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The onetime holder of the Guinness world record honoring the cheapest bass note ever reached, gospel pioneer J.D. Sumner was the traveling pressure behind the Stamps Quartet, which gained secular renown as the longtime vocal support for Elvis Presley. Given birth to November 19, 1924, Sumner became the Blackwood Brothers’ …

Noel Edison is a Canadian choral conductor. He began his training being a chorister in the children choir at St. Simon’s Cathedral in Toronto, and he founded a young ladies choir at Jarvis Collegiate, where he graduated in 1978. He received his music level in 1985 from Wilfrid Laurier School …

Vocalist and accordionist Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin was an essential connect to the musique Creole customs of the bygone period — his music kept alive the Cajun “la la” music which developed in the African-American areas of his local southwestern Louisiana, and that was a definite antecedent from the modern …

While Bob Gibson’s recordings might appear to be run-of-the-mill folk to contemporary listeners, he played a significant part in popularizing folk music to American viewers in the 1950s at the start of the folk growth. His 12-string acoustic guitar style affected performers like Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Chapin; he was …

Albert Hay Malotte, who started his profession while an organist, is best-known for his music environment of “The Lord’s Prayer,” performed and recorded by both classical and popular singers (and produced famous through the entire U.S. after it had been performed in a number of 9/11 fund-raising concerts). Nevertheless, it …

b. 16 November 1940, Pontiac, Michigan, USA. A superb dancer, vocalist, and celebrity, McKechnie was raised in Detroit and made the decision she wished to be considered a dancer after viewing the traditional 1948 English film The Crimson Sneakers. Her parents had been opposed to the concept, however when she …

Songwriter/maker Dan Penn is a calm push behind Southern spirit music for over 30 years. Always shifting simply out of look at from the limelight, Penn offers produced and created strikes for the Package Tops, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin and Ronnie Milsap, amongst others. Originally from Vernon, Alabama, Penn started …

After spending a lot of the 1990s as an infamous local phenomenon in Houston, TX, DJ Screw suddenly found himself gaining sudden notoriety before his unfortunate death in later 2000. The Houston DJ produced a name for himself mainly due to his uncanny blending style, which discovered him pitching down …

Burgess Meredith enjoyed country wide — really international — popularity in 3 distinct stages of his lifestyle. To a era (or two) of young tv audiences, he was defined as The Penguin for the Batman tv series (1966-1969); with their parents, he was an eccentric, outspoken, and prodigiously talented movie …

b. Thomas P. Connor, 16 November 1904, Bloomsbury, London, Britain, d. 28 November 1993, Farnborough, Kent, Britain. A songwriter who had written generally lyrics for very popular sentimental ballads and jaunty novelty amounts, from the first 30s, through before 50s. Connor is certainly credited with getting the ‘common contact’, and …