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This long-lasting LA doo wop aggregation had an extremely fluid personnel roster. Bobby Time was among the group’s founders in 1950, as well as the Hollywood Flames documented prolifically for Hollywood, Area of expertise, Lucky, Swingtime, Cash, and other brands before reducing their one main strike, the rocking “Hype Buzz …

b. 11 Sept 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, d. 1 Feb 1949, LA, California, USA. A composer for the musical stage within the 20s, Stothart eventually became a renowned name at MGM Images for his focus on the backdrop music to varied Hollywood classics. After learning music in European countries and …

Friend Clark was probably one of the most well-known male vocalists from the 1930s and ’40s, successful about radio, in films, and about record — had he lived longer, within the estimation of pop music scholar John P. Cooper, Clark will certainly have already been a rival to Perry Como …

LA vocal group the Robins are best remembered today because the forerunner from the Coasters, though their very own record of strikes was substantial in its right. Also, their background will be a lot more difficult than most followers from the Coasters know, and can become split into two important …

Few people knew that actor Jeff Bridges (son of Lloyd Bridges) was a songwriter — though he played out one particular in The Fantastic Baker Boys — that’s, until his award-winning change as fading country music star Poor Blake within the film Crazy Heart. The reality, however, is the fact …

Ivie Anderson was an elegant yet swinging vocalist, the very best that Duke Ellington ever endured. In early stages she worked on the Natural cotton Club in displays and sang with Anson Weeks, Curtis Mosby, Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders, and Earl Hines (1930). And, from Feb 1931 until 1942, Ivie …

Bandleader and lyricist Eddie DeLange worked in music in the mid-’30s with the 1940s, and may be the lyricist of such popular music seeing that “Moonglow” (1934) and “Solitude” (1935), and created music for many films from the 1940s, including 1942’s When Johnny Shows up Marching Home. Blessed in NY …

Expenses Connors’ great instant of popularity occurred when he was with Chick Corea’s Go back to Forever during 1973-1974, saving the influential Hymn from the Seventh Galaxy. His decision to keep RTF to focus more on classical guitar might have been gratifying artistically, nonetheless it slice short any opportunity he …