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The fame of vaudeville legend Fanny Brice continues to be largely continued within a biographical adaptation of her life which has almost nothing regarding the facts from the case, the music Funny Gal, a star vehicle created for Barbra Streisand. The true Fanny Brice was, in her period, a tremendously …

By many accounts one of the most documented bandleader ever with as much as 13,000 recordings to his credit, Ben Selvin led a number of studio room groupings and society orchestras from 1910 in to the ’30s, documenting countless novelties for prime commercial crossover, a lot of which included upcoming …

b. Phyllis Daniels, 14 January 1901, Dallas, Tx, USA, d. 16 March 1971, London, Britain. As a little child Daniels made an appearance on stage in productions by her dad, who maintained a theatre firm, and which starred her celebrity mother. She is at silent movies from age nine and …

Having a clean-behind-the-ears demeanor similar compared to that of Richard Crooks, John Charles Thomas, or Nelson Eddy, concert and operatic tenor James Melton usually catered from what has been referred to as a “musically middlebrow audience,” emitting intimate airs and popular ballads with sugary precision. He was created on January …

Ideal remembered for “Zing! Went the Strings of My Center,” Adam F. Hanley was an archetypal Tin Skillet Alley professional who constructed numerous music for stage and film, mainly through the early ’20s. Hanley was created Feb 17, 1892, in Renselaer, IN, and that could inform his initial main strike, …

Pop composer Con Conrad wrote for Broadway through the 1920s, after that worked for Hollywood through the middle-’30s. Delivered in N.Con.C. in 1891, Conrad K. Dober performed piano for the movie theater and in vaudeville, touring the U.S. and European countries, before he got music published through the 1910s. He …

Irving Areas was among the last of his generation of active music artists; been trained in the primary many years of Tin Skillet Alley and vintage American well-known music before Globe Battle II, he could possibly be found still taking part in piano frequently in NY in the beginning of …

Among George Gershwin’s closest professional close friends, Irving Caesar composed several specifications — “Sometimes I’m Happy,” “Tea for just two,” “Swanee” (with Gershwin), and “Crazy Tempo” — throughout a extended life that found him live at night age group of 100. Delivered on Manhattan’s Decrease East Side for the 4th …

With three tenors, a baritone, a bass, and pianist Erwin Bootz, the Comedian Harmonists took early 20th century American vocal harmony music and gave it a Western european, almost Teutonic sensibility. With an eclectic repertoire that got in jazz, pop, film, opera, and cabaret music, they were well-known in Germany …

An unusual footnote towards the Uk Invasion, British singer and pianist Ian Whitcomb formed his R&B group Bluesville in Dublin, Ireland. He never really had popular in the U.K. and wasn’t everything wild about rock and roll & roll to begin with, preferring traditional types of blues, ragtime, and Tin …