Cornell Gunter's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Cornell Gunter (November 14, 1936 – February 26, 1990) was an American rhythm and blues singer, most active in the 1950s and 1960s. The birth-card coordinate for November 14 is the 6 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 6 of Clubs coordinate

Cornell Gunter's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). 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 Cornell Gunter. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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Cornell Gunter in the public record

He was born in Coffeyville, Kansas, and died in Las Vegas, Nevada, after being shot in his automobile. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 as a member of The Coasters. Gunter was an original member of The Platters. He had recorded with the yet-unnamed Platters, singing back-up on Big Jay McNeely's recording "Nervous Man Nervous" on Federal Records in 1953. Gunter also was a member of The Flairs and The Coasters. The title song from the 1957 Susan Oliver film, The Green Eyed Blonde, was sung by Gunter. Will "Dub" Jones and Gunter joined The Coasters as replacements for Bobby Nunn and Leon Hughes in early 1958. After Gunter left the Coasters, he toured with Dinah Washington. in 1961, he was part of a group called "D's Gentleman" which featured future members of The Dells Charles Barksdale and Johnny Carter as well as Richard Harris and William Herndon.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Cornell Gunter (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

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 Cornell Gunter, and not a forecast of induction.

You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made. Your mind is sharp, commanding, powerful. You think strategically and forcefully. You win arguments and debates. Your thinking dominates.

The survivors of his group continue to tour as "The Original Cornell Gunter's Coasters Inc." "I Had a Love" (Flair #1012) (1953) "This is the night for love/Let's make with some love (Flair #1044) (1954) "True Love" / "Peek, Peek-A-Boo" (Loma #701) (1955) (as The Ermines) "You Broke My Heart" / "Pretty Baby I'm Used To You Now" (Loma #703) (1956) (with The Ermines) "Keep Me Alive" / "Muchacha, Muchacha" (Loma #704) (1956) (with The Ermines) "I'm Sad" / "One Thing For Me" (Loma #705) (1956) (with The Ermines) "She Loves To Rock" / "In Self Defense" (ABC Paramount #9698) (1956) (with The Flairs) "You Send Me" / "Call Me A Fool" (Dot #15654) (1957) "Baby Come Home" / "I Want You Madly" (Eagle #301) (1957) "If We Should Meet Again" / "Neighborhood Dance" (Liberty #55096) (1957) (as Cornel Gunter) "Lift Me Up Angel" / "Rope Of Sand" (Warner Brothers #5266) (1962) "It Ain't No Use" / "In A Dream Of Love" (Warner Brothers #5292) (1962) "If I Had The Key To Your Heart" / "Wishful Thinking (Challenge #59281) (1965) (as Cornell Gunter and The Cornells) "Love in My Heart" / "Down in Mexico" (Together #101) (1976) List of homicides in Nevada List of unsolved murders (1980–1999) The Original Cornell Gunter's Coasters website The Coasters Web Site Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks – The Flairs at the Wayback Machine (archived January 24, 2009) Rock Hall of Fame Find A Grave Memorial

Paired on shared wording: call, thinking.

Also on the record

1. In 1963, he formed his own Coasters group; they were usually billed as "The Fabulous Coasters".
2. Gunter made several solo singles in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including a cover version of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" on Dot Records in 1957.
3. In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame along with the rest of The Coasters.
4. Cornell's sister, Shirley Gunter, also recorded with The Flairs and released with the Queens and in solo in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Other inductees with this card

• Alan White — 2026 Performers with Oasis
• Alec John Such — 2018 Performers with Bon Jovi
• Bob Weir — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• Chris Wood — 2004 Performers with Traffic
• Colin Blunstone — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
• Cordell Mosson — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
• Dee Dee Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
• Dickey Betts — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
• Don Henley — 1998 Performers with Eagles
• Eddie Jobson — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
• Eric Clapton — 1992 Performers with The Yardbirds; 1993 Performers with Cream; 2000 Performers
• Estelle Bennett — 2007 Performers with The Ronettes
• 13 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Cornell Gunter's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. November 14 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 Cornell Gunter's dates come from?

Birth date 1936-11-14 is the day-precision date on Cornell Gunter'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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