Gene Cornish's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Gene Cornish (born May 14, 1944) is a Canadian-American musician. The birth-card coordinate for May 14 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1997 Performers — inducted member of The (Young) Rascals

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Gene Cornish's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 Gene Cornish. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Gene Cornish in the public record

He is an original member of the popular 1960s blue-eyed soul band The Young Rascals. From 1965 to 1970, the band recorded eight albums and had thirteen singles that reached Billboard's Top 40 chart. In 1997, as a founding member of The Rascals, Cornish was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Early in his life, Cornish and his mother moved from Ontario to Rochester, New York. He became a talented guitar and harmonica player at a young age. In his later teen years (early 1960s) he made the rounds of the local clubs and bars in his area and worked with a number of bands (even performing as a single artist on occasion). In 1962, Gene Cornish with The Gene Cornish Nobles released "Winner Take All" backed with "Since I Lost You" on Vassar 319. As the composers of the latter, "R.

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 Gene Cornish, and not a forecast of induction.

You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.

It presented his pre-Rascals recordings, including "I Wanna Be a Beatle," "Rockin' Robin," "Peanuts," "What'd I Say," "You're Gonna Cry Someday," and even Cole Porter's "I Love Paris." Cornish (along with Danelli) continue to tour with "The New Rascals." On April 24, 2010, all four members of The Rascals reunited for the Kristen Ann Carr benefit, which was held at New York's Tribeca Grill.

Paired on shared wording: including, love, you're.

Also on the record

1. Cornish – G.
2. Cornish" is printed on B side label.
3. It was well-made in the manner of white doo-wop (arranged by Lew Douglas).
4. Cornish became a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters in 1964.

Other inductees with this card

• Bobby Darin — 1990 Performers
• Bun E. Carlos — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
• Claydes Charles Smith — 2024 Performers with Kool & the Gang
• David Byrne — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
• Dusty Springfield — 1999 Performers
• Jack Bruce — 1993 Performers with Cream
• Jimmy Reed — 1991 Performers
• John Hartman — 2020 Performers with The Doobie Brothers
• Kurt Cobain — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
• Mavis Staples — 1999 Performers with The Staple Singers
• Pete Farndon — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
• Roger Waters — 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd
• 8 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Gene Cornish's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. May 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 Gene Cornish's dates come from?

Birth date 1944-05-14 is the day-precision date on Gene Cornish'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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