“The Sweetheart from the Fighting Fronts,” singer Frances Langford was a global Battle II heartthrob beloved by soldiers on her behalf performances within Bob Hope’s USO travels. Blessed Frances Newbern in Lakeland, FL, on Apr 4, 1914, she originally aspired to a profession performing opera, but a neck operation permanently …

b. Phyllis Daniels, 14 January 1901, Dallas, Tx, USA, d. 16 March 1971, London, Britain. As a little child Daniels made an appearance on stage in productions by her dad, who maintained a theatre firm, and which starred her celebrity mother. She is at silent movies from age nine and …

Lee Graham (vocals/bass/flute); John Garborit (business lead acoustic guitar), Ted Sheffler (keyboards), Dick Powell (harmonica) and Pole Pilloud (drums) composed this enigmatic ‘intensifying’ SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA group. Their lone recording, The Love Routine, presented an ambitious, prolonged title-track where the musicians attemptedto compress a lot of the town’s experimental …

b. 5 Might 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Lewis was created right into a musical family members, a profession in showbusiness was practically inevitable. Her dad, Leon Lewis, was a symphonic composer and pianist, her mom, Jessica, sang using the Chicago Opera Firm and became among the nation’s leading vocal instructors. …

This orchestra developed frequent hit recordings through the 30’s, including classics of Americana such as for example “I REALLY LIKE a Parade”. For ten years from 1925, the Arden-Ohman orchestra kept forth within the ‘pits’ of several long-running Broadway strikes, and documented a repertoire of mainly present tunes. The account …

Mike and Mandy Morton shaped Spriguns Of Tolgus in their very own folk golf club in Cambridge, Britain. On their 1st two, self-financed albums, the Mortons had been became a member of by Rick Thomas (fiddle) and Chris Russon (guitar). Playing smooth focus electrical folk, the music group authorized with …

b. Ethel Hilda Keeler, 25 August 1909, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, d. 28 Feb 1993, Rancho Mirage, California, USA. A captivating and petite celebrity and vocalist renowned for the Busby Berkeley ‘Depression-era’ musicals she made out of Dick Powell within the 30s, especially for 42nd Road where Warner Baxter barked …

b. Ella Geisman, 7 Oct 1917, the Bronx, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 8 July 2006, Ojai, California, USA. A stylish actress and vocalist with a unique husky tone of voice, Allyson was frequently cast because the archetypal adorable girl-next-door, and is most likely best remembered on her behalf portrayal …

As the Blue Records might be possibly music sounds or bandmembers, the tiny Bill in cases like this is Bill Englehart, also called Washington’s “Ambassador of Bass Guitar.” His design ranges from the sort of slip guitar pieces connected with early nation blues to advanced, passionate R&B balladry. Englehart has …

It would oftimes be stretching this is considerably to place Fred Waring within the jazz category, though he was extremely popular utilizing some ideas through the improvisational college. Waring led a dance-based banjo music group at 18; he went to Penn State, after that shaped Fred Waring’s Collegians, who eventually …