Tag Archives: 1920s – 1940s

With three tenors, a baritone, a bass, and pianist Erwin Bootz, the Comedian Harmonists took early 20th century American vocal harmony music and gave it a Western european, almost Teutonic sensibility. With an eclectic repertoire that got in jazz, pop, film, opera, and cabaret music, they were well-known in Germany …

Among the legions of jazz music artists to have got lived hard and died little, the Detroit-born Zurke was most widely known for his stint seeing that pianist with vocalist Bob Crosby’s Bobcats. Zurke spent period with Oliver Naylor’s Orchestra in Philadelphia through the past due ’20s and early ’30s; …

b. 25 Might 1878, Richmond, Virginia, USA, d. 25 November 1949. As a kid Robinson worked well in race stables, medical a desire to become jockey. He danced for fun as well as for the entertainment of others, 1st showing up on stage at age eight. 3 years later on …

Uncle Henry’s First Kentucky Mountaineers actually did result from Kentucky, unlike some old-timey music combos that simply pretended to become: Crockett’s Kentucky Mountaineers, for instance, was actually a Fresno music group. While the best locale therefore lurks within the combo name selected by creator Uncle Henry Warren, the hill music …

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 …

Composer Harry Ruby enjoyed an extended profession songwriting for Broadway and Hollywood musicals, more often than not in cooperation with lyricist Bert Kalmar. Delivered in N.Con.C. in 1895, he got his begin working as an employee pianist for different music publishers, after that toured vaudeville associated groups like the Bootblack …

A famed author of the ’20s and ’30s, Vincent Youmans wrote well-known tunes and became well-known for his Broadway music hits. Among his Broadway strike tunes are “Who’s Who ALONG WITH YOU,” “Nation Cousin” and “Oh Me, Oh My, Oh You.” Vincent Youmans’ profession started when he was four-years-old. He …

Dave Rough was popular (and infamous) for a number of things. He was a refined and flexible drummer who hated to single. He was an intellectual whose profession was frequently rather aimless. Hard was also a painfully slim alcoholic whose taking in got him into problems frequently and shortened his …

Wilmoth Houdini earned his moniker because the Calypso Ruler of NY within the 1930s and 1940s, credited partly to the countless calypso events he organized in ny, but his own private background is a bit harder to pin straight down. Most sources state he was created November 25, 1895 (some …

Helen Kane is certainly among an elite band of performers, the essence of whose whole careers could be captured with a straightforward, foolish, and catchy expression. “Boop-boop-be-doop!” can it for Kane, exactly like “I cannot get no fulfillment” amounts up Mick Jagger. It really is a pity these two professions …