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Singer and celebrity noted for the sarong she donned in lots of of her movies, Dorothy Lamour offers performed with such legends seeing that Bing Crosby and Bob Wish. Delivered Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton, Lamour was crowned Miss New Orleans in 1930. Her dad was a waiter and her mom …

Greenwich Village-based Frank Christian is among modern folk music’s virtuosic guitarists. His heartfelt melodies possess strengthened shows and/or recordings by Nanci Griffith, Christine Lavin, Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Dave Vehicle Ronk as well as the Smithereens. Christian is definitely equally skilled like a songwriter and vocalist. His tune “Three Plane …

Tin Skillet Alley lyricist Mack David is best-known for his tv and film themes and ratings, with his most significant work spanning the first ’30s with the 1960s. Blessed in 1912 in N.Con.C., the old sibling of lyricist Hal David went to Cornell School and St. John’s Laws School. A …

Bud Flanagan (b. Reuben Weintrop [Robert Winthrop], 14 Oct 1896, Whitechapel, London, Britain, d. 20 Oct 1968, Kingston, Surrey, Britain) and Chesney Allen (b. William Ernest Allen, 5 Apr 1896, London, Britain, d. 13 November 1982, Midhurst, Sussex, Britain). Among Britain’s best-loved comedy-singing duos throughout their heyday within the 30s …

Scottish-born actress/singer Ella Logan achieved her biggest renown playing an Irishwoman, Sharon McLonergan, and singing “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?” within the Broadway musical Finian’s Rainbow in 1947. Before that, nevertheless, she got spent three years executing on-stage, in radio and saving studios, and on film models. Logan was …

Swing-era bandleader Freddy Martin was created in Cleveland, Ohio, on Dec 6, 1909; a onetime drummer and C-melody saxophonist, his main device was the tenor sax, and he created his first music group while attending senior high school. Based on the Big Rings Data source, after graduation Martin approved a …

A favorite singer of extraordinary flexibility and longevity, Elisabeth Welch was a dark American celebrity/singer whose 50-season profession took her through the streets of NY to achievement in London. Delivered in NEW YORK, Welch educated for the stage and produced her debut within the theatrical revue Blackbirds of 1928. She …

Songwriter Edward R. Light, who is commonly determined in credits with or minus the preliminary and/or as Ed and Eddie, was among the active beavers humming ballads, dribbling doo wop, and notating novelties from his workplace within the famous Broadway Brill Building in NEW YORK. Displayed by well-connected web publishers …

Vocalist Russ Columbo helped place the typical for Italian popular ballad crooners. In his personal performances, Columbo was cut, debonair, and preferred a spotless white fit of the type George Raft used in films of the time. Regardless of the all-prevailing importance and reputation of Bing Crosby being a vocalist …

b. 1904, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 24 Feb 1950, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Singing within a apparent tenor, as an adolescent Baur was a soloist at New York’s Recreation area Avenue Baptist Cathedral. He began producing records being a single musician in 1923 getting very popular through the remaining …