2007 )

* 1934 – Willie Bobo, American jazz percussionist ( d. 1983 )

* 1900 – Willie Kamm, American baseball player ( d. 1988 )

That's the only thing that kept Willie Mays and me from being teammates – fifty dollars.

* 1976 – Willie Adler, American guitar player ( Lamb of God )

* 1961 – Willie Revillame, Filipino game show host and comedian

* 1951 – Willie Maddren, English former footballer ( d. 2000 )

* 1954 – Willie Randolph, American baseball player

* 1943 – Willie Davenport, American athlete ( d. 2002 )

* 1975 – Willie Anderson, American football player

* 1955 – Willie Wilson, American baseball player

* 1967 – Willie Anderson, American basketball player

* 1938 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player

* 1960 – Willie Aames, American actor

* 1958 – Willie O ' Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

* 1975 – Willie Geist, American television host, writer, and producer

* 1901 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer and guitarist ( d. 1959 )

* 1931 – Willie Mays, American baseball player