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Will "Dub" Jones's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds
The Dynamic Entrepreneur
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
Will J. The birth-card coordinate for May 14 is the 5 of Diamonds — 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 5 of Diamonds coordinate
Will "Dub" Jones'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 Will "Dub" Jones. 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.
Will "Dub" Jones in the public record
"Dub" Jones (May 14, 1928 – January 16, 2000) was an American R&B singer. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and died in Long Beach, California. He was inducted as a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Coasters in 1987. Other groups with which he recorded include the Cadets, the Crescendos, and the Charades. Jones is a singer who is most notable as the bass vocalist for The Coasters and The Cadets. His best known vocals were on The Cadets' biggest hit single "Stranded in the Jungle" and his bass vocals on The Coasters' hits "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown". Cornell Gunter and Jones joined The Coasters in early 1958, as replacements for Leon Hughes and Bobby Nunn. Jones also appeared on various other recordings.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Dub Jones (singer) (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 Will "Dub" Jones, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Will "Dub" Jones's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♦ — Birth Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♦ — 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.
Expanding love and belonging across a community
"Hands Across The Table" / "Love Can Do Most Anything" (Modern #1024) (1957) (as Will Jones & The Cadets) "Cold Blooded Women" / "What Can I Do" (MJC #101) (circa 1960) (as Dub & Cora) "Heaven's Not So Far" (MJC #108) (about 1960) (as Dub Jones) "Cold Blooded Women" / "Heaven's Not So Far" (MJ #102) (about 1969) (A-side by Dub & Cora) "Cold Blooded Women" / "What Can I Do" (Cotillion #44079) (1970) (as Dub & Cora) The Coasters website
Paired on shared wording: across, love.
Also on the record
- In 1956, he sang on The Crescendos' recording "Sweet Dreams".
- In 1957, he sang with Jesse Belvin & The Space Riders on the Modern #1027 single "My Satellite" / "Just To Say Hello".
- He had also recorded with Cora Washington, billed as Cora And Dub.
- He is said to have sung lead on The Trammps' cover version of "Zing!
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
- Gene Cornish — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
- 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
- 8 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Will "Dub" Jones'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 Will "Dub" Jones's dates come from?
- Birth date 1928-05-14 is the day-precision date on Will "Dub" Jones'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, Dub Jones (singer)) + Wikidata CC0 (Q326357). Birth date 1928-05-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).