Tag Archives: 1950s – 1960s

Vocalist Lurlean Hunter produced five albums on her behalf own through the second fifty percent of the ’50s, getting started being a Lonesome Gal on RCA and winding up even now feeling Blue & Sentimental for Atlantic. She was uncovered in Chicago where she have been singing in lots of …

Leo Rowsome had a profound influence on the development of Irish music. Representing the 3rd era of pipers in his family members, Rowsome was among Ireland’s few professional music artists within the 1930s and ’40s. Teaching uillean pipes in the Municipal College of Music in Dublin since 1920, Rowsome received …

The obscure Motown act referred to as the Downbeats included Johnny Dawson, Cleo Miller, and Robert Fleming. They occasionally followed Marv Johnson before he strike on United Performers Records, and slice songs for the Lupine category of brands. (Although nothing surfaced, you can find gaping blanks in Lupine’s discography which …

As an associate from the Funk Brothers, drummer Richard “Pistol” Allen could be heard on several Motown classics such as for example Marvin Gaye’s number 1 R&B/pop single “I Heard It With the Grapevine” in addition to on songs from Dennis Coffey’s Scorpio album. Given birth to Howard Richard Allen …

Vocalist Lenny Welch was created Leon Welch on, may 15, 1938 in Asbury Recreation area, NJ. He began singing as a young child, assembling organizations and taking part in skill displays. In his past due teenagers, Welch and his group auditioned for Decca Information in NY. The executives adored “Lenny,” …

An extremely in-demand bassist for saving sessions (particularly when Paul Chambers, his cousin by relationship, had not been available), Doug Watkins was a simple soloist but an excellent accompanist. After attaining experience as you of many extremely talented Detroit jazzmen in the neighborhood picture, touring with Adam Moody (1953) and …

Genival Lacerda functions in an exceedingly popular vein in Northeastern music, with two times entendre lyrics and an exuberant, sensuous, always-extroverted, and happy experience. He previously his first achievement in 1955, “Coco de 56,” still in an area scale. He relocated to Rio de Janeiro in 1964 and, after very …

Although he’s better-remembered for his historical songs, Johnny Horton was one of the better and most well-known honky tonk singers from the past due ’50s. Horton were able to infuse honky tonk with an immediate rockabilly underpinning. His profession might have been cut brief by way of a fatal motor …

In the 1950s, the alto sax didn’t get very much louder than Gene Quill, a hard-edged soloist who could rival Jackie McLean and frequent-partner Phil Woods when it found intensity, enthusiasm, and hard bop aggression. Like Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt or Dexter Gordon and Wardell Grey on tenor, Woods …

Lem Winchester had great potential being a vibraphonist nonetheless it was all trim short by way of a tragic incident. Inspired by Milt Jackson but creating a audio of his very own, Winchester actually performed tenor, baritone, and piano before selecting to stick solely to vibes. A officer in Wilmington, …