Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, II (1895-1960) both had extensive professions in Broadway theatre music before they scored their initial hit as well as Oklahoma! in 1943. Rodgers, 1st teamed with Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), with whom he obtained some Broadway successes that started once the team’s music …

b. 11 June 1955, Lima, near Benalla, Victoria, Australia. Horsburgh was raised on the family members’s dairy plantation and was presented with his first electric guitar at age eight. His curiosity about country music started when he utilized to hear his dad’s Hank Snow and Wilf Carter information. When he …

Blessed Ervin Bruce in TAKE OFF, LA, on Apr 25, 1932, Cajun singer Vin Bruce was raised in the music environment supplied by his dad, whose fiddle performing for the neighborhood Cajun dances influenced Bruce to take up your guitar and write music. He honed his soft and mild vocal …

Lee Venora was a favorite and attractive American soprano. She sang such operatic functions as Mimì, was most well-known on records like a participant in Leonard Bernstein’s Columbia documenting of Mahler’s Second Symphony, and sang and documented the lead functions in revivals from the musicals Kismet and Carousel at Lincoln …

Famed actress, comedian, singer, and dancer Vicki Lawrence provides appeared in tv shows, in Broadway and in nightclubs. Her profession included displays with such well-known stars as Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, and Tim Conway. Delivered in Inglewood, CA, Vicki Lawrence’s curiosity about singing and dance began young. During senior high …

Baritone vocalist Edmund Hockridge was in his height within the mid-’50s, at the same time when big ballad performers ruled the graphs just before rock and roll & roll arrived. Given birth to in Vancouver around the 9th August 1919, he analyzed the piano and was noticed by John Charles …

Vocalist/guitarist Mona Elliott, bassist Mel Lederman, and drummer Christina Documents started Victory in Ocean in 1996 from what Elliott identifies as “emotions of rock which were unable to end up being controlled.” Elliott got previously performed in noise rock and roll clothing Spore, Lederman in indie rock-band Sugars Bitch, and …

For a period, Joe Mooney was a well-known jazz accordionist — that is definitely a little field — but he previously an extended and a fairly episodic career. He proceeded to go blind in the first ’20s but by 1926 was playing duets along with his sibling Dan on radio. …

Graham Nash is among the most durable music figures to get emerged from your 1960s, both being a helping musician along with a superstar in his own best, and an integral figure in both British Invasion as well as the ’70s vocalist/songwriter period that followed. Being a tranquility vocalist and …

b. 4 July 1931, Greenock, Scotland. Lamont began being a trumpet participant, leading his very own music group in Scotland, which gained reputation in Melody Manufacturer in 1951. He spent a while in London, using Kenny Graham’s Afro-Cubists but through the early 50s stayed energetic in Scotland. It had been …