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The Glenn Miller Story (1954) - Overview - TCM.com  The Glenn Miller Story The famed bandleader fights to. .... Stewart is convincingly cast as the popular bandleader in this extremely sentimental (and largely...
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Bill Evans - Wikipedia  William John "Bill" Evans was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a ... Bill Evans was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Harry and Mary Evans (ne ... and Washington, D.C. The band included trumpeter Jimmy Nottingham, ... He also met singer and bassist Bill Scott and Chicago jazz pianist Sam...
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Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks - RUTH BROWN  Ruth Brown was probably the second most popular female R&B singer of the ... Ruth Weston was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1928. ... At this time, her husband, Jimmy Brown, resurfaced, never giving a convincing explanation of where he'd been. ... 1954 opened with the release of SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY/IT'S ALL IN...
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Billie Holiday - Wikipedia  Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915  July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, .... Holiday found herself in direct competition with popular singer Ella Fitzgerald...
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Music 162 MDT 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  -Arkansas-born saxophone player and singer who began making recordings ... -biggest hit for Chess records (#3 on r&b charts 1954) ... -former DJ and Western swing bandleader from Pennsylvania ... "Rock Around the Clock": 1st rock n roll record to be #1 pop hit .... -most powerful and convincing rockabilly artists of time
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Great American Music  Professor Bill Messenger ..... with grotesque moppets in tacky homemade costumes. ..... dressed players sat the master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor, often not in .... As an example, we hear Brice singing one of her big comedy hits in dialect, ...... In the 1950s, we see echoes of Weber and Fields in Your Show of Shows with...
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Sarah Vaughan facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  In Profiles in Jazz, Vaughan recounted her stint with Hines: How lucky I was. .... As Leslie Gourse observed in Sassy, [Vaughan] was now presenting herself as a pop ... The dexterity with which she uses her voicewhich many an opera singer ... Her 1960 sessions for Roulette included The Divine One, arranged by Jimmy...
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Jimmy Dorsey | Biography & History | AllMusic  Find Jimmy Dorsey biography and history on AllMusic - Jimmy Dorsey was both ... An accomplished swing band leader and one of the finest jazz saxophonists of the 40s and 50s. ... Less than two years younger, his brother Tommy had taken up horn ... spearheaded by the presence of a young singer named Frank Sinatra.
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1960's (and even earlier) - John Cullum, actor, Broadway, film ...  But John Cullum did such a beautiful job in the UT Theater's production of that play ... "For a musical to have both a large bag of superior songs and principals who can ... Although he had understudied Richard Burton in "Camelot" and played...
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Jazz musicians who have also starred in movies - AXS  These weren't bit parts, cameos, nor simply roles in which they appeared as ... Born in New Orleans, big band and swing vocalist Harry Connick Jr. was the ... as a pianist and vocalist at five, and a spot in a New Orleans jazz band at ten. ... roles in "Hope Floats" or as fighter pilot Captain Jimmy Wilder in Independence Day.
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The Glenn Miller Story (1954) - IMDb  Biography ... Biography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944. ... Title: The Glenn Miller Story (1954) ... The Man from Laramie ..... Played and sung often throughout the picture ... One of my favorite part in the movie is when Glen Miller and the band are in...
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Willie Simpson  Robert Zimmerman  Folk rocker David Crosby, who was with Bob at the time tells the story best, Sara .... The song, a gem in Robert Johnson's absurdly mythological repertoire,...
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Week 1 Origins of Musical Theater Part 1 - MTHistoryandRepertoire  Dec 30, 1992 ... But the show's key draw was its underdressed female dancing chorus, .... a childhood fantasy best remembered for its sentimental title song .... her breakthrough role, as the hard-boiled Vera Simpson in "Pal Joey. ... "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," Brooks Atkinson of The New ... With a rich attorney's
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A Celebration of Grace - Spring Preview  Not willing to be tied to a studio, Grace returned to theater until she received an offer ... Her career continued in an upward swing with Mogambo in 1953 with ... for which she received her first Academy Award nomination (and Golden Globe ... and Rear Window opposite Jimmy Stewart in 1954 (pictured on set above), and...
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Musical Theatre - Yola  with the audience, and each performance is uniqueyou are either ... laid by George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, and Jerome Kern made it ... has brought a fresh wave of musical comedies and so-called Pop-sicals .... In rare cases, a musical that was ahead of its time has been revived ...... Berlin was hailed as The King of.
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Dooley Wilson Biography (Actor/Pianist) - Infoplease  Best known as: Sam in the movie Casablanca. Name at birth: Arthur Wilson. Dooley Wilson played Sam, the cheerful piano player and sidekick to ... Wilson, an African-American, was a drummer and singer who led his own band in the 1920s,...
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The Death of Funnyman Jimmy Durante - Findadeath  His later vaudeville success led to Broadway and he became a smash in Billy Rose's ... along with his sign off: "Good Night Mrs. Calabash, Wherever you are. ... Sisters, after their father's murder, to headline on a TV Variety Show for one year.
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April 3 - Biography.com  Famous people who were born April 3. ... Doris Day - Mini Biography (TV-14; 3:38) Doris Day's first hit big band song, "Sentimental Journey," helped her...
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Amazon.com: The Glenn Miller Story: James Stewart, June Allyson ...  Editorial Reviews. NOTE:NTSC/Region 0. Out of print in the U.S.! Originally released in 1954, .... Jimmy Stewart brings his patented aw-shucks manner to a bandleader who was firmly in control of himself ... The movie, The Glenn Miller story, was wonderful, the music was great, it is so sad that he died so .... Designer Men's
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Free Flashcards about FILM BIOGRAPHIES - StudyStack  ELLA FITZGERALD PLAYED HERSELF IN "ST. LOUIS BLUES", THE FILM BIOGRAPHY OF THIS COMPOSER, W.C. HANDY. "LUST FOR LIFE", STARRING...
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Notablog: Film / TV / Theater Review Archives - NYU  Oct 20, 2016 ... There's only one thing left to do: "Gimme a Beat" (and you thought I was ...... father on weekends to see Vaudeville at Brooklyn's Halsey Theatre, and to ...... blues royalty, a biopic of the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith, played by ...... The original recording of the song was to be sung by Judy Garland, who...