....presents some of our favorite adult popular standard musicians biographies
MARCH 19
1912 Composer and arranger Russ Case was born on 19 March 1912, in Hamburg, Iowa and died 10 October 1964, in Miami, Florida. After a high-school education, he became a freelance arranger and trumpeter from 1927 to 1945, and then until 1964 conducted the orchestras for many network and local radio and television programs, and also made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1957, his popular-song compositions include "Midnight Oil", "Sliphorn Sam", "La Valse", "Frantic Fiddles", "Gambler's Ballet", "Little Genius Ballet" and "Gabriel's Heater"
Popular Posts
-
EDWARD HEYMAN + LES BROWN + LUTHER HENDERSON + LES BAXTER + QUINCY JONES + ROY BUDD 1907 Edward Heyman (March 14, 1907 – October 16, 198...
-
Composer, arranger, producer and recording artist Jack de Mello, who created an expansive new synthesis of Hawaiian melodies and lush, conte... -
1905 - Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, orch leader Wikipedia Bio | Search Amazon.com for Tommy_Dorsey Thomas Francis ... -
Search Amazon.com for MIKE POST 1944 ~ Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil on September 29, 1944) is a Grammy and Emmy award-winn... -
Composer Sammy Cahn wrote the lyrics to some of America's most popular songs, recorded by Frank Sinatra and dozens of other arti... -
Vic Damone, the postwar crooner whose intimate, rhapsodic voice captivated bobby soxers, middle-age dreamers and silver-haired romantics in ... -
Burt Bacharach's official press biography is effusive, impressive, overwhelming - and almost beside the point. The 14-page document du... -
Al Caiola (born Alexander Emil Caiola, September 7, 1920, Jersey City, New Jersey) is a guitarist who plays jazz, country, rock, weste... -
American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid–1950s until her retirement in the early–2010s. She was notable for her ... -
The papers of legendary conductor, arranger and broadcaster Andre Kostelanetz have been donated to the Library of Congress by his estate. K...
learn about
