Harvey Fuqua founded the seminal R&B/doo wop group the Moonglows, was an early on mentor of Marvin Gaye (co-producing “Sexual Recovery” and Gaye’s strike duets with Tammi Terrell), helped to build up several Motown serves, and helped to start the professions of ’70s soul-pop group New Delivery and disco superstar …

During his multi-decade stint being a Columbia Details staff arranger and conductor, George Siravo collaborated with a bunch of singers including Tony Bennett, Doris Day, and Rosemary Clooney, but he continues to be best appreciated for his use Frank Sinatra on a set of now-classic LPs that shepherded the crooner’s …

Friend Clark was probably one of the most well-known male vocalists from the 1930s and ’40s, successful about radio, in films, and about record — had he lived longer, within the estimation of pop music scholar John P. Cooper, Clark will certainly have already been a rival to Perry Como …

This cellist studied classical music on the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, then used the Cleveland Symphony, but stepped directly into the present day jazz annals when he replaced Fred Katz within the rhythm portion of drummer Chico Hamilton’s clever combo in the next half of the ’50s. The …

b. 19 Oct 1911, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 10 Might 2002, LA, California, USA. A composer, arranger, conductor and record manufacturer, Cates was informed at NY University. He visited work for humor group Olsen and Johnson, organizing music because of their revue Hellazpoppin, and in addition proved helpful for …

Best known for his or her hits because the Rip Chords, the vocal duo of Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher collaborated on countless hot-rod and browse records through the mid-1960s, functioning under a seemingly endless selection of studio room guises. While Johnston had been a well-known Western Coast session participant, …

b. 30 Might 1903, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, d. 10 Feb 1998, Westport, Connecticut, USA. A songwriter with a little, but essential catalogue, Kramer analyzed in the McGill Conservatory of Music in Montreal and led orchestras on regional r / c, before shifting to the united states in the past due …

Lyricist Al J. Neiburg acquired his submit several standards composed through the previous fifty percent of the ’30s. He’s perhaps most widely known for 1930’s “I’m Confessin’ (That I REALLY LIKE You),” that was performed in cooperation with Doc Dougherty and Ellis Reynolds, and became a jazz and pop regular …

With her sweet, uplifting, vocals, Tebereh “Doris Day” Tesfa-Hunegn, became among the leaders of Ethiopia’s pop music scene from the ’70s. Politics turmoil in her homeland plagued her throughout her brief musical career. Documenting for maker Amha Eshete’s Amha Information label, Tesfa-Hunegn helped Eshete defy an edict putting all documenting …

While he by no means achieved the type of achievement enjoyed by fellow bandleaders like Bob Wills or Spade Cooley, through the past due ’40s and early ’50s Hank Penny ranked among the foremost professionals from the Western golf swing sound. Created Herbert Clayton Cent on Sept 18, 1918, in …