Tag Archives: Billy Hill

b. 14 July 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 24 Dec 1940, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. A prolific composer and lyricist through the 30s, whose tracks have an appropriate, country sense about them. That is probably due to Hill spending a great deal of his early lifestyle going the American western world, …

Fondly recalled for his or her 1963 chart-topper “EASIER IN THEORY,” R&B vocal quintet the Essex was formed in 1961 simply by Walter Vickers and Rodney Taylor, a set of U.S. Marines stationed in Japan; upon coming back stateside to Camp LeJeune, NC, the duo recruited fellow leathernecks Anita Humes, …