Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Billy Guy's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs
The Master Builder
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Billy Guy (June 20, 1936 – November 5, 2002) was an American singer, best known as a lead singer for the Coasters. The birth-card coordinate for June 20 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1987 Performers with The Coasters induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1987 Performers — inducted member of The Coasters
The 10 of Clubs coordinate
Billy Guy's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Billy Guy. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.
Billy Guy in the public record
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Born Frank Phillips in Texas, Guy is best known as a member of the Coasters, singing lead on such hits as "Searchin'", "Little Egypt", "Run Red Run", "Wait A Minute", among others. Songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller praised his "marvelous sense of comedy and timing." Before Guy joined The Coasters in 1955, he was part of a comedy singing duo called "Bip and Bop". One single, "Ding Dong Ding", b/w "Du-Wada-Du", was released on Aladdin Records in 1955. He made a number of solo records during the 1960s and 1970s. He did about a dozen or so solo recordings in 1963 for Double-L Records which later show up on collections as by The Coasters, most notably the albums "Hungry" (Joy #189, 1971, released in the UK) and "It Ain't Sanitary" (Trip #8028, 1973). He also produced records for others in the late 60s and early 70s, including "Love Won't Wear Off" (Calla Records) in 1968 by J.R. Bailey and a spoken words album by Universal Messengers called "An Experience In The Blackness Of Sound" (Turbo/All Platinum Records) about 1969.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Billy Guy (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Billy Guy, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Billy Guy's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♣ — Birth Card: The Master Builder
- 4♠ — Karma — Environment: The Rigid Truth
- J♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Messenger of Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- A♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You look at love clearly without using analysis as a way not to feel it. You're wired to look beneath the surface of feeling, to seek the truth under the romance. You bring reflection and wisdom to love, asking what's real rather than what's merely pleasant. You can see emotional patterns others miss.
He also produced records for others in the late 60s and early 70s, including "Love Won't Wear Off" (Calla Records) in 1968 by J.R.
Paired on shared wording: love, others. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 8♦'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- Bailey was a former member of The Cadillacs and writing partner of Vernon Harrell (who had replaced Guy as a member of The Coasters in the 1960s on stage only).
- Guy and Bailey had a record company, GuyJim Records.
- A single released by C.
- Alexander And The Natural 3 called "Pay Them No Mind" b/w "Somebody Special" was released on the GuyJim label.
Other inductees with this card
- Bobby Elliott — 2010 Performers with The Hollies
- Brian Jones — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- Brian Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
- Calvin Simon — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Danny Cedrone — 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Diana Ross — 1988 Performers with The Supremes
- Dion — 1989 Performers
- Doug Clifford — 1993 Performers with Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Ed King — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Glen Buxton — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
- Gregg Allman — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
- Ian Stewart — 1989 Performers with The Rolling Stones
- 22 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Billy Guy's birth card?
- The 10 of Clubs. June 20 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Billy Guy's dates come from?
- Birth date 1936-06-20 is the day-precision date on Billy Guy's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Billy Guy) + Wikidata CC0 (Q322358). Birth date 1936-06-20 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).