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Veteran Detroit pianist who played golf swing, big-band, bop, and R&B. A light, shiny character on his device, but has produced few recordings.

During his heyday, Charlie Gore was referred to as “the tall handsome man from West Virginia.” Through the early ’50s, he was the celebrity of Midwestern Hayride on WLW radio and tv in Cincinnati. Gore was created in Chapmanville, Western Virginia and experienced extensive radio encounter before arriving at WLW. …

The Five Pennies — Clifford Curry, Benjamin Washington, Charles Holloway, Herbert Myers, and John and Adam Myers (twins) — met in senior high school in Knoxville, TN. Ahead of Curry’s participation, they documented four years previously as the Echos (unreleased) and supported Faye Adams on her behalf number 1 smash …

Danny Alvin had an extended career performing drums in lots of traditional jazz organizations. The daddy of guitarist Teddy Walters, Alvin’s 1st major job arrived using Sophie Tucker at Reisenweber’s in NY in 1919. He shifted to Chicago in the first ’20s, after that divided his time taken between there …

It isn’t surprising that those eking out a full time income in the insecure profession of songwriting would experience apologetic toward their dependents through the trim times. William Light appears to have in fact made a profession from the whole procedure, co-writing a tune entitled “I AM SORRY” where at …

Not to end up being confused using the big-band reed participant from the same name, Rudy Williams sang background vocals in ’50s edges featuring Harry Belafonte and Perry Como, amongst others.

R&B/doo-wop group the Dreamers shaped in 1958 at a family group wedding ceremony, attended by cousins Frank Cammarata (lead and tenor), Bob Malara (tenor), Luke ‘Babe’ Beradis (tenor and baritone) and Dominic Canzano (baritone and bass), using the just non-cousin John ‘Pal’ Trancynger (baritone and bass). End Information promptly agreed …

Bill Smith is just about the most obscure documented early person in the Quarry Guys, the group that evolved in to the Beatles. He was one of the men (Len Garry, Nigel Whalley, and Ivan Vaughan had been others) to try out tea upper body bass, a musical instrument common …

Not really a group but an idea. Guitarist Kenny Burrell documented a followup to his effective 1956 album FOREVER Long another year. THE WHOLE DAY maintained trumpeter Doug Byrd, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Artwork Taylor from the prior session, with beginners Frank Foster on tenor sax and flute, and …

The narrow line between your secular and sacred in country & western music, sometimes seeming similar to a barbed wire fence, could very well be no better expressed than in the next song title: “This Kinda Like Ain’t Designed for Weekend School.” However like most effective tunesmiths within this genre, …