Tag Archives: Vocal

After singing in a variety of school functions, local groups, and Pepe Callahan’s Mexican-Irish band, Carr began her professional musical career in earnest in the first ’60s. Her single debut is at Reno, supported with the Chuck Leonard Quartet, which resulted in a record agreement with Liberty. Without gathering much …

Perhaps one of the most popular performers from the later-’20s/early-’30s period, Ruth Etting had not been a really jazz vocalist (unlike her modern, Annette Hanshaw) but an excellent middle-of-the-road pop vocalist who was simply often accompanied by best jazz music artists. She documented over 200 music between 1926-1937, made an …

Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning celebrity/singer who appeared primarily on stage from your 1920s towards the ’70s, even though also saving and building occasional performances on film, radio, and tv. She was carefully from the music of her hubby, composer Kurt Weill, often showing up in his stage functions …

b. Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks, 4 January 1914, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA, d. 10 Sept 2007, Rancho Mirage, California, USA. After faltering at her 1st attempt to break right into movies, Wyman ultimately became a music group singer. Another try in Hollywood brought moderate success with little roles in a …

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 …

Many music lovers have encountered George Frederick Handel through holiday-time renditions from the Messiah’s “Hallelujah” chorus. And several of them understand and appreciate that oratorio on Christ’s lifestyle, loss of life, and resurrection, and a few various other greatest hits just like the orchestral Drinking water Music and Royal Fireworks …

Charles King had not been a major saving superstar by any stretch out of the creativity, but being a song-and-dance guy on Broadway and in Hollywood, he introduced his talk about of well-known popular music. He had an extended profession on Broadway and, when the films learned to chat, it …

Maker and songwriter Luther Dixon wrote many lasting pop strikes which were successes for a number of past due-’50s and early-’60s organizations like the Shirelles. He previously already penned effective songs for performers, like the Platters, Perry Como, as well as the Crests when he was employed by Florence Greenberg …

Through the ’40s and ’50s, lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and composer Richard Rodgers had been probably the most successful composing group on Broadway, composing several long-running demonstrates had been eventually converted to movie musicals. Hammerstein was also the next most prolific lyricist from the 20th hundred years, second and then …