Tag Archives: 1950s

Tyran Carlo — the composing name of Roquel “Billy” Davis — was half a Detroit songwriting group with Berry Gordy, before Gordy founded Motown Information. When Carlo’s cousin, the amazing vocalist Jackie Wilson, remaining the Dominoes and proceeded to go single, Carlo & Gordy penned Wilson’s 1st several strikes, including …

Ideal remembered for the rockabilly vintage “Bluebirds On the Hill,” singer Ersel Hickey was created June 27, 1934, in Brighton, NY. Following the 1938 loss of life of his dad, his mother experienced a nervous break down and, based on the www.rockabillyhall.com site, Hickey spent his formative years in some …

A cohort of Ike Turner in the first ’50s, Binder recorded entertaining novelty blues for the present day label in Clarksdale, MS, and United Information in Chicago. Edges from these periods have already been reissued by Ace in Britain and Delmark/Pearl in america, including the name monitor from Pearl’s Lengthy …

Delivered Winston Hislop in Jamaica, dancehall deejay General Saint initial produced a name for himself executing with deejay Clint Eastwood (delivered Robert Brammer) in the uk. First documenting with Junjo Lawes, Eastwood & Saint became observed for gaining exciting, theatrical and funny shows in the past due ’70s through the …

Led by Louis Armstrong-like trumpet player Mike Daniels, Mike Daniels & His Delta Jazzmen thrived through the past due ’40s and early ’50s revival of New Orleans jazz in Britain. The group, which Daniels created in 1948, continuing to record until 1963. Their 1st full-length recording, Mike on Mike, released …

Johnny Bragg found the music business by way of a stranger route than almost every other performers. When he created his 1st group and started to create tunes, he was performing serious amount of time in a Tennessee jail for rape. Falsely accused of several counts from the criminal offense …

Using a six-inch pompadour, brocaded shirts, rhinestone shades, along with a rhythmic, belligerent design of piano playing, Esquerita was the initial Little Richard, years before Mr. Penniman tutti-frutti’d his method to stardom. Functioning around the Dallas-New Orleans circuit in the first ’50s, Esquerita’s shot on the big time emerged when …

It’s not really that Don Woody was a reluctant rock and roll celebrity. He was good with it, in fact, but it simply wasn’t anything he’d precisely planned on becoming. Created June 29, 1937 in the tiny city of Tuscumbia, MO, Woody got started a profession like a radio DJ …

Later ’50s group that combined criteria, originals and reworked quantities with occasionally uncommon instrumentation such as for example bassoon and bass clarinet.

Wade Legge lived significantly less than 30 years, his brief career an extraordinary legacy of revitalizing work and outstanding interaction with experts such as for example Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, and Charles Mingus. His name sounding just like a incomplete description of the bathing event, Legge was an excellent bassist …