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Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, who acquired a reputation as "The Voice of the Civi...
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The Staple Singers are one of the most celebrated and respected groups to have graced the gospel landscape in the post-war era, their music transcending the boundaries of the genres so that they becam...
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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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Known as “Mr. Swing”, Red Norvo was an unusual figure in early jazz, being an exponent of the xylophone and marimba (and later the vibraphone), which were not regular features in jazz ense...
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We continue our series of releases of comprehensive hits collections by significant personalities from the US country scene during the post-war decades with an anthology devoted to the prolific hit-ma...
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LaVern Baker was a one of the top female R&B singers of the ‘50s and early ‘60s, racking up a string of R&B and pop hits during her time with the Atlantic label. This great value 7...
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Jimmie Rodgers, not to be confused with the pioneering hillbilly country artist of the early ‘30s, was a hugely successful artist in the pop charts during the late ‘50s and early ‘60...
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Cecil Gant was a boogie-woogie pianist and R&B vocalist who toured during the 1930s but came to prominence in 1944 when he scored a No. 1 R&B hit with “I Wonder” while still in the...
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Rudy Vallee was arguably the first pop idol crooner, taking advantage of the growing medium of radio to establish a huge following in the 1920s and '30s.
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