Tag Archives: 1930s – 1960s

A solid storyteller and good guitarist, John Henry Barbee discovered music playing in a variety of homes throughout Henning, Tennessee being a youth. He proved helpful for a short while with John Lee Williamson (Sonny Boy Williamson I) in 1934, after that began using Sunnyland Slender. They made performances over …

b. Abraham Jacob Gornetzsky, 12 Dec 1894, Bialystok, Russia, d. 14 June 1990, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Along with his family members, Gorney relocated to the united states at age 10, settling in Detroit, Michigan. There he researched piano, and performed in a college orchestra, in pubs as well as …

b. 1911, Britain, d. 1982, Dublin, Eire. Although not really a big ‘name’ so far as the public can be involved, Green was perhaps one of the most prolific ‘backroom-boys’ in the United kingdom music business. He’s believed to possess created more first compositions than every other article writer, and …

b. Ernest Paulin, 22 June 1907, New Highways, Louisiana, USA, d. 20 November 2007, Marrero, Louisiana, USA. Created right into a French-speaking Creole family members, Paulin’s dad was an accordionist. Elevated in Wallace by his grandparents, he noticed music from early years as a child and was urged by an …

Pop songstress Eileen Barton continues to be best known on her behalf 1949 novelty blockbuster “EASILY Knew You Were Comin’, I’d’ve Baked a Wedding cake.” Delivered in Brooklyn, NY, on November 24, 1929, she was the little girl of vaudeville song-and-dance duo Benny and Elsie Barton, signing up for the …

After Francisco Alves, Carlos Galhardo was the singer who recorded probably the most 78 rpm songs, a lot more than 570. He also was among the best-selling performers, and worked in a number of films, winning many Carnival contests. From humble roots, Carlos Galhardo forgotten his formal research extremely early …

Lyricist Edward Heyman is most remembered for his track hits from the 1930s and 1940s. Given birth to in Chicago on March 14, 1907, Heyman was raised there aswell. He continued to study in the University or college of Michigan and published for musicals while he was there. Heyman’s 1st …

Benny Martin was among bluegrass music’s premiere fiddlers as well as the inventor from the eight-string fiddle. Given birth to to a musical family members in Sparta, Tennessee, he produced his debut on an area radio train station when he was just eight. He performed in an area band for …

Alto saxophonist Earl Bostic was a techie get better at of his device, yet remained somewhat underappreciated by jazz enthusiasts because of the string of basic, popular R&B/leap blues strikes he recorded during his heyday in the ’50s. Delivered Eugene Earl Bostic in Tulsa, Alright, on Apr 25, 1913, Bostic …

Among the great guitarists from the 1930s, Carl Kress had an extremely sophisticated chordal design on classical guitar. He originally performed banjo before steadily shifting to electric guitar. Kress used Paul Whiteman in 1926 and became an extremely busy studio room musician, recording challenging top white music artists (including Bix …