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Gal group Baby Jane & the Rockabyes formed in the Bronx, NY in 1958 — according to John Clemente’s exhaustive content over the Spectropop internet site. The initial lineup comprised vocalists Estelle McEwan, Yvonne DeMunn, Paula Hutchinson and Brenda Carrow, schoolmates united within their common affection for the Chantels. Originally …

b. 30 August 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 25 Feb 1968, NEW YORK, NY, USA. The boy of actor-director George F. Marion, he was informed in Switzerland with Harvard. In the 20s he had written silent film game titles, finding a 1929 Oscar nomination. For early talkies he wrote music …

An excellent soloist whose sound and design became highly influenced by Benny Carter (who was simply four years his junior), Hilton Jefferson was considered a very important musician through the golf swing era although he under no circumstances gained much popularity. Jefferson actually started his professional profession being a banjoist …

Victor Manuelle emerged seeing that a leading tone of voice among the era of NY salsa performers who all rose to prominence in the mid-’90s, along with Marc Anthony and India, who had been his only competitors with regards to achievement and reputation. Mentored by Gilberto Santa Rosa and made …

The Canterbury Music Festival recorded among the rarest later-’60s sunlight pop albums, Rainfall and Shine, which only 150 copies were pressed upon its initial 1968 release. The record mixed some good if innocuous first compositions from lead vocalist Roger Gernelle with much less impressive material provided for them by their …

Among the great Dixieland drummers, George Wettling’s capability to alertly transformation patterns at the rear of each soloist usually inspired another musicians to try out their finest. He was area of the Chicago jazz picture from the 1920s (where he transferred with his family members in 1921), and Baby Dodds …

The Philip Cup Ensemble is a little chamber group mainly specialized in performing functions by iconic American composer Philip Cup. In the past due-’60s, Cup’ minimalist music was thought to be experimental, and its own unconventional instrumentation just underscored that watch: the majority of his functions then needed key pad …

Charles Luckeyth “Luckey” Roberts was a transcendentally gifted pianist from the “San Juan Hill” ragtime college along with a author of both popular and classical materials. Blessed in Philadelphia along with a lifelong Quaker and teetotaler, Roberts begun to play the lease celebrations in Harlem around 1908 and was usually …

Johnny Richards was one of the most progressive-minded arrangers from the 1950s and ’60s, turning away big, heavily orchestrated scores using a sometimes unabashed usage of dissonance and an excellent experience for Latin rhythms. His music continues to be called “provocatively multi-colored,” though regarding his notoriously portentous “Prologue” for the …

b. 29 March 1889, Waterford, NY, USA, d. 11 Feb 1968, NEW YORK, NY, USA. In 1932 Lindsay aimed Cole Porter’s Homosexual Divorce, nonetheless it was another 2 yrs before he started to make his name. This arrived after maker Vinton Freedley connected him with Russell Crouse to focus on …