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 …

Don Cornell is among the longest and last dynamic singers in the big band period. Still performing first from the 21st hundred years, he’s a younger modern of Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, and something from the last performing stars from the 1950s pre-rock period who has preserved an active …

b. 5 March 1947, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA. Within the middle-50s child celebrity Hodges made an appearance in television programs The Jackie Gleason Display and Name That Melody and was noticed on Broadway 405 occasions in the strike musical The Music Guy. In 1959 he starred alongside Frank Sinatra and Edward …

Talking about Frankie Avalon’s job like a mover and shaker in 1950s rock and roll & move with anyone who calls for their rock and roll & move even halfway seriously would be to courtroom derision. Avalon was the to begin the manufactured teenager idols, before Fabian and Bobby Rydell …

Born Apr 19, 1920, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frank Fontaine appreciated an effective career as both an actor and singer. Created to parents who have been circus performers (his dad was a “solid guy” and his mom a trapeze designer), Fontaine started acting on Television applications in the past due ’40s …

Although Further Seems Forever by no means were able to retain a lead singer for several album, the Florida-based music group wielded substantial influence within the emo arena, becoming among the genre’s most acclaimed rings despite maintaining a comparatively low profile. Created in Pompano Seaside, the music group first required …

Professional/singer Barry Gordon entertained children (and adults) seeing that a child superstar along with his million-selling strike record “Nuttin’ for Xmas” within the ’50s, and in the ’90s because the tone of voice of Donatello within the phenomenally successful Television toon series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It appears kismet that …

b. Joseph Lopez, 29 March 1890, Evansville, Indiana, USA, d. 16 Might 1959, Clinton Hollow, NY, USA. Orphaned simply because a small kid Lopez had taken his adoptive parents’ name. He became a favorite vaudeville and circus action, singing, dance, playing several musical instruments and juggling, and was also an …

Django Reinhardt was the initial hugely influential jazz shape to emerge from European countries — and he remains to be probably the most influential Western european even today, with possible competition from Joe Zawinul, George Shearing, John McLaughlin, his outdated cohort Stephane Grappelli along with a bare couple of others. …

A longtime fixture from the Bay Area power pop picture, Chris Von Sneidern was among the pop underground’s even more accomplished singer/songwriters, earning a cult following having a string of indie produces through the ’90s. Given birth to in Syracuse, NY, Von Sneidern became a member of a local clothing …