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Sceptor Information owner Florence Greenberg helped collection many precedents; she was the 1st woman to possess a significant label and her label’s 1st signees, the Shirelles, had been the first woman group to truly have a number 1 pop music using the million-selling “Soldier Boy.” The label’s lineup also included …

b. 14 Dec 1914 (or 1917), NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 16 Oct 1978. A stylish and flexible song-and-dance-man having a genial character, who starred in a few of the very most interesting musicals from the 40s and 50s, frequently as a vaudeville performer or related. As a young child, …

American writer/composer/actor Adolph Green initial attracted attention as an associate from the Revuers, a satirical musicomedy troupe which performed at New York’s Community Vanguard nightclub in the first ’40s. The group couldn’t spend the money for royalties on previously created material, therefore Green and fellow Revuer Betty Comden got to …

b. George Washington Johnson, 29 Oct 1846, Virginia, USA, d. 1914, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Delivered into slavery, during Reconstruction, Johnson transferred north, ultimately settling in NY. With the 1870s and 80s he led a precarious lifetime before beginning a profession being a documenting artist. Provided the time, around 1889, …

Among the last survivors of Bob Crosby’s Bobcats, Bob Haggart was a high bassist for 60 years. Originally a guitarist, Haggart trained himself bass during senior high school. He obtained popularity when he became a member of Bob Crosby in 1935, not merely providing his supportive and swinging bass but …

Teddy Napoleon, the nephew of trumpeter Phil Napoleon as well as the older sibling of pianist Marty Napoleon, was the least-known from the 3 but he also had a productive profession. A talented swing-oriented pianist, Teddy experienced his 1st gig in 1933 with Lee Castle. He caused Tommy Tompkins for …

Cazden studied in the Juilliard College and Harvard, where he took composition lessons from Copland and Piston. He worked well for quite some time like a composer/pianist for contemporary dance organizations and has frequently appeared like a single pianist and accompanist. He offers taught privately theoretically and piano and offers …