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Tommy Wayne & the Shondells — the reference to their name, even to a person who doesn’t really find out their music, evokes pictures of dances and the type of fun that rock and roll & move represented before it redefined itself on much more serious conditions. And between 1966 …

During a time when most female singers who interpret music in the 1920s run into as dated “red hot mamas,” camp, or satirical, Banu Gibson practically stands alone. She performs music in the 1920s and ’30s artistically, but inside the boundaries from the idiom, offering fresh lifestyle and enthusiasm to …