Birthdays on the Tube, 29 November-5 December

An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays.

2 December 1982: Britney Spears is 27. There is some resistance to Britney hereabouts, so I thought I'd post a version of "Toxic" sung acoustically by Galia Arad to demonstrate that she does have some terrific songs. If Galia - who with her cousin Lail, should become much better known in 2010 - loves Britney, who are we less cool mortals to resist her?

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Of course Britney's production is also first-rate - those Egyptian film strings are awesome, no?

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2 December 1923:  Sharing the same birthday, an even more divine diva, Maria Callas.

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5 December 1950: Cameron de la Isla was the wild singer who was at the forefront of the Nuevo Flamenco movement in the 1970s, with guitarist Tomatito as his side-kick.

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3 December 1927: Andy Williams watching the girls go by.

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5 December 1932: A whole lot of shaking going on for Little Richard, not to mention for the camera-person. And the audience.

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