LA R&B manufacturer John Dolphin was among the first & most notorious dark individual record label owners, although his efforts towards the formative many years of rock and roll & roll tend to be overshadowed with the cutthroat business procedures that ultimately resulted in his loss of life. A previous …

Screen composer Joel Hirschhorn received a set of Academy Awards co-writing themes to two of the largest disaster movies of the first ’70s, The Poseidon Experience as well as the Towering Inferno. Blessed within the Bronx, NY, in 1938, Hirschhorn went to NY City’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Performing …

R&B combo the Five Crimson Hats formed in NEW YORK in 1943. Based on Marv Goldberg’s profile within the November 1991 problem of Discoveries, the group once was referred to as the Four Toppers, whose Los Angeles-based initial lineup — tenor/drummer Jimmy Springs, second tenor David Patillo, baritone/bass participant Richard …

Fred Kaplan is definitely best-remembered in blues history as an associate from the immortal Hollywood Body fat Band, but a lot more so, he belongs within the pedestal of Angeleno blues pioneers. He was attracted to the ivories at age group three, and performed his 1st recital when he was …

As a manufacturer and owner from the Faro, Linda, Rampart, Valhalla, Potential customer, Boomerang, and Gordo brands, Eddie Davis was a significant body in the East LA rock and roll scene from the 1960s and early ’70s. Although this created little in the form of nationwide chart actions, his discs …

The L.A.-structured Lamplighters are most widely known because the group who later on evolved in to the Sharps, the backup group for Thurston Harris (“Small Bitty Pretty One particular,” number 2 R&B and number 6 play 1957 for Aladdin). Previous Hollywood Fire second tenor Willie Ray Rockwell, Matt Nelson, Al …

One of the better in addition to among the only “cowboy jazz” performers, Smith Ballew may also be reported to be the fellow who also started the Glenn Miller music group, only to own it hijacked from him. The indigenous Texan was a lot more interested in artwork than music …

Shirley Gunter was among the first ladies in rock and roll & move and helped to pave just how for other females to lead their very own groupings. Like Wanda Jackson, Etta Adam, LaVerne Baker, Esther Phillips, and Brenda Lee, she was a pioneer. Gunter and her vocal group, the …

b. 23 Might 1942, Bristol, Britain. Wedlock proved helpful variously within a youngsters employment workplace, a department shop so that as a instructor before his developing popularity being a comic vocalist and raconteur prompted him to become professional entertainer in the first 70s. The fact of his diverting evenings in …

Probably the most enigmatic person in the initial Charlatans (the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ’60s band of this name, not the greater famous later on British one), pianist Mike Ferguson appears an excellent decade roughly more than his bandmates in mid-’60s photos. It had been he who was simply most …