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 …

Frankie Brunson’s been with us and involved with music quite a while. Nearly 70 years of age, the Buffalo, NY-reared entertainer may be the kid of an area preacher. Also before senior high school graduation (Hutchinson Great) he was producing a name locally only a small amount Frankie. He sang …

Actor John Harm tells the beloved Arabian Knights story of Aladdin & the Magic Light fixture for Rabbit Ears’ 1994 multi-medium children’s discharge with music accompaniment by Mickey Hart. The name is obtainable as either an audiobook (spoken phrase), a hardback reserve illustrated by Greg Couch, along with an audio …

Launching his job like a St. Louis-based program musician, Paul Delicato performed bass with Ike & Tina Turner, Small Milton, Chuck Berry, Albert Ruler, and Fontella Bass. Stepping in to the limelight, Delicato reached his apex in 1975, when his singles “Snow Cream Sodas and Lollipops and a Warm Spinning …

One will not attempt to be considered a jazz article writer like you might to be always a doctor or an attorney. It just appears to happen. I was created on Oct 4, 1954, in the Bronx, NY. From enough time I had been two until I had been 11, …

Perhaps one of the most important of the first groups to seem regularly in the WLS Country wide Barn Dance in Chicago. The performers and music artists (primarily from Support Vernon and Berea, Kentucky) had been taken to WLS in 1930 by their innovator John Lair (b. 1 July 1894, …

b. 21 Feb 1879, Bradford, Yorkshire, Britain, d. 24 Apr 1952, Chiddingford, Surrey, Britain. Although she’d retire from your stage before she was 30, Millar crammed into her profession many great successes and she actually is kept in mind as the archetypal Western End ingénue of the first twentieth hundred …

b. Emile Richeux, 1903, Ramsgate, Kent, Britain, d. 1985, Britain. Among six children given birth to to Jules and Agnes Richeux, who later on went the Royal Artillery Theater in south-east London. Widowed, his mom wedded Frank Littler. Emile’s making it through siblings had been sisters Winifred, Blanche and Sylvia …

b. 24 January 1878, London, Britain, d. 9 Dec 1968, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, Britain. Like his old sibling, Harry Greenbank, Percy proved helpful first being a journalist before getting into the theatre being a songwriter. On the behest of George Edwardes, when Harry passed away he began composing lyrics for tracks …