Tag Archives: 1930s – 1950s

b. c.1900, prob. Houston, Tx, USA, d. c.1965, poss. California, USA. Energetic in Houston, Tx, from the first 30s, Pullum sang the blues in a higher and clear tone of voice that brought added structure to his materials. He appealed to modern blues audiences from the middle- to past due …

Stated by some to have already been the best banjo player ever, Charlie Lowe was created in 1878 within the famed Circular Peak section of North Carolina, an area known because of its traditional fiddle and banjo designs. Lowe’s clawhammer banjo technique highlighted an easy, accurate, and explosive double-noting theme …

To many of the general public, Desi Arnaz is recognized as the lovable, temperamental Ricky Ricardo, spouse of Lucille Ball in the 1950s (in true to life and on display) using one of the very most effective television group of all period, I REALLY LIKE Lucy. Inside the market, he’s …

b. 26 July 1914, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, d. 11 November 1993, NJ, USA. By enough time he started playing trumpet at age 13, Hawkins experienced already perfected drums and trombone. It had been on trumpet, nevertheless, that he founded his name like a flamboyant participant with an amazing range. In …

Singer and celebrity noted for the sarong she donned in lots of of her movies, Dorothy Lamour offers performed with such legends seeing that Bing Crosby and Bob Wish. Delivered Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton, Lamour was crowned Miss New Orleans in 1930. Her dad was a waiter and her mom …

Floyd Tillman is most likely most widely known for composing “IT CREATES No Difference Today,” a nation vintage that he offered to Jimmie Davis for $300 in 1938, and then watch it turn into a strike for Davis, Cliff Bruner, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry, among others. That track was among …

Most songwriters from the 1930s by no means figured — as well as planned about figuring — in the annals of rock and roll & roll. Several bluesmen got lucky (and Big Joe Williams and Willie Dixon got actually lucky, as performers and composers); and once in awhile Irving Berlin’s …

With the recognition of jazz slipping and sliding in its native America, many players have over time chosen to relocate in Europe. Those that do are pursuing in the footsteps of Willie Lewis. Given birth to William T. Lewis, this historical jazz clarinetist and bandleader was raised in Dallas where …

An extremely original nation blues guitarist and singer, Gabriel Dark brown was discovered in Florida by folk music experts within the ’30s and launched on the recording profession that lasted many years. Although he by no means reached the record product sales or celebrity of the Lightnin’ Hopkins, the apparently …

“The Poet from the Piano,” Carmen Cavallaro was created Might 6, 1913 in NEW YORK; though a classically-trained performer, with time he extended into pop preparations in the setting of his key motivation, Eddy Duchin. Following a four-year stint because the highlighted soloist with bandleader Al Kavelin, in 1937 Cavallaro …