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Paul Tutmarc (May 29, 1896 – September 25, 1972) was an American musician and musical instrument inventor. He was a tenor singer and a performer and teacher of the lap steel guitar and the ukulele. [1]
The ukulele was popularized for a stateside audience during the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, held from spring to autumn of 1915 in San Francisco. [19] The Hawaiian Pavilion featured a guitar and ukulele ensemble, George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartet, [20] along with ukulele maker and player Jonah Kumalae. [21]
His influential book The Classical Ukulele is part of Jim Beloff’s Jumpin’ Jim’s Ukulele Masters series. [3] King's repertoire ranged widely, but he is particularly noted for his interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 2008, the Journal of the Society for American Music called King "perhaps the world's only true classical 'ukulele ...
Building on the popularity of the instrument as promoted by radio and television personality Arthur Godfrey, Breen published the New Ukulele Method in 1950. [10] In 2000, May Singhi Breen was inducted into the Ukulele Hall of Fame along with Cliff Edwards and the founder of Kamaka Ukulele, Sam Kamaka. Her citation reads in part: "She convinced ...
The singer/songwriter, musicologist and music teacher, who lives in Clinton, has been a major figure in the ukulele world and has documented his love of the instrument in a new book, “Uketopia ...
He became the president of the Ukulele Society of Great Britain and he was performing in old-time music hall until the mid-1990s. [1] He was a guest of the George Formby Society, which he was a longstanding member of, in November 1999 at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, where he was made an Honorary Member. He spent an hour answering questions ...
Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician and actor. He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes.
Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s iconic greeting “You’ve Got Mail,” has died at age 74 after a long illness, his family said. Edwards recorded four lines and received $200 for his work.