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Donald "Duck" Dunn's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts
The Compassionate Idealist
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
Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012) was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for November 24 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1992 Performers with Booker T. & the M.G.'s induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1992 Performers — inducted member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s
The 9 of Hearts coordinate
Donald "Duck" Dunn's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). 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 Donald "Duck" Dunn. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.
Donald "Duck" Dunn in the public record
Dunn was notable for his 1960s recordings with Booker T. & the M.G.'s and as a session bassist for Stax Records. At Stax, Dunn played on thousands of records, including hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, Bill Withers, Elvis Presley, and many others. In 1992, he was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Booker T. & the M.G.'s. In 2017, he was ranked 40th on Bass Player magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time". Dunn was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His father nicknamed him "Duck" after the Disney character Donald Duck. Dunn grew up playing sports and riding his bike with another future professional musician, Steve Cropper. After Cropper began playing guitar with their friend Charlie Freeman, Dunn decided to learn the bass guitar.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Donald "Duck" Dunn (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Donald "Duck" Dunn's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- J♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 2♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Skeptical Partner
- 8♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Emotional Powerhouse
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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♥, 7♦, J♣, 10♥, J♦, 7♣, 5♦, Q♠, 9♦, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- Eventually, along with drummer Terry Johnson, the four became the Royal Spades.
- The Messick High School group added keyboardist Jerry Lee "Smoochy" Smith, singer Ronnie Angel (also known as Stoots), and a budding young horn section in baritone saxophone player Don Nix, tenor saxophone player Charles "Packy" Axton, and trumpeter (and future co-founder of the Memphis Horns) Wayne Jackson.
- Cropper has noted how the self-taught Dunn started out playing along with records, filling in what he thought should be there.
- "That's why Duck Dunn's bass lines are very unique," Cropper said, "They're not locked into somebody's schoolbook somewhere".
Other inductees with this card
- Ben E. King — 1988 Performers with The Drifters
- Bob Burns — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Bootsy Collins — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Clem Burke — 2006 Performers with Blondie
- John Phillips — 1998 Performers with The Mamas & the Papas
- Maurice Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees
- Rick Nielsen — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
- Robin Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees
FAQ
- What is Donald "Duck" Dunn's birth card?
- The 9 of Hearts. November 24 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 Donald "Duck" Dunn's dates come from?
- Birth date 1941-11-24 is the day-precision date on Donald "Duck" Dunn'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, Donald "Duck" Dunn) + Wikidata CC0 (Q379341). Birth date 1941-11-24 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).