Tag Archives: The Pied Pipers

Originally comprising eight members, the Pied Pipers had their greatest success after almost about half of the members still left the group. The rest of the Pipers (Billy Wilson, Chuck Lowry, Jo Stafford, and her then-husband John Huddleston) became a member of the Tommy Dorsey Music group in 1939, support …

b. 11 August 1923, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 2 Might 1973, Encinio, California, USA. A favorite band vocalist through the 40s golf swing period, Hutton was the half-sister of Ina Ray Hutton, and sang with her good all-female music group in the past due 30s. From 1941-43 she was an …

Probably one of the most technically gifted and popular vocalists from the immediate postwar period, Jo Stafford effortlessly walked the collection between breezy pop as well as the more serious artwork of post-big-band jazz performing. By using her spouse, top-flight arranger and Capitol A&R movie director Paul Weston, Stafford documented …