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Tommy Edwards was a sophisticated R&B vocalist, best-known for his landmark US and UK No. 1 “It’s All In The Game”, but who also had many other pop and R&B hits, and released...
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Muddy Waters was one of the most important figures not only in the blues genre, but in helping to shape the development of rock music through the ‘60s and ‘70s by influencing a generation ...
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Patsy Cline is one of the most important and revered female artists in the history of country music, a situation made all the more remarkable by the fact that she only had a couple of years at the top...
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Tony Bennett ranks among the most popular, successful and highly-respected popular vocalists of the last half-century and more, so much so that a full sixty years after his chart debut in 1951, his cr...
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George Shearing, who died in 2011, was one of the most illustrious jazz pianists of his era, overcoming blindness to become one of the truly distinctive keyboard stylists, equally at home as soloist, ...
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The Dells were one of the longest-lasting of all the many R&B vocal groups which had their roots in the gospel and doowop era of the early and mid-‘50s, their career encompassing a heyday in the soul ...
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Back in the 1950s, before rock ‘n’ roll changed the face of pop forever, a handsome British crooner had an adoring army of female fans swooning as their romantic hero – he was, appro...
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Connie Francis was one of the iconic stars of the rock ‘n’ roll era, a wonderfully distinctive and versatile singer who could handle the gamut of repertoire from schmaltzy revivals of vaud...
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Artie Shaw was one of the most successful and highest-paid bandleaders of the swing era, but was also a brilliant and innovative musician, and an equal to Benny Goodman as a clarinettist
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