During the summer season of 1923, a cappella vocal teams led by Reverend Thomas H. Wiseman produced some phonograph transcriptions in Camden, NJ and NY for the Rainbow and Victor record businesses. Portions from the Rainbow catalog also made an appearance on other brands including Paramount. Affected primarily from the …

The Hampton Institute Quartet & Sextet were outgrowths of the gospel vocal harmony ensemble associated with among the nation’s great BLACK and Local American learning institutions through the first half of the 20th century. Their principal recordings were produced through the years 1939-1948 and also have been reissued with the …

New York indigenous Irving Aaronson began being a classically trained pianist who studied with Alfred Sendry on the David Mannes College for Music. Aaronson started his profession at age 11, playing piano in nickelodeons. He’s shown in a few sources to be a person in Sophie Tucker’s Five Kings of …

Buxom celebrity Mae Western employed smart double-entendres through the entire span of her long profession on stage and display. More often than once she were able to press something suggestive at night eagle eye and ears of her rigid censors, and her general public came to enjoy her for this. …

Known as perhaps one of the most flexible and energetic entertainers ever, Betty Hutton is a group singer, performed on / off Broadway, in movies, on-stage, and in nightclubs. Her performing range has established her with the capacity of both comedic and dramatic tasks, as well as the anticipated musical …

Created in 2006, the Ghent-based creative jazz quintet Wofo (“With others, for others”) is basically a car for carrying out and documenting the compositions of bassist Xavier Verhelst, who performs electric six-string bass within the band’s albums but who could be noticed in photographs with a typical acoustic straight. The …