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Roy Orbison was one of the most talented and distinctive singers and songwriters of the rock ‘n’ roll era and beyond, with a unique and original approach to writing songs and a remarkable ...
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James Brown was a singer songwriter and bandleader who was one of the primary originators of funk and souls music in the 1950s and '60s and became known as "The Godfather Of Soul", underlining his sta...
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Sarah Vaughan was one of the illustrious coterie of female vocalists who spanned the genres of jazz, big band music and sophisticated pop during the post-war era to provide some of the finest music of...
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R&B vocalist, drummer and bandleader Roy Milton was one of the hit-making R&B artists to emerge in the mid-40s in the wake of the demise of the big bands to be replaced by small jump-blues ban...
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Georgia Gibbs was a singer whose background was in jazz and big bands during the 1940s, but who was so astonishingly versatile that she was able to turn her hand to just about any kind of music with e...
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Hank Thompson was one of the most important personalities in country music across several decades, keeping alive the spirit of western swing and the hillbilly roots of country music, performing with h...
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Clarinettist and bandleader Woody Herman was one of the leading figures of the swing era and beyond, with his various bands, generally known as “Herman’s Herd”, being known for the f...
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This is the latest in Acrobat’s series featuring the great arranger/conductor/composers of the ‘golden era’ of popular music during the 1940s and ‘50s, which so far encompassed...
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The Bay City Rollers were one on the biggest pop phenomena of the '70s, racking up a string on Number Ones, and building a mammoth fan following.
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