Tag Archives: 1950s – 1980s

Bev Kelly made a solid impression in the 1950s being a jazz vocalist, and it has made several musical comebacks since that time even though pursuing other professions. Kelly started learning traditional piano when she was five, carrying on through senior high school. She also analyzed classical tone of voice …

Not to end up being confused with another prominent Costs Smith (co-editor of Coda along with a notable avant-garde soprano saxophonist), this specific Bill Smith continues to be connected with Dave Brubeck on / off through the years. Smith examined at Julliard College with Darius Milhaud at Mills University. He …

b. Robert Louis Fosse, 23 June 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 23 Sept 1987, Washington, DC, USA. A movie director, choreographer, dancer and professional for movies and stage, Fosse was renowned especially for his innovative and magnificent staging, using the emphasis extremely firmly for the exhilarating dance sequences. He researched …

b. Robert Florence, 20 Might 1932, LA, California, USA, d. 15 Might 2008, 1000 Oaks, California, USA. On finding that he previously ideal pitch, Florence’s mom began him on piano lessons at age five and 2 yrs afterwards, he provided a piano recital. Objective on a profession being a concert …

Best known for his or her near-pornographic funk vintage “Jungle Fever,” the Chakachas were actually several Belgian-based studio music artists. Led by Gaston Boogaerts, who offered because the group’s arranger, the Chakachas 1st appeared through the early ’60s, documenting a playful combination of Latin music, jazz, and European-style exotica. By …

An L.A. studio room huge, Bob Crewe is usually primarily remembered because the maker/songwriter behind a bevy of smooth pop songs within the ’60s and ’70s for such performers because the Four Months, the Osmonds, among others. Along with companions Bob Gaudio and, afterwards, Kenny Nolan, Crewe co-penned/and or created …

b. Martin Jay Charnin, 24 November 1934, NY, USA. A movie director, lyricist, composer, maker, author, and acting professional. In 1957 Charnin performed the section of Big Offer, a member from the Jets, in the initial Broadway cast of Western world Side Tale, and 2 yrs later is at the …

Among the initial white rock and roll & rollers to record for a significant label (Columbia), Sid Ruler (given birth to Sid Erwin) was also among the initial young Southern music artists to look from Western golf swing to rockabilly within the mid-’50s. Erwin was raised within the Dallas-Fort Worthy …

b. 23 January 1930, Inwood, Iowa, USA, d. 23 June 1993, LA, California, USA. Educated at the institution of American Ballet, Swenson became a dancer and afterwards a choreographer. He made an appearance in a variety of musical displays in NY, and among his Broadway performances were Great TO BECOME …

Sonny Wayne, the Southern Gentleman, utilized the favorite Nashville sound from the ’60s to countrify pop strikes of days gone by right into a form accessible to numerous, broadening nation music’s appeal over the nation. Wayne even moved to the pop graphs for a while in the past due ’50s …