b. 18 March 1886, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 29 Sept 1970, Encino, California, USA. On stage from 1908, Horton made an appearance in Gilbert And Sullivan operas and was on Broadway within a helping function in Elevating A Hubby (1912); four years later he came back to superstar in …

The Epstein Brothers were the very best Klezmer band through the 1930s towards the 1970s when the three brothers-Max (B-flat clarinet), Willie (trumpet) and Julius (drums, percussion) — retired to Tamarac, Florida. Since reuniting in the middle-1990s, the brothers possess found where that they had still left off. Their return …

b. 19 Sept 1941, Zurich, Switzerland. Hinnen shown musical talent young. He examined bass and piano at music college with 14, he previously also made an appearance in three movies. He learned electric guitar and became thinking about traditional Swiss folk music (Volksmusik) and specifically in yodelling. His initial record …

Gordon Jenkins appreciated sizable popularity as an arranger, conductor, composer, and bandleader in the ’30s through the ’60s. He started being a multi-instrumentalist freelancing on radio, after that became a prolific arranger, adding to periods by Isham Jones, Benny Goodman, Lennie Hayton, among others. He executed The Show Is normally …

It looks like the very last thing needed at a Nat Ruler Cole recording program will be another pianist named Cole; which “having coals to Newcastle” groaner within somewhere to be certain. But that’s just what occurred in Cole’s past due profession when the clean balladeer began focusing on 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 …

A local of St. Paul, MN, Kathy Jenkins was raised hearing her father’s Irish tenor and her mother’s torchy renditions of music Judy Garland sang. She became a member of her college choir, took acoustic guitar lessons, and sang along with Barbra Streisand information. She then used folk performing at …

A singer/songwriter whose lush, theatrical pop harked back again to the customs of Tin Skillet Alley, cabaret, as well as opera, Rufus Wainwright was created in 1973; the boy of folk music luminaries Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, his parents divorced while he was a kid, and he grew …

b. Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen, 7 Sept 1923, London, Britain, d. 24 Dec 1984, LA, California, USA. The boy of professional Sidney Lawford, Peter produced his display screen debut in Poor Aged Costs (1931). In Hollywood in 1938 he performed a small function in Lord Jeff and in 1942/3 made …

Richard Rodgers was the most effective composer of well-known music for the theater in the 20th century. During the period of a 60-yr career, he published the song ratings for 42 musicals staged on Broadway or in the Western End, aswell as 11 film musicals and two tv musicals (not …