Tag Archives: 1930s – 1940s

The parents of the Canadian country music icon had musical talent, nonetheless it took 11 tries to create an offspring thinking about carrying on for the reason that tradition. Don Messer’s fascination with music was so excellent as a kid that by age seven he had been playing his fiddle …

Osny Silva achieved tremendous success along with his 1st saving in 1943, “Alza Manolita (While Cartas Não Mentem Jamais),” surpassing Francisco Alves and Vicente Celestino, who record the same track afterward. In 1951, Silva released the popular and broadly well-known anthem from the team Corinthians, “Campeão dos Campeõsera” (compiled by …

An old-time music frontman, Leonard Stokes recorded with Byron Parker & His Mountaineers in 1940, the music considered among the important tapestries of developing bluegrass parts to become preserved for posterity, and equivalent in worth to the 1st sides cut from the Monroe Brothers. He also performed mandolin, aswell as …

Considered one of the better samba interpreters of most times despite a restricted discography and an early on demise at 19, Vassourinha debuted as singer at Rádio Record (São Paulo SP) in 1935, forming a duo with Isaura Garcia. In the same calendar year he acted in the film Fazendo …

Through the ’30s and ’40s, the music press was filled with items such as for example these: “Art Hodes and Stella Brooks at Billy Skully’s Pirate’s Den in the Village. Stella sings blues supported by Arty’s gorgeous piano…Stella Brooks, who opened in the Onyx Sunday night, can continue while featured …

Although his name is unknown to many jazz listeners today, Casper Reardon gets the distinction to be the initial (in support of significant male) jazz harpist (instead of harmonica player) ever sold, predating the fantastic Adele Girard. Reardon, who graduated in the Curtis Institute of Music, performed classical music in …

While the most well-known McGhee in jazz trumpet is without a doubt the bebop dignitary, big band trumpeter John McGhee recorded with both Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in the ’30s. On the far side of the railroad monitors, an old-time nation harmonica player, vocalist, and electric guitar picker using …

Apr 18, 1939, was an excellent day in the annals from the accordion. This is your day Joe Biviano, Abe Goldman, and Gene Von Hallberg became the 1st people ever sold to try out the accordion in Carnegie Hall. It had been a major stage for a musical instrument that, …

A legendary Kiowa flute participant in the older era, this guy has some direct family members descendents such as for example Tom Machahty-Ware, that has recorded many of his own albums of local American flute music. Beyond bloodlines, Cozad was a massive influence on indigenous American music generally via his …

A totally original one-man music group, this NEW YORK artist was created J. Howard Nash and started playing music on the sensitive age group of seven. In his mid-twenties he created a novelty work in which he’d use a large number of instruments that have been fastened to his body …