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Gene "Birdlegg" Pittman
Gene "Birdlegg" Pittman
musical artist
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Mark Hummel
Mark Hummel
American musician
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Johnny Fuller
Johnny Fuller
American electric blues and West Coast blues musician
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Jimmy McCracklin
Jimmy McCracklin
American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter
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Pete Sears
Pete Sears
British musician
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Billy Roberts
Billy Roberts
American songwriter and musician
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Ron Thompson
Ron Thompson
American guitarist and singer
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Nick Gravenites
Nick Gravenites
American musician
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Papa John Creach
Papa John Creach
American musician (1917-1994)
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Forbidden
American thrash metal band
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Jesse Fuller
Jesse Fuller
American one-man band musician, songwriter
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Mike Bloomfield
Mike Bloomfield
American guitarist and composer
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Bob Geddins
Bob Geddins
American musician and record producer
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Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy
American blues guitarist and singer
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Bill Graham
Bill Graham
German-American impresario and rock concert promoter
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Luther Tucker
Luther Tucker
American musician
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Armando Peraza
Armando Peraza
Cuban percussionist
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R.J. Mischo
R.J. Mischo
song writer and record producer
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Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane
American rock band
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Sonny Rhodes
Sonny Rhodes
American musician
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Mitch Woods
Mitch Woods
American boogie-woogie, jump blues and jazz musician
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Mark Naftalin
Mark Naftalin
American blues keyboardist, composer, and record producer
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Joe Louis Walker
Joe Louis Walker
Blues musician
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Tommy Castro
Tommy Castro
American musician
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Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder
American guitarist, singer and composer
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Cal Tjader
Cal Tjader
American Latin jazz musician, recording artist
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Protein
Protein
musical group
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4 Non Blondes
4 Non Blondes
band
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Albert King
Albert King
American blues guitarist and singer
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Johnny Heartsman
Johnny Heartsman
American electric blues and soul blues musician
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Dave Meniketti
Dave Meniketti
American musician
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Sir Douglas Quintet
Sir Douglas Quintet
band
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Jimmy Witherspoon
Jimmy Witherspoon
American jump blues singer
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Denise Sullivan
Denise Sullivan
American music journalist
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It's a Beautiful Day
It's a Beautiful Day
American band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1967
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The Whispers
The Whispers
American music group
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Mary Stallings
Mary Stallings
American singer
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Sage the Gemini
Sage the Gemini
American rapper
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Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
American singer and songwriter
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Bobby Freeman
Bobby Freeman
American singer
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The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds
English band
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Quicksilver Messenger Service
Quicksilver Messenger Service
American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco
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Keg Johnson
Keg Johnson
American jazz trombonists
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Rick Vito
Rick Vito
American musician
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Richard Wyands
Richard Wyands
hard bop pianist
Haskell Robert Sadler
American musician

Haskell Robert Sadler

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American musician

Haskell Robert "Cool Papa" Sadler (April 16, 1935 – May 6, 1994) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Born in Denver, Colorado, United States, Sadler moved to California and worked in clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1960s. He played a number of times at the San Francisco Blues Festival. Sadler wrote "747" as recorded by Joe Louis Walker, and "Yesterday" recorded by Tiny Powell. In the 1970s, he recorded as "Cool Papa" for TJ Records. Cool Papa proved to be a guiding hand to Gene "Birdlegg" Pittman, then a new arrival in the Bay Area, and Pittman played alongside Sadler for 13 years.

He developed diabetes, and had a leg amputated in 1990. He died, aged 59, in Berkeley, California, in 1994.