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Friday, March 27, 2015
Billy Joe Shine
Lead singer for the Nightcaps -- via the Dallas Morning News. The group's most meoriable song, "Thunderbird," was pirated by ZZ Top in 1975; however, litigation was unsuccessful as Shine never copyrighted the song in the first place.