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Tin Skillet Alley songwriter Joe Burke enjoyed big hits from his collaborations with various lyricists through the mid-’20s through the later ’40s. Delivered in Philadelphia on March 18, 1884, Burke didn’t possess his initial big strike until after his 40th birthday, with 1925’s “Yearning.” This discovery was created with lyricist …

Amanda Green may be the little girl of lyricist and screenwriter Adolph Green and celebrity/vocalist Phyllis Newman. Both a article writer and performer, she was nominated for the Drama Critic’s Group Prize in 2001 on her behalf musical In the Week With out a Paddle; and her music were found …

Having a background heavy in the advertising field, Kevin Kelly stretches his creativity writing music for children, but can be an enthusiast for the theater. He collaborated with Michael McLean for 12 years around the publication for the Biblical musical The Ark. But he’s perhaps most widely known for his …

Latvia’s first-ever champion in the Eurovision Track Competition, Marie N was created Marija Naumova on June 23, 1973. A normal on Latvian Television talent shows through the middle-’90s and a celebrity of the locally created musical edition of Theodore Dreiser’s Carrie, she garnered additional interest in 1997 at a concert …

The husband-and-wife duo of Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson were the U.K.’s staff on the 1959 Eurovision Melody Competition, where they completed simply because runners-up. Their most significant fame, nevertheless, apparently is due to being talked about in Monty Python’s “Communist Quiz,” when “Chairman Mao” is normally asked to mention …

Choral vocalist Robert Johnson performs using the Tallis Scholars, among the leading ensembles in the genre of Renaissance-sacred choral music.

Maxwell Anderson is greater referred to as a playwright when compared to a composer, but his collaborations with German-born composer Kurt Weill added many classic specifications to the favorite tune lexicon. Anderson was created in Atlantic, PA, on Dec 15, 1888. His dad worked being a journeying minister, and therefore …

The annals of South Africa’s musical theater was inaugurated when the musical, An African Jazz Opera – King Kong, predicated on the tragic life of Black African boxer Ezekiel “King Kong” Dlamani, was premiered at the fantastic Hall of Witwatersrand University on February 2, 1959. Offering the music of Todd …

A music comedy duo most active in Britain through the 1950s and 60s, Michael Flanders (b. 1922) and Donald Swann (b. 1923) 1st met one another as schoolboys at Westminster in 1936. In 1939 both collaborated on a part of a musical revue entitled “DO IT NOW,” with Swann adding …

Dancer, professional, choreographer, movie director, and vocalist Maurice Hines is a journeyman musician that has showcased his abilities in a number of settings, like the Broadway stage and film. From age five, Hines and his youthful brother, the past due Gregory Hines, performed being a dance duo starting displays for …