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Artist: The Globetrotters
Artist: Kenneth Casey
Kenneth Casey's reputation as a songwriter rests almost entirely on "Sweet Georgia Brown," the 1925 standard he authored with Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard. A jazz perennial virtually since its inception, "Sweet Georgia Brown" is also indelibly etched in the memories of basketball fans everywhere as the longtime theme song of the famed Harlem... [+] Read More
Artist: Scatman Crothers
Though many people probably remember him for an appearance in the film The Shining or for his role as Louie in Chico and the Man during the '70s, Scatman Crothers had an extensive jazz and later R&B background. He performed in many clubs and on radio shows in the '20s,'30s, and '40s before making the move to television in 1948. But once he moved... [+] Read More
Artist: Maceo Pinkard
The songwriter who made "Sweet Georgia Brown" a popular standard for decades after its composition, Maceo Pinkard was born in Bluefield, WV, in 1897. He graduated from the Bluefield Colored Institute in 1914 and wrote his first major song ("I'm Goin' Back Home") one year later. Introduced by Ben Bernie & His Orchestra soon after it was composed... [+] Read More
Artist: Christine Fellows
Although born in Windsor, Ontario, Christine Fellows has been a globetrotter for many years. Raised in France and also Kelowna, British Columbia, the signer had a variety of odd jobs, including planting trees during summers before finding her niche, in 1993, in Winnipeg. While there, Fellows discovered the blossoming independent music scene and... [+] Read More
Artist: Hat
Acronymic globetrotter trio HAT are the combined efforts of, in order, Japan's Haruomi Hosono, Germany's Uwe Schmidt (a.k.a. Atom Heart), and New York's Tetsu Inoue. The group's on-again/off-again collaborations have to date produced two CD-only releases, each bringing together elements of ambient, techno, electro, jazz, pop, lounge, and... [+] Read More
Artist: Björn Afzelius
As a member of Hoola Bandoola Band, Björn Afzelius was central in the Swedish music movement of the '70s that stressed a political (socialist) message. As a solo artist, and together with Mikael Wiehe, he kept his fame during the '80s and also reached a high popularity in Norway and Denmark. Unlike many other artists from the '70s, he kept a... [+] Read More
Artist: Cyril Haynes
This pianist was off and running, as in up and down the keyboard, when others his age were still busy running around playing. He started playing music before he was 10, and as a teenager Cyril Haynes was active with several other prodigious young talents from his neighborhood including the great trumpeter Charlie Shavers. Haynes' older brother... [+] Read More
Artist: Adam Wade
Singer/actor/drummer Adam Wade grew up in Pittsburgh PA. He worked as a lab assistant for the famed Dr. Jonas Salk who invented the vaccine for polio. A natural singer, Wade was influenced by Jesse Belvin, Johnny Mathis (who bounced out of the gate a few years before Wade), and Nat King Cole. He moved to New York in 1960 and tasted success... [+] Read More
Artist: Shirley Jones
Singer Shirley Jones of the Philly soul vocal group the Jones Girls was born into a singing family. The Detroit native's mother, Mary Frazier Jones, was one of RCA Records' first gospel artists. Jones and her middle sister Brenda sang with their mother and were later joined by younger sister Valerie.
During their teenage years, the sisters... [+] Read More
Artist: Uncle Dave Macon
Uncle Dave Macon, beginning his professional musical career after the age of 50, brought musical and performance traditions of the 19th-century South to the radio shows and the recording catalogues of the early country music industry. In 1925, he became one of two charter members of the Grand Ole Opry, then called the WSM Barn Dance. A... [+] Read More
Artist: Jimmy Radcliffe
Musically talented Jimmy Radcliffe was born November 18, 1936, in New York City and sang in his church's choir before venturing into secular music while serving a mid-'50s stint in the Air Force, where he formed the Fascinators and also performed solo. The highlight of his military warbling was an appearance on the armed forces network in... [+] Read More
Artist: Neil Sedaka
Singer, songwriter, and pianist Neil Sedaka enjoyed two distinct periods of commercial success in two slightly different styles of pop music: first, as a teen pop star in the late '50s and early '60s, then as a singer of more mature pop/rock in the 1970s. In both phases, Sedaka, a classically trained pianist, composed the music for his hits,... [+] Read More
