Tag Archives: 1955

New Orleans R&B outfit Sugars Son and His Cane Cutters emerged in 1953 from your remnants from the Sha-Weez, shaped three years previously the campus from the Crescent City’s Booker T. Washington SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Relating to Marv Goldberg’s profile in the Sept 1977 problem of Yesterday’s Remembrances, the Sha-Weez …

Glenn Gibson — hmm…appears like a straightforward, straight-ahead, all-American name, ideal for a root base rocker. You can find rock mammals of varied stripes with this name, however in conditions of durability in the music business, nothing at all beats the Glenn Gibson who under no circumstances been around beyond …

The El Venos formed in Pittsburgh, PA — doo wop city — in 1955, cut their first record a year afterwards, and also have been active on the Metal City’s music scene since. Originally a sextet, the users had been Leon Daniels, Daniel Jackson, Anna Mae Jackson, Leon Taylor, Joey …

Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Willy Waller, and Kell Osborne, as the Cavaliers, sang in regional talent displays with various other up-and-coming Birmingham, AL, performers including Frederick Knight, Barbara Lomax (B.T. Express), and Richard Fisher (Jive Five). Kendricks and Williams found Cleveland, OH, in the past due ’50s and performed around …

The Bando da Lua was the first in Brazil to harmonize voices and also have success overseas. From 1931 to 1940, they documented 38 albums in Brazil with 74 tunes and many strikes, including “Tristeza,” “A Hora é Boa,” “Mangueira,” “Menina que Pinta o Sete,” “Que é que Maria Tem?,” …

Analyzed at Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Middle for Contemporary Music, Mills University. Pianist, flutist. Regular radio program Empty Place Punch on KPFA-FM, Berkeley, CA 1975-79. Innovative education in visible arts, CD-ROM style, industrial communications.

Known primarily in Scandinavian jazz circles, Elise Einarsdottir is a melodic pianist who’s as comfy playing standards as she actually is writing memorable tracks of her very own. Born and elevated in Sweden, Einarsdottir paid attention to jazz thoroughly developing up and was inspired by such American pianists as Costs …

The youngest brother of folk singer/songwriter Jack port Hardy, Jeff Hardy played bass and sang background vocals in his brother’s band for 11 years. He was an integral part of the close-knit community of folk music artists in New York’s Greenwich Town in the ’70s and ’80s, an associate from …

A mellow-toned flügelhornist who emphasizes ballads, Stacy Rowles (the little girl of pianist Jimmy Rowles) has recorded for Concord and Delos, and became a fixture in the L.A. region with her function in the group Jazz Wild birds.

Alfi & Harry was the initial pseudonym applied to Liberty Information by songwriter/manufacturer Ross Bagdasarian. It’s best for specifically three singles, “THE DIFFICULTY With Harry” b/w “Small Beauty” (Liberty 55008), “THE TERM Game Melody” b/w “Persian on Excursion” (Liberty 55016), and “Safari” b/w “Shutting Period” (Liberty 55066). Of the records, …