Doo wop quintet the Beavers formed in NEW YORK in early 1949; the lineup was set up by vocal trainer Joe Thomas and comprised lead tenor Freddy Hamilton, tenor Dick Palmer, lead baritone John Wilson, bass Raymond Johnson, and pianist/arranger Howard Biggs, who acquired previously offered in the same capability …

Modern synthesizer participant Ray can be referred to as Ray Leonard, a experienced Los Angeles-based recording engineer. The boy of the minister, he was raised in various places in Tx. He began performing in chapel at age group six, got piano and violin lessons as a kid, and got a …

Exclusive and risk-taking, Farzin Farhadi is certainly a soprano and alto saxophonist/composer whose melodic jazz-pop continues to be influenced by Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane and Jan Garbarek aswell as traditional Persian and Middle Eastern music. The lush, gentle character of Farzin’s music gained the saxman (who merely goes on his …

Hervé was the nom de plume of French composer Florimond Ronger. Created in Houdain, he relocated with his mom to Paris at age group 10 when his dad died. After picking right up the rudiments of music like a choirboy in the chapel of St. Roch, Hervé came into the …

A talented vocalist/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist located in Columbus, OH, Harold “Happy” Chichester has taken the longer road to country wide identification through a confusing zigzag of rings, collaborations, and visitor appearances. Perhaps most widely known as the whirlwind head behind Howlin’ Maggie as well as for his outrageous bass playing …

b. Melvin Derwood Dark brown, 29 Sept 1915, Stephenville, Tx, USA, d. 24 Dec 1978, Fort Well worth, Tx, USA. The family members relocated in 1918 and Dark brown was raised in Fort Well worth. A talented guitarist, who at age 12 was playing expertly with elder sibling Milton Dark …

Shirley Goodman enjoyed one of the most remarkable second serves in pop music background, resurfacing some 2 decades after her preliminary success as fifty percent from the hitmaking R&B duo Shirley & Lee with the first disco smash “Pity, Shame, Pity.” Delivered June 19, 1936, in New Orleans, Goodman initial …

Professional George Hall enjoyed an amazingly lengthy romp in the spotlights within a profession that began seeing that the vaudeville period waned. Tv buffs in the ’90s may have observed him in the Scarlet and Dark miniseries or as the doddering Aged Indy within a relatively cheesy prequel towards the …

LA R&B group the Feathers was founded in nov 1954 by business lead tenor Johnny Staton subsequent his stint using the Flyboys, a quintet he assembled even though offering U.S. Air flow Force responsibilities in West Hand Seaside, FL. After generating his military release, Staton came back to his indigenous …

New Orleans R&B outfit Sugars Son and His Cane Cutters emerged in 1953 from your remnants from the Sha-Weez, shaped three years previously the campus from the Crescent City’s Booker T. Washington SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Relating to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Sept 1977 problem of Yesterday’s Remembrances, the Sha-Weez …