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Music hall mainstay Charles Coborn is well known for a set of turn-of-the-century classics, the self-penned “Two Lovely Dark Eye” and Fred Gilbert’s “THE PERSON Who Broke the lender in Monte Carlo.” Created Colin McCallum in 1852, he started performing by age 20 and went to hundreds of English music …

b. 27 March 1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, d. 5 Feb 2014, NY, NY, USA. As a man, Hayman trained himself to try out the harmonica and accordion, and performed in regional bands before shifting to the western world coastline. In the past due ’30s as a new player and an …

Among Tin Skillet Alley’s most prolific composers, with more than 400 tunes to his credit, Charles Tobias was the center child from the 3 songwriting Tobias brothers, who also also included the older Harry and younger Henry. Given birth to August 15, 1898, in NY, Tobias began like a vocalist …

Songwriter, known for his collaborations along with his sibling, George Gershwin. Both had written hit tracks for such musicals as Porgy and Bess, Ziegfeld Follies and Female Be Good. A lot of his tracks have already been performed by performing/dance legends Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Chet Baker. Delivered in …

Inside a career tragically cut short in mid-stride by way of a brain tumor, George Gershwin (1898-1937) demonstrated himself to become not only among the great songwriters of his incredibly rich era, but additionally a gifted “serious” composer who bridged the worlds of classical and well-known music. The second option …

Singer and celebrity Dorothy Loudon enthralled viewers with her variations of music in the Roaring Twenties. Apart from performing in nightclubs, Loudon made an appearance on-stage, in concerts and recitals, on tv, and in movies. She stated her greatest motivation during her profession was her hubby, Norman Paris, whom she …

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is among the oldest permanently-established orchestras in britain. THE TOWN of Bournemouth made a decision to discovered an orchestra, which it called the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, in 1893. It contracted having a bandmaster’s child, Dan Godfrey (later on music director from the BBC) to arrange and …

Actress/vocalist Dorothy Dandridge was Hollywood’s first African-American superstar, becoming the very first dark performer ever nominated for the Best Celebrity Oscar. Blessed November 9, 1923 in Cleveland, she was the little girl of celebrity Ruby Dandridge, with sister Vivian teamed within the song-and-dance duo the sweetness Children. The family members …

Julie Yellow metal was working like a secretary for HBO in NY when a mobile call from Nanci Griffith changed her existence. An aspiring vocalist/songwriter, Gold have been looking forward to her big break whenever a tape of her music, “From a Range,” was delivered to Griffith by vocalist/songwriter Christine …

The kid of actor Terence Donovan and TV presenter Sue MacIntosh, Jason Donovan’s career has successfully have huge variations of show business, embracing soap opera, film, music, and theatre, both in his indigenous Australia and in the U.K. Popularity first discovered Donovan where it discovered a great many other Australian …