Tommy Hunt's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Charles James Hunt (June 18, 1933 – February 12, 2025) was an American soul and northern soul singer, and a 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee as a member of famed R&B group the Flamingos. The birth-card coordinate for June 18 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Performers with The Flamingos induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2001 Performers — inducted member of The Flamingos

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Tommy Hunt's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Tommy Hunt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

Live Queen of Clubs meaning page

Tommy Hunt in the public record

Born to Georgianna Derico on June 18, 1933, Hunt started his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his school friends nicknamed him Tommy, a name that stayed with him throughout his entire life. Although music dominated his formative years, as he spent those years practicing for and entering multiple talent shows, he ended up being sent to reform school while still an elementary school student. Released from that school when he was ten, he and his mother subsequently relocated to Chicago. After a stint in the United States Air Force, Hunt went AWOL in order to be with his mother, who was dying. He served time in prison for deserting and, after his release, returned to Chicago where he formed a group called the Five Echoes. While performing in a nightclub, he was approached by Zeke Carey of the Flamingos, and was asked to take Carey's place, as Carey had recently been drafted. Hunt was kept on after Carey returned. In 1959, the group's biggest hit record was "I Only Have Eyes for You".

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Tommy Hunt, and not a forecast of induction.

Emotional depth expressed through creativity

Released from that school when he was ten, he and his mother subsequently relocated to Chicago.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: mother.

Also on the record

1. Hunt left the group in 1961 due to musical differences, but within three days he was approached by Luther Dixon and released "Parade of Broken Hearts" which was slow to be picked up by the radio stations.
2. In New York, a disc jockey called Jocko Henderson introduced the song but played the B-side by mistake.
3. The track aired was "Human", Hunt's biggest hit in the U.S.
4. His 1962 B-side, "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself", written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and produced by Leiber and Stoller, was the first recording of the song, which later became a major hit for Dusty Springfield, Dionne Warwick and others.

Other inductees with this card

• Bonnie Raitt — 2000 Performers
• Bruce Thomas — 2003 Performers with Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• Cher — 2024 Performers
• David Crosby — 1991 Performers with The Byrds; 1997 Performers with Crosby, Stills & Nash
• David Lee Roth — 2007 Performers with Van Halen
• Dizzy Reed — 2012 Performers with Guns N' Roses
• Fats Domino — 1986 Performers
• Joe Cocker — 2025 Performers
• Johnny Cash — 1992 Performers
• Jonathan Cain — 2017 Performers with Journey
• Larry Graham — 1993 Performers with Sly and the Family Stone
• Mike Smith — 2008 Performers with The Dave Clark Five
• 8 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Tommy Hunt's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. June 18 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 Tommy Hunt's dates come from?

Birth date 1933-06-18 is the day-precision date on Tommy Hunt'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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