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Jerry Herman was perhaps one of the most successful songwriters for the music movie theater in his era, providing music and lyrics to three long-running Broadway displays — Hello there, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles — in addition to four various other Broadway productions between 1961 and 1983. …

b. Arthur Gelien, 11 July 1931, NEW YORK, NY, USA. This blond-haired, blue-eyed pop vocalist/acting professional was noticed in 1948, operating at a well balanced, by skill scout Dick Clayton. He launched him to Rock and roll Hudson’s Hollywood agent Harry Wilson, who stated ‘We’ve surely got to tabs you …

Ezio Flagello was a colorful and popular American bass through the mid-’50s to 1987, the entire year of his pension. His popularity owed much, obviously, to his many effective performances for the world’s operatic phases, but he also made an appearance on several well-known tv shows and in the 1974 …

American composer and pianist Philippa Duke Schuyler was the daughter of African-American author George Schuyler and eccentric, Texas-born Caucasian artist and ex-Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty Josephine Cogdell, whose marriage to Philippa Schuyler’s father served to ostracize Cogdell from her rich family. Anxious to verify that mixed-raced children were inherently more …

Tony d’Amato reigned for near two decades seeing that Britain’s top light classical manufacturer. As well as the tremendous commercial achievement he appreciated with light music luminaries like Mantovani, Frank Chacksfield, and Stanley Dark, he was also a technical innovator, pioneering the Stage 4 label’s brand ping-pong stereo strategy. Born …

Paul Jacobs was one of the most outstanding of American pianists. Although his method of music was intellectual, this didn’t prevent his interpretations from getting coming in contact with and honest in sense, as well to be exceptionally apparent in execution and delineation of formal components. He was specifically popular …