Tag Archives: 1950s – 1960s

Poor Curley Tuttle, always relegated to the finish of the alphabetical set of bluegrass pickers nicknamed following their curly hair, daydreaming of that time period an old-time music archivist will proof a bluegrass picker named Curly Zinnich, better still if as it happens he has mandolin. Lots of the bluegrass …

It’s the vocalist, not the music, or so the word goes. However in the situation of Miss Sai Thong, it really is hard to inform which is definitely which. A lot more than 40 years following the album monitor “Love Music” was related to Miss Sai Thong by French worldwide …

Like spots of food on the dish, the name Bert Davis could be revealed by carefully scouring the credits on different record brands. Additional songwriting credits under titles such as for example Howard Richards, Billy Collins, Rinky Scott Jones, Phoebe Snow (while not the popular one), Glenn Gibson, and Adrienne …

An ex-lumberjack, this burly citizen of Maine learned to try out the fiddle, as well as the French-American repertoire that went combined with the device, in the lumbering camps of North Canada. The initial recordings of Acadian music created by artists like the great fiddler Isidore Soucy had been the …

Folks searching for music instruments or device products in the LA area may have got perfectly been waited on by Val Paganelli, not realizing that she actually is an exceptionally talented multi-instrumentalist who have reserve possible profession glories to be able to increase kids and help offer an encouraging music …

In the wake of Shelly Berman’s successful sit-down-on-a-stool vignettes, it had been inevitable a male/feminine duo would emerge in the pack mining similar turf, as well as the team of Nichols & May embodied it perfectly. Ultimately breaking up by the first ’60s, Elaine May became associated with the Broadway …

Composer Billy Jim Layton was the avatar of the college of music he dubbed “fresh liberalism” and thought as “a fresh, wealthy, meaningful, varied, understandable and vital music which maintains connection with the fantastic cultural custom of humanism in the Western.” Given birth to in Corsicana, TX, on November 14, …

The Detroit-born Welch was originally a kiddie-show web host for an area place (Wixie’s Wonderland), while working the Metropole in Windsor being a raunchy standup comic in the ’60s. A vintage throwback towards the vaudeville times of executing, Welch continues to be active, and greatest experienced live.

A ballad and blues singer with small recordings, Speed was overshadowed by Sinatra, but rivaled Johnny Desmond, Chet Baker, and Bobby Darin.

The Marvels emerged through the fertile Washington, D.C. doo wop picture from the 1950s. Relating to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Dec 1976 problem of Yesterday’s Recollections, business lead Sam Gilbert, second tenor Wayne “Junior” Isom, baritone Ronald Boyd and bass Wayne Mitchell co-founded the group in 1954 — after …