Tag Archives: 1930s – 1990s

Among the last from the acoustic tempo guitarists, Steve Jordan kept the Freddie Green/Allan Reuss custom entering the 1990s. He in fact studied in early stages with Reuss (Benny Goodman’s tempo guitarist), and Jordan was often much more thinking about being component of a tempo section than learning to be …

b. 5 June 1914, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Sager began playing violin with age 10 was noticed on radio. A personal injury to her remaining hand, triggered when she was knocked from a bike, prompted a big change of device. She find the trumpet, even though this might possess seemed a …

b. David Margulois, 27 November 1911, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 25 Apr 2000, London, Britain. Probably one of the most colourful and questionable theatrical makers and impresarios in the post-World Battle II years, Merrick can be said to possess thought that his existence started on 4 November 1954, the …

Robert Wright teamed with partner George “Chet” Forrest to forge among the longest & most celebrated songwriting collaborations in the annals from the American music theater. Blessed in Daytona Seaside, FL, on Sept 25, 1914, Wright and Forrest initial met as senior high school classmates in Miami, shortly collaborating on …

Dubbed “the most well-known supper-club performer who ever resided” by a minimum of Liberace, cabaret icon Hildegarde headlined nightclubs throughout the world for near seven decades, on the way igniting the now-common vogue for single-named celebrity. She was created Hildegarde Loretta Offer in Adell, WI, on Feb 1, 1906 — …

Given birth to Wilma Lee Leary, songwriter and singer Wilma Lee Cooper grew up within a well-known music group that sang in local churches and festivals, billing themselves seeing that the Leary Family members. At one stage, the Learys had been even asked by Eleanor Roosevelt to execute at a …

Canray Fontenot was dubbed while the “last of the fantastic Creole and Cajun fiddlers” by Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Information Along with his primitive design of taking part in the fiddle, accented from the rhythmic stomping of his uncovered ft, Fontenot was among the last players from the pre-zydeco Creole …

Argentinean folk icon Atahualpa Yupanqui became perhaps one of the most precious treasures for the neighborhood culture. As a kid living in the tiny city of Roca, province of Buenos Aires, Héctor Roberto Chavero was seduced by traditional music, specifically by the coming in contact with sound from the classical …

Adolfo Abalos helped to present the piano towards the folk music of Argentina. Accompanied by his brothers Machino, Robert, Vitillo, and Macacho, Abalos skillfully changed charangas, zambas, and gatos into imaginative 88-essential melodies through the 1930s and ’40s. His legacy is still celebrated in his homeland. In 2000, he was …

Bandleader and vocalist Adolph Hofner was a durable music icon of south Tx who helped form Western golf swing, and whose dual profession as a golf swing bandleader and Czech dance musician showed the ways that Western golf swing had root base in Central Euro dance customs. Hofner grew up …