The Royal Vacations, a Detroit-based group, began singing in 1955, and like many sets of the time, started on the road corners and in the parks. The group contains: Vernon Williams (1st tenor/lead), Chester Scott (also 1st tenor/lead), Kenneth Fuqua (second tenor/lead), Jerry Wallace (baritone), and Charles Farley (bass). Having …

Bass saxophonist Harry Silver was a traveling force at the rear of Britain’s postwar Dixieland revival, growing the gospel of traditional jazz for a lot more than 70 years. Created Harry Goldberg on Feb 26, 1907, in Dublin, Ireland, he was raised in London’s East End. In 1919 he went …

“The poet laureate of tv,” comedian Nipsey Russell became a fixture of pop culture landscape through the 1970s after an effective nightclub career with some indelible appearances in the chat shows and video game implies that, in large part, defined the Me 10 years. Nipsey Russell was created Oct 13, …

The hypnotic, undulating cadence from the Theremin has graced the soundtrack of several horror film soundtracks — with least one classic rock & roll tune, the Seaside Children’ “Great Vibrations”). However the device has not motivated a big contingent of full-time adherents; they have mostly been utilized as a way …

Noting metal rock and roll bands such as for example Kiss, Iron Butterfly, and Cream to be memorable affects, Bionaut is certainly ironically an ambient duo. Made up of keyboardists Paul Eggelston and Chris Green, Bionaut also uses analog and digital equipment to create their audio. The duo fulfilled while …

Greg Turner functions full time like a pension specialist to get a financial services business, and spends the majority of his free time indulging in his enthusiasm for jazz. He’s a jazz radio programmer for the X-Star radio network, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lives. He is a part …

Made up of virtuosic sisters Sarah, Hannah, Eva, and Liza Holbrook, Colorado-based indie folk quartet SHEL (an acronym of their initial brands) cast a distinctive spell, weaving together folk, rock and roll, Celtic, pop, and almost anything else off their drain of affects. Their creative abilities had been nurtured from …

b. Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones, 3 January 1907 (1905 may also be cited), Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, d. 10 March 1986, Torrance, California, USA. Milland offered as an associate from the Royal Home Cavalry prior to making his initial film in 1929. The next year he visited Hollywood, where he produced …

Hip-hop poet Dark Ice began growing his terms of revolution back 1993 when he was referred to as Lamar Manson. A fascinating performer having a pro-family, anti-establishment message, Dark Ice worked well Philadelphia’s coffeehouse and poetry slam circuit hard, making himself a faithful local following on the way. It wouldn’t …

By the past due ’90s, TV talk/variety displays had become increasingly stale (with MTV’s nonmusic video development about as fresh and exciting like a saltine cracker overlooked in the desert). And there is Tom Green, who exploded within the scene having a display that was irreverent, confrontational, and amusing — …