Tag Archives: 1930s – 1950s

“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 …

Freddie Slack was an integral part of two strike records through the golf swing era, building his tag on jazz background. Originally a drummer, he turned to piano immediately after shifting to Chicago in 1927. Slack proved helpful in early stages with Johnny Tobin. After shifting to LA in 1931, …

The very first Brazilian performer to realize international stardom, singer and actress Carmen Miranda was created Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha on February 9, 1909 in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal, but she grew up in Rio de Janeiro from infancy onward. After giving up school, she started working at …

Composer Nicholas Brodszky appreciated a profession that took him from Odessa, Russia, to Germany, where he joined the film sector in 1931. After many years’ achievement in Germany and Austria — keeping prior to the increasing Nazi Party — he emigrated to Britain by the end from the 1930s. He …

“Name me personally a melody that everybody has learned/And I’ll bet you it belongs to Acuff-Rose” sings Uncle Tupelo’s Jeff Tweedy in his 1994 tribute “Acuff-Rose,” and it’s really not much of the overstatement. In tandem with posting partner Roy Acuff, composer Fred Rose added a few of the most …

Composer and arranger Carl Stalling was the visionary at the rear of the kaleidoscopic music conquering in the centre of the basic cartoons produced beneath the aegis of Warner Bros. Studios through the middle of the 20th hundred years. Frenzied and impassioned, his function broke new surface by following visual …

The traditional wisdom is the fact that contemporary African-American gospel springs from Thomas A. Dorsey and starts during the melancholy. However, you can find figures through the formative many years of modern gospel that show up equally important with regards to its development which have obtained small, if any reputation. …

b. Dorothy Sims, 12 Apr 1921, Jacksonville, Florida, USA, d. 22 Oct 1978, Santa Monica, California, USA. A favorite country-style comedienne, Shay started her music profession in 1945 being a blues vocalist using the Morton Gould Orchestra. A couple of years later, she transformed her musical design and became referred …

Big band-era vocalist Bea Wain (formerly Wayne) was created Apr 30, 1917 in NEW YORK; after learning piano as a kid, she continued to appear around the NBC radio series Children’s Hour, and in her teenagers sang with vocal organizations headlined by Fred Waring, Kay Thompson among others. Following a …

Blessed in London in 1910, Freddy Gardner was among England’s most widely used saxophonists through the 1930s and ’40s. He created his technique by employed in rings led by Syd Lipton, Billy Bissett, and Bert Firman. An experienced clarinetist, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophonist, Gardner stayed active being a sessionman …