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Maxine Sullivan
Maxine Sullivan (May 13, 1911 – April 7, 1987), born Marietta Williams in Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States, was an American jazz vocalist and performer. As a vocalist, Sullivan was active for half a century, from the mid-1930s to just before her death in 1987. She is best known for her 1937 recording of a swing version of the Scottish folk song "Loch Lomond". Throughout her career, Sullivan also appeared as a performer on film as well as on stage. A precursor to better-known later vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Sullivan is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of the 1930s. Singer Peggy Lee named Sullivan as a key influence in several interviews. Career Sullivan began her music career singing in her uncle's band, The Red Hot Peppers, in her native Pennsylvania, in which she occasionally played the flugelhorn and the valve trombone, in addition to singing. In the mid 1930s, she was discovered by Gladys Mosier (then working in Ina Ray Hutton's big ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney World
The Walt Disney World Resort is an destination resort, entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is operated by Disney Experiences, a division of the Walt Disney Company. The property covers nearly , of which half has been developed. Walt Disney World contains numerous recreational facilities designed to attract visitors for an extended stay, including four theme parks, two water parks, four golf courses, conference centers, a competitive sports complex and a shopping, dining and entertainment complex. Additionally, there are 19 Disney-owned resort hotels and one camping resort on the property, and many other non-Disney-operated resorts on and near the property. Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the complex was developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Walt wanted to build a new park because Disneyland in California was limited from expanding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though some are in C. It is a type of valved bugle, developed in Germany in the early 19th century from a traditional English valveless bugle. The first version of a valved bugle was sold by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin in 1828. The valved bugle provided Adolphe Sax (creator of the saxophone) with the inspiration for his B♭ soprano (contralto) saxhorns, on which the modern-day flugelhorn is modelled. Etymology The German word ''Flügel'' means ''wing'' or ''flank'' in English. In early 18th century Germany, a ducal hunt leader known as a ''Flügelmeister'' blew the ''Flügelhorn'', a large semicircular brass or silver valveless horn, to direct the wings of the hunt. Military use dates from the Seven Years' War, where this instrument was em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Going Places (1938 Film)
''Going Places'' is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Dick Powell and Anita Louise, and directed by Ray Enright. Powell plays a sporting goods salesman who is forced to pose as a famous horseman as part of his scheme to boost sales, ending up entangled in lies and having to ride a bucking horse in a steeplechase championship. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Jeepers Creepers", premiered by Louis Armstrong, who sings and plays it to a horse. Two earlier films, both entitled '' The Hottentot'' (1929) and '' The Hottentot'' (1922 silent version), were based on the same source. Plot A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for. Cast * Dick Powell as Peter Mason * Anita Louise as Ellen Parker * Allen Jenkins as "Droopy" * Ronald Reagan as Jack Withering * Walter Catlett as Franklin Dexter * Harold Huber as Maxie Miller * Larry Williams as Frank Kendall * Thur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864), published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1854. Foster wrote the song with his estranged wife Jane McDowell in mind. The lyrics allude to a permanent separation. "Jeanie" was a notorious beneficiary of the ASCAP boycott of 1941, a dispute caused by ASCAP increasing its licensing fees. During this period, radio broadcasters played only public-domain music or songs licensed by ASCAP rival BMI. According to a 1941 article in ''Time'' magazine, "So often had BMI's Jeannie icWith the Light Brown Hair been played that she was widely reported to have turned grey." Lyrics Other versions Bing Crosby recorded the song on March 22, 1940, for Decca Records with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra. Violinist Jascha Heifetz transcribed the song for the violin and it became a signature piece for him for years. The transcription has been performed by many subsequent violinists. Actor Eugene Levy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If I Had A Ribbon Bow
"If I Had a Ribbon Bow" is Fairport Convention's debut single. The song written by Hughie Prince and Lou Singer had been recorded previously by Maxine Sullivan (a.k.a. Marietta Williams) in 1936, Odetta (1956), Carolyn Hester (1961), Karen Dalton, The Simon Sisters and Mildred Bailey. Fairport Convention recorded their first album for Track Records in 1968. Their American producer Joe Boyd suggested they release a single. He suggested the old 1930s dance song "If I Had a Ribbon Bow." The band cut the song with singer Judy Dyble playing the harmonium. Her legs were not long enough to reach the pedals/bellows so two other members of the group had to pump them. Tristan Fry, a friend of the group, played the vibes at the beginning and end of the song. Iain Matthews, who was then a new member of the group, added a few spoken words. "If I had a Ribbon Bow" was released as a 45 with "If (Stomp)", a track from their first album, as the B-side. It was a minor hit on the BBC.The Acciden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond
"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" (or "Loch Lomond") is a traditional Scotland, Scottish folk song (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud No. 9598).Loch Lomond , '. Edited by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. 2018. Its origins are thought to date to the Jacobite rising of 1745. Loch Lomond is the largest Scottish loch. In Scots language, Scots, "bonnie" means "fair" or "beautiful". Lyrics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Sullivan Village Vanguard Ca
Maxine or Maxene may refer to: People * Maxene Andrews (1916–1995), member of The Andrews Sisters singing trio * Maxine Audley (1923–1992), English actress * Maxine Brown (country singer) (1932–2019), American country music singer * Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul and R&B singer * Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist * Maxine Carr, convicted of perverting the course of justice in relation to the Soham murders (not to be confused with Maxine Moore Carr / Maxine Waters) * Maxine Dexter (1972), American politician * Maxine Elliott (1868–1940), American actress * Maxine Fassberg (born 1953), CEO, Intel Israel * Maxine Fleming, New Zealand television screenwriter and producer * Maxine Funke, New Zealand singer-songwriter * Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Chinese American author and Professor Emerita * Maxine Kumin (1925–2014), American poet and author * Maxine Mawhinney (born 1957), newsreader on the BBC News 24-hour television channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kirby (musician)
John Kirby (December 31, 1908 – June 14, 1952), was an American jazz double-bassist and bandleader. In addition to sideman work (prominently with Benny Goodman), Kirby is remembered for leading a successful chamber jazz sextet in the late 1930s and early 1940s, which scored several hit songs including "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond, Loch Lomond" and the debut recording of "Undecided", a jazz standard. He is perhaps the first musician in the chamber jazz genre. Earlier in his career he also played trombone and tuba. Background Kirby was born John Kirk in Winchester, Virginia, United States, on 31 December 1908. His mother, Dolly Kirk (died October 1925) gave him up for adoption in 1908 and he was raised by Reverend Washington Johnson and his wife, Nancy, at 442 North Kent Street in Winchester. (Kirby is listed as a household member in the 1920 United States Federal Census, but not in the 1910 census.) Kirby was a student at the Winchester Colored School, renamed Douglass Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), keyboard bass (synth bass) or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or trombone. Many musical genres tend to be associated with at least one or more of these instruments. Overview Since the 1960s, the electric bass has been the standard bass instrument for funk, R&B, soul, rock, reggae, jazz fusion, heavy metal, country and pop. The double bass is the standard bass instrument for classical music, bluegrass, rockabilly, and most genres of jazz. Low brass instruments such as the tuba or sousaphone are the standard bass instrument in Dixieland and New Orleans-style jazz bands. Tuba players are sometimes conflated with bassists, due to the instrument being used to double a part for the double bass in early music recordings. Tubists who tend to fill the role of a bassist incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onyx Club
The Onyx Club was a jazz club located on West 52nd Street in New York City. . Retrieved 13 July 2013. History ; 35 West 52nd Street (1927–1934) : The Onyx Club opened in 1927 at 35 West 52nd Street as a under bootlegger Joe Helbock ''(né'' Joseph Jerome Helbock; 1896–1973).[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Thornhill
Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards "Snowfall" and "I Wish I Had You". Early years Thornhill was the son of J. Chester Thornhill and his wife, Maude. When he was 11 years old, he played piano professionally. While still a youth, he played with two local combos. As a student at Garfield High School in Terre Haute, he played with several theater bands. Thornhill studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Career As a youth, he was recognized as an extraordinary talent and formed a traveling duo with Danny Polo, a musical prodigy on the clarinet and trumpet from nearby Clinton, Indiana. He and clarinetist Artie Shaw started their careers at the Golden Pheasant in Cleveland, Ohio, with the Austin Wylie Orchestra. Thornhill and Shaw went to New York together in 1931. Thornhill went to the West Coast in the late 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
