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Robert Lrod Dorough (December 12, 1923 – April 23, 2018) was an American bebop and cool jazz vocalist, pianist, and composer. [2] [3] He became famous as the composer and performer of songs in the TV series Schoolhouse Rock!, as well as for his work with Miles Davis, Blossom Dearie, and others.
McDaniel was born in Checotah, Oklahoma, [3] a small town in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, and grew up in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.He was inspired to play music after seeing Elvis Presley on television.
Arkansas Chicago blues [239] Lazy Lester: 1933 2018 Louisiana Swamp blues [240] Calvin Leavy: 1941* 2010 Arkansas Soul blues [241] Lovie Lee: 1908 1997 Mississippi Chicago blues [242] Lefty Dizz: 1937 1993 Arkansas Chicago blues [243] J. B. Lenoir: 1929 1967 Mississippi Urban blues [244] Lightnin' Slim: 1913 1974 Missouri* Louisiana blues [245 ...
"Blue Jeans" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey and the third single from her second studio album, Born to Die (2012). Interscope Records released the track to Italian radios on March 30, 2012.
Jesse Lorenzo Belvin (December 15, 1932 – February 6, 1960) was an American singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s. Belvin co-wrote the 1954 Penguins' doo-wop classic "Earth Angel", which sold more than 10 million copies, while his top recording was the 1956 single "Goodnight My Love", a song that reached No. 7 on Billboard's R&B chart.
Blue Jeans is a melodramatic play by Joseph Arthur that opened in New York City in 1890 to great popularity. The sensation of the play is a scene where the unconscious hero is placed on a board approaching a huge buzz saw in a sawmill, which became one of the most imitated dramatic scenes (eventually to the point of cliche and parody).
Sonny Burgess was another Arkansan who influenced the rock and roll industry as an artist for Sun Records in adjacent Memphis, Tennessee. Arkansas early rock and roll was typically rockabilly music influenced by Zydeco music and blues. [11] Arkansas garage rock and psychedelic music of the 1960s has been reexamined by Psych of the South with ...
Davis was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and was raised in England, Arkansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas.He swapped playing the drums to learn to play the bass guitar.In the mid-1950s, he had a working partnership with Fenton Robinson, and following the recommendation of Bobby Bland was given a recording contract by Duke Records.