Tag Archives: 1940s – 1960s

Among the best New Orleans drummers, Paul Barbarin was also quite significant seeing that both a bandleader (his groupings more often than not boasted great musicianship) so when a composer (he wrote “Bourbon Road Parade” and “THE NEXT Line”). Section of a big musical family members, Paul’s dad Isadore performed …

Among the better-known string bassists dynamic in New Orleans through the 1950’s and 60’s, Alcide Pavageau actually began taking part in the device surprisingly past due in existence. He was originally a guitarist and became popular like a dance in New Orleans, that is how he obtained the lifelong “Gradual …

b. Ursula Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison, 19 March 1915, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Born right into a showbusiness family members, Morison’s dad was an professional and playwright, her mom a theatrical agent, she went to drama school and in addition examined dance under Martha Graham. She produced her Broadway …

The name Stan Jones doesn’t pop-up in way too many country music reference books, but most fans of cowboy songs and Western film soundtrack music, not forgetting the music of Gene Autry, the Sons from the Pioneers, Vaughn Monroe, and Johnny Cash, know his name, because the writer of “(Ghost) …

The renowned tenor whose lifestyle inspired the 1992 film Hear My Tune, Josef Locke was created born Joseph McLaughlin in Londonderry, Northern Ireland on March 23, 1917. Based on the tribute site at http://www.spatty.demon.co.uk/, he began performing in neighborhood churches at age group seven, but in 16 enlisted within the …

b. Reginald Bretagne, 13 August 1926, Bombay, India, d. 19 June 1993, Sydney, Australia. Brent was a favorite singer in the united kingdom through the 50s, having transferred there on Boxing Time 1947. 2 yrs later he gained a talent competition on the Kingston Regal Theater performing ‘Some Enchanted Evening’, …

Groundbreaking digital composer Richard Maxfield was created in Seattle in 1927. As a kid he researched piano and performed clarinet, even composing a symphony while still in senior high school. During the past due ’40s, he researched under composer Roger Periods and, after graduation, befriended famous brands Pierre Boulez and …

A musician and professional whose frequently sordid private lifestyle tended to overshadow his profession as an entertainer, Spade Cooley was the self-proclaimed Ruler of Western Golf swing, an innovator who at his top led the biggest music group ever assembled in the history of nation music. The merchandise of the …

Recognized in performances of both ballet and symphonic repertories, Efrem Kurtz resided for nearly a whole century. Departing Russia within the aftermath from the trend, he soon set up himself as an instant research and conductor of audio musicianship. Been trained in the functions from the eighteenth and nineteenth generations, …

Charismatic singer/songwriter T. Tx Tyler was an effective figure through the late ’40s with the mid-’50s, frequently credited with assisting to popularize the sentimental nation “recitation” — a storytelling structure partly or totally spoken from the performer — along with his substantial 1948 strike “Deck of Credit cards.” He was …