Tag Archives: October 19

Moe Asch is among the most important nonmusicians in the annals of 20th hundred years music, whose tale is virtually synonymous with this of his record label, Folkways. Through the 1940s towards the ’80s, Folkways released a huge selection of important folk music recordings, and actually was the initial significant …

Reginald Robinson certainly sticks out in his era for this youthful black guy performs ragtime piano; furthermore, he has constructed a large number of rags. He began on piano at 13 and fell out of college the following calendar year to spend himself to his music, memorizing rags by hearing …

A nation singer and tunesmith having a soulful touch who enjoyed a modest work of hits within the ’70s, Brian Collins was created in Baltimore, Maryland on Oct 19, 1950. Collins’ family members going southwest when he was youthful, and he spent a lot of his youngsters in Tx City, …

A favorite singer, comedienne and celebrity more comfortable with both nightclubs as well as the theater, Martha Raye received many honours and performed for servicemen during Globe Battle II, the Korean Battle as well as the Vietnam Battle. Martha Raye was created Margaret Teresa Yvonne O’Reed in Butte, Montana. She …

If Redd Foxx was the ruler from the party record through the ’50s and ’60s, after that certainly Rudy Ray Moore upped the ante through the ’70s having a succession of triple-X-rated platters which were thus hot most shops could only offer them beneath the counter-top, even through the height …

A member from the seminal ’90s rap trio the Fugees, Pras’ single profession didn’t rise towards the same levels as those of his co-workers, Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hill, partly because he concentrated more on acting than music. Of Haitian descent (like his cousin Wyclef), Pras was created Prakazrel Michel …

Vocalist, musician, composer, and rebel Peter Tosh trim a swathe with the Jamaican music scene, both being a founding person in the Wailers so when a solo musician. He toured using the Moving Stones and experienced an international strike having a duet with Mick Jagger, after that toured once again …

Texan Jennifer Holliday gained nationwide acknowledgement when she had the business lead within the Broadway music Your Arm’s Too Brief to Package with God. Her overall performance resulted in her star-making overall performance in Dreamgirls, an version from the Supremes’ saga. The display presented her show-stealing undertake “And I Am …

A local of Longview, Tx, nation comedian Rodney Carrington built a cult following through his regular publicity on syndicated morning hours radio displays, and at exactly the same time relentlessly toured the country’s comedy membership circuit. His debut LP, Hangin’ with Rodney, made an appearance in middle-1998; Rodney Carrington: Live …

Drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and his Decoding Culture from the 1980s, learned in the exemplory case of Ornette Coleman’s Perfect Period and were a logical expansion of the group. They highlighted colorful and loud ensembles; weren’t scared of the impact of rock and roll; and their rhythms had been funky, …