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From: MSN NicknameTarver1  (Original Message)Sent: 8/9/2007 2:02 AM
What were these famous folks (most are musicians) know as professionally after they gave up their birth names?
 
Lesley Goldstein
 
Leslie King
 
Robert Zimmerman
 
Richard Starkey
 
James Ambrose Johnson
 
Willa Mae Thornton
 
John Birks Gillespie
 
August Darnell (raised in the Bronx!)
 
 


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From: MSN NicknamethroggsneckerSent: 8/9/2007 2:18 AM
1.  Lesley Gore
 
2.  Gerald Ford
 
3.  Bob Dylan
 
4.  Ringo Starr
 
7.  Dizzy Gillespi
 
8.  Kid Creole (Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band...anyone from the disco scene remembers Cherchez La Femme........  Tommy Mottola lives on the road...he lost his lady two months ago...maybe he'll find her...maybe he won't
 
 

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From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 8/9/2007 5:08 AM
How about. . .

Ellen Naomi Cohen

Ruth Jones

Carolyn Johnson

Julius Garfinkel

Charles Westover

McKinley Morganfield

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From: frankgSent: 8/9/2007 8:38 AM
How about. . .

Ellen Naomi Cohen- Mama Cass Elliott

Ruth Jones- Dinah Washington

Carolyn Johnson- ?

Julius Garfinkel- John Garfield

Charles Westover- Del Shannon

McKinley Morganfield- Muddy Waters

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From: MSN NicknameTarver1Sent: 8/9/2007 2:29 PM
Two answers:
 
James Ambrose Johnson -- Rick James
 
Willa Mae Thornton -- Big Mama Thornton
 
Two questions:
 
Jerry Dorsey
 
Grace Wing

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 Message 6 of 8 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 8/10/2007 12:56 AM
Jerry Dorsey=Englebert Humperdinck



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 Message 7 of 8 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknameMarty-GSent: 8/10/2007 1:02 AM
Carolyn Johnson=Whoopie Goldberg.

Funny. . .she doesn't LOOK Jewish!

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From: MSN NicknameTarver1Sent: 8/10/2007 1:38 AM
I thought Carolyn was Whoopi!
 
Grace Wing = Grace Slick

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