Tag Archives: 1940s – 1980s

Songwriter Cy Coben penned a few of the most popular and enduring nation hits from the honky tonk period, including Hank Snow’s “Nobody’s Kid” and Eddy Arnold’s “I wish to Play Home with You.” Blessed in Jersey Town, NJ, in 1918, Coben examined trumpet as a kid and gigged with …

b. John Joseph Kelson, 27 Feb 1922, LA, California, USA, d. 28 Apr 2012. After learning saxophone privately, Kelso became a member of a LA dance music group when he was 15. Through the 40s he used dance bands, inside a US Navy music group while on armed service service, …

b. Timothy Edmund McNamara, 10 Oct 1922, Lucknow, near Orange, New South Wales, Australia, d. 16 Apr 1983, Sydney, Australia. A pioneer of Australian nation music, not merely by his very own performances but with the help he gave fellow performers. The youngest of 11 kids, he worked being a …

J.C. Noticed was an extremely supportive drummer flexible enough to match comfortably into golf swing, bop, and blues configurations. He is at vaudeville shows like a dancer in his youngsters. Heard’s first essential work playing drums was with Teddy Wilson’s big music group in 1939. He later on caused Wilson’s …

Kishore “Baba” Kumar (given birth to Kishore Kumar Ganguly) was among India’s best performers from the past due 20th hundred years. Although he previously no formal teaching as a vocalist, Kumar became among India’s best-loved vocalists, stars, and comedians. Kumar was a strolling contradiction. Although he didn’t smoke cigarettes, beverage, …

Among the great tenors, Illinois Jacquet’s 1942 “Soaring Home” single is definitely the initial R&B sax single, and spawned a complete era of younger tenors (including Joe Houston and Big Jay McNeely) who also built their professions from his design, and practically from that 1 music. Jacquet, whose old sibling …

Lengthy known for his expertise in discovering an ideal chord for an ideal situation, the refined Jimmy Rowles was popular for decades simply because an accompanist while being underrated being a soloist. After playing in regional groupings in Seattle, Rowles shifted to LA in 1940 and caused Slim Gaillard, Lester …

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton only notched a single national strike in her life time, nonetheless it was a genuine monster. “Hound Pup” kept down the very best slot machine on Billboard’s R&B graphs for seven lengthy weeks in 1953. Alas, Elvis Presley’s rocking 1956 cover was a great deal …

Pianist Aldo Ciccolini enjoyed an extended and varied profession, but to numerous music lovers his name was most readily from the music of Erik Satie. Ciccolini grew up in Naples, where he analyzed in the Conservatory under pianist Paolo Denza, himself a onetime college student of Ferruccio Busoni; Ciccolini produced …

A trusted cool-toned guitarist who was simply on many periods over time despite never learning to be a home name, Mundell Lowe found early knowledge during 1936-1940 using Dixieland in New Orleans and nation music in Nashville. He toured with Jan Savitt (1942), Ray McKinley (1945-1947), Mary Lou Williams (1947-1949), …