Together with singer and composer Neil Sedaka, lyricist Howard Greenfield authored a few of the most amazing pop music to emerge in the famous Brill Building. Blessed and elevated in Brooklyn, NY, in past due 1952 the 16-year-old Greenfield was presented to 13-year-old neighbor and piano prodigy Sedaka, with whom …

b. 24 July 1935, Woking, Surrey, Britain. A pianist, conductor, arranger, musical movie director, and highly effective composer, especially in the 60s and 70s. Reed’s dad, a semi-professional mouth-organist with an area troupe, the Westfield Children, was wanting to formalize his kid’s curiosity about music. Key pad lessons from age …

b. Patrick John Michael O’Hara Scott, 1 November 1930, Bristol, Britain. After being extremely mixed up in 60s pop picture, Scott is rolling out into a well known film music composer, today surviving in London and Hollywood. During his early profession he acted as personnel arranger using the Ted Heath …

Possibly the greatest session pianist/keyboardist ever to grace a Nashville documenting studio, Hargus “Pig” Robbins maintained a wonderfully prolific career through the late ’50s in into the fresh millennium. Robbins was created in Spring Town, TN, in 1938; a major accident along with his father’s blade resulted in the increased …

Alongside his accomplishments being a composer and arranger, the multifaceted Steve Grey was also perhaps one of the most prolific session keyboardists in contemporary jazz, financing his talents to sessions headlined by Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, and Peggy Lee. Delivered Apr 18, 1944, in Middlesbrough, Britain, Grey started teaching himself …

Actress/vocalist Fran Jeffries (given birth to Frances Makris) began her profession in the later ’50s, showing up in such movies as Sex as well as the One Girl, The Green Panther, and Elvis Presley’s Harum Scarum. Many Television, nightclub, and movie theater performances implemented as Jeffries confirmed her vocal skill, …

b. 18 Oct 1933, Burlington, Vermont, USA, d. 21 March 1998, NY, USA. An archive and theater producer and movie director, Bagley is certainly chiefly appreciated by lovers from the musical theater for his Revisited albums. These contain ignored gems, songs constructed with the leading stage and film composers from …

Curly Putman was among country music’s most significant songwriters. The kid of the sawmill employee, he finished his education and spent four years in the U.S. Navy, before he himself proved helpful within a sawmill. After completing a industrial training course, he became a footwear salesman. He composed music and …

When H.B. Barnum shaped the Dootones in LA, CA, in 1954, he was a practiced pro. Four years previous, at age 12, he documented as Pee Wee Barnum for Imperial Information and was a self-taught piano prodigy who got made an appearance in concerts around L.A. The initial members were …

b. 29 Dec 1932, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Swenson analyzed at Northwestern University or college, developing her dramatic abilities and specifically her soprano performing voice. She made an appearance in NY in New Encounters Of 1956 and The Initial Gentleman (1959) prior to going to Hollywood where she is at the …