Tag Archives: 1950s – 1990s

Folk musician Bob Davis offers made his greatest tag as a audio and theatrical developer, soundtrack maker, and college teacher. Teaching at Town College in NY since 1976, Davis in addition has trained at Solano Community University and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA State University. Types of his music and sound …

Randy Cierley — who’s frequently credited as Randy Sterling, and sometimes as Randy Steirling, Randy Stierling, and Randy Cerley — was raised in Bakersfield, CA, and used guitar and bass young, just with time to capture the entire second influx of rock and roll & roll by the end from …

Author of 500 music recorded with the Conjunto Farroupilha, Demônios da Garoa, Elis Regina, Elza Soares, Germano Matias, Carmélia Alves, Francisco Petrônio, Luís Vieira, Noite Ilustrada, and Caco Velho, Túlio Piva remained an obscure pharmacy owner in the distant Rio Grande carry out Sul, opting to be always a peaceable …

The daddy of computer music, pioneering researcher Potential Mathews programmed the first-ever computer-generated sounds, setting into movement a technological and creative revolution that continues even today. A telecommunications engineer and beginner violinist employed in Bell Phone Laboratories’ acoustic and behavioral analysis department through the middle-’50s, Mathews was originally designated to …

Veteran Texas rock and roll drummer Gerry Gibson, sometimes credited as Jerry Gibson, was connected with various other bands and saving projects, but is well known mostly as an associate of the Features. Supporters of psychedelic and garage area music group music could be forgiven for considering they are viewing …

William C. Barber was a journeyman pianist, saxophonist, and songwriter whose kid, Billy Barber, is certainly better-known, or at least created a much bigger market, for composing the theme to the favorite cleaning soap opera All My Kids. As for dad Barber, he was wedded to a pianist and vocalist …

The Carollons were formed in NY, USA, in the mid-50s. Originally known as the Emeralds, the quintet highlighted Robert Dunson, Irving Brodsky, Artie Levy, Jimmy Laffey and Tyler Volks. Volks and Dunson had been shortly changed by Richard Jackson and Eric Nathonson. Motivated with the Moonglows as well as the …

What ho, another great Texas bluesman? The biggest state has created a number of great players within this genre, and enthusiasts of Jitterbug Webb can only just hope that 1 day he will have the reputation and position of T-Bone Walker or Johnny Wintertime. In the end, neither of the …

Brian Rust’s two-volume Jazz Information 1897-1942 (1st posted in 1961 and modified and expanded many times since) may be the definitive discography for early jazz. An archive collector following the age group of five, Corrosion worked well for the BBC in the 1950s and became a jazz journalist in 1948, …

Eccentric Harry Smith occupies an almost mythical function in 20th century American music, being a curator and, in his very own fashion, promoter of essential folk forms. The three-volume Anthology of American Folk Music that he put together for Folkways in the first ’50s was instrumental in revealing much root …