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The Champagne Socialists

Jihae Simmons Meek met her husband to be and Neverever bandmate, Bricolage’s Wallace Meek, during her stint while the business lead singer for the Glasgow-based indie pop group the Royal We. Following a Royal We’s separation in 2007, the few relocated to Jihae’s hometown of LA, CA, where they teamed …

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Tropic of Cancer

Combining goths, shoegazers, techno aficionados, and minimal wave enthusiasts, Tropic of Cancer’s unique appear draws from many of these scenes whilst also sketching within their followers. Produced in 2007 being a collaborative task between Camella Lobo and her partner Juan Mendez — also known for his techno function beneath the …

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Old Man Markley

Los Angeles-based Aged Guy Markley are hardly an average music group, delivering a crazy, down-home sound that’s equivalent parts bluegrass and pure punk, recognizing the velocity and energy in both styles, and using their kitchen-sink method of materials (traditional fare, vintage pop and rock and roll songs, original tunes, anything …

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Don Arden

Don Arden is recognized as among the toughest Uk pop managers from the 1960s and 1970s, handling main acts like the Little Faces, Electric powered Light Orchestra, Dark Sabbath, and Ozzy Osbourne. Originally a vocalist and comedian, he forgotten performing for advertising and administration in the past due ’50s, and …

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Peggy Gilbert

b. Margaret Fern Knechtges, 17 January 1905, Sioux Town, Iowa, USA, d. 12 Feb 2007, LA, California, USA. Gilbert’s mom was a vocalist, her dad a violinist. She researched piano as a kid, then used clarinet and tenor saxophone. She led the all-woman Melody Women at local resorts from 1923 …

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Bobby Pickett

b. Robert George Pickett, 11 Feb 1938, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, d. 25 Apr 2007, LA, California, USA. Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett (AS WELL AS THE Crypt-Kickers) recorded the united states #1 1 ‘Monster Mash’ in 1962, a melody which has continued to be alive for many years because of perennial radio …

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Al Viola

A trusted guitarist having a interesting shade, a hard-swinging design, and strong complex abilities, Al Viola have been a secured asset to every program that he made an appearance on, and there were many. Viola performed inside a jazz music group within the Military (1942-45), where he fulfilled Page Cavanaugh. …

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Merv Griffin

Music may not be the very first thing you imagine of when somebody mentions talk present web host and entrepreneurial powerhouse Merv Griffin, but he earns more in royalties from his tv themes than most music artists do off their entire catalog. Blessed in San Mateo, CA, Griffin got his …

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Nellie Lutcher

Nellie Lutcher, an excellent pianist, had a couple of vocal strikes in the past due ’40s that gave a everlasting momentum to her profession. She began playing in public areas in early stages. When Lutcher was 14, she performed piano behind Ma Rainey at an area booking and the next …

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Robert Goulet

His face was more famous than his tone of voice, but Robert Goulet recorded a string of popular albums for Columbia through the 1960s, striking the pop graphs with several hits and earning a 1962 Grammy Award. Delivered in 1933 in Lawrence, MA, Goulet grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, where …

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