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Bob Newhart was an advertising copywriter in Chicago who wrote comic satirical monologues with a work colleague, sending tapes of them to radio stations, which led to an introduction to Warner Bros... |
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May 26th 2020 marks the centenary of the birth of the great jazz and pop singer Peggy Lee, and Acrobat is celebrating the occasion with two special releases, this singles collection and an anthology o...
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Christmas has provided a rich seam of subject matter for songwriters to mine over the years, building on a significant repertoire of carols and other religious songs in the traditional arena, and an e...
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Charlie Gracie was a pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll and the first star of that era to emerge from the Italian-American community of Philadelphia, to be followed later by Frankie Avalon, Fabian, ...
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Roy Drusky was a country singer and songwriter very much associated with the emerging “Nashville sound” during the late 1950s as the music began to acquire a smoother style as it incorpora...
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Fred Waring was a remarkable and high-profile personality in American popular music over many decades, becoming famous during the 1940s and ‘50s for his radio and TV shows which brought him the ...
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Probably more than any other single creative and production source, the Motown operation, founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in January 1959, has made an extraordinarily powerful a...
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Erroll Garner was one of the most distinctive jazz piano stylists of the post-war era, his approach transcending the emerging sub-genres of modern jazz, although his music was rooted in swing and he w...
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Jimmie Davis combined a career singing risque country hits with that of a politician, serving two terms as Governor of Louisiana in the 1940s and '60s
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