Tag Archives: 1930s – 1960s

Listening to files featuring Child Howard could be very irritating because his alcoholism resulted in some very erratic playing. Howard began playing drums when he was 14, gigged with Chris Kelly (who provided him cornet lessons), and just a little afterwards switched completely to cornet and finally trumpet. He proved …

b. 13 Might 1909, Hebron, Nebraska, USA, d. 24 January 1992, Sherman Oaks, California, USA. A prolific composer, arranger and musical movie director for information and movies, Ken Darby’s Performers as well as the John Scott Trotter Orchestra supported Bing Crosby on what’s reported to be the biggest-selling record ever …

Probably one of the most famous all-female string rings in nation, the Coon Creek Ladies were also one of the primary female groups to try out their own devices and concentrate on authentic hill music, rather than sentimental and cowboy tunes. The founding person in the long-lived group was Lily …

The Felines & the Fiddle were among a large number of harmony vocal groups to sprout in the wake from the success from the Mills Brothers. They endured much longer than a lot of their pre-World Battle II competitors, both being a executing and documenting unit and in addition as …

Unlike keyboardist Reginald “Sonny” Burke, who performed contemporary jazz with Stanley Turrentine, Dizzy Gillespie and John Useful, this Burke was an accomplished big band arranger. He analyzed violin and piano as a kid, after that played in a variety of bands while their studies at Duke in the past due …

Ideal remembered for the wartime requirements “The White colored Cliffs of Dover” and “I’M GOING TO BE Home for Xmas,” Walter Kent was created in Manhattan in August 1911. He went to CCNY and analyzed music in the exclusive Juilliard College. His first main songwriting success was included with 1932’s …

Greatest remembered today because the writer of the Eddy Arnold hit “Cattle Contact,” Tex Owens was a fixture on regional radio in Kansas Town as well as the CBS network through the 1930s and early ’40s, and he was among the initial performers signed to Decca Information back the ’30s. …

Smokey Hogg was a rural bluesman navigating a postwar period infatuated by R&B, but he got along quite nicely non-etheless, scoring a set of main R&B strikes in 1948 and 1950 and reducing a dense catalog for the slew of brands (including Exclusive, Contemporary, Bullet, Macy’s, Imperial, Mercury, Recorded in …

The Oscar-winning lyricist behind such classic film themes as “Like Is really a Many Splendored Thing,” “The Darkness of the Smile,” and “Somewhere My Like (Lara’s Theme),” Paul Francis Webster was created Dec 20, 1907, in NEW YORK. After dropping away from NYU, he established sail for Asia being a …

b. Troy Lee Martin, 16 Might 1911, Danville, Virginia, USA, d. 20 Feb 1977, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Martin’s participation in nation music hasn’t been properly documented but he ranged from being truly a vocalist and comedian to an effective record manufacturer and music publisher. He previously polio being a youngster, …