Best-known for the perennial “Fly Me towards the Moon,” composer Bart Howard was created Howard Joseph Gustafson in Burlington, Iowa in 1916. After departing house at 16 to serve as the pianist within a dance music group that toured to get Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, in 1934 he …

Tony Hooper was the co-founder and an integral person in the Strawbs through the group’s 1st five many years of living, from 1967 through 1972. Created right into a musical family members in 1943, he was attracted to acting like a son, but he later on developed a pastime in …

b. Herbert Henry Dawson, 19 March 1913, Collingwood, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, d. 13 Feb 2008, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Dawson’s family members relocated to Warrnambool when he was a baby and his mom passed away when he was five years of age. A pioneer of Australian nation music, …

Since the past due 1970s, violinist Carlos “Zingaro” Alves spent some time working with lots of the top improvisers and composers of his time. Given birth to in Portugal, Zingaro analyzed traditional music at his hometown of Lisbon’s Music Conservatory from age five, until 1965. He was an associate from …

b. Peggy Lou Snyder, 18 July 1909, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, d. 2 Oct 1994, Laguna Seaside, California, USA. Delivered right into a showbusiness family members Hilliard began as a vocalist and in the first 30s was employed by popular music group leader, and husband to be, Ozzie Nelson. Although …

Oscar-winning songwriter Sammy Fain wrote effective pop strikes and show music for Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s through the 1950s. Blessed in N.Con.C. on June 17, 1902, Fain continued to become prolific author of traditional pop music which were oft-covered by vocalists through the years. The composer got his …

Easy listening composer and arranger Joe Harnell was created in the Bronx, NY, about August 2, 1924. The child of a previous vaudevillian, he initiated piano research at age six and was playing expertly by 14, carrying out with some jazz rings (including his father’s Catskills klezmer combo) while carrying …

Clarinet, reeds, arranger. A superb clarinet player who was simply effective in both traditional and golf swing circles, Heinie Beau became a familiar physique in Hollywood circles, performing plans for radio and tv aswell as recording classes. Beau have been in Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra from 1940 – 1943. He documented …

Mike Berry — never to be confused along with his modern Dave Berry — was a pop/rock and roll singer who gained his preliminary fame within the steady of performers made by the legendary Joe Meek. His most widely known record, “Tribute to Friend Holly” is among the many fondly …

The pop-minded singer/songwriter Marshall Crenshaw developed an extraordinary body of work during the period of his career, showing an excellent craft for everything he approached while stubbornly following his own creative muse to attain that end. To contact Crenshaw’s profession “interesting” will be placing stuff mildly. He starred in a …