Singer/celebrity Lena Horne’s major job was nightclub entertaining, an occupation she pursued successfully all over the world for a lot more than 60 years, from your 1930s towards the 1990s. Together with her golf club function, she also managed a documenting career that extended from 1936 to 2000 and brought …

Gene Kelly was never extremely popular as a vocalist, despite the fact that he did slice information and was observed in film roles where he sang — rather, it had been his function onscreen like a dancer, choreographer, and movie director that allowed him to exert an integral influence on …

“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 …

Dory Previn was an effective lyricist for film theme music through the 1960s and early ’70s, earning 3 Academy Prize nominations for best tune; in the mid-’70s and early ’80s, she released books of memoirs and composed and performed in musical movie theater functions. But she continues to be most …

Dancer, acting professional, and vocalist Fred Astaire worked steadily in a variety of entertainment press during nine years from the 20th hundred years. One of the most celebrated dancer in the annals of film, with performances in 31 film musicals between 1933 and 1968 (and a particular Academy Award in …

Ideal remembered for “Zing! Went the Strings of My Center,” Adam F. Hanley was an archetypal Tin Skillet Alley professional who constructed numerous music for stage and film, mainly through the early ’20s. Hanley was created Feb 17, 1892, in Renselaer, IN, and that could inform his initial main strike, …

b. 31 March 1938, Oldham, Lancashire, Britain. A pianist, musical movie director, arranger and composer, Holloway got piano lessons from age seven, and six years later on was organist and choirmaster at his regional church. Through the 50s, he toured with different groups, spent a while as pianist with Harry …

b. Irving Lahrheim, 13 August 1895, d. 4 Dec 1967, NY, USA. An acting professional, comedian and vocalist, along with his rubber-faced manifestation and loud antics – including his trademark manifestation ‘gnong-gnong’ – Lahr was among the all-time great clowns from the American musical theater. After doing work for plenty …

Trombonist Abe Lincoln existed within a little coterie of jazz music artists who have been named after U.S. presidents. Another two members of the unofficial professional branch had been New Orleans trumpeter Thomas Jefferson and Georgia-born golf swing/R&B trombonist George Washington. Lincoln was extremely active being a scorching jazz participant …

David Rose was probably one of the most well-known and unique mainstream instrumental pop composers from the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, composing several items that became area of the nation’s collective memory space. From “Vacation for Strings” to “The Stripper,” his music was generally distinguished by way of a loose, …