Tag Archives: 1920s – 1940s

Louis Armstrong was this vintage jazz pianist’s most well-known manager. During Alexander’s stint as an associate from the Armstrong big music group in the first ’30s, big manager Satchmo utilized to prefer to jokingly expose his keyboard guy to be from New Orleans. In fact Alexander hailed from Cincinatti, where …

Singer/celebrity Helen Morgan was an iconic amount from the 1920s, a nightclub performer known on her behalf heart-rending interpretations of torch music describing intimate devotion to wayward guys, which she sang from her perch together with a piano. Morgan’s environment was the nightclub, specifically, the ’20s speakeasy, but she also …

A significant early bassist, John Lindsay appeared about many notable recordings in his profession. He began playing bass while an adolescent in his father’s family members band. He offered in the Military during World Battle I and discovered trombone, which he utilized as a dual until the middle-’20s. Early encounter …

b. Muriel Angelus Findlay, 10 March 1909, London, Britain, d. 22 August 2004, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. Given birth to to Scottish parents Angelus started her stage performing career at age 12. She 1st sang in music halls and, in 1928, made an appearance in the silent film, The Ringer. The …

An extremely popular West Virginia radio act from the 30s, it comprised Cap (b. Samuel Warren Caplinger, 16 June 1889, Kanawha Train station near Parkersburg, Real wood County, Western Virginia, USA, d. 7 July 1957; acoustic guitar), Andy (b. Andrew Patterson, 28 August 1893, Petros, Tennessee, USA, d. 19 November …

Phil Spitalny is one particular popular bandleaders from the 1920s and ’30s whose popularity didn’t survive him. Delivered in Russia, he was taken to america as a youngster, and by the ’20s, was fronting his very own music group. Among his various other successful records through the ’20s had been …

Willie Bryant was significant to music twice in his profession, as the first choice of the talented big music group during 1935-38 so that as a favorite MC and disk jockey in the 1950’s. He was raised in Chicago and attempted unsuccessfully to understand the trumpet. Bryant started his profession …

From your mid-’20s through the ’40s, composer, vocalist, and pianist Harry Barris recorded with Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke, Bing Crosby, and Duke Ellington and wrote pop standards such as for example “I Surrender Dear.” Created in NEW YORK in 1905, Barris grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he became a …

b. 18 March 1893, USA, d. 18 March 1971, Paramus, NJ, USA. Olsen began his initial dance music group in Portland, Oregon, USA, in 1917. A six-piece group, this early combo included Wilbur Johnson, who in those days travelled beneath the billing ‘the globe’s just mellophone soloist’, violinist Herman Kanin, …

A drifter and itinerant musician, Byrd Moore was created (as William B. Moore) in 1899 in Blackwater, VA, although nothing at all about Moore’s lifestyle is certain aside from the music he produced. A passable guitarist and vocalist, he drifted through Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee the majority of his lifestyle, …