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b. Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks, 4 January 1914, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA, d. 10 Sept 2007, Rancho Mirage, California, USA. After faltering at her 1st attempt to break right into movies, Wyman ultimately became a music group singer. Another try in Hollywood brought moderate success with little roles in a …

Actress, vocalist, and dancer Ann-Margret excelled in two regions of entertainment throughout a career which was even now heading strong in it is fifth 10 years: like a celeb, she appeared in a lot more than 50 feature movies so when a stage entertainer she performed like a headlining take …

Keely Smith is mainly referred to as the duet partner of Louis Prima, she took the straighter part within their raucous, just-this-side-of-parodical blends of jazz, jump blues, and Italian pop, about record and within their Vegas-oriented shows. Smith, nevertheless, was also a fairly talented vocalist of right pop material, but …

Peggy Lee’s attractive tone, exclusive delivery, breadth of materials, and capability to write a lot of her very own music made her one of the most captivating artists from the vocal era, from her discovery in the Benny Goodman strike “THE TREND IS TO Do Best” to her many single …

A talented singer whose wide expressive characteristics carry out justice to any lyrics that she chooses to interpret, Ruth Cost has produced relatively couple of recordings throughout her profession. Originally a dancer, she went to ballet college in 1952. Nevertheless, by 1954 she was performing with Charlie Ventura and, after …

Bay Area golf swing diva Lavay Smith incorporates blues, New Orleans R&B, salsa, leap blues and bebop into her two information with her music group, the Crimson Hot Skillet Lickers: 1 HOUR Mama and Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout Miss Point!!!. Smith began performing in 1988 with an L.A. trio known as …

Beverly Ross is really a songwriter, singer, and musician whose career has carried her throughout 50 years of music, in the 1950s towards the outset from the 21st century. Ross was created in Brooklyn, NY — her family members transferred to the Bronx when she was five, right into a …

An all-time great spirit, R&B, funk, and pop drummer, Bernard Purdie’s impeccable period and mastery of backbeats and grooves are celebrated. He shifted to NY from Maryland in 1960, and documented with James Dark brown, King Curtis, and many more. He was CTI’s home drummer in the past due ’60s …