Today’s Soul Birthdays – March 31

Lowell Fulson – American blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. He also recorded for contractual reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, he was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.

Herb Alpert – American trumpeter who led Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss.

Al Goodman – American singer who performed as part of the musical trio Ray, Goodman & Brown,  a group that was earlier called The Moments.