Tag Archives: 1950s – 1990s

An only kid, given birth to in Dallas and raised in Waxahachie, TX to some swing bandleader dad (Pinky Dawson), Ronnie Dawson launched his music profession while still in his teenagers. Forming a music group, Ronnie Dee as well as the D Guys, he gained a talent competition on the …

A robust baritonist within the custom of Pepper Adams, Ronnie Cuber continues to be making excellent information for over twenty years. He was in Marshall Brown’s Newport Youngsters Band on the 1959 Newport Jazz Celebration and was highlighted with the sets of Slide Hampton (1962), Maynard Ferguson (1963-1965), and George …

Among the initial artists to create American-styled rock and roll & move to Germany, Peter Kraus was created Peter Siegfried Krausenecker in Munich on March 18, 1939. With both parents thinking about music, Kraus started taking performing lessons as a son, and in 1954 he produced his performing debut within …

Through the folk increase from the late ’50s and early ’60s, the brand new Dropped City Ramblers launched audiences towards the authentic string strap sound from the 1920s and ’30s, along the way educating a generation that experienced never noticed this uniquely American appear of old-time music. While keeping music …

When he wasn’t busy siring progeny (the Neal home produced ten children, many of them apparently now using the blues), Raful Neal was staking his state among the top harpists over the Baton Rouge blues front. However, until lately, his discography didn’t reveal that position — but albums for Alligator …

While Ned Miller was most widely known for his international 1962 hit “From a Jack to some King,” through the 1960s he previously 11 graph hits and managed to get towards the pop graphs 3 x. Miller was created in Raines, Utah, and began writing music and performing at local …

Pete Rugolo was perhaps one of the most prolific arrangers for Stan Kenton’s 1945-1949 orchestras, subsequent through over the leader’s swashbuckling example to greatly help shape the band’s interesting, blasting style. Taken to the U.S. at age group five, Rugolo was raised in Santa Rosa, California, and became students of …

Nashville-born Jimmy Chapel entered music professionally even though he was even now in senior high school being a singer within the R&B vocal group the Elderly people, whose rates also included guitarist Bobby Hebb. These were good enough to become agreed upon by Excello, and he afterwards moved on towards …

A robust pianist who found fame around the Western Coastline in the 1950s, Pete Jolly is a fixture in LA for over 40 years. He began on accordion when he was three and started piano when he was eight. He performed his first work when he was 12. In 1946, …

In the 1970s, Peter Allen gained recognition both like a author of romantic ballads such as for example “I Honestly Like You” and “Don’t Cry ALOUD,” and, contrastingly, like a flamboyant stage performer. He discovered to try out the piano and started entertaining people in the pub in his little …