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Romanian pianist who blends traditional, mainstream pieces. He’s documented with combos and orchestral support.

Among the best American pop lyricists from the 1930s and 1940s, E.Con. “Yip” Harburg published many strikes for Broadway and Hollywood along with his primary collaborators, composers Jay Gorney and Harold Arlen, teaming using the latter around the well-known tunes from the Wizard of Oz. Given birth to in 1896 …

Ethel Waters had an extended and varied profession, and was among the 1st true jazz singers to record. Defying racism with her skill and bravery, Waters became a stage and celeb in the 1930s and ’40s without departing the U.S. She was raised near Philadelphia and, unlike a lot of …

Three-time Tony-award-winning songwriter (Bye Bye Birdie, Applause, Annie) Charles Strouse may remember attending displays young along with his parents and getting awestruck with all the current glamour. The author of “Placed on a Content Encounter” (from Bye Bye Birdie), “A WHOLE LOT of Living to accomplish,” and “A long time …

Gene Kelly was never extremely popular as a vocalist, despite the fact that he did slice information and was observed in film roles where he sang — rather, it had been his function onscreen like a dancer, choreographer, and movie director that allowed him to exert an integral influence on …

Don Sebesky is most beneficial known as home arranger for most of maker Creed Taylor’s Verve, A&M, and CTI productions; the person whose orchestral backgrounds helped make performers like Wes Montgomery, Paul Desmond, Freddie Hubbard, and George Benson suitable to audiences beyond jazz. He offers taken critical warmth because of …

Eric Maschwitz isn’t (beyond his native Britain, at least) a universally renowned songwriter in the way of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, or the groups of Rodgers & Hart or Lerner & Loewe, but he did write 1 melody, “These Foolish Things,” that’s nearly aswell known in the initial decade from …

Oscar-winning American pop lyricist Dorothy Fields was the initial woman to become elected in to the Songwriters Hall of Popularity, in recognition of her lengthy and effective career of hit music, movie scores, and Broadway scores that spanned the past due ’20s through the first ’70s. She was created on …

“The Sweetheart from the Fighting Fronts,” singer Frances Langford was a global Battle II heartthrob beloved by soldiers on her behalf performances within Bob Hope’s USO travels. Blessed Frances Newbern in Lakeland, FL, on Apr 4, 1914, she originally aspired to a profession performing opera, but a neck operation permanently …

b. Dora Broadbent, 7 Feb 1924, Southport, Lancashire, Britain. A much-loved vocalist, celebrity, and comedienne, Dora Bryan provides successfully mixed direct theater with revue, cabaret, musical humor, variety, pantomime, tv and film, within a career which has endured for a lot more than 60 years. She produced her initial stage …