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Arts > Music > Rock, Crooners, Pop > 20th century
1940s-1960s
R to L: Liz Taylor And Eddie Fisher
Date taken: 1961
Photograph: James Whitmore
Life Images http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=9b874a33296f11ac - broken link
Harry Belafonte USA 1927-2023
born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr
https://www.npr.org/artists/141243619/
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/25/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/12/
Joyce Bryant USA 1927-2022
The singer Joyce Bryant in 1953.
She was known for her stunning appearance and her sultry performances before turning to missionary work and, later, opera.
Photograph; De Carvalho Collection Getty Images
Joyce Bryant, Sensual Singer Who Changed Course, Dies at 95 In the 1940s and ’50s she was a glamorous Black star when there were few. Then she became a missionary. NYT Dec. 7, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/
sultry singer of the 1940s and ’50s who broke racial barriers in nightclubs and raised the hackles of radio censors before setting aside her show business career in favor of missionary work, then reinventing herself as a classical and opera singer
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Ms. Bryant was a teenager when she first attracted attention on the West Coast with her striking voice and equally striking looks.
She started out with the Lorenzo Flennoy Trio — “Can’t just can’t get rid of those chills up and down my spine whenever Joyce Bryant with the Flennoy Trio sings ‘So Long,’” J.T. Gipson wrote in The California Eagle in 1946.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/
Roy C. Bennett USA 1918-2015
(born Israel Brodsky)
Roy C. Bennett, (...) with his partner, Sid Tepper, wrote songs that were recorded by a wide roster of midcentury pop singers, including the titles “Red Roses for a Blue Lady,” “Kiss of Fire” and “The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/
Sidney Tepper USA 1918-2015
half of a songwriting team whose ballads, pop tunes and novelty numbers were recorded by the musical stars of the 1940s and 1950s and live on in Elvis Presley movies and elevators around the world
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/
John Russell Mann USA 1928-2014
Johnny Mann, center, with Regis Philbin, left, and Joey Bishop.
Photograph: ABC, via Everett
Johnny Mann, Leader of Easy-Listening Singers, Dies at 85 NYT JUNE 24, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/
Johnny Mann (...) won two Grammy Awards as leader of the clean-cut easy-listening vocal group the Johnny Mann Singers
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With their gently driven rhythms and tightly controlled harmonies, Eisenhower-era hairdos and neatly natty attire, the Johnny Mann Singers were well scrubbed and tone perfect, recording more than 30 albums of college songs, Christmas songs, patriotic songs, Beatles songs and familiar tunes spanning several musical eras, from “Ol’ Man River” to “Chattanooga Choo Choo” to “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Mrs. Robinson.”
Along with Lawrence Welk, Mitch Miller, Ray Conniff and other bandleaders who offered popular melodies in palatable choral arrangements, Mr. Mann helped define a musical genre that was potently counter-countercultural.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/
Jerry Vale USA 1930-2014
(born Genaro Louis Vitaliano)
pop crooner known for his velvety voice and the classic love songs he recorded in the 1950s and early ’60s http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/arts/music/jerry-vale-crooned-smoothly-of-love-is-dead-at-83.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/
The Andrews Sisters
Patty Andrews USA 1920-2013
singer and youngest member of the Andrews Sisters trio http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/31/patti-andrews
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/31/
Patti Page USA 1927-2013
(born Clara Ann Fowler)
apple-cheeked, honey-voiced alto whose sentimental, soothing, sometimes silly hits like “Tennessee Waltz,” “Old Cape Cod” and “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window” made her one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/arts/music/patti-page-singer-dies-at-85.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jan/02/
Howard Andrew Williams / Andy Williams USA 1927-2012
affable, boyishly handsome crooner who defined both easy listening and wholesome, easygoing charm for many American pop music fans in the 1960s, most notably with his signature song, “Moon River” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/arts/music/andy-williams-crooner-of-moon-river-dies-at-84.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/arts/music/
Dorothy McGuire USA 1928-2012
(she) reached the top of the pop charts in the 1950s with the McGuire Sisters, one of the era’s most popular vocal groups, and continued to harmonize with her two sisters on and off for another 50 years
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/arts/music/
Jerome Leiber USA 1933-2011
with his partner, Mike Stoller, he wrote some of the most enduring classics in the history of rock ’n’ roll, including “Hound Dog,” “Yakety Yak,” “Stand By Me” and “On Broadway” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/arts/music/jerry-leiber-rock-n-roll-lyricist-dies-at-78.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/
Edwin Jack Fisher USA 1928-2010
Fisher's clear dramatic singing voice brought him a devoted following of teenage girls in the early 1950s.
He sold millions of records with 32 hit songs including "Thinking of You," ''Any Time," ''Oh, My Pa-pa," ''I'm Yours," ''Wish You Were Here," ''Lady of Spain" and "Count Your Blessings."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/arts/25fisher.html
http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2010-09-24-eddie-fisher_N.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/24/eddie-fisher-obituary
Frank Sinatra USA 1915-1998
singer and actor whose extraordinary voice elevated popular song into an art https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1212.html
https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1212.html
Sammy Davis Jr. USA 1925-1990
RatPac Press & Running Press (The Perseus Books Group)
Rat Pack's Sammy Davis Jr. Lives On Through Daughter's Stories NPR May 08, 2014 12:57 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2014/05/08/
Sammy Davis Jr. USA 1925-1990
(born Samuel George Davis, Jr.)
In his own words, Sammy Davis, Jr. was "the only black, Puerto Rican, one-eyed, Jewish entertainer in the world."
His daughter, Tracey Davis, shares memories and details of his life in her new book, Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal Journey with My Father.
It's based on conversations Davis had with her father as he battled throat cancer near the end of his life.
He described his start in vaudeville at 3 years old where he was billed as an adult midget.
"He didn't have the traditional family life," Davis tells NPR's Celeste Headlee.
"He was always working, working, working, and trying to become famous."
She says that even after making it, "he was scared that it could be taken away at any minute."
Sammy Davis Jr. was frank about the racial prejudice that he suffered both during his army service and his time in show business.
It also shadowed his family life.
He married Swede May Britt Wilkens in 1960 — a time when interracial marriage was forbidden by law in 31 states.
They both converted to Judaism.
As his daughter grew up, she remembers "there [were] times that a swastika was painted somewhere or the N-word was written on a car."
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/08/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history/
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/08/
Dion and the Belmonts USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/
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