Tag Archives: 1950s – 1960s

b. William Joseph Russo Jnr., 25 June 1928, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 11 January 2003, Chicago, Illinois, USA. After intensive studies in organizing, Russo had written for Lennie Tristano and in addition occasionally performed trombone. Among the first musicians to business lead a rehearsal music group (Test In Jazz), his …

The Innocents — Adam Western world (lead), Al Candelaria (bass), and Darron Stankey (tenor/guitarist) — were a smooth harmonizing Western world Coastline pop group from San Fernando Valley CA, whose most successful record was accompanying Kathy Young as Kathy Young & the Innocents on “ONE THOUSAND Smiles” (1960 Indigo Information, …

Child Thomas, aka Tommy Louis, aka Tommy Lewis, was and is among the great unsung heroes of this crazy sort of music that dresses the fine collection between blues and straight-out rock and roll & move. Though success continuously eluded him throughout his profession, it wasn’t for insufficient talent. With …

A restricted but enthusiastic singer, Babs Gonzales did what he could to popularize bop. He previously short stints with Charlie Barnet and Lionel Hampton, and led his personal group (Three Bips & a Bop) during 1946-1949. They documented 24 figures during 1947-1949, like the first edition of “Oop-Pop-A-Da” and such …

Throughout his prime years, Bob Scobey was one of the most well-known trumpeters in Dixieland. After many low-profile careers in dance rings within the 1930s, in 1938 Scobey fulfilled trumpeter Lu Watters. As an associate of Watter’s Yerba Buena Jazz Music group in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA during 1940-1949 (with …

The Chords — Carl and Claude Feaster (lead and baritone), Jimmy Keyes (first tenor), Floyd “Pal” McRae (second tenor), and Ricky Edwards (bass) — formed in 1951 within the Bronx, but weren’t discovered until 3 years later, if they were spotted singing within a subway station, a performance that ultimately …

The Los Angeles-based Jacks were so excellent at covering popular hits of your day that their versions were often add up to (otherwise much better than) the initial versions. These were flexible in R&B, leap music, ballads, calypso music, and documented a number of the most significant early rock and …

This New Mexican group was the principal exponent from the Tex-Mex sound within the instrumental rock & roll from the late ’50s and early ’60s, landing three Top 40 hits, “Torquay,” “Bulldog,” and “A significant Party.” Paced from the clean, financial acoustic guitar lines of George Tomsco, their moody, laconic …

The Cookies essentially had two histories as distinctly different organizations (with one member in keeping) that existed for just two years at the same time, six years and a whole decade aside in designs and sounds. The initial Cookies had been Margie Hendrix, Ethel “Earl-Jean” McCrea, and Pat Lyles, who …

The Potato chips had one record released from August 1956 to Apr 1980, “Silicone Biscuit,” an outrageous novelty song that didn’t crack the pop Top 40 but did well across the East Coastline. Raised within the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, the Potato chips produced in 1956; the associates had been …