Tag Archives: 1930s – 1960s

Trummy Adolescent was among the finest trombonists to emerge through the golf swing era and, despite the fact that he was hardly ever really a star or perhaps a bandleader himself, he did have 1 hit along with his version of “Margie,” which he played and sang with Jimmy Lunceford’s …

Enjoy it or not, Henry Jerome manifests an impenetrable link between rockabilly, easy listening, the kitschy poetry of Rod McKuen, the economic insurance policies from the 20th century, as well as perhaps even the Watergate break-in. Listeners who discover easy hearing be not that and so are dismissive of the …

b. Clarence Patrick O’Connor, 1 July 1899, Eire, d. 11 January 1997, London, Britain. An immensely well-known singer in the united kingdom from your 30s to the 60s, with an excellent, lilting tenor tone of voice. O’Connor’s family relocated to Nottingham, Britain soon after he was created and his Irish …

Nelson Williams began touring like a trumpeter with place bands within the ’30s, dealing with groups like the Trianon Crackerjacks, the Dark brown Skin Models, as well as the Dixie Tempo Ladies. He was the musical movie director of the second option group, based from Birmingham, AL. Certainly the trumpeter’s …

Film composer Bronislaw Kaper wrote strikes for several Hollywood movies from your mid-’30s with the past due ’60s. Given birth to in 1902 in Warsaw, Poland, Kaper analyzed in the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, after that later worked like a composer and conductor in Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Paris. …

Son from the violeiro (Brazilian viola participant), repentista (verse improviser), and harmonica participant Severino Alves de Souza, Ataulfo Alves in age group eight already was responding in verses to his father’s desafios (reducing contests). Getting an orphan at age group ten, he proved helpful in several careers, shifting to Rio …

Arsenio Rodríguez, perhaps one of the most important statistics in the annals of Cuban music, was a prolific composer (he penned near 200 music), tresero, percussionist, and bandleader whose enhancements changed the facial skin of Latin dance music and paved just how for what would eventually become referred to as …

By legal rights, Moon Mullican ought to be a story double over, in nation music and rock and roll & move. He merged them both — in addition to blues, pop, and honky tonk — right into a smooth whole in the drop of the head wear as well as …

b. 12 Feb 1902, Elberfeld, Germany, d. 21 November 1989. This Western accordionist-band leader, together with his Musette Orchestra, got a big strike in america in 1939 with ‘Ale Barrel Polka’. The music was predicated on a genuine Czechoslovakian melody, ‘Skoda Lasky’ (‘Shed Like’), by Jaromir Vejvoda and Wladimir Timm, …

A fine tempo guitarist who hardly ever soloed, Mike Bryan was a journeyman participant who by no means became that famous. He was self-taught on your guitar and was raised in Germantown, Tennessee. He performed careers in Memphis, in Chicago with Crimson Nichols and led his personal group in Greenwood, …